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Hay, Jackie D September 12,1981; Shawnee County Kansas 5 YO
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Jackie Dene Hay


Above Images: Hay, circa 1981


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: September 12, 1981 from Shawnee County, Kansas
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: February 17, 1976
Age: 5 years old
Height and Weight: 3'6, 45 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Hay has freckles across the bridge of her nose. She has one small freckle between her right thigh and pelvis. Hay had a small cavity between her upper front teeth at the time of her 1981 disappearance. She has a small scar along her right eyebrow.


Details of Disappearance

Hay's family discovered she was missing as they prepared for an outing in Shawnee County, Kansas on September 12, 1981. She has never been heard from again. Authorities believe Hay was abducted by a non-family member.


Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Topeka Police Department
785-368-9551



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education of America
Kansas Bureau Of Investigation
IBM: Missing Children



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Lawrence Daily Jornal World
September 18, 1981

Topeka (AP) Police say the case of missing 5-year-old has all the earmarks of an abduction or kidnapping.

Jackie Hay was last seen Saturday around 4 p.m. at the southeast Topeka home where she lives with her parents, Olen and Judith Hay, her two older sisters and two older brothers.

Police and more than 200 community volunteers have searched and re-searched vacant houses and weed-filled fields near the Hay home. The searches have failed to yield any clues to the child's disappearance.

Thursday, detective Sgt. Bill Beightel obtained a pair of Jackie's shoes and underwear in the hope that bloodhounds may be able to track her scent.

Hay said, "It's like someone has just tied your hands and put a blindfold on you and put you in a hole. There's just nothing you can do to bring her back."

But Hay, a self-employed laborer added, "I think she's with someone and is allright. If they'd just come back and leave her someplace, everything would be ok."

The blonde, blue-eyed Jackie, a kindergarten student is described as 40 inches tall and weighing about 40 pounds.
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The Iola Register
Monday, September 21. 1981

SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILD CALLED OFF

Topeka/ Police have called off the search for a 5-year-old girl, saying it won't be resumed until new information is received in the case.

The parents of Jackie Hay reported her missing Sept. 12. Police have searched areas up to three miles from her Topeka home, but uncovered no clues as to her whereabouts. The search was called off Saturday.

Police believe she may have been abducted or may be the victim of an accident.

Detective Tom Lemon said police have received numerous tips from people who claim to have seen the girl, but there are no suspects, he said.
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Lawrence Journal-World
Monday, September 21, 1981

Police Call Off Search
For Topeka Five-Year-Old

Topeka (AP) Police have called off the search for a missing 5-year-old girl, saying it won't be resumed until new information is received in the case.

The parents of Jackie Hay reported her missing Sept. 12. Police have searched areas as far away as three miles from her Topeka home, but have uncovered no clues to her whereabouts. The search was called off Saturday.

Detective Tom Lemon said police have received numerous tips from people who claim to have seen the girl, but there are no suspects, he said.

"It's kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack," Lemon said.

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Monday, September 14, 1981
Lawrence Journal-World

DETECTIVES SEEKING TOPEKA CHILD OF 5

Topeka (AP) Police detectives questioned neighbors and others again today, seeking clues to the disappearance Saturday of a 5-year-old Topeka girl in the southeast section of the city.

Authorities had not ruled out the possibility Jackie D. Hay was abducted and might have been harmed.

One unidentified man was questioned four hours late Saturday, then released. Area residents said they thought they saw her following a man before her disappearance about 4:30 p.m. The man who was questioned matched a description police had from the residents.

About 150 people, including law enforcement officers and volunteers, searched a heavily wooded area near the girl's home Sunday but found no trace of her.
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September 13, 1981
Capital Journal

Topeka Police were searching late Saturday for 5-year-old Jackie D. Hay 3024 Colfax, who was reported missing from her southeast Topeka home at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hay said the child had been playing with friends at Colfax and Golf park before she disappeared. Detectives were questioning the girls friends late Saturday.

She has blonde hair and blue eyes and was wearing a white knit shirt with orange and lavender flowers, police said.

