Sara Anne Wood was 12 when she disappeared from Litchfield, New York, on August 18, 1993. She was last seen riding her pink and white bicycle home from Norwich Corners Church, less than a mile from her house. The bicycle and the church supplies she had collected were later found near a tree off Hacadam Road, but there was no sign of Sara.

Hundreds of volunteers and authorities mounted an extensive search that did not locate her. In 1996 Lewis Lent Jr., a convicted child murderer, confessed to abducting and killing Sara and led investigators to an area near Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. Despite a map he drew, searches did not recover remains; Lent later recanted and would not disclose the location. He was convicted and received 25 years to life, but Sara’s remains have never been found.

Her family founded the Sara Anne Wood Rescue Center, now part of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.