Previously on Unsolved.

Officer Schuyler even told one of the waitresses not to go out of town that weekend.

She had plans to go out of town, and she canceled them

because she was waiting for these investigators to come and interview her, but nobody ever came.

Well, it was heartbreaking because we knew something was wrong, but what can you do?

You can't do that much of them.

When you don't know for sure, you can't do that much of, you try to help a little kid like that

as much as you'd like to.

I mean, we did what we could do, but we couldn't do anything else.

But there was one person who wasn't going to give up on this clue.

The private detective.

For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I'm Criminal Justice investigative reporter Gina Barton.

This is Unsolved Season 2, A Toddler's Death, A Tangled Trail.

Donna Sutcliffe was one of the waitresses who said they saw Michelle Manders at the Black Earth Cafe

two days after she went missing in October 1981.

Well, I remember them coming into the building, and the little girls, we all, it was weird. We had a weird feeling after they came in because the little girls, we all, it was weird.

We had a weird feeling after they came in because the little girl seemed so scared.

And so, I don't know how you'd say, kind of laid back like she was,

she was looking for, like to want to say something, say for help and something like

extreme than that.

But we don't know what was going on, but we didn't feel right about the whole thing.

At the time, Donna and her husband had four children.

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