Zachary Carl Orlando Rodriguez was two years old when his noncustodial father, Rolando Rodriguez, took him during a custody fight in Carpentersville, Illinois, in the summer of 1987. The abduction followed escalating parental conflict: Nadine Walter had taken Zachary out of state, Rolando was briefly granted temporary custody and forcefully retrieved the child from a church parking lot, injuring the boy’s grandfather. When custody returned to Nadine she found both her son and Rolando were gone and a felony abduction warrant was issued for Rolando in September 1987.

The search for Zachary became entangled with a later murder. Nadine’s then-boyfriend, William Nally Sr., drove to Illinois and shot attorney Timothy McNamee; Nadine later testified against Nally in exchange for immunity and Nally was convicted of first-degree murder. Rolando was arrested on a shoplifting charge in Tucson in 1989 using his brother’s name but was released before fingerprints confirmed his identity. No reliable information about Zachary’s whereabouts has surfaced since 1987.

Did anyone in the area at that time have contact with Rolando Rodriguez or recall seeing a small blond boy named Zachary in the late 1980s?