Hey friends, Nina here. Just a friendly reminder that I will be at the True Crime Podcast

Festival in Austin, Texas, which is coming up this August. If you'd like to join us,

visit TrueCrimPodcastFestival.com and use code Gone for a special savings on tickets.

Also, this week's episode is an old, cold case involving a child. I know not everyone is a big

fan of cases involving children, but this is an important story that deserves to be told.

And now on with the show.

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. Right now there is no trace.

Investigators say evidence leads them to believe that she's dead.

Stick my nose back in that trail. That's all I can do. This is already gone.

It was a pleasant spring afternoon in Kalamazoo, Michigan when eight-year-old

Jeannie Singleton was walking home from school. Jeannie was spotted resting her legs not too far

from her home, but she never made it back for dinner. Her disappearance sparked a massive manhunt.

In fact, it would be one of the biggest searches in Kalamazoo history, but would Jeannie ever come home?

Jeannie Singleton was born in 1946 to parent Steve and Dorothy. She had five other siblings,

and she absolutely doated on all of them. She was exceptionally close with her 13-year-old sister,

Patsy, who she shared a bedroom with, and even sometimes shared close with.

In October 1954, the Singleton siblings were baptized as a group. Dorothy commented,

with that baptism we turn them over to God, and we are just their trustees.

The Singleton family lived on Blake's Lee Street in Kalamazoo. It was a treeline neighborhood

consisting of mostly families. Jeannie was a student at Woodward Elementary School. At school,

she was known for her friendly and welcoming demeanor. In fact, teachers commented that she was one

of the friendliest children in the whole school. She had a smile for everyone and always came to class

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