From the Columbus Dispatch:

At least 43 children, including 24 girls and 19 boys, have vanished since late 2014 from this northeast Ohio city, a Dispatch investigation found. With a population of 13,792, approximately 3.1 kids per 1,000 residents have disappeared in 10 years from East Cleveland—a rate that far exceeds Ohio’s largest cities of Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland.

The missing includes children of all ages, such as a 9-year-old girl who vanished five years ago wearing a blue denim shirt and purple leggings and a 17-year-old boy last seen in a red and black hoodie and carrying a bookbag in 2014. What remains unclear years later is what exactly happened to them, whether some are alive or dead or if they’ve actually been found or are still missing.