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Tagged: Deanie Peters

Arts & Culture
5:22 pm
Wed May 30, 2012

Keeping memory alive: Grand Rapids residents use art to spark interest in decades-old disappearance

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Artist John O'Hearn created the Deanie Peters exhibit.
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Dell Todd sat behind Deanie Peters in class in 8th grade, the year she went missing.
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Deanie's younger brother Will Peters hasn't been back to Grand Rapids since his family moved away in 1985.
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The C.O.D.A Gallery is on Divison St. in Grand Rapids' Heartside neighborhood.
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Deanie's friends and classmates gathered for the exhibit opening earlier this month.
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A letter Deanie wrote her dad before she went missing.
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Newspaper articles from when Deanie went missing are a part of the exhibit.
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Will Peters talks about the exhibit with two of Deanie's best friends from school.
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Will Peters (left) and Dell Todd (right) in front of one of ten images of Deanie Peters who went missing in 1981.
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The artist used 6 mm balls to create the exhibit for Deanie Peters.
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A group of former classmates is using art to try to solve one of Michigan’s most high profile missing person cases.

February 5th 1981 14-year-old Deanie Peters and her mom were watching a wrestling match. It was at a middle school in a suburb outside of Grand Rapids.

Peters told her mom she had to use the restroom before they headed home. 'I’ll be right back,' she said.

But Peters never returned.

Thirty-one years later police still haven’t made an arrest or found her body. Deanie’s little brother Will Peters was six-years-old when she disappeared.

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