LAUNA RENEE MERRITT has been missing from Syracuse, #NewYork since 23 Feb 1983. The 16 year old was being trafficked.

Launa Merritt telephoned her grandmother,in the morning of February 23, 1983, and told her she was with friends and would be home a little later. Earlier, she had told her grandmother if she didn't hear from her in a month's time, to tell police about one of the men she had been hanging out with.