Anthony Tyrone Woodson was 5 when he vanished from Mansfield, Texas, on August 29, 1981. He was last seen by his uncle, Terry Lee Woodson, who at first said Anthony had been left in the backseat of the car during a trip to a 7-Eleven and was gone when he returned home. That account prompted a large search by police and volunteers and the matter went cold for decades.

The case was reopened in 2017. During the new investigation Terry Woodson changed his story and at one point confessed that Anthony had died after being beaten during a disciplinary incident involving Terry and his wife, Della, and that Terry disposed of the child’s body along a dirt road. Remains were never recovered and Terry later retracted parts of that confession. He was arrested and charged with murder in 2018.

What leads, witnesses, or evidence might still point investigators to Anthony’s remains or clarify exactly what happened that day?