Jeremy Morris was 7 when he vanished from his mother’s home in Shingletown, California, on July 23, 1983. Dozens of law enforcement officers and volunteers searched the nearby woods for days in extreme heat before the search was called off.

On August 6 a rancher found Jeremy’s badly decomposed body in a spring about four miles from his home. No specific cause of death was identified in reports, but authorities classified the death as a homicide. Over the years suspicions and rumors have involved a number of people, including Jeremy’s mother and her then-boyfriend, Willard Hackler, and investigators have pursued leads intermittently.

The case remains unsolved and has had a lasting impact on the Shingletown community. Anyone with information that could help bring justice for Jeremy is urged to come forward.