{"id":23598,"date":"2025-03-07T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23598"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:57:39","slug":"girl-who-disappeared-without-a-trace-at-just-23-months-old-26-years-ago-found-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23598","title":{"rendered":"Girl who disappeared without a trace at just 23-months-old 26 years ago found alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A girl who disappeared at the age of nearly two-years-old has since been found over 25 years later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In October 1999, Andrea Michelle Reyes, aged just 23 months, went missing from her\u00a0father’s<\/a>\u00a0home in New Haven, Connecticut,\u00a0US<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later that year, a felony\u00a0warrant<\/a>\u00a0for custodial interference was issued for the arrest of her non-custodial mother, Rosa Tenorio Andrea.<\/p>\n

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)\u00a0states<\/a>\u00a0the last time anyone had contact with Andrea was on October 5, 1999, and it was believed Andrea had been taken by her mother to Puebla,\u00a0Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alongside a felony warrant for custodial interference being issued for Tenorio in 2009, another was allegedly issued in September, 2009.<\/p>\n

However, the pair were never heard from and despite multiple agencies investigating – including the New Haven Department – she was never found and remained a missing person case in the NamUs, DNA Solves news release\u00a0reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Andrea Michelle Reyes went missing at 23 months (NamUs)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Multiple images of what Andrea would look like at various points growing up were generated – five listed on NamUs’ website dating from 2010 to 2011 and 2014 – but it was to no avail.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the case was reinvestigated by the New Haven\u00a0Police<\/a>\u00a0Department and it led to a breakthrough – a woman reaching out to Andrea’s father in the belief she was his daughter.<\/p>\n

New Haven Police Department then worked alongside Othram – which offers in-house processing of evidence, from\u00a0DNA<\/a>\u00a0extraction, enrichment, and repair, to sequencing and genealogy – to test whether the connection was real.<\/p>\n

Police got a DNA sample from the woman which was then compared to Andrea’s father’s DNA profile using ‘KinSNP\u00ae Rapid Relationship Testing’.<\/p>\n

DNA Solves reveals: “This comparison supported a father\/daughter relationship, confirming that the woman who reached out is, in fact, the nearly two-year-old girl kidnapped in October of 1999. Andrea Reyes, who is now 27 years old, resides in Mexico.”<\/p>\n

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Andrea Michelle Reyes was found after 25 years (DNA Solves)<\/cite><\/div>\n

It’s not publicly reported if Rosa Tenorio Andrea was located.<\/p>\n

UNILAD has contacted NamUs and New Haven Police Department for comment.<\/p>\n

The case is part of a wider project – titled Project 525 – led by Othram alongside the RTI research institute in charged of NamUs.<\/p>\n

There are 525 juvenile cases published in NamUs – the project seeks to bring resolution to them all and Andrea’s case makes a promising start, marking ‘the seventh case in Connecticut’ where the technology has been used to help publicly identify an individual.<\/p>\n

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