On October 23, 1987, six-year-old Johanna Bunari disappeared in Manhattan, New York, along with her two sisters, nine-year-old Eileen and five-year-old Yanti. Johanna was described as White/Caucasian, with black hair and brown eyes, about 4 feet 5 inches tall and roughly 70 pounds. The sisters’ disappearance is reported to point to a parental abduction by their non-custodial father; the family vanished without a trace.

The New York City Police Department Missing Persons Squad is the primary agency handling the investigation. Johanna’s case was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System on October 19, 2020 (NamUs MP74803, agency case KNMP04476). Some unconfirmed online discussion has suggested the girls may have been in Indonesia, but those claims have not been verified.

The official whereabouts of Johanna and her sisters remain unknown and the investigation is still open. If anyone has information about the Bunari sisters or remembers events in Manhattan around October 1987, please share what is known.