Michael and Pamela Mayfield

Six-year-old Michael and five-year-old Pamela Mayfield were last seen on January 10, 1985 in Houston, Texas. they were walking home from Betsy Ross Elementary School; at the time, Pamela was kindergarten and Michael was repeating kindergarten because the school authorities thought that he had been too young when he started school. Witnesses saw Michael and Pamela get inside of a green car with an unidentified man.

At the time of their disappearances, Michael and Pamela lived with their grandma (who was their primary caregiver), but they visited their parents on a semi-regular basis.

Four months after the kids went missing, a man called the Houston police to say that Michael and Pamela weren't kidnapped and they were living with their paternal grandmother in Los Angeles, California. The Mayfield family do have relatives in Los Angeles, but they didn't have the kids with them. The caller hasn't been identified, but the man's voice sounded as if he was an elderly African-American man.

Authorities didn't find any evidence that the Mayfield kids were being abused by their relatives. They intially thought that they were abducted by a relative or family friend, but none of them were suspects. They believe that Michael and Pamela knew the person who abducted them because they knew not to to get into of a car with a stranger.

Michael and Pamela's cases are classified as non-family abductions.