Part 3:
Marc James Warren Allen was a 13-year-old boy living in Des Moines who vanished on March 29, 1986, just one day before Easter. According to accounts from that morning, he told his mother he was going for a short walk to a friend’s house nearby — a route he knew well and had taken before. It was supposed to be a quick trip. He never made it to his destination, and from that point forward, no confirmed sightings of him were ever reported.
In the early years after his disappearance, some media reports mistakenly suggested he had been delivering newspapers, likely because of similarities to other missing children’s cases in the area. Later information indicated that detail may not have been accurate. Investigators have never publicly confirmed evidence pointing to what happened, and no physical clues or verified leads have been released that explain how or why he vanished…