The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Andre Terrence Bryant – The Charley Project
Andre Terrence Bryant
Andre, circa 1989; Age-progression to age 30 (circa 2019); Monique Rivera
- Missing Since03/29/1989
- Missing FromBrooklyn, New York
- ClassificationNon-Family Abduction
- Date of Birth02/17/1989 (30)
- Age1 month old
- Height and Weight1'7, 10 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA gray suit with two horizontal red lines, a beige knitted hat and sweater, and white socks.
- Distinguishing CharacteristicsAfrican-American male. Black hair, brown eyes.
Details of Disappearance
Andre's mother, Monique Rivera, had been taking Andre and her two older sons for a walk in their Brooklyn, New York neighborhood on March 28, 1989 when she encountered two African-American women driving a 1988 or 1989 burgundy Pontiac Grand Am Sports Edition with tinted windows and possibly Maryland license plates.
One of the females was approximately 30 years old in 1989 and heavyset; and the other was approximately 22 years old and had long red hair. Both were about 5'7 tall. Rivera may have known them from back when she was in middle school.
The women engaged Rivera in conversation about her children and asked to hold Andre, and they convinced her to go shopping with them. Rivera bought herself an outfit from a store called Canadian's, and the women bought her a pair of pants and a shirt. Then they took her home.
Rivera told her husband, Timothy Bryant, that the women used a fraudulent credit card to make their purchases and that she planned to go shopping with them again in White Plains, New York the following day. Timothy's sister, Patricia, agreed to babysit the children while Rivera shopped. On March 29, Patricia went to Rivera's apartment on Madison Street to babysit.
The two women did not pick up Rivera outside her apartment, but called her home from a pay phone around the corner and asked her to come out and meet them. They insisted that she bring Andre with them on the shopping trip, so Rivera took the baby with her and left her other children with Patricia. She was last seen getting into the women's vehicle outside her apartment at 2:00 p.m.
On the morning of March 30, Rivera's body was found in the woods by the Eastchester Bay, near City Island Road in the Bronx. She had been struck on the head and strangled. There was no sign of Andre, Rivera's companions, or their vehicle at the scene. The police were able to identify the body a few days later after Timothy published an ad in the paper appealing for information on her whereabouts.
Andre has never been heard from again and the two women who accompanied him and his mother on the shopping trip have never been identified. A photo of Rivera is posted with this case summary. She was twenty-five when she died, and left behind her husband and two other sons besides Andre.
Authorities believe Andre may have been sold into an adoption ring. At the time of his disappearance they thought his presumed abduction might be connected to the disappearances of
Shane Walker and
Christopher Dansby. Both boys disappeared from the same Harlem park three months apart in 1989. All of the missing children are African-American. All of the cases remain unsolved and it is unclear what happened to the children.
