The Andrews Family

Frustrated by the lack of support provided by the police and political leaders and desperate to find their son, the Andrews family took matters into their own hands and hired Gil Alba, Private Investigator.

The missing persons case involved Larry Andrews Jr, M/W/22, who disappeared on New Years Eve, 1998, in New York City, Times Square.

The Andrews family formed a tight bond with Alba, which in turn, enabled them to galvanize a community and conduct a tightly organized search for the missing boy. Gil Alba, in concert with the Andrews family, recruited over 300 volunteers that distributed over 350,000 flyers, interviewed thousands of people, set up a hotline that received over 150 sightings, followed up on each sighting as well as organized political rallies and fund raisers.

Forty-three days later his body was discovered in the waterways off of Brooklyn Pier. Gil Alba helped to create a lasting web site that archived all the knowledge and information gained during the search for Larry Andrews which in turn could be used by other families who may be faced with the same dilemma of how to search for a loved one.