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James Hendrickson was 12 when he disappeared from Tucson, Arizona after spending the night of June 11, 1991, at the home of his babysitter’s cousin in the 700 block of West Paris Promenade. He was last seen the morning of June 12 after saying he was going to a nearby school for breakfast; a witness later reported seeing him walking near Oracle Road and Grant Road. At the time he was described as a white male with blond hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 5 inches tall, about 140 pounds, with a scar on the top of his head near the hairline.

Investigators initially considered runaway as a possibility because James was described as streetwise, but his family said he had no history of leaving on his own. A four-year-old who had been with James told police two bad men wrapped him in a blanket and took him to Mexico and pointed officers to the Santa Cruz River area, but searches produced no evidence. Attention later focused on the babysitter’s cousin, who had a criminal history and failed a polygraph about the disappearance; he was never charged. The case is classified as an endangered missing person case and foul play is strongly suspected.

Did anyone in Tucson around June 1991 see James near Oracle and Grant or have information about the babysitter’s cousin?