Tyler Jennings Inman was three and a half when he vanished from his family’s second-floor apartment in Aberdeen, Washington, on the stormy night of December 21, 1982. He was last reported seen in his bed while his mother was out playing bingo and a teenage babysitter, then the mother’s boyfriend, cared for Tyler and his five-year-old sister. The boyfriend later said he left the apartment for about twenty minutes to move a boat on the nearby Wishkah River; the mother returned about 10:20 p.m. to find Tyler gone.

Strong winds — reported up to seventy miles per hour that night — and a theory that Tyler may have wandered out and fallen into the swollen river prompted extensive searches that produced no sign of him. Decades later the investigation was reclassified from a presumed accidental death to a non-family abduction, indicating investigators consider the possibility an unknown person or persons took Tyler. Distinguishing features listed include blond hair, blue eyes, warts on his right foot, extra skin on his right ear and a cauliflower left ear; age-progressed images have been circulated.

The case remains an active cold case with the Aberdeen Police Department. Did anyone in Aberdeen on December 21, 1982, see a child or an unfamiliar person near the apartment that night, or have information about the boyfriend’s brief absence?