Young Girl Allegedly Disappears From Motown Gas Station

On the evening of Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, cops say 2-year-old Tangena Hussain disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The child was reported missing by her mother's boyfriend, Jamrul Hussain. Though they share the same last name, the girl and Jamrul are not related.

Jamrul alleges that he stopped at a gas station shortly after 9 p.m. to fuel up, buy some gum and pick up some juice for the small child.  When he went into the store at 9:02 p.m., that's when, he says, the girl vanished into thin air, the purported victim of an abduction.

Surveillance video verifies Jamrul's story about what he was doing at the time of the girl's disappearance, but much to the dismay of investigators, there is no video evidence of what happened to little Tangena.

Mere moments later, after leaving the store at 9:06 p.m., Jamrul hurried back in, claiming that Tangena was no longer in the car.

Police say Jamrul then left the store and went to pick up Tangena's mother, Nilufa Begum, who was at work at a nearby mall.

Once Jamrul picked up Nilufa, the two returned to the gas station, asking employees multiple times if there were cameras on the side of the building where the car had been parked, only to be sorely let down.

At approximately 9:30 p.m., the pair filed an official police report, stating that Tangena was gone and they didn't know what could have possibly happened to her.

AMBER Alert Issued For Tangena Hussain

The next morning around 5 a.m., an AMBER Alert was issued in Michigan for Tangena. Consequently, the case assumed significant media coverage on both a local and national scale.

Unfortunately, in the months since the 2-year-old's disappearance, tips have essentially dried up. To this day, little is known about what happened to Tangena, and police say she's no closer to being recovered than she was on the day of her disappearance.

Tangena Hussain was last seen wearing a brown, long-sleeved T-shirt with an unknown cartoon character on it, white nylon cargo pants and gold sandals.

Authorities desperately need your help in order to locate the missing 2-year-old.  If you've seen her, you've got to call our hotline right away at 1-800-CRIME-TV.