Three-year-old Lorraine Legault vanished from in front of her grandparents’ home on Jeanne-Mance Street in Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood on June 25, 1979. She was living with her grandfather at the time; he stepped inside briefly to make coffee and when he returned the little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes was gone. At the time she was wearing a blue sweater with ducks, white floral shorts, blue socks and brown ankle boots; she had a small scar on her forehead.

Early investigation drew heavy media attention but produced no solid leads. Witness descriptions varied, mentioning a man with blonde hair and, in other accounts, a young acne-faced man. Police later developed a theory that a relative might have been involved and that Lorraine could have been sold; Lorraine’s mother reportedly admitted during a polygraph that people had made offers to buy her daughter, while the father refused a polygraph. The case was reopened in 2016 after an American police force provided information; that lead did not pan out and police released an age-progressed sketch.

If anyone knew Lorraine, her family, or the Mile End neighborhood in 1979, can you share what you remember or any information that might help locate her or explain what happened?