Her name was Elizabeth Ann, and to her family, she was a child of beauty and grace.

Where have you gone, little messenger of love? Why have they taken you away?

Jeannie Gill Hink wrote and recorded this song called Messinger of Love. It both honors and calls out to someone she loves dearly to this day.

Even though it's been nearly 60 years since they last saw one another.

I wanted to pass down the heritage or the story of Beth.

You don't want people to forget Beth?

No, I don't. And I don't want people to forget that it only takes an instant for your entire world to change.

That song and those lyrics tell how her world changed and of her sister, Elizabeth Ann Gill, who may call Beth.

We had no premonition or clue that the days with her were numbered so few.

Beth Gill disappeared when she was just two years old.

I'm Josh Mangowitz, and this is Missing in America, a podcast from Dateline.

This case began in the 1960s, and it's a unique one.

It's the story of a family's tireless, dedicated search for that little girl, who would now be a 60-year-old woman.

Over the decades since Beth's disappearance, police have chased leads, sought-out suspects, conducted searches.

They've had sightings, a confession, and the most promising, at least a dozen women have come forward believing they are Beth.

Well, they aren't.

But at the end of the day, that is what her family is hoping for, after decades of searching, that Beth finds them.

So listen carefully. Beth might very well be alive. You might know her. You might even be her.

I won't stop looking for her. If she's out there, and I believe she is, we have to be where she can find us.

To tell Beth's story, we need to take you back almost six decades.

To Sunday, June 13, 1965.

We began in the town of Cape Gerardo, Missouri, in a home on South Lorimer Street, just a few blocks from the Mississippi River.

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