On the evening of February 15, 2001, 12-year-old Steven Earl Kraft Jr., known by some as Stevie, left his home on Holly Drive in the Benton Heights neighborhood of Benton Harbor, Michigan, with the family’s two dogs and did not return for dinner. He was last seen between about 7 and 8 p.m. wearing an aqua and purple Charlotte Hornets jacket, a tan and white striped T-shirt, tan parachute pants, and black boots. Steven was a familiar, outgoing presence in a close-knit block where relatives and neighbors lived nearby and expected him to visit friends or explore the nearby woods with the dogs.

Searches by family, volunteers, local police and the FBI covered an eight-mile radius, wooded areas, ditches, barns and nearby water. Footprints believed to be his led past an iced-over pond toward Harbor Haven Ministries on Irving Street but then stopped. Three days after he vanished, the older dog returned and appeared to lead owners toward a pond; the six-month-old puppy was found the next day near Blue Creek about a mile and a half north of the Kraft home. No trace of Steven was ever found, and investigators have not identified evidence that answers whether he left voluntarily, became lost or was taken.

Does anyone who lived in Benton Heights in February 2001 remember seeing Steven, his dogs, or any unfamiliar vehicle or person in the neighborhood that evening?