Brittney Ann Beers was six years old when she disappeared from the Village Manor Apartments in Sturgis, Michigan, on the evening of September 16, 1997. She was about four feet tall, 45 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes, and missing her four upper front baby teeth. That evening she went outside at about 7:30 p.m. to ride her bicycle and was last seen sitting on a bench in the complex; her bicycle was later found abandoned nearby.

A witness reported Brittney speaking with an unidentified man seated in a mid-sized red or brown car; she told the witness she had made a new friend. The man’s composite described him as in his late twenties or early thirties with short dark hair and a thick mustache. Bloodhounds traced a scent from the apartments to a convenience store parking lot on a main route out of town, and the trail stopped there, suggesting she may have been taken in a vehicle. Investigators also looked into people in her family circle after learning Brittney had been abused prior to her disappearance. No conclusive identification has been reported and the case remains open.

Did anyone in Sturgis remember seeing Brittney, her bicycle, or the described car that evening?