Alexis Patterson, a 7-year-old girl from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went missing on May 3, 2002. That morning her stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, walked her to Hi-Mount Boulevard School a block from their home and said he watched her head toward the playground. Other students reported seeing Alexis on the playground that morning, upset and crying after an argument with her mother about unfinished homework, but she never attended classes and did not return home after school.

A large search followed, with local authorities, volunteer search parties and divers searching nearby Washington Park; no trace of Alexis was found. Witnesses recalled a red truck parked near the school for several days before her disappearance that was gone afterward. The stepfather failed a polygraph test, but police have not publicly linked him or anyone else to her disappearance. Tips and reported sightings, including one in Ohio in 2016, have not produced a breakthrough and the disappearance remains an active criminal investigation.

If anyone saw Alexis that day, knew about the red truck, or has information that has not been shared with investigators, please come forward.