Three-year-old Deisy Herrera disappeared from her family’s home in Bakersfield, California, on December 28, 1987. She was last seen playing hide-and-seek with her siblings in the front yard on Washington Street; when her siblings called for her she had vanished. She was wearing a white mesh t-shirt with pink and blue stripes, pink sweatpants, and white sneakers.

Authorities classified the case as a non-family abduction. Investigators at one point looked into Gene Estel McCurdy, later convicted in another child’s abduction and murder, but no direct evidence has linked him to Deisy’s disappearance. Deisy’s parents were estranged at the time and investigators pursued a possible lead that she had been taken to Mexico, but that line produced no confirmed results. Age-progressed images have been made and the Kern County Sheriff’s Office continues to list the case as open.

If anyone in Bakersfield remembers Deisy, her family, or the Washington Street neighborhood in late December 1987, please come forward with any information.