Missing Jackie Dene Hay Jackie, approximately 1981 Date reported missing : 09/12/1981 Missing location (approx) : Topeka, Kansas Missing classification : Non-Family Abduction Gender : Female Ethnicity : White DOB : 02/17/1976 (45) Age at the time of disappearance: 5 years old Height / Weight : 3'6, 45 pounds Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Blue pants and a white knit shirt with orange and lavender flowers. Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Jackie has freckles across the bridge of her nose and one small freckle between her right thigh and pelvis. She had a small cavity between her upper front teeth at the time of her 1981 disappearance. She has a small scar along her right eyebrow, and her hair was cut in a Dutch-boy style at the time of her disappearance. Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Jackie's family discovered she was missing as they prepared for an outing in Shawnee County, Kansas on September 12, 1981. She was last seen walking away from the Colfax and Golf Park in Topeka at 4:00 p.m. She was apparently being followed by a man at the time. She has never been heard from again. Authorities did not begin searching for Jackie for four hours after her disappearance was reported. Police picked up a local man that same night and questioned him for hours about Jackie's disappearance, but released him without charge. Jackie lived with her parents and four older siblings in the 3000 block of Colfax in southeast Topeka in 1981. She was a kindergarten student at Avondale East Elementary School. Her mother died in 2007. Authorities believe she was most likely abducted, but few clues available in her case. Other information and links : ncy Topeka Police Department 785-368-9551 September 2021 updates and sources The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Child Protection Education of America Kansas Bureau of Investigation IBM: Missing Children 49 ABC News The Salina Journal |