Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça

Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça
Born(1987-01-28)28 January 1987
Lousada, Portugal
DisappearedMarch 4, 1998 (aged 11)
Lousada, Portugal
StatusMissing for 27 years, 3 months and 12 days; declared dead in absentia in 2019
Known forMissing person

Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça (born 28 January 1987) is a Portuguese child who went missing on 4 March 1998 in Lousada, northern Portugal. Mendonça was 11 years old and riding his bicycle outside near his home when he disappeared. The subsequent police investigation was criticized by both the media and by the missing boy's family. Mendonça's whereabouts remain unknown, and he was declared legally dead in 2019.