Bradenton Family Offers $5,000 Reward in Search for Missing 19-Year-Old

A Bradenton family is increasing efforts to find their missing daughter, offering a $5,000 reward for information that could lead to answers in her disappearance.

Nineteen-year-old Caitlyn Sandt was last in contact with her family in late October 2024. She was reported missing in November, and since then, months of searching have provided no resolution.

According to the Bradenton Police Department, Sandt is described as five feet, five inches tall, weighing about 125 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. She has a scar between her eyes, a strawberry birthmark on the bottom of her neck, and scars on both thighs.

The family hopes that the reward will encourage those with information to come forward. Police continue to ask the public for help in locating Sandt or shedding light on her whereabouts.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Brian Sands of the Bradenton Police Department or call the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse at 888-356-4774. Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the Manatee County Crime Stoppers website.