At 11 p.m., Saturday there were 39 officers involved in the search, which began at dark, spanning the immediate area of the residence, detectives said.
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Girl still missing 25 years later
Story by Liz Zamora (Contact)

7:28 p.m. Monday, January 15, 2007

A Topeka, Kansas man is reminded of his own missing daughter after hearing the news of two missing boys reunited with their families.

The father of Jackie Hay speaks out more than twenty-five years after her disappearance.

"She wasn't old enough to be bad. She was a sweet kid," remembers Olen Hay.

He still recalls the day his five-year-old daughter, Jackie Dene Hay, went missing.

"I was getting ready to leave and couldn't find her," says Hay.

The only information police had to go on was given to them by a Gas Service man who saw Jackie following a man. But Hay says police took nearly four hours to begin their search.

"By the time that it took for the police to investigate, he could have been almost to St. Louis."

Hay says he wishes the Amber Alert system would have been in place back in 1981.

The system went into effect statewide in 2002. It all began when children's advocate Jim Brewer saw the alert system featured on America's Most Wanted.

"I said, 'Topeka needs something like this', and my wife smiled and said, 'you are going to do this aren't you?'"

Brewer worked with the Police Department and Shawnee County Sheriff and eventually the Attorney General's office to bring the Amber Alert system to the state. He believe it's effective because it gets the word out so fast.

"With everybody looking, it makes it tough to hide," says Brewer.

He was ecstatic to hear the news about the two boys in Missouri who were reunited with their families, especially the one missing for four years "I'm glad they found this kid cause now he has a future."

Hay says twenty-five years later, the hardest part is just not knowing. And Hay hopes that by telling his story, others will remember the children still missing.








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JACKIE DENE HAY
Case Type: Non Family Abduction
DOB: Feb 17, 1976 Sex: Female
Missing Date: Sep 12, 1981 Race: White
Age Now: 30 Height: 3'6" (107 cm)
Missing City: SHAWNEE COUNTY Weight: 45 lbs (20 kg)
Missing State : KS Hair Color: Blonde
Missing Country: United States Eye Color: Blue

Case Number: NCMC601673
Circumstances: Jackie was discovered missing when the family gathered for an outing. She has freckles across the bridge of her nose and one small freckle between her right thigh and pelvis. She has a small cavity between top front teeth.
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September 15, 1981
Topeka Capital Journal

SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING GIRL

Topeka and Shawnee County lawmen continued a scaled-down search Monday for a 5-year-old girl missing from her southeast Topeka neighborhood since Saturday.

Investigators had few clues Monday as to the whereabouts of Jackie D. Hay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hay, 3124 Colfax.

Jackie, who was wearing blue pants and a white knit shirt with orange and lavender flowers was playing with friends at Colfax and Golf Park before she disappeared, and was reported missing about 4:30 p.m, Saturday. The child's friends were unable to provide substantial leads to police.

The child is described as 3 feet 1 inch tall and has blue eyes and blonde shoulder-length hair cut in a Dutch boy style.

Asked Monday whether foul play was suspected, Topeka police Det. Lt. Bill McKinnon said, "I think she must be held against her will or someone would have seen or heard from her by now."

Police picked up a man Saturday night who matched the description of a man the girl was seen following, and questioned him four hours before releasing him. The man lives in the area the girl resides.

McKinnon urged landowners with vacant buildings or unoccupied property in search them in hope of finding the girl.

On Monday, Topeka police investigators searched vacant residences at Trail Ridge Apartments, 2046 E. 11th Ter. and some apartments in the Eastboro area. For one and a half hours, three Shawnee County sheriff's deputies searched abandoned buildings and ditches along the east city-county border, but didn't find anything, a dispatcher said.

The land bordered by E. 37th on the south, Adams on the east and Kansas avenue on the west has been explored for the missing girl, Det, Sgt. Bill Beightel said "I've done everything I know investigatively. The response by the public has been amazing."

About 150 volunteers, including neighbors, and off-duty policemen and firemen, probed heavily wooded areas Sunday, hoping to find the girl, but found only clothing that was not hers. Late Saturday, about 200 persons walked from Adams to Colfax in a three-block long line.

Neighbors living near the Hay home said residents in the area were nervous about the child's disappearance.

