Crime & Safety

New Sketch Released In 44-Year-Old Atlanta Missing Persons Case

Raymond Green has been missing from his Atlanta home since November 1978, and a woman who goes by the name of Lisa Morris is a suspect.

Sketches made by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children show missing child Raymond Green as a baby and what he could look like as a 44-year-old man. A sketch shows what Green's kidnapping suspect could look like to date.
Sketches made by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children show missing child Raymond Green as a baby and what he could look like as a 44-year-old man. A sketch shows what Green's kidnapping suspect could look like to date. (Renderings Provided By National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)

ATLANTA, GA — A new rendering of a woman accused of taking a 5-day-old baby from his Atlanta home on Nov. 6, 1978, was released Sunday.

Raymond Green was a newborn who was taken shortly after being released from the hospital. Green may have been abducted by a woman who uses the name, Lisa Morris, according to his missing persons profile on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children site.

Raymond's missing persons case was broadcasted on gas station screens nationwide through GSTV, which broadcasts videos at gas stations in most U.S. states.

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Raymond was the second-born child of Donna Green, according to the NCMEC. He was born on Nov. 1, 1978, at Grady Memorial Hospital and was Green's first son.

She was watching her son in the nursery when an African-American woman who called herself Lisa (Morris) started talking to her, claiming she was visiting her sister and her newborn.

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Morris followed Green to her hospital room, and the NCMEC said she received visits from Morris during the next few days.

Green was being discharged from the hospital when Morris asked for a ride home, saying she lived nearby from the Green family. Morris appeared at the family's home on Nov. 6, 1978.

During Morris' two-hour visit, Green asked her brother to watch Raymond while she showered. Morris volunteered to assist with Raymond.

Green's brother told her Morris carried Raymond to the door, and when Green ran to the door, she realized he was gone, according to the NCMEC.

According to the national center, authorities described the suspect as a woman who is 5-feet and 6-inches tall with a medium build and a possible mole on her left cheek. She was last seen getting into a brown car.

“I believe I'll find him again," Green told the NCMEC. "I don't think he's gone forever. I refuse to believe that. I believe that this journey of being missing is not for me. It's for others, but I believe that God's going to bring him right back to where he started from. That's with me.”

The national center asked anyone with information in Raymond's case to call 911, the Atlanta Police Department at 404-614-6544 or 1 (800) 843-5678. People can also call Crime Stoppers Atlanta at (404) 577-8477.

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