On September 16, 1996, four-year-old Ashley La Shay Jones vanished from her family’s home in Memphis while in the care of her maternal aunt, Joyce Wade Lindsey, who had come to stay with the family the day before. Ashley’s mother, Vicky Lee Morris, had allowed Joyce to babysit that morning; a 9:15 a.m. call from Vicky included the sound of a child playing in the background and was the last time anyone reported hearing from Ashley.

That afternoon, Ashley’s 12-year-old half-sister, Erica, returned to find Joyce intoxicated. Joyce told Erica the babysitter had picked Ashley up, then drove off with Erica and checked into a motel, preventing contact with their parents. The next day Joyce washed bags of clothes from her car trunk, left bags at a laundromat, and later returned with the trunk smelling of bleach. Police later found blood in Joyce’s car trunk; DNA testing indicated with a high degree of probability the blood belonged to Ashley. Joyce Lindsey was charged and, in 1999, convicted on counts including second-degree murder and kidnapping. Ashley’s body has never been found.

Does anyone have information about Ashley’s whereabouts or recall seeing her after September 16, 1996?