"We're all on edge," Becky Coffman, 3129 Colfax said, "We're all scared for our own kids."

Mrs. Coffman and her husband, Carl, helped search Saturday and Sunday for the missing girl. Mrs. Coffman, whose 3-year-old son was a friend of Jackie, said neighborhood children on the block Monday were playing outdoors only if parents were there to watch them.

"We're all pretty upset," said Diana Schrenk, 3125 Colfax. It's pretty scary."

Neighbors took up a collection in the Bryant, Colfax and Dupont neighborhoods to gather $77 for the Hay family.

Students at Avondale East Elementary School, the school Jackie attends were upset at her disappearance.

"They're all pretty hyper about this today," said Winfred Tidwell, school principal, "We're doing what we can to reassure them."

Jackie's kindergarten teacher described her as a shy youngster who is a little small for her age.

"I can't imagine her wandering away from home," Mrs. Madge McArthur said, "The other day, her brother Kyle asked me to keep her in the classroom until he could pick her up." Kyle also is a student at the school.

"She likes to be with the other kids and gets along well with them," she said, "She has a worried little face. She's kind of baby-like, not babyish, she's not a complainer."


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The Topeka Monday Capital Journal
September 14, 1981

SEARCHERS STILL UNABLE
TO FIND CHILD

An estimate 150 people Sunday scoured heavily wooded areas in south east Topeka for clues in the disappearance Saturday of Jackie D. Hay, 5.

But when all of the wooded areas near the girl's 3124 Colfax home had been searched and darkness fell on the city. Jackie's whereabouts were still a mystery to police.

Although police said the girl's disappearance is still a missing persons case, they are not overlooking the possibility of foul play.

One man was picked up for questioning late Saturday but was later released, said Maj. Frank Davis, Chief of Topeka's Police Department detective division.

"We have some stories from neighbors she was following an adult male (before her disappearance Saturday)," said Davis.

A man matching the description of the individual seen by the neighbors was questioned for about four hours before he was released.

Jackie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olin Hay, had been playing with friends at Colfax and Golf Park before she disappeared. Police questioned the girl's young friends but they were unable to provide substantial leads, said Davis.

Jackie, who has blue eyes and blonde hair was wearing blue pants and a white knit shirt with orange and lavender flowers, was reported missing about 4:30 p.m.

When the search of wooded areas first began after dark Saturday, police were surprised by the overwhelming support and participation of the public.

"It kind of makes you feel good," said Sgt. Ken Gorman.

Gorman estimated 200 persons, shoulder to shoulder, walked in a three-block long line late Saturday, from Adams to Colfax searching for the girl as the police helicopter hovered above illuminating the search area.

"I saw a lot of people who were out there at 3 a.m. (when the first search was called off) out at 10 a.m. again this morning," Gorman said Sunday afternoon.

Davis said the giant search party included at least 25 off-duty police officers, sheriff's officers, volunteer firemen, off-duty Topeka Fire Department members, citezens band radio clubs, Capitol Area Security,block mothers, some national guardsmen, persons on horseback and dozens of citezens, young and old. In addition, the Red Cross had a van at the scene to provide refreshments for the searchers and Church's Fried Chicken sent free food.

Det. Dennis Bachman said the crowd was broken into small groups with an off-duty officer attached to give directions, Bachman praised the work of the volunteers and expressed thanks for their efforts.

During the intensive search of several square miles, the volunteers were unable to uncover any clues to the disappearance.

"We found enough clothing to start a rummage sale," said Davis.

But none of the numerous articles of clothing was identified by the girl's parents as belonging to their daughter.

After the exhaustive search in 90 degree weather Sunday, the volunteers were sent home about 8 p.m.

Mogge encouraged persons who live in the southeast area of the city to search their yards, vehicles, out buildings and heavily wooded or overgrown areas for the girl. He also requested taht persons living in any area of the city who have seen anything unusual or suspicious which may be connected to Jackie's disappearance contact the detective division at 354-1861.

Davis said the most obvious areas where the child may have gotten lost or been trapped have been searched. Shouls police need further assistance from the public a plea will be made through newspaper, television, and radio messages, Davis said.
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