Michelle Norris was a seven-year-old first-grader who disappeared from the Capt. G. Harold Hunt School playground in Central Falls, Rhode Island, on May 28, 1988 while playing with her brothers and cousins during Memorial Day weekend. The playground was close to the grandmother’s home where she had been watched, and no one witnessed her abduction.

After an intensive search, Michelle’s body was found on May 30, 1988 on the side of a hill in a wooded area behind a dance hall on Brook Street, less than half a mile from where she was last seen. Her clothes were beside her. An autopsy determined she had been sexually assaulted, beaten, and suffocated. Early in the investigation several people were questioned, including her estranged father William Norris, but police say no one was ever charged.

Investigators later examined soil samples and pursued various theories, including that Michelle may have known her abductor and that she might have been killed elsewhere before her body was moved. The case remains unsolved. If anyone has information about Michelle, her last known movements, or the area behind the dance hall, can you come forward?