SOLVED: Iowa Cold Case | Lucas Perry, 6 | Missing Boy Found Alive After 53 Years (1962–2015)

SOLVED: Iowa Cold Case | Lucas Perry, 6 | Missing Boy Found Alive After 53 Years (1962–2015)

The glass of milk was still warm when Lucas Perry vanished in the town of Ottumwa, Iowa, population 24,100. That May morning in 1962 arrived with gentle sunlight and the distant sound of trains echoing from the station to the east, the familiar noise of a peaceful Midwestern town. At 10:15 a.m., the Perry family's neighbor, Ruth Ellison, waved through her kitchen window as the six-year-old boy pedaled his small red bicycle around Jefferson Park—the bike he had received for his birthday the previous week.

Lucas was wearing the green-striped shirt his mother had just ironed, holding a half-eaten sandwich as he circled the iron fence leading to the main road. At the edge of the park, a man in a baseball cap leaned against a light blue Ford Fairlane, his eyes following the boy as he disappeared behind a row of maples. What happened in the next 47 minutes would haunt Ottumwa for more than half a century.

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