By Philip Rosenbaum
New York (CNN) — For two decades, Ashyea Alford has literally been searching for a face in the crowd. Wherever she went, she would check out other women, hoping one of them might be her missing little sister.
Andrea Durham disappeared from her Fort Walton, Beach, Florida, home when she was 13.
“It used to be so hard to go to the mall,” Alford said. “You’d see somebody and you’d think ‘Oh, maybe that’s her.’ ”
When Alford was 15, Andrea Durham, her 13-year-old sister, vanished from the apartment they shared with their mother, Roseanne Sterling, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Alford and her mom headed out for a meeting on the evening of February 1, 1990, leaving Andrea home to vacuum the apartment.
When they returned about two hours later, the vacuum was standing upright in the living room but there was no sign of Andrea.
PHILIP ROSENBAUM 