IL IL - Vinyette Teague, 18 months, Chicago, 25 June 1983

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Investigators said they were circulating images of what Teague may look like today to reach “the person who can help investigators pull the missing pieces together.”

The center’s communications director, Angeline Hartmann, said the group has seen cases of abducted infants found or who discovered their true identity years after the fact.

Those with information about Teague’s disappearance are asked to call 800-THE-LOST (800-843-5678).

Missing kids advocacy group releases age-progression images of toddler who went missing in 1983

Vinyette Teague, then 18 months old, disappeared from the former Taylor Homes in June 1983, according to a release from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

www.chicagotribune.com

Vinyette Teague: New image raises hope in decades-old Chicago missing persons case

More than four decades after a young girl went missing on the South Side of Chicago, her family is hoping a new image can bring her home.

www.fox32chicago.com

 

[Pennysmom1]

Still listed as missing

Missing Person / NamUs #MP5348

View NamUs missing person case MP5348 for Vinyette Teague missing from Chicago, Illinois. Date of last contact: Jun 25, 1983. NCMEC case number: 601917.

namus.nij.ojp.gov

Vinyette Teague Missing 37 Years

Thirty-seven years ago today, Kathy Teague’s life turned upside down in a moment.It was June of 1983...

www.missingkids.org

The Surviving Parents Coalition: Kathy Teague

Vinyette Teague – Illinois Missing Persons

 

[Pennysmom1]

Quite an old article, but has great information about Vinyette as a baby.
Aug 8, 2021 updated article

<<Vinyette Teague`s mysterious abduction was a very brief news story in the major Chicago papers and newscasts in the summer of 1983-she was black, her mother, Kathy Teague, was unemployed and unmarried, and she lived in poverty at the Chicago Housing Authority`s Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side.

Her name was going to be Minyette because her mother liked the sound of the word, but a clergywoman at Chicago Lying-In Hospital, where she was born in December, 1981, suggested Vinyette.

The baby`s first words were ”water” and ”mommy,” and everywhere she went she carried with her a little rag doll that didn`t have a name.

Vinyette was a sweet but cautious child, Kathy Teague said, and was very particular about who could hold her. On the night of June 25, 1983, she perched most of the evening in the lap of a trusted neighbor who was helping watch Teague`s four kids while Teague and Vinyette`s father, Albert Simmons, went to a drive-in movie.

The air was thick and hot, and the neighbor, Kathy Teague`s mother, her two sisters and her cousin were sitting with a large group of neighbors out in a porch area playing cards and talking. The phone rang and Kathy Teague`s mother went inside the apartment. Then her sisters drifted off and the cousin left and the trusted neighbor went to do the dishes.

A short time later, Vinyette was gone. No one had seen anything. She was 18 months old and was not even wearing any shoes.>>

 

[fridaybaker]

A darling little girl. I wouldn’t wish the RTH on anyone. Just the density set it up for crime. This family/friends weren’t on guard. They were simply enjoying a hot summer evening, going in and out of the apartments. Sadly, one should always have been on guard in the the RTH, or really anywhere these days, which is an awful way to have to live.

I hope her mother is right, and someone took her and cared for her. The alternative would be unbearable to contemplate.

 

[Find Brenda]

Listening to that podcast broke my heart for her family

 

[Pennysmom1]

 

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