Results of this investigation were negative.

That phrase appears throughout the Nassau County Police Department records concerning the disappearance of Steven Damman , an East Meadow boy who was 2 years old on Oct. 31, 1955, when his mother told police he vanished from a shopping strip near their home. Her report launched a dayslong search by thousands of officers and volunteers followed by years of work by Nassau police detectives, each new lead’s failure duly typed up and filed.

Steven was never found and, 70 years after his Halloween afternoon disappearance, no arrests have been made.

"This is still an active, ongoing investigation," Det. Joseph Oginski, a Nassau police spokesperson, wrote Thursday in an email to Newsday. The vice president of the nonprofit National Center for Mi

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