Jerome Eugene Morris was 14 when he walked out of his family’s home in Pittsburgh on August 1, 1990, and was never seen or heard from again. He was described as 5 feet 1 inch tall, about 80 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a green birthmark on his left buttock. On the day he disappeared he wore blue jeans, a black leather jacket, white sneakers and a multicolored cap with sports emblems.

Authorities initially listed Jerome as an endangered runaway, but no contact or confirmed sightings followed. The Pittsburgh Police Department still shows the case as open, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has produced age-progressed images to suggest how he might look now. Very few concrete leads have been made public, and the long silence has left his family without answers.

If anyone knew Jerome, his friends or habits, or has any information about that August day, please come forward to the Pittsburgh Police.