Joseph Hurtado was 20 months old when he vanished from his El Paso neighborhood on September 9, 1974. That day he was walking between his parents while his mother washed the family car and his father stayed inside; the parents each assumed the child was with the other and only realized he was missing after a short time. Joseph was heading to his grandmother’s house on the same street when he disappeared.

Witnesses reported an unidentified blue Ford in the area around the time he went missing, but that vehicle was never definitively tied to the case. Extensive searches, including a thorough sweep of the nearby Rio Grande, found no trace of Joseph and investigators ruled out accidental drowning. Authorities believe he was abducted and possibly murdered; a suspect was identified but no indictments resulted after presentation to a grand jury. The investigation remains open despite the passage of time.

Joseph had a birthmark near his right kidney and suffered from club feet; he was wearing orthopedic shoes when he disappeared and could have been severely pigeon-toed without them. Age-progressed images have been produced; Joseph’s whereabouts remain unknown. Did anyone in the El Paso area on September 9, 1974, see the blue Ford or remember details about Joseph that could help the case?