11-year-old Thomas Tillery left his Madill, Oklahoma home on the evening of September 19, 1994 with a simple errand — a quick walk to the store to buy a gallon of milk. He never returned. In the days that followed, search teams combed neighborhoods, fields, and creeks, while a community held its breath, hoping to bring the young boy home. Two years later, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children amplified his case to a national level, sending more than 61 million flyers across the Un