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Case Description
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Yusef Ali Bell, a 9-year-old Black male, disappeared on Sunday, October 21, 1979, in Atlanta, Georgia. On that day, the fifth-grader left his home in the McDaniel-Glenn housing project to run a simple errand for a neighbor, Eula Birdsong: to buy a can of Bruton snuff from the nearby Reese Grocery on McDaniel Street. It was a task he had done before. A witness reported seeing him near the intersection of McDaniel and Fulton streets getting into a blue car before he vanished. He never returned hom ...Read More
Victim Details

Yusef Bell

Male

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

1979-10-21

Yusef

Bell

03/17/2026