Ke’shaun Bryant Vanderhorst was two years old when he disappeared from his family’s home in the 1400 block of North 17th Street in Philadelphia in the late summer of 1995. Reports describe him as about 2 feet tall, 29 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. The exact date of disappearance is unclear.

Initial statements by his mother, Tina Vanderhorst, said DHS had taken Ke’shaun, but the agency had no record of him. Her account later changed: she first said a woman came to the door and took the child, then said she had sold him for $500 and spent the money on crack cocaine. The woman she named by alias, Virginia Graham, was never identified. Social workers had returned Ke’shaun to his mother in November 1994 and closed the case file about a month before he went missing; police later described the apartment as filthy and unsafe.

Tina Vanderhorst pleaded no contest to child endangerment in November 1996 and was sentenced to prison. Four older siblings had died in the 1980s of causes listed as pneumonia and SIDS; those deaths were reviewed but resulted in no charges. Ke’shaun has never been found. Does anyone who lived in the neighborhood or knew the family have information about Ke’shaun or the woman known as Virginia Graham?