Maury: Missing - Bianca Lebron - Bridgeport, CT Since Nov 7, 2001

If you have any information on Bianca Lebron's whereabouts, please contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

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This Maury Show segment is from 2007. This is a shortened version of the appearance.

Description from http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/lebron_bianca.html
Bianca was a fifth grade student at Elias Howe School in her hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut in 2001. She arrived for classes during the morning hours of November 7, 2001 and told her friends and a teacher that her uncle was taking her shopping during the day. She invited friends to come along but they declined. Witnesses told authorities that Bianca entered an older-model two-tone brown and tan van with tinted windows and chrome trim at approximately 8:30 a.m., before classes began. The vehicle appeared to have been sanded in several areas and the exterior was in poor condition. Bianca has never been heard from again.

The driver is described as an Hispanic male, approximately 20 to 30 years old. Witnesses said he stood 5'8 to 5'11 with an average build. The individual had black curly hair styled in a short afro with long sideburns and a beard, brown eyes, a prominent nose and scratches on both of his cheeks. He was wearing a long-sleeved blue pullover shirt with Gap imprinted on the front and along the right sleeve, Fubu jeans with an image of the cartoon character Fat Albert on the right rear pocket and scruffed brown Timberland boots.

Bianca's classmates believed that the unidentified man was her uncle and did not interfere when she entered his van. Her family members told authorities that Lebron does not have an uncle. None of her relatives owned a van similar to the vehicle involved in her abduction.

School officials received widespread criticism for their handling of Bianca's disappearance. Administrators did not realize Bianca was missing until the day after her abduction. Her teacher counted her absent. Stronger security measures and new attendence policies were put into place after Bianca disappeared. The teacher who heard Bianca's statements about plans with her uncle on the day of her abduction was suspended with pay. Bianca's mother believes she is alive, but had her declared legally dead so she could bring a wrongful death lawsuit against the school. The case is expected to go to trial in the fall of 2005.

Bianca resided with her mother and stepfather, Carmelita Torres and Angelo Garcia, in Bridgeport at the time of her disappearance. Bianca's family noticed that she was missing at approximately 4:30 p.m. They initially believed that she may have been at a friend's house and did not remember to call them. When Bianca failed to return home by 8:30 p.m., her mother called the authorities. She often went to the homes of relatives other than her parents after school, and once disappeared overnight but turned up safe at a friend's house. Bianca's mother and father had an amicable relationship at the time of Bianca's disappearance; neither is suspected of involvement in her disappearance.

No suspects have been identified in Bianca's disappearance. In late April 2002 police announced that they wanted to question Jason Gonzalez, 20, as a possible witness in Lebron's case. He had lived in Bridgeport but left about a month after Bianca's disappearance. Authorities characterized him as an acquaintance of Lebron. A photograph of him is posted below this post.

In November 2003, Jason Gonzalez, whose real name is Jason Lara, called the police department to deny that he knew anything about Bianca's disappearance. The police traced his call to Fort Myers, Florida, and arrested him for second-degree forgery. The arrest is not related to Bianca's case, but authorities used it as an opportunity to bring him up to Bridgeport for interrogation about Bianca. Investigators began to question him intensely about Bianca's disappearance. He resembles the sketch of Bianca's presumed abductor and one of his friends owns a van similar to the one Bianca was seen getting into.

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[MrsPenelopeKiki]

At 00:52 it said "disappeared from school 10 years ago" but at 1:08 it said missing for the pass 6 years. (typing error)

[therazorsedge28]

@MrsPenelopeKiki This segment originally produced and aired in 2007; at that time she would've been missing for 6 years. The editors weren't able to change the text at 1:08, but they were indeed able to modify the bottom text at 0:52. Good observation, though!

[taylorluvskona]

so sad! her teachers a fucking idiot u never let a kid go talk to someone without know who they r and everything! was she ever found?

[xgraymoonlightx]

I hope wherever she is her family will find her god bless her

[ForgottenDarkLight]

When janissa told me her sis was missing I really did feel bad for her then the nxt day janissa wore a shirt that said missing and it had a picture of her sister....

[snatkina13]

i hope she will be found alive and healthy and for her loved ones never to loose hope

[DimeraFan28]

(contuied fom a previous post).

Because if we can't protect the children, and the police can't protect children, and if the goverment cand't protect children, then the question is, Who will?.

[DimeraFan28]

I wish that all the pedophiles and child-molesters would just fall off the edge of the earth, I also think that they should stay in prision and not try to rehbiltate them, I think they should stay in prison, and I also think that Parents should pay attention to their children, and also I think that Parents and Children should roleplay about stranger danger, and I also think that children should use their commen sense, and avoid all the tricks and the lures too.

[DimeraFan28]

Ok, I don't mean to be the negetive person, but Let's take a look at the Statistics, there might be a 50/50 chance that this girl (or should i say young woman by now) might or might not be found alive, It's been 11 years, and what If this girl is still alive, If Jaycee Dugard was found alive, maybe this girl would be found alive too, and also Like Jaycee, maybe this girl might've had a child of her own too.

[DimeraFan28]

That poor lil girl (of should i say young woman by now), I think that someone, somewhere knows what happened to this poor girl, and is scared to speak-up, I think that there's two possibiltes, one is she might've been picked-out, and the second one is that She might've been sold into slavery, Human-Trafficing is still Iiieagle in Mexico, and I think that This girl should've used some commen sense. then maybe she won't be in that mess.

[Sociopathics]

@therazorsedge28 ...I'm dead tired, so my sarcasm meter might be off, but was that meant to be a joke?

[Sociopathics]

@St33ner Lol I like how you basically hate everyone. That's a good look.

[Sociopathics]

Fuck these psychics for exploiting these broken families.

[CPMackenzie]

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