Nine-year-old James McQueary and his friend Johnny Hundley, both third-graders from Fairfax, Ohio, disappeared on October 15, 1964 after being seen together around town that afternoon, including at Frisch’s Mainliner. The boys had played at a nearby sewer construction site the day before, and their families reported them missing that evening when they failed to return home.

Investigators looked at several possibilities. One theory held they might have been accidentally buried at the construction trench after it was filled with gravel, but workers said they had not seen children there. A runaway hypothesis generated a nationwide alert and some reported sightings, none of which produced the boys. A man later confessed to killing them and leading police to the graves, then recanted and passed a polygraph; he was not charged.

Authorities believe the boys were likely killed soon after their disappearance, but no bodies have ever been found. If anyone knew Jimmy or Johnny, or remembers seeing two boys around Fairfax that afternoon, please share what you know.