Jeremy Grice was four years old when he vanished from the front yard of his family’s mobile home in the Bath area of North Augusta, South Carolina, on the morning of November 21, 1985. His mother last checked him about 7:00 a.m., seeing the blankets pulled up in his bed; by about 10:00 a.m. she discovered he was gone. The front door was slightly ajar and Jeremy’s shoes and favorite jacket were left behind despite cold, rainy weather from the remnants of Hurricane Kate. The family’s German shepherd was missing at first but later returned without Jeremy.

A neighbor reported seeing a small boy and the dog in the Grice front yard at about 8:45 a.m.; the boy was not wearing shoes or a jacket, which helped narrow the disappearance to roughly an hour. Searches of woods and two drained ponds turned up nothing. Investigators and the family did not believe Jeremy had wandered off—he was described as fearful of water and unlikely to go into the woods alone—and the working theory has been an abduction by a nonfamily member. William Ernest Downs was questioned as a lead but was not charged.

The case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Jeremy, the household that morning, or saw a small unshod boy in the Bath area on November 21, 1985, please come forward with information.