Eleven-year-old Monique Santiago was last seen at her family’s Washington Avenue apartment in Albany, New York, on March 29, 1990. That morning she prepared to leave for school, but by about noon she called her mother, Annie Graniela, to say she had missed the bus and would stay home. When her mother returned that evening, Monique was gone. A critical delay followed because her mother believed police would not accept a missing-child report right away; she waited more than eight hours before reporting her daughter missing, which hampered early leads.

Monique was described as Hispanic, with black hair, brown eyes, gaps between her teeth and a birthmark on the back of her right leg. She was last seen wearing a yellow and multicolored jacket, a turquoise blouse, blue jeans, aqua socks and black shoes, and wearing a gold chain with the letter M and a cross. Investigators questioned an adult male who admitted taking Monique to the SUNY Albany campus five days earlier without her mother’s consent; he was never charged. Authorities also examined possible links to Monique’s incarcerated stepfather and to a murder the family had witnessed in New York City, but found no evidence tying those events to her disappearance.

Foul play is suspected and the case has grown cold despite age-progressed images being released. Does anyone who lived in Albany in 1990 remember Monique, her family, or seeing that yellow and multicolored jacket around March 29?