Shane Walker was 19 months old when he disappeared from the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers playground in Harlem on August 10, 1989. His mother, Rosa Glover, says she was with him when two older children — a 10-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy — asked to play with Shane. Glover briefly spoke with a man sitting on a nearby bench; when she looked back the three children were gone. The two older children were later found and said they had left Shane in the park, but Shane himself was never seen again.

The case remains mysterious and unsolved. Media reports have linked Shane’s disappearance to that of another toddler, Christopher Dansby, who vanished from the same park in May 1989, and authorities have considered whether the two cases could be connected, but no solid evidence tying them together has been reported. Leads have been pursued over the years without resolution.

If anyone was at the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers playground on August 10, 1989, or has information about Shane Walker, please come forward.