Tricia Kellett was 8 years old when she disappeared from her Chicago neighborhood on May 7, 1982. After coming home from school and giving her mother a Mother’s Day painting, she was allowed to play outside while waiting for her father. Neighbors say she was playing on a porch with a new litter of puppies and was last seen wearing a long-sleeve sweater, blue jeans, and brown lace-up shoes. Her father arrived about 4:00 p.m. and found Tricia gone; family and neighbors searched, and an official search did not begin until about 10:00 p.m.

Witnesses later reported seeing Tricia speaking with a man in his early 30s and then getting into a blue four-door 1979 Dodge or Pontiac with a damaged front passenger door. Investigation attention centered on Marvin Pontarelli, a man with a criminal history who owned a car matching the description and who was identified by several witnesses in a lineup. Pontarelli later gave conflicting statements about Tricia—once saying she was dead and buried on his family’s Illinois property and later saying another man, Larry Fassler, had taken her to Mexico. No charges were filed in Tricia’s disappearance and Pontarelli died in prison in 1994.

What did neighbors or anyone in the area remember about that afternoon in May 1982?