D’wan Christian Sims was four years old when he was reported missing from Wonderland Mall in Livonia, Michigan, on December 11, 1994. His mother, D’Wanna Harris, told police he disappeared about 2:30 p.m. while they walked in a corridor between a Target store and the main mall. At the time he was described as three feet tall, about fifty pounds, wearing a blue hooded winter jacket over a windbreaker, dark blue sweatpants, and FILA sneakers.

Investigators searched the mall and surrounding area and viewed footage from twelve cameras but found no sign that D’wan had been at the mall that day. The tapes did show his mother entering the mall alone about an hour after she said her son vanished. No mall witnesses recalled seeing D’wan. Police administered two polygraph exams to his mother, which she failed; his father took and passed a polygraph and was cleared as a suspect. Authorities said they had suspicions but not enough evidence to charge anyone.

The case remained open for decades. D’Wanna Harris, later Wiggins, denied wrongdoing until her death in 2020. A 2019 lead involving a man who thought he might be D’wan was ruled out by DNA testing. Does anyone have memory of that mall or information that could help explain D’wan’s disappearance?