In the early morning hours of a summer day in 1989, a young mother in Denver, Colorado, awoke to a parent's worst nightmare. Two-year-old Anthony Steven Michael Moya, who had been sleeping on the living room couch with his mother, was gone. The front door of the apartment, located in the 500 block of Webster Street, was found open. Anthony's mother, Jessica Moya, reported that she and her son had been asleep at approximately 8:30 a.m.
When she woke up just 15 minutes later, the toddler had vanished, leaving behind a chilling silence and the wide-open door. At the time of his disappearance, Anthony was wearing only a pair of yellow pajama bottoms.
Anthony was a young boy with a dark complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes. He had distinctive dimples on his face, a scar on the back of his left leg, and blue-colored birthmarks on his back and buttocks. At the time he went missing, he also had a small bald spot on the front of his head where some hair had been pulled out. He and his mother, along with his infant sister, had been staying with relatives at the apartment for about a month before he disappeared. The sudden and unexplained nature of his disappearance prompted an immediate and intensive search by the Lakewood Police Department.
The investigation into Anthony's disappearance has continued for decades, yet his whereabouts remain unknown. His mother and her boyfriend at the time were questioned by police and reportedly took polygraph tests, the results of which, according to Jessica, they both failed. Despite this, she has consistently maintained her innocence, expressing her belief that Anthony was abducted by a stranger. Authorities canvassed the apartment complex, but no neighbors reported seeing the little boy or any unusual activity that morning. Due to a lack of concrete evidence pointing to any specific person, Anthony's case is classified as a non-family abduction. Over the years, age-progressed photos have been released to show what Anthony might look like as he grew older, in the hope that someone might recognize him. The case remains an open and haunting mystery, a story of a little boy who was there one moment and gone the next, leaving his family and investigators with unanswered questions.Last Seen: Jun 12, 1989
