GALLUP, N.M. (AP) - More than three decades have passed since a Navajo girl disappeared from her home in northwestern New Mexico wearing a pink nightgown.
Authorities say they have not given up on finding Anthonette Cayedito.
“Someone out there knows what happened to Anthonette, please call us,” FBI spokesman Frank Fisher said Monday on the 34th anniversary of her disappearance.
Cayedito was 9 years old when she was last seen at her family’s apartment in Gallup, just off the Navajo Nation. She has been the focus of television shows on unsolved cases.
Cayedito was born on Christmas Day in 1976. When she went missing early in the morning on April 6, 1986, she was wearing the nightgown and had answered a knock at the door.
Her mother, who has since died, noticed she was gone when she went to wake up Cayedito and her sisters for Bible school.
Cayedito has Navajo and Italian heritage and was known to wear glasses and a silver chain with a small turquoise cross pendant. An artist rendering shows what Cayedito might look like today.
The FBI and police on the Navajo Nation and in Gallup said they need the public’s help to find her.
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