Marc Allen, 1986

Marc James-Warren Allen (sometimes referred to as Mark James Allen) was 13 when he was last seen on March 29, 1986 in Des Moines, Iowa. The teenager told his mother he was walking to a friend’s house in the neighborhood. He wore a light blue t-shirt, blue jean shorts, white socks, and gray tennis shoes with Velcro tabs. His family never saw him again and he did not make it to the friend’s home. When efforts to locate him failed, Marc was declared a missing and endangered person.

He was brown-haired and blue-eyed and had a small scar on top of his head.

Marc’s disappearance was eerily similar to that of Johnny Gosch, who vanished from the same area in 1982, and of Eugene Wade Martin, who went missing in 1984. The three young men were similar in age and physical description and all disappeared literally without a trace.

Marc Allen as he may look today.

May 13, 2010 will be Marc’s 38th birthday, the 24th year his family has been left to wonder where he is.

If you have any information concerning this case, please contact the Des Moines Police Department at 515-283-4811, the Iowa DCI Missing Person Information Clearing House, or the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).