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Four-year-old Daniel John Andersen vanished on January 25, 1992, near Finchford, Iowa, after going with his father, David Andersen, to a carpentry job in the 8300 block of Newell Road. Daniel reportedly told his father he was cold and wanted to go inside; that was the last confirmed sighting. He was a nursery school student at Malcolm Price Laboratory School and was described as white, about 3 feet tall, 50 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket and blue snow-pants.

An immediate search uncovered small footprints in the snow leading from the work site to the nearby West Fork of the Cedar River and onto the ice. Despite extensive searches, no further sign of Daniel has been found and his body has never been recovered. Authorities have long presumed he fell through the ice, but the case remains open and Daniel is still listed as missing.

Did anyone in the Finchford or Waterloo area see Daniel or his footprints that day, or have information about the river that could help explain what happened?