Bianca Lebron was 10 years old when she disappeared from Elias Howe School in Bridgeport, Connecticut on the morning of November 7, 2001. She arrived for fifth-grade classes and told friends and a teacher that an uncle would pick her up for a shopping trip. Around 8:30 a.m. classmates saw Bianca willingly get into an older two-tone brown and tan van with tinted windows driven by a Hispanic man in his 20s or 30s, with curly black hair, a beard and scratches on his cheeks. Classmates thought the man was her uncle; the family later said Bianca had no uncle and no one they knew owned a van like that.

School staff marked her absent and did not notify the family; her parents reported her missing to police that evening when she did not return by 8:30 p.m. Investigators learned Bianca may have had a secret older boyfriend, who was questioned and had an alibi for the day she disappeared. Over the years leads have included excavations at a park and a home; the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released age-progressed images.

If anyone saw Bianca or the described van on November 7, 2001, or has information that could help, please come forward.