Such a cute little kid.
His ears really do seem to match the UID, but if both have DNA on file, and it was a rule out, you would think that was the way? Anything is possible though.
Is that shopping center still around? Assuming the Sears was an anchor type store, where he could have also wondered right out easily? In 1972, televisions may have been on display prominently, near an entrance. Being a 3 year-old boy, Solomon might have easily been excited by something he saw outside and darted off. (A cool truck of some kind, a dog, a toy, anything other than a boring store.) My boys were little escape artists at that age, so just a thought that came to mind. He could have been taken or something happened outside of the shopping center, which would also explain a lack of witnesses.

His ears really do seem to match the UID, but if both have DNA on file, and it was a rule out, you would think that was the way? Anything is possible though.
Is that shopping center still around? Assuming the Sears was an anchor type store, where he could have also wondered right out easily? In 1972, televisions may have been on display prominently, near an entrance. Being a 3 year-old boy, Solomon might have easily been excited by something he saw outside and darted off. (A cool truck of some kind, a dog, a toy, anything other than a boring store.) My boys were little escape artists at that age, so just a thought that came to mind. He could have been taken or something happened outside of the shopping center, which would also explain a lack of witnesses.