Tiahease Jackson was a 10-year-old girl from Staten Island who was last seen on August 14, 1983. Her family was living at the Mariner’s Harbor Motel after a prior home fire. A fellow resident sent her to buy chicken wings at the nearby Crown Supermarket; when her mother woke from a nap and found Tiahease hadn’t returned, she was reported missing.

Tiahease was described as streetwise for her age and often ran errands alone, but she required regular medication for diabetes, asthma, and Bright’s disease. Distinguishing features included a burn scar on her wrist, a lazy eye, and a mole on her cheek. Despite extensive searches, no trace of her has ever been found.

Andre Rand, a convicted child sex offender who had been living in a makeshift campsite near the motel and was seen in the area, became a suspect and has been linked to other Staten Island child disappearances; authorities never developed enough evidence to charge him in Tiahease’s case. Does anyone who lived in Mariner’s Harbor in 1983 or who knew the family have information that could help reopen leads?