Russell Mort was 2 years old when he disappeared from his family’s yard at Lynch’s Trailer Park in Wheatfield, near Niagara Falls, New York, on May 5, 1982. He was last seen playing in a fenced backyard while his mother briefly went inside to fix a toy; when she returned he was gone. The fence had been locked from the outside, and a large search produced no trace of Russell.

Investigators at the time considered abduction and sought an unidentified couple seen nearby in a white 1965 Corvette, described as a man and woman in their 20s or early 30s; that couple was never located. Some officials suggested Russell might have climbed over the fence and fallen into the Niagara River about 100 yards away, but no evidence has ever supported either theory. A man in Texas who came forward in 2005 was later excluded by DNA testing.

Russell’s disappearance remains unsolved and has been publicly remembered for decades. If anyone saw a young child near Lynch’s Trailer Park on May 5, 1982, or remembers the white 1965 Corvette, please share what was seen or heard.