The kidnapping took place in broad daylight, in front of the Baskin-Robbins across the street from the Bay Village police station, at about 3PM (give or take a half-hour), on October 27, 1989.

Amy Mihaljevic, a precocious 10-year-old tomboy with a penchant for tilting her head whenever she smiled, left willingly with a man in khaki pants and a windbreaker, a professional-looking gentleman who had stalked her for at least a week. He had called her when she was home alone after school, using his charm to entice the child into meeting him that Friday, convincing Amy that he was a coworker of her mother’s and that he was taking her shopping for a present to give to her mom to celebrate a recent promotion.

He was not a coworker. He was a cunning, dangerous man obsessed with young girls, and after many failed attempts, he’d finally trapped his prey.

The girl’s body was discovered four months later, facedown, in an Ashland County wheat field. To this date, no one has ever been arrested in connection with this crime. Her killer has spent 20 years as a free man, able to stalk—and possibly murder—other area girls. I have spent the last five years searching for this man. I believe he’s still alive. In fact, I believe I have spoken to him.

This month, the FBI is reminding the public of the $25,000 reward for the person who can solve this mystery. You may have seen the billboards. Concerned local residents chipped in for extra billboards through ClearChannel Outdoor. Lamar Advertising gave three more in the Ashland and Amherst communities and will be posting the FBI’s message on their digital boards throughout the entire state as well.

A lot of new information has been revealed about this case over the last few years. For those who are just catching up, here are 20 things you should know about the investigation that is now two decades old.

1. Amy may have called her mother after the abduction.

Amy’s mother, Margaret, told Cleveland Magazine, in 1999, that her daughter had called her at work that day. Amy told her mother that she was staying after school for choir practice (a lie) and her voice sounded troubled. Margaret believed that Amy was standing next to her kidnapper during this phone call—a clever trick on his part to buy extra time. If this is true, it reveals some insight into the personality of the man behind the crime.

2. The killer took tokens from Amy’s body.

Not found on Amy’s body were the horse-riding boots she was wearing the day she was taken, as well as turquoise earrings and her backpack containing a black binder with a Buick logo scrolled on the cover.

3. Gold-colored fibers were discovered on Amy’s body.

It’s possible these fibers came from the killer’s house or vehicle. No exact match has been made, though they have been compared to similar fibers found on the bodies of girls murdered in Ohio in the early 80’s. The closest match appears to link them to a style of carpet seen in Pontiac vehicles of that time period.

4. There were two eyewitnesses to the abduction; both classmates of Amy’s.

One was a young girl who assumed the man who took Amy was her father, but only because she had never met Amy’s father and it looked like she went willingly. The other was a young boy named Julius Holinek. Unlike the girl, Holinek has never told the media what he saw. His family claims he was traumatized by the relentless questioning from the police and FBI, who asked the boy to go under hypnosis to retrieve specific details of the incident.

5. Amy was not the killer’s first target.

Prior to Amy’s abduction, several girls from North Olmsted and Bay Village received telephone calls from a man claiming to be a coworker of one of their parents. He tried to entice them, like Amy, to meet him. At least a dozen girls and their parents were given specific instruction on how to drive into Bay Village and avoid the media for a secret meeting with the FBI in which agents attempted to find how these girls were connected to each other.

6. Every girl had visited the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center, in Bay Village.

Unfortunately, the Bay Village police did not recognize this connection until 2003. It now appears each of the killer’s intended victims visited the Nature Center in the weeks leading up to Amy’s abduction and signed their names, numbers, and addresses into a ledger in the lobby. Amy frequented the Nature Center, too. It is possible the killer was able to get their information from this ledger.

7. The first 11 weeks of the FBI’s investigation focused on the wrong man.

The first lead suspect of any merit lived in a house in front of the Holly Hill horse stables, where Amy took riding lessons. The agent in charge at the beginning of the investigation was Special Agent Dick Wrenn, himself a resident of Bay Village. Wrenn relentlessly badgered this suspect, submitting him to lie detector tests and eventually (no joke) an interview under the influence of a supposed truth serum. When a pair of girls jogging pants were discovered near the horse stables, Wrenn contaminated the evidence by bringing the clothes back into the Mihaljevic home to be identified. Lucky for Wrenn, when Amy’s body was found, she was still wearing her sweatpants. FYI: After Wrenn retired, several files from the Mihaljevic boxes could not be located.

8. The Bay Village Chief of Police thought he knew who did it, too.

Former police chief Bill Gareau always liked a local playboy for Amy’s murder, though he couldn’t prove it. His suspect liked to expose himself to neighbors and allegedly had affairs with married women in the neighborhood. The suspect’s alibi was former sportscaster Casey Coleman, but Gareau thought Coleman was confused about the date in question.

9. Amy is not buried in Ohio.

Her mother had her cremated and placed in a beautiful plot near New Berlin, Wisconsin, where their extended family lived. Her ashes were placed in a sealed box with a teddy bear. When Margaret died in 2001, she was buried in the same plot, alongside her daughter.

