Jovonna Stacey Crawford was almost two years old when she vanished from the P.T. Barnum Housing Project in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On the morning of June 5, 1981, her mother Mary Corbin left Jovonna temporarily in the care of her then-boyfriend, Ronald Garrett, who said a boy of about 10 or 11 with small braids came to the door saying he had been sent by Jovonna’s great-grandmother to pick her up. Garrett said he recognized the child and allowed Jovonna to go with him; the great-grandmother later said she had not sent anyone. Jovonna, wearing a blue and white jumpsuit, never arrived at the great-grandmother’s home and was not seen again that day.

Garrett was arrested a few days later, convicted of risk of injury to a minor, and served about ten months in prison; he has continued to assert the story about the unidentified boy. The disappearance is classified as a non-family abduction with suspected foul play, and the Bridgeport Police Department still lists Jovonna as missing.