Melissa Diane McGuinn was seven months old when she vanished from a Trenton home on March 6, 1988. The baby had blonde hair and blue eyes, weighed about 16 pounds and was 2 feet 4 inches tall. She was last seen in a dark pink hooded sweater, white flowered quilted overalls, and pink socks.

Melissa was taken outside for a walk by a woman sharing the house with the McGuinns. That woman returned with a neighbor eight minutes later and said Melissa was gone. Her accounts changed repeatedly: she first said an unknown man jumped out of a car, knocked her down and abducted the baby; she later said she dropped or threw Melissa into the nearby Delaware River; a third version claimed she gave the child to the neighbor for drugs. River searches found nothing and the short eight-minute timeline raised questions about the river account. The woman was charged with kidnapping but was later found incompetent to stand trial and the charge was dropped in December 1989; she was placed in a facility and is now reportedly living with relatives. The case is classified as a non-family abduction. Melissa’s mother and brothers continue to hope for answers.

If anyone has information about Melissa’s disappearance or remembers the neighborhood in Trenton in 1988, please come forward.