Jennifer Sophia Marteliz was 7 when she disappeared from Tampa, Florida, on November 15, 1982. She vanished around 3:00 p.m. while walking home from Shaw Elementary School; she was about one block from her house at 15th Street and 109th Avenue when a friend briefly looked away and Jennifer was gone. Despite extensive searches, she has not been seen since.

At the time she was wearing a pink or orange dress with yellow flowers, maroon ballet shoes, and gold heart-shaped earrings. Distinctive features included several beauty marks on her face and body, a cleft chin, and large, chipped front teeth. Early investigation briefly focused on family because of custody disputes, but authorities later cleared her relatives.

Two men drew particular attention: Thomas Welnicki, a family acquaintance who offered a psychic vision that investigators viewed as possibly confessory and who failed a polygraph, but was never charged; and Steven Visnosky, linked by witnesses to suspicious activity near the disappearance and who died in 1992 without charges. No physical evidence has definitively tied either man to the case. Does anyone with memories of that neighborhood or of Jennifer have information that could help?