On the evening of June 25, 1983, 18-month-old Vinyette Teague vanished from the seventh-floor gallery of her family’s Robert Taylor Homes apartment in Chicago. The hallway was crowded that night with roughly 50 people—relatives, neighbors and children—and Vinyette was seen playing there wearing a multicolored striped tank top and brown and yellow flowered pants, barefoot. Around 9:30 p.m. her grandmother stepped inside the apartment to answer a phone call, and in that brief interval Vinyette was gone. Some accounts say the grandmother briefly left the child with a neighbor who set Vinyette near the front door while tending to a task, but no one in the busy hallway reported seeing anything suspicious and there were only three exits from the gallery.

Family and police searched the complex, even checking incinerator ashes and elevator shafts; nothing was ever recovered and no ransom note appeared. Investigators believe a non-family member abducted Vinyette. Age-progressed images have been released to keep the case in the public eye.

If anyone was in the seventh-floor gallery at the Robert Taylor Homes that night or has information about Vinyette’s disappearance, please come forward.