. `` Investigators believe the case is ` highly solvable , ' and after 21 years , their desire to bring April Tinsley 's killer to justice is stronger than ever , '' the FBI said . CARD teams were created three years ago , aimed at bringing together `` a variety of experts in child abduction cases who could quickly respond on the ground to help local authorities with time-sensitive investigations , '' the FBI said . While CARD responds to abductions and disappearances , the team also works cold cases , like April 's , the agency said . `` As team members discovered , there is enough evidence -- including notes , pictures , and DNA left by the killer years after the murder -- to make investigators hopeful they can break the case . '' The team includes behavioral profilers , agents and analysts from the FBI 's Crimes Against Children Unit and coordinators and representatives from the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program . April Marie Tinsley was playing outside with friends on Good Friday , April 1 , 1988 . As the three girls were moving
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The 5-year-old girl found the note tucked inside a plastic bag and left in a basket used as a flower pot . April Tinsley , 8 , abducted in Fort Wayne , Indiana , was raped and killed 21 years ago . The case was not solved . `` Hi Honey I Been watching you , '' it said . `` I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my next vitem . '' A used condom was stuffed in the bag alongside the note . It was March 2004 -- nearly 16 years after 8-year-old April Tinsley was abducted from a Fort Wayne , Indiana , neighborhood , raped and killed . Her killer remains at large , and police believe he has surfaced several times , scrawling a message in crayon on a barn in 1990 , then leaving four chilling notes for children in the Fort Wayne area years later . Indiana authorities are now asking an FBI task force -- the Child Abduction Response Deployment -LRB- CARD -RRB- team -- to help take a fresh look at the case