(KETTERING) There is new hope that a 30-year-old missing child case will finally be solved.

It was Feb. 10, 1976, when 14 year old Lori Jean Lloyd disappeared as she walked to a 7-Eleven on Wilmington Pike.

The store is gone, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance has lingered into the next milennium.

Lori's disappearance still haunts her family, they said. They said they take small comfort from long-ago photographs and memories.

"The last time I seen Lori, I brought her home a pizza, and she come running out to the car to get the pizza. She said, 'I love you, Mommy, have a good dinner,'" recalled Lori's mother Anita Smith.

Now, another Kettering family is stepping up to help solve the mystery. The Bakers are still looking for their daughter Erica, eight years after she disappeared from the Kettering Recreation Center.

"Unfortunately, the Lloyds and Bakers belong to an exclusive club, a club we don't want anyone else to join," said Pam Schmidt, Erica's grandmother.

The Baker family is using $5,000 from Erica's search fund as a reward for information in the Lori Lloyd investigation.

Reward posters are going up using so-called "age progression" techniques, to show what Lori Lloyd may look like today.

And Kettering Police are reopening the Lloyd probe because they believe new kinds of D.N.A. testing may help zero in on clues in the disappearance.

Pam Schmidt, Erica's grandmother, said time definitely doesn't heal all wounds. "Our urgency to find Erica is the same today as it was eight years ago. Their urgency to find Lori is the same as it was 31 years ago. We just want to know the truth and bring the children home."