Missing
Louis Hernando Reyes
Reyes, approximately 1989
Date and time person was reported missing : 11/10/1989
Missing location (approx) :
New York
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
Hispanic
DOB : 01/19/1966 (55)
Age at the time of disappearance: 23 years old
Height / Weight : 5'6, 152 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Blue jeans and a blue or gray sweatshirt.
Medical conditions : Reyes is mentally disabled and cannot care for himself.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Hispanic male. Brown hair, brown eyes. Reyes's upper front tooth is capped and discolored. He has a bump on his right eyebrow and a triangular scar approximately half an inch tall on the back of his left shoulder.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Reyes was last seen at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dover, New York at approximately 7:00 p.m. on November 10, 1989. He was being treated at that facility on a voluntary basis for his mental disability.
When a staff member went to his room to get him for dinner, he was gone. The last time anyone had seen him was two hours earlier.
Reyes had a tendency to wander throughout the facility, and sometimes left the grounds altogether. Ten days before he went missing, he'd been found wandering disoriented in a nearby parking lot, wearing two other patients' clothes. It's worth noting that the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was close to a train station and about an hour's walk from the Connecticut border.
Little information is available as to Reyes's fate. The Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center closed in 1994.
Other information and links : ncy
New York State Police
845-877-3660
September 2021 updates and sources
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