In December 2021, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's violent

criminal apprehension program released a special missing person's

poster. On it were two photos of the same person. One at six years old, the

other was a 25-year age progression of the same little boy. For 25 years, the disappearance of six-year-old Jesus de la Cruz has hung over the state of Massachusetts

as one of the most baffling missing persons cases in the Bay State history.

Despite suspicion cast on a man in the neighborhood, rumors of a drug debt retaliation,

accusations cast on the boy's own mother and FBI involvement,

He Zeus's case remains unsolved.

Some wonder if maybe he could be alive out there somewhere,

now a 31-year-old man, looking just like the age-progressed

photo on the FBI poster. This case is one that I've received multiple requests to cover from Dark Downeasters in Massachusetts.

When you bring these cases to my attention, I hear you.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of He Zeus

on Dark Down East. I'm going to In 1996, six-year-old Jesus de la Cruz lived with his mother, Magdalena

Rodriguez, and four siblings on Park Street in Lynn, Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe reports that Magdalena was born in New Jersey but grew up in Puerto

Rico and returned when she was 21 years old.

In 1996, she was the single mother of five children,

and it hadn't been an easy life for any of them.

Two years earlier, while living in New York,

Magdalena's children, including six-year-old Jesus,

were removed from her custody and placed with their aunt, Magdalena's sister

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