Amir D’Rod Jennings was only 18 months old when he disappeared from Columbia, South Carolina, in late 2011. He was last reliably seen on November 29, 2011, while in the care of his mother, Zinah Jennings. In the days that followed, no relative, friend, neighbor, or investigator could confirm where the little boy had gone.
Amir’s disappearance quickly developed into one of South Carolina’s most troubling missing child cases. His mother gave investigators several conflicting accounts about his location, but none of the people she named could confirm that Amir had been left with them. Searches stretched across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, yet no verified trace of the child was found.
Authorities eventually came to suspect that Amir had been harmed. However, his body was never recovered, no one was charged with his murder, and the evidence has never conclusively established whether he was killed, abandoned, secretly placed with another person, or taken somewhere outside the region…