Louis Hernando Reyes was 23 when he vanished from the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dover, New York. On November 10, 1989, a staff member went to his room at about 7:00 p.m. to get him for dinner and discovered he was gone; the last confirmed sighting had been roughly two hours earlier. He was a voluntary patient, mentally disabled and unable to care for himself.

At the time he disappeared Louis was described as Hispanic, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 152 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He was believed to be wearing blue jeans and a blue or gray sweatshirt. Distinguishing features included a bump on his right eyebrow, a small triangular scar on the back of his left shoulder, and a capped, discolored upper front tooth. He had a history of wandering off the facility grounds and had been found disoriented in a nearby parking lot ten days earlier.

The psychiatric center sat near a train station and within about an hour’s walking distance of the Connecticut border. An extensive search turned up no clues. The New York State Police have continued to investigate leads in Connecticut and New York City but the case remains unsolved and open.