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Dateline NBC

The Girl in the Little Blue Dress

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When a 3-year-old named Michelle Pulsifer disappeared, her father couldn't even get police to search for her -- but he never gave up looking. John Larson reports in this Dateline classic. Originally aired on NBC on July 19, 2009.

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0:00.0

A photograph and a question.

0:09.9

How long does a father's love last?

0:13.3

How powerful is a memory?

0:17.3

What is it about that grainy picture of that little girl?

0:21.1

Because she's anybody.

0:22.9

Which means she's everybody.

0:26.9

This is a story oddly enough about what we don't know about a little girl in a blue dress.

0:34.0

Because what we do know is simple.

0:37.8

She was born St. Patrick's Day in 1966.

0:40.8

Michelle Kelly Pulsefer, the new baby sister, filling out what her parents hoped would be

0:46.7

a perfect family.

0:48.7

But soon little Michelle would disappear.

0:51.8

Who took her and where?

0:53.5

A secret.

0:54.8

Did you ever stop looking?

0:58.8

Not really.

1:01.9

When they met her parents were still just really kids themselves.

1:06.1

Donna and Dick met as they entered high school.

1:09.0

And soon we're just another young couple falling in love in El Cajon, just east of San Diego.

1:14.7

I met her at a high school party and I kind of danced, taught and I got a telephone number

1:23.6

and we started dating.

1:26.0

Dick Pulsefer says he and Donna were inseparable.

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