Doreen Jane Vincent was 12 when she disappeared from her father’s home on Whirlwind Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut. She had moved there from Bridgeport about two weeks earlier and was unhappy with the change. According to her father, Mark Vincent, a fight on the evening of June 15, 1988 ended with him striking Doreen and pushing her through a window; he later told police she packed clothes, took about fifty dollars, and left between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m., presumably to hitchhike to Bridgeport.

Her father did not report her missing; Doreen’s mother, Donna Lee, only discovered the disappearance when she arrived to pick up her daughter three days later and pushed for a missing person report. Over time the runaway theory weakened: the stepmother, Sharon, said the front door deadbolted from the inside, making an unassisted exit unlikely, and a year later items Doreen was said to have taken were found at her paternal grandmother’s house. Witness reports and cadaver-dog searches in areas including Huntington State Park followed, but no trace of Doreen has been found. Does anyone have memories or information about Doreen, the house on Whirlwind Hill Road, or that neighborhood in 1988?