Shane Walker Missing Person Case

Jun 14, 2010

Dec 23, 2020

Shane

Walker

38

1

36 inches

23 lbs

Black / African American

Male

On a warm evening in August of 1989, a one-year-old boy named Shane Walker disappeared from a playground in New York, New York. He was at a park located on Lenox Avenue, between West 112th and West 115th Streets, with his mother, Rosa Glover. Shane was last seen playing with two other children, a 10-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother, who had approached and asked to play with him. While Shane was playing, a man sat next to his mother on a bench and started a conversation with her. When she looked back to check on her son, he was gone. A frantic search of the playground and the surrounding areas by his mother and other people at the park yielded no sign of the little boy. The police were called, and an extensive search of the parks, apartment buildings, and the neighborhood was conducted, but no clues to his whereabouts were found. The two children Shane was last seen playing with were questioned, but they denied any involvement in his disappearance, stating they had left Shane at the park. The man who had spoken with Rosa was also questioned, but police could not find any evidence to connect him to the case. At the time of his disappearance, Shane was described as having black hair, brown eyes, a small scar under his chin, and a birthmark on his right shoulder. He was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, light blue pants, and white LA Gear sneakers. The disappearance of Shane Walker is often linked to the case of another toddler, two-year-old Christopher Dansby, who vanished from the very same park just three months earlier under strikingly similar circumstances. Both boys were last seen playing with the same two children before they went missing. The families of both children lived in the same apartment complex, the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers. Law enforcement officials at the time noted the chilling similarities between the two cases but could not definitively say they were connected. Over the years, Shane's case has remained open, with his family holding out hope for his return. His mother has submitted her DNA to genetic databases in the hope of one day finding her son, who would now be a grown man. The case serves as a heartbreaking reminder of the vulnerability of children and the enduring pain of a family left without answers.

Aug 10, 1989

New York

New York

New York County

8694

New York City Police Department - Missing Persons Squad

New York

New York

New York County

10039

2770 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, New York

2126947781

Local

Law Enforcement

KNMP08843

1989-08-22

New York City Police Department - Missing Persons Squad

Black

Brown

Brown

09/20/2026