On the morning of August 16, 1974, 16-year-old Nadine Jean O’Dell was walking along John Daly Road toward Michigan Avenue in Inkster, Michigan, shortly after 9:30 a.m. She was heading to her boyfriend’s house in Taylor to babysit his younger siblings and was wearing a white t-shirt, faded baggy blue jeans and her boyfriend’s Taylor High School class of 1976 ring on a chain. Her boyfriend planned to meet her partway but she never reached the meeting point and did not return home.

Nadine has not been seen or heard from since that day. Her family has long maintained she would not have run away; her younger sister, nine at the time, remembers Nadine as quiet and often babysitting. The Inkster Police Department has kept the investigation open and encouraged anyone with information to come forward.

In 2018 investigators followed a lead tied to convicted killer Arthur Ream and conducted a week-long excavation at a Macomb Township property where another victim was found; no human remains were recovered. Ream died in prison in August 2024. Coral Eugene Watts has also been raised as a possible lead, but no direct evidence links anyone to Nadine’s disappearance.

If anyone knew Nadine, her movements that morning, or saw her on John Daly Road on August 16, 1974, please share what you know.