Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 11/21/1958
- Missing From:
- Missing From Flint, Michigan
- Classification:
- Classification Non-Family Abduction
- Gender:
- Female
- Race:
- Race Black
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 01/01/1951 (74)
- Age:
- Age 7 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 3’6, 50 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A gray cotton coat, a blue dress with a design of small animal figures along the lower hemline, red knee socks and black shoes.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. At the time of her disappearance, Adele had her hair styled with waves at the sides, and bangs.
- Details of Disappearance:
- Seven-year-old Adele disappeared in Flint, Michigan on November 21, 1958. She was a second-grader who’d stayed home sick that morning but decided to go to school in the afternoon. After visiting her grandmother’s house nearby, she vanished.
Witnesses reported seeing a light-skinned African-American man in a gray coat and red socks carrying a young girl (around 8-10 years old) to a dirty black Chevrolet near Lewis Street. It’s not certain this man took Adele, but other kids from her school said a man in a similar car had tried to get them into his car in the days before Adele disappeared.
Adele was one of nine children in her family; her father worked in a Flint factory. The police investigated but never found Adele, and her case remains a mystery.
- Agency:
- Flint Police Department 810-237-6800
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This person was missing Missing Since 11/21/1958