Alisha Smiley was three years old when she vanished from the Omni International Hotel on Techwood Drive in Atlanta in June 1985. She had been in the hotel lobby with her aunt, Estella Evans, and a four-year-old cousin while the aunt stepped away briefly to buy wrestling tickets. When the aunt returned minutes later, the cousin was alone on the bench and Alisha was missing.

At the time she disappeared Alisha wore a red and white checkered sundress, white sandals with silver buckles, and lilac ribbons in her braided hair. She had a gap between her lower front teeth, slight discoloration in the corner of her right eye, and pierced ears. Family had been caring for her after she moved from Birmingham to Atlanta about eight months earlier while her parents were in college.

Hotel employees reported seeing her shortly after the aunt left, asking for a cookie and for directions to a bathroom. Investigators followed numerous tips over the years, including searches at the Lakewood Fairgrounds and behind a local high school, but those leads produced no evidence. The case remains open and is classified as a non-family abduction.

If anyone remembers Alisha, the hotel lobby that day, or any detail that hasn’t yet been shared, please come forward with information.