10. Amy was not killed in the wheat field.

Details in Amy’s autopsy report reveal that Amy was murdered at some unknown location before her body was moved to the field. Most likely, her body lay for several hours in a cool, dry place.

11. Amy hated that school photo.

That image of Amy with the side-saddle ponytail has become iconic, but she couldn’t wait to get it retaken in November. She had put her hair up like that on a whim the day school pictures were taken. She usually wore her hair down.

12. The Mihaljevics were not in Witness Protection.

Of the many rumors that surround her case, the most frequently heard is, “Amy’s parents were in Witness Protection and her murder was the mob’s message to her father not to testify.” I have no idea where this one started, but it’s not true. Amy’s parents were not fleeing from the mob. They had never changed their name—there are many family members on both sides alive and well in Wisconsin.

13. Amy’s mother worked with a psychic.

This one’s true. A “seer” from Elyria befriended Margaret shortly after Amy was taken. After the girl’s body was found in Ashland, this psychic took a Polaroid picture of the spot where Amy had been discovered. When the picture developed, a man’s face could be seen in the dirt, there. I’ve seen the picture. It’s real. It’s creepy. I don’t know who it is. The FBI took it apart to determine if it had been altered. It had not been. The psychic keeps the picture under lock and key, waiting, she says, for the appropriate time to share it with the media.

14. An air traffic controller—and UFO fanatic—was once a top suspect.

A guy named Ray Brahler made the top of the list of suspects for awhile. Brahler had been an air-traffic controller until a freak cable car incident left him disabled. Following the accident, he spent most of his time reading UFO books at his house in Bay Village, in sight of the police station. He admitted to be in the shopping plaza around the time Amy was abducted. And, exactly three years later, when another young girl was murdered in Oil City, Pennsylvania, investigators learned Brahler kept a cabin, there. Detectives descended on his house. FBI agents took samples of his carpet. Brahler hired a lawyer and prepared for the worst. Other men were eventually nabbed for the Pennsylvania case, though Brahler remained a person of interest for police until his recent death.

15. A Cuyahoga County Board of Elections worker is a person of interest.

Guy’s name is Shawn Tabellion, aka Shawn Dusky. In 1989, Shawn was working for the BOE, repairing voting machines across the county, including in and around Bay Village during the month of October. Dusky, authorities later learned, was on the run from the law in the state of Washington, where he was wanted for skipping bail after being arrested for statutory rape. Shawn maintains his innocence and is currently undergoing preparations to become a woman. His brother claims Shawn gave his girlfriend items that resemble those missing from Amy’s body. Bay Village police requested records connected to this individual from the BOE earlier this year.

16. A Rocky River teacher is connected to man of the killer’s intended victims.

In 2006, following the publication of Amy: My Search for Her Killer, several of the girls contacted by Amy’s killer came forward for the first time. One girl from Bay Village mentioned that a teacher from her school had the same unusual last name as Amy’s riding instructor at Holly Hill. A quick check uncovered that this teacher was actually the brother of Amy’s personal riding instructor, and had access to the phone numbers of many of the girls from North Olmsted who received those creepy calls. The police and FBI were unaware of this connection. They have since followed up on that lead. To what extent is unknown.

17. A local dentist and soccer coach was closely watched by police.

“You start turning over rocks in Bay Village,” said one former FBI agent, “you find some pretty dark things.” Case in point, a youth soccer coach and dentist from North Olmsted, who often took his girls’ team on over-night trips and shared rooms with the 10-year-olds. He was caught by one girl’s mother in a phone conversation with her little girl in which he was overheard saying he was in love with her and wanted to be her boyfriend. Charges were filed, but appear to have since been expunged. The man moved out of state shortly thereafter. Oh, and his daughters took riding lessons with Amy.

18. An audiotape exists, which may contain the killer’s voice.

Several years ago, a woman from Amherst turned over a voicemail message left for her young daughter in which a man’s voice can be heard saying, “Your daughter will end up just like Amy Mihaljevic”. Bay Village police have not analyzed this tape. It’s possible they have lost it.

19. Is Dean Runkle suspect #1?

In 1989, Dean Runkle was a middle school science teacher in Amherst. When the composite sketch of Amy’s abductor was released, many of Runkle’s students believed he was the man in the photo. The resemblance is uncanny. Though Amherst police forward this lead to Bay Village and the FBI three separate times in 1990, no one followed up on Runkle until 2003. Investigators discovered Runkle had been sending lover letters to former students, had been investigated by the superintendent for being too touchy with young girls, and happened to have lived a mile away from the site where Amy’s body was found in 1989. His students also say he used to volunteer at the Nature Center. Oh, and that woman with the audiotape? Her daughter was a student of Runkle’s. This former teacher of the year fled Ohio around the time the FBI started asking around about him and moved into a homeless shelter in Key West. He currently manages a Wendy’s.

20. An eyewitness of the abduction ID’d a suspect from lineup of 30 men.

Guess who? Dean Runkle.