IA IA- Daniel John Andersen, 4, Waterloo, 25 January 1992

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I searched and searched but couldn't find Daniel listed here. Poor little guy-they think he wandered away and drowned.

Daniel John Andersen | Iowa Cold Cases

Four-year-old Daniel J. Andersen was reported missing to the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office in Waterloo, Iowa, on Jan. 25, 1992.

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Daniel John Andersen​

Missing Person​

Name: Daniel John Andersen
DOB: July 9, 1987
Age At Report: 4
Weight: 50 lbs.
Height: 3’00”
Race: White
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Sex: Male
Incident Type: Child lost/wandered away
Home Residence: Cedar Falls
Missing From: Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Agency: Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office
Missing Since: January 25, 1992



The Gazette, Jan. 27, 1992

Four-year-old Daniel J. Andersen was reported missing to the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office in Waterloo, Iowa, on January 25, 1992.

The toddler was last seen wearing blue snow-pants and a blue jacket near Finchford, Iowa, about five miles north of Cedar Falls.

At the time of his disappearance, he was described as a 3-foot tall white male with brown hair, brown eyes, and weighing about 50 pounds.

According to a Cedar Rapids Gazette article published January 27, 1992, the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Department said the boy was visiting at a house on Newell Road with his father, David Andersen.

The Gazette reported that authorities found small footprints in the snow leading from the residence onto the nearby river and onto the ice.

More than 20 years later, no signs of the boy have ever surfaced.


The area near where Daniel Andersen went missing.

Information Needed​

If you have any information about Daniel Andersen’s unsolved disappearance, please contact the Missing Person Information Clearinghouse / Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation at 1-800-346-5507 or the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office at (319) 291-2587.

 

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Daniel John Andersen – The Charley Project

Casefile added June 14, 2024

Daniel John Andersen​

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Details of Disappearance​

Daniel was last seen near Finchford, Iowa on January 25, 1992. He had accompanied his father to a carpentry job in the 8300 block of Newell Road, then said he was cold and wanted to go inside. He has never been heard from again, but his tracks were found leading to the West Fork of the Cedar River.

Daniel was a nursery school student at Malcolm Price Laboratory School at the time of his disappearance. He is presumed drowned, but his body has never been found.