Haydn Gomez was a 2-year-old male child last seen in Fairfax, Virginia, on January 28, 2010, when he disappeared from what should have been the protected world of early childhood into a case that would remain publicly circulated for nearly fifteen years. Public missing-person records identify him as a biracial Asian and Hispanic boy with black hair and brown eyes, born on September 22, 2007, and only a toddler at the time he was last seen.
He was described as having a birthmark on his right shoulder, a small but important identifying feature that authorities and missing-child advocates preserved in the public record as the years passed. He was also listed as possibly using the alias Junyu Lan, a detail that became significant because the case was not treated as a child simply wandering away, but as an alleged family abduction connected to a change in name, location, and identity.
The reported circumstances of Haydn’s disappearance centered on his mother, Lin Lan. Public case summaries state that Haydn was abducted by his non-custodial mother and that a felony kidnapping warrant was issued for her on February 17, 2010. The same online case file reported that she obtained a fake passport identifying Haydn as a Chinese citizen and used it to take him to China, where they were still believed to be at the time that case summary was published. Lin Lan was described as an Asian Chinese woman with black hair and brown eyes, born on May 1, 1972, with reported aliases including Maggie and Pepper, and a possible alternate date of birth of May 7, 1972. Those details gave the case an international dimension and made it far more complicated than a local Fairfax County missing-child investigation.
The Fairfax County Police Department was identified as the law-enforcement agency to contact with information, and national missing-child resources became part of the public effort to keep Haydn’s case visible. NamUs lists the case as Missing Person / NamUs #MP23000 and identifies it as a missing-person record connected to Haydn Gomez, with the case page showing the official NamUs case heading and public case structure for demographics, circumstances, physical description, images, and contacts. Another online case file states that information used to compile the case came from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, The Charley Project, NamUs, and a site dedicated to Haydn, reflecting how several missing-person platforms helped preserve the known facts over time.
As the years moved on, the public-facing record of Haydn’s case carried the weight of time. A child who was two in 2010 would no longer look like the toddler in his original photographs, so the enduring identifiers became especially important: his name, his possible alias, his heritage, his right-shoulder birthmark, his connection to Fairfax, and the belief that he may have been taken to China. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s public poster search page explains that its missing-child poster system is used to display active missing-child posters, and that NCMEC-certified posters are tied to law-enforcement and permission requirements, including NCIC entry and dissemination authorization. In January 2025, a public missing-person advocacy post reported that Haydn Gomez had been removed from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database as a missing child after almost fifteen years. The accessible public information does not provide a clear official explanation for that removal, and the exact date and reason remain vague in the online sources available.
Haydn’s case is a painful example of how a missing-child investigation can stretch across borders, names, legal systems, and years. He was last seen as a 2-year-old boy in Fairfax, Virginia, on January 28, 2010; public records described him as Asian and Hispanic, with black hair, brown eyes, and a birthmark on his right shoulder; and the reported circumstances identified an alleged parental abduction by his mother, Lin Lan, followed by a felony kidnapping warrant issued in February 2010. For nearly fifteen years, his name remained attached to national missing-child awareness efforts, while the public record pointed toward China and possible alias names as part of the search. In overview, the case began with the disappearance of a very young child from Fairfax, developed into an alleged international family-abduction matter, remained visible through NamUs, NCMEC-related resources, and missing-person case summaries, and later saw Haydn reportedly removed from NCMEC’s missing-child database without a clearly stated public explanation in the accessible online record.Last Seen: Jan 28, 2010
