Name: David John Klein
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: November 10, 1951
Location Last Seen: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Physical Description
Date of Birth: March 7, 1945
Age: 6 years old
Race: White
Gender: Male
Height: 3’6″
Weight: 55 lbs.
Hair Colour: Brown
Eye Colour: Grey
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: He has a light scar on the right side of his lower lip, a scar on one thumb, warts on both hands, and crooked large front teeth.
Identifiers
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Available
Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Brown sheepskin coat, red and grey corduroy cap, blue jeans, black overshoes, black mittens.
Jewellery: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Disappearance
David left his north Minneapolis home with two of his brothers, Daniel, and Kenneth, to go play in nearby Fairview Park at Lyndale & 29th in Minneapolis. Their big brother, Gordy, who was 9 at the time, was going to join them. He went to the park but could not find them. The boys were never seen again. Police tracking dogs lost the trail of the boys on Colfax Avenue. A few days after the search had begun, it was called off. Two of the boys’ caps had been found in the Mississippi River. Their bodies, police decided, had floated downriver or had been buried in silt.
Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Minneapolis Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Lieutenant Reinhardt
Agency Phone Number: 612-673-2853
Agency Case Number: 16-127633
NamUs Case Number: 28885
