Denise El-mansura, known as Dee Dee, was 15 when she disappeared in New Orleans on Tuesday morning, January 10, 1978. She rode the city bus to McDonogh 35 High School with her sister and was last seen at about 11:30 a.m. near the school. Denise was expected to meet her aunt for lunch but never arrived and was not seen or heard from again.

At the time she vanished Denise was described as a Black female, 5 feet 4 inches tall, about 115 pounds, with brown eyes and reddish-brown hair worn in an afro. She lived with her family on the 1900 block of Feliciana Street and had pierced ears. The New Orleans Police Department classifies her as an endangered missing person.

Investigators noted that another girl from Denise’s neighborhood disappeared and was later murdered roughly six months earlier; any connection between the two cases has not been established. Does anyone have information about Denise’s last known movements near McDonogh 35 or remembers seeing her that morning?