Four-year-old Rolando Salas Jusino, known as Rolandito, vanished from a park in the Colinas del Plata neighborhood of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, on the afternoon of July 7, 1999. He was last seen between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m., wearing a green t-shirt, dark shorts, and black and white tennis shoes. The park was near his home and he had been playing unsupervised while an uncle was nearby; when the uncle briefly went inside and returned, Rolandito was gone.

The disappearance prompted an extensive, high-profile search and media coverage across Puerto Rico and Latin America. Investigators quickly ruled out a drug-related motive and later focused suspicion on the boy’s stepfather, Roberto Gotay Valcarcel; inmates later claimed to have overheard Gotay say he killed the child and buried him, but those claims were never verified and no charges were filed. Reported sightings in the Dominican Republic, Spain, and the U.S. mainland were not confirmed.

After years as a cold case, authorities announced a new lead in July 2024 pointing to a man in his late twenties in the northeastern United States; the tipster, a coworker, said the man has a birthmark like the one Rolandito had and asked for a DNA test to be done. Will anyone with information about Rolandito or that lead come forward?