A quiet neighborhood in Arizona remains haunted by the disappearance of an eleven-year-old girl who vanished within the blink of an eye while waiting outside her Mesa home for an ice cream truck.

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Mikelle Biggs had been playing with her younger sister, Kimber, who was nine years old at the time, on a cold January evening when she disappeared.

Filmmaker Elliot Feld, who has been creating a documentary on Mikelle’s disappearance more than 20 years ago, described her home as being in a ‘cookie cutter neighborhood’ and told the Daily Mail that ‘Kimber was getting cold. She wanted to go inside, so she ran inside.’

Not long after she walked in the house, the sisters’ mother, Tracy, asked where Mikelle was. ‘Kimber said, “She’s still out there. She’s waiting.” And Tracy said, “Go back out and get her.”

‘It probably was somewhere between 90 seconds and two minutes,’ Feld said.

Kimber went back out to the end of her driveway and looked down the street, only to find her sister’s bike in the middle of the road with the tire spinning and two quarters on the floor next to the bike.

‘It was as quick as you could imagine that would be. You’re talking about it only taking a couple of minutes,’ Feld said.

‘There’s a chance that Kimber had her back turned and her sister was being taken right behind her as she was cycling into the driveway,’ he continued.

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Mikelle Biggs was 11 years old when she vanished from her neighborhood in Mesa, Arizona, while waiting for the ice cream man

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The neighborhood where Mikelle vanished from is pictured. Filmmaker Elliot Feld has been speaking with her family for a new documentary exploring her disappearance

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Mikelle vanished while her sister Kimber had her back turned for just 90 seconds to two minutes. Her bike was left lying in the middle of the road with the tire still spinning

Since that fateful day on January 2, 1999, Kimber has spoken publicly about what happened many times in an attempt to find her sister.

‘She was standing on the pedals of the bike. You know, the sun is kind of setting. It’s that golden hour,’ Kimber told AZFamily.

‘Her blonde hair is blowing behind her. She was smiling, like pure bliss.

‘I just remember walking in and telling my mom, ‘we can’t find Mikelle.’ And her face just kind of went pale.

‘Within hours there were police cars. The road was blocked off. There were news cameras. There were helicopters, search parties with posters already going up.’

MPD Detective Paul Sipe told 12News that the whole City of Mesa was deeply affected by Mikelle’s sudden disappearance.

‘It was a huge incident that occurred here at the time,’ he told the outlet. ‘You’ve got about a thousand people or more there that we’ve spoken with.’

The MPD received thousands of tips and countless calls from psychics who claimed to have communicated with Mikelle or know where she was, Feld told the Daily Mail.

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Feld interviewed three of the main detectives who worked on Mikelle’s case who laid bare how much her disappearance affected them

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Kimber remembers her older sister as completely loveable and said that ‘everyone liked’ her

‘If she has passed, I want to know how she passed. I want to know where her body is. And if she is alive, I need to know where she’s been this whole time,’ Kimber told AZFamily.

In 2018, a glimmer of hope came in the form of a cryptic dollar bill that was found in Wisconsin that was thought could have had Mikelle’s handwriting scrawled on it.

The bill read: ‘My name is Mikel Biggs kidnapped From Mesa AZ I’m Alive.’

The dollar was handed in to the Neenah Police Department but law enforcement were skeptical of it being a major breakthrough in the case.