The “new” photo of Wells is much different from the one authorities were working off when she disappeared, though. That’s because Wells was last seen in 1958.

She would be 63 today.

Wells was wearing a gray coat, a blue dress and red knee socks when she was last seen leaving her Flint, Mich., home on Nov. 21, 1958. She’s now among the oldest people in the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children database.

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Maureen Heads, a supervisor in the center’s missing children division, said there aren’t many cases like hers.

A quick search through the center’s online records also shows Terry Westerfield, who would be 61 if he was found today, and John Wagner, who would be 63.

The center takes on cases in which the subjects were minors at the time of their disappearance, which is why it still searches for adults, Heads said.

The organization got involved earlier in the search for Wells this year, after it was contacted by local law enforcement.