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Jennifer Lee Martin was 11 when she vanished from Lemmon Valley, Reno, on the afternoon of June 28, 1987. At about 3:00 p.m. she left her Surge Street home to walk a few minutes to the nearby 7-Eleven on Lemmon Drive, bought a six-pack of Coca-Cola and candy, and was seen leaving the store barefoot in a purple sweater dress that might have appeared gray. The clerk saw her turn toward home, but she never completed the short walk.

Her brother Charles had given her money for the purchase and went to check the store when she failed to return about twenty minutes later. Neighborhood children later placed her near the entrance to the park where the family lived. Witnesses reported a light-colored Toyota Corolla in the area around the time she disappeared; the vehicle and driver were never identified. The family, who had moved to Reno from Florida about ten months earlier, said Jennifer was cautious and not the type to run away.

The case was investigated as a possible abduction and remained open. Decades later a defrocked priest with a known history of child molestation was examined as a person of interest, but no link was established. Does anyone who lived in Lemmon Valley in 1987 remember seeing Jennifer or a light-colored Corolla that afternoon?