Thirteen-year-old Myron Traylor vanished on a short walk in Phoenix on the evening of July 27, 1988. He and his mother were walking from their home near 16th Street and Nancy Lane toward his grandparents’ house on East Pecan Road when Myron said he was thirsty and stopped at OK Fish-N-Chips at 16th Street and Southern Avenue to buy a cherry soda. He was last seen at about 6:00 p.m. outside the restaurant, carrying a plastic bag of dirty laundry. He was wearing a red and white striped shirt, white shorts with a blue print and white sneakers, and had a half-inch scar on the right side of his head.

Myron was described as quiet, well behaved, in the choir and youth group at Southminster Presbyterian Church, and not involved with gangs or drugs. Friends and family said he would not typically leave without telling anyone, so his disappearance was soon treated as suspicious. His father and mother were ruled out as suspects. The primary suspect identified by investigators was his mother’s then-boyfriend, Gettus Leroy Mintz, who was one of the last people seen with Myron; Mintz later refused to be interviewed about the disappearance.

Did anyone who lived near 16th Street and Southern Avenue in July 1988 or who knew Myron or his family see anything that summer?