Thirteen-year-old Michael Craig Mcghee was last seen on June 11, 1976, in Redondo Beach, California. Police initially treated his disappearance as a runaway because he had a history of running away, habitual truancy, and was a suspect in several local crimes. A week before he vanished he met Patrick Wayne Kearney while hitchhiking; Kearney invited him on a camping trip to Lake Elsinore. Michael couldn’t go then but told Kearney to ask again in a week.

On June 11 Kearney went to the Mcghee home. Michael’s older sister, who was supervising him, said he was grounded and could not go. Michael snuck out and left with Kearney and was never seen again. After Kearney’s arrest he confessed to killing Michael, saying he shot him in the back of the head, sexually assaulted the body postmortem, dismembered the remains, and disposed of them so they would never be found. Michael’s body has never been recovered and he is presumed to be a homicide victim.

If anyone knew Michael’s routines, where he hitchhiked, or saw him the day he disappeared, please share what you remember.