Karen Rosalba Grajeda was seven when she vanished from the courtyard of her Tucson apartment complex on the evening of January 11, 1996. She had been roller-skating with her younger sister and friends and went inside the family unit around 6:00 p.m. to put away her skates. Her mother allowed her to return outside, but by about 6:30 p.m., when called in for dinner, Karen was gone and no one in the courtyard reported seeing her leave or hearing a struggle.

Investigators treated the disappearance as a likely non-family abduction; family members were cleared early on. Leads mentioned a white or Hispanic male, 30 to 46, seen loitering at the complex, and attention was paid to a convicted child abductor, Rodolfo Sedeno Morales, who had lived in the same complex and had assaulted young Hispanic girls in 1993–1994. Authorities also considered possible links to the 1994 abduction and murder of six-year-old Esther Lizette Galaz, given similarities in timing, victim profile, and clothing.

The Tucson Police Department and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have continued the investigation and released age-progression images. No one has been charged in Karen’s disappearance. If anyone has information about Karen, her activities that evening, or the man seen at the complex, can you share what you know with investigators?