New aged-up image released in missing Bridgeport girl’s case
Bridgeport PD – with the help of a forensic artist with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children – has released a new age-progressed image of a girl missing for a quarter-century.
Bianca Lebron, then a fifth-grader at the former Elias Howe School on Clinton Avenue in Bridgeport, went missing Nov. 7, 2001. She was 10 years old. If she is still alive, she would be 34 years old today.
We wrote about her case before – you can read it here.
Just before school started that day, Bianca told her friends she was going shopping with her uncle. She does not have an uncle. She was picked up by a man driving a two-toned brown van with tinted windows. She was never seen again.
Bridgeport police said they have some new information and that an excavation has taken place at one location in the city, but would not share details of what might have been found. Police previously searched a local park.
The family is pleading with anyone who may know something to come forward.
A reward of $62,000 is being offered for any information that leads investigators to Bianca, who is described as Hispanic, with brown hair and hazel eyes and a birth mark on her forehead. Police said there is hope that Bianca is still alive.
Anyone with information about the disappearance or whereabouts of Bianca Lebron is asked to call the Bridgeport Police Department at 203-576-7671.