Junior Burdynski Vanished in 1993 — a Child Knows What Happened

Junior Burdynski was ten years old, four feet tall, and riding a red-and-white Schwinn when he disappeared from Brentwood, Maryland, on May 24, 1993. His family searched. Law enforcement brought dogs, helicopters, FBI agents going door-to-door. A local Domino’s Pizza glued his face onto every delivery box. The only trace recovered was a bicycle rim found three blocks from home near a tennis court.

The search for Junior uncovered something investigators weren’t looking for — a ring of offenders who had allegedly been harming neighborhood children for twenty-five years. Three men were convicted, including Joseph Lynch, who lived blocks...