On a hot summer afternoon in 1991, beneath the blinding white sun of the Greek island of Kos, 21-month-old Ben Needham disappeared in broad daylight, quite literally, and was never seen again.
One moment, the English toddler was playing near his grandparents’ farmhouse in the village of Iraklis, near Kos town, and the next, he was gone. For the next 35 years, both Greek and English authorities worked on the case, including excavating the area around his last known location.
Several private investigators and true-crime enthusiasts have also dug through the evidence, and there have been more than 300 reported sightings — all unfounded — over the past three and a half decades.
