I was going to post the Macomb Daily article but someone beat me to it. It answers another poster's question about how the guy snatched the girl without being seen. The story on the Charley Project is not correct. She vanished at night not in the morning. She hitchhiking down 9 Mile Road at night--that's asking for trouble. I've been living in Warren since '98 and the corner where Ms. King made her phone call is very close to where I live. Gratiot, though, is a goodly drive. I don't know what would possess someone to decide to walk 4 miles down 9 Mile Road that late at night. I wouldn't do that and I was an adult at the time this girl vanished. So she was hitchhiking. Why a 12-year-old girl would do that is beyond me. I never hitchhiked in my life. I never accepted a ride from a complete stranger--well, once, but the circumstances were different and I wasn't hitching. So she may not even have vanished in Warren. Gratiot and 9 Mile is a different city--Eastpointe (called East Detroit in 1979). I doubt she made it to Gratiot. That's a long walk. Somebody got her somewhere along 9 Mile I would wager. Girls out there, NEVER EVER HITCHHIKE! It is NOT SAFE! This poor girl didn't deserve her fate but with a little common sense she could easily have avoided it.