Five-year-old Alice Pereira vanished from the lobby of the Tyson Lane Apartments in New Dorp Beach, Staten Island, on July 7, 1972. She was playing with her brother around 3:30 p.m.; the brother stepped away briefly and when he returned Alice was gone. She was last seen wearing a red polo shirt, blue shorts with gold buttons, and red sneakers. A possible sighting was reported in a nearby park the same afternoon, but that lead did not locate her.

Initial inquiries briefly focused on her father, who lived in Manhattan, but he was quickly cleared. Attention later turned to painter Andre Rand, born Frank Rashan, after a witness said they saw Alice walking with him that day. Rand has prior convictions for kidnapping and is suspected in other Staten Island child disappearances, but no direct evidence has ever linked him to Alice and he was never charged in her case. Volunteers have continued searches in locations connected to Rand, including grounds tied to other victims, but Alice’s whereabouts remain unknown.

Did anyone on Staten Island in 1972 see Alice or remember that afternoon at Tyson Lane Apartments?