On a summer day, July 25, 2005, a 28-year-old man named Andrew Elijah Hargrove left his mother's residence in the Ypsilanti, Michigan area, with the intention of traveling to nearby Ann Arbor. He has not been seen or heard from since. At the time he vanished, Andrew, who was also known by the nicknames June Bug or Drew, was wearing a simple white T-shirt and blue jeans. He is a Black male with brown eyes and black hair that he kept in a short cut.
Standing between five feet six inches and five feet nine inches tall and weighing between 145 and 155 pounds, he had several distinguishing features, including large ears, a scar on his right arm, and tattoos on both his left arm and one of his ankles.
The circumstances surrounding Andrew's disappearance remain shrouded in mystery, as his intended method of travel to Ann Arbor is unknown. The journey from Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor is a short one, yet it became a path to an unknown fate for the young man. Despite the passage of years, very few details have emerged to shed light on what might have happened to him after he walked away from his mother's home. The lack of information has left his family with unanswered questions and a profound sense of loss that has not diminished with time.
The investigation into Andrew Hargrove's vanishing has been handled by the Ypsilanti Police Department. While his case has been classified as endangered, there have been no significant leads or progress publicly released over the long years of the investigation. The case has grown cold, a painful reality for those who knew and loved him. The official record reflects a man who was last seen with a simple destination in mind, yet never arrived, leaving a void of information and a family left to wonder what occurred on that summer day. The overview of the case is one of quiet uncertainty; a man vanished without a trace on a short journey, and the silence that followed has yet to be broken with any definitive answers.
Andrew Elijah Hargrove was a 28-year-old Black man who disappeared on July 25, 2005, in the Ypsilanti-area of Michigan. NamUs records his case as a disappearance from Ypsilanti, while more detailed published information from the Charley Project places his final confirmed sighting at his mother’s home on Michael Drive in Scio Township, just west of Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County. On the day he vanished, Andrew was reportedly leaving his mother’s residence and was believed to be headed toward Ann Arbor. What should have been an ordinary trip instead became the beginning of a disappearance for which remarkably few details have ever emerged. His method of transportation was not known, and publicly available case information does not establish whether he planned to walk, obtain a ride, use public transportation, or travel by some other means. After leaving his mother’s home, Andrew was never confirmed to have reached Ann Arbor, and no subsequent contact from him has been publicly documented. More than two decades later, the basic sequence remains unchanged: Andrew left his mother’s home intending or appearing to intend to travel toward Ann Arbor, and somewhere after that point his known trail ended.
At the time of his disappearance, Andrew was described as standing between approximately 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing between 145 and 155 pounds. He had black hair and brown eyes. Published descriptions note several physical characteristics that could distinguish him from others: he had noticeably large ears, a scar on his right arm, a tattoo on his left arm, and another tattoo on his ankle. He was reportedly wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans when he was last seen. These identifying features have taken on particular importance because there is so little publicly available information about what happened after Andrew left Michael Drive. The Charley Project continues to preserve those details alongside photographs of him, while NamUs maintains his record as MP9678. Crime Stoppers of Michigan also continues to include Andrew in its online missing-person database, demonstrating that his name and image remain part of ongoing public efforts to generate information about Michigan’s missing.
One of the most difficult aspects of Andrew’s disappearance is the absence of a publicly documented event that clearly explains why communication suddenly stopped. Available online accounts do not describe an automobile being located abandoned, a known accident, a confirmed confrontation, or another specific incident connected to his disappearance. They do not identify anyone as having accompanied Andrew when he left his mother’s home, nor do they establish a particular vehicle in which he was traveling. The available record simply says that he was believed to be on his way to Ann Arbor by an unknown method of travel. There is likewise no publicly documented confirmed sighting after he left, and the Charley Project states that he has never been heard from again. Because of that limited evidence, there is no responsible way to reconstruct precisely where Andrew went after leaving Michael Drive or at what point during the planned journey his circumstances changed. His case illustrates how a disappearance can become exceptionally difficult to investigate when the last known movements are broad rather than specific and when there is no confirmed subsequent location from which investigators can begin tracing a new path.
The discrepancy in how Andrew’s disappearance location is described is largely a matter of geography and recordkeeping rather than evidence of separate events. NamUs identifies Andrew as missing from Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Uncovered likewise lists his case under Ypsilanti. The Charley Project, however, specifies that Andrew was last seen leaving his mother’s home on Michael Drive in Scio Township. All of those sources agree on the essential circumstances: July 25, 2005 was the date of his disappearance, Andrew was 28, he had been at his mother’s residence, and he was believed to be heading toward Ann Arbor. The more precise Scio Township description helps clarify the physical starting point of his final known journey, while Ypsilanti remains the location associated with his official missing-person case and the Ypsilanti Police Department is listed as the investigating agency. The department can be reached at 734-482-9872 according to the Charley Project’s current case page.
The passage of time has not resulted in a detailed public account of new evidence. The Charley Project characterizes the case simply as “Missing” and explicitly notes that few details are available, even after updating Andrew’s profile as recently as August 2025. NamUs continues to maintain his official missing-person record, and Crime Stoppers of Michigan currently displays an Andrew Hargrove missing-person poster in its database. These continuing public listings are significant because they show that Andrew has not simply disappeared from institutional attention even though the published record remains sparse. What they do not provide is equally important: there is no publicly documented explanation for why he did not arrive at his expected destination, no confirmed account of his movements after leaving his mother, and no publicly established sequence of communications or sightings that extends the timeline beyond that day. For Andrew’s loved ones, that lack of information means that the most basic questions surrounding his disappearance have remained unanswered for years.
Andrew’s case ultimately centers on a brief and painfully incomplete final timeline. On July 25, 2005, 28-year-old Andrew Elijah Hargrove was last seen at his mother’s home on Michael Drive in the Ypsilanti/Scio Township area of Michigan. He was believed to be traveling to nearby Ann Arbor, but investigators and publicly available databases do not identify how he intended to make that trip. He was wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans and was identifiable by his black hair, brown eyes, a scar on his right arm, tattoos on his left arm and ankle, and notably large ears. He then vanished from the documented record, with no confirmed subsequent communication publicly reported. The Ypsilanti Police Department is identified as the investigating agency, and his case remains listed through NamUs, the Charley Project, and Crime Stoppers of Michigan. In overview, Andrew’s disappearance is a long-standing Washtenaw County mystery defined not by a complicated series of known events, but by how suddenly the available information stops: a 28-year-old man left his mother’s home expecting to head toward Ann Arbor on July 25, 2005, his means of travel was unknown, he was never publicly confirmed to have reached his destination, and years of passing time have still not produced a publicly documented explanation for what happened to him after he left.Last Seen: Jul 25, 2005
