Andy Puglisi

The disappearance of Angelo "Andy" Puglisi (born September 2, 1965) is an unsolved case of a 10-year-old American boy who went missing on August 22, 1976, from the Higgins Memorial pool across the street from his apartment in the Stadium Housing Projects, Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Disappearance

Melanie Perkins and Andy met at the pool late in the morning of August 22, 1976. As usual, they spent the entire day playing there. At about 2:00 that afternoon, Melanie was hungry and decided to go home. While she usually walked by herself to her mother's apartment less than away, Shortly afterward, Chapman confessed to raping two boys in Puglisi's hometown of Lawrence and, according to one of the victims later interviewed by Melanie Perkins, displayed a familiarity with the area. On other occasions, Chapman also pretended that he had never been to Lawrence, which was proven to be a lie. Despite being considered a prime suspect, Chapman was not arrested or charged in relation to the Puglisi case because police did not have sufficient evidence to establish probable cause.

Later developments Puglisi's parents divorced in 1975, and his father later moved to New Hampshire.

In 1998, while conducting research for a documentary, Melanie Perkins met with two locals, Alan and Tony, who described finding a rectangular hole dug in the woods near the pool a year or two after Andy's disappearance when the two were children. They described the hole as being "perfectly rectangular, with a flat bottom and flat sides" and looking "like something had been removed from it – like a chest, or a crate, or maybe a coffin." The hole was filled in two days later, and neither individual reported the finding until hearing about Perkins' documentary. Perkins added that she had heard rumors a year after Andy's disappearance that the police intended to dig in the area Alan and Tony described to her.

In media In 2007, a feature-length documentary film, Have You Seen Andy?, was made by Melanie Perkins. It was broadcast on HBO and won the National Emmy for Best Investigative Journalism in 2008.

In 2016, the case was profiled on the podcast The Vanished.