Etan Patz is Not Alone: 15 Missing Child Cases in NYC Remain Unsolved
May 1, 2012
By Mary Johnson
DNAinfo
Just shy of his second birthday, Shane Anthony Walker was playing on a swing in a Harlem playground when two older children asked his mom if they could push him.
Rosa Glover took a seat on a bench at the 112th Street and Lenox Avenue park. She chatted briefly to a man sitting next to her and, when she turned back to watch her son, he was gone.
That was on Aug. 10, 1989. Shane has still not been found.
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Rosa Glover said things may have turned out differently for Shane if the technology available now had been around back then.
With few other options available, Glover said she appeared on Montel Williams’ talk show soon after Shane went missing.
On air,
she spoke with the psychic Sylvia Browne about her son, hoping for clues. Instead, Browne told her that Shane was being well cared for, wherever he was, and that he was learning to play the piano.
"It’s no relief," Glover said. "How can it be some relief when I don’t have my son?"
Glover never had any other children after Shane disappeared. She said she couldn’t bear the thought. But the hope of recovering Shane is enough to keep her going, even now as she battles breast cancer for the second time.
"I’m still missing him," she said. "I pray every night that, one day, I’ll see him before I die."
