Anthony Murrill was nine years old when he disappeared from his family’s apartment in the Harris Homes public housing complex on Sells Avenue in Atlanta. The night of November 14, 1971, he slept in the top bunk of a shared bed; his thirteen-year-old brother slept through the night and found Anthony gone the next morning with no sign of struggle.

Investigators briefly considered that Anthony might have run away to North Carolina to be with his biological father, a line of inquiry the family rejected. A caller later told Anthony’s sister the boy was on Mead Road in Decatur, but a search turned up nothing. Over time witnesses gave conflicting accounts, including a neighbor who first said they saw Anthony get into the stepfather Edward Groves’s car and later recanted, and someone who reported seeing Anthony speaking to a cab driver who had formerly dated his mother. No charges were filed.

His mother kept his bicycle chained to the porch and left a light on for years; agencies including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children have produced age-progressed images. Does anyone have memories of the Harris Homes or that neighborhood in 1971 that could help fill gaps in the timeline?