The Search Continues For Andy Tench’s Remains

CHARLOTTE – Police still have not found the remains of 31-year-old Andy Tench, who was reported missing March 26th after he did not return home from a night out in Charlotte. His mother, Tracie Blanton, is struggling to find answers.

“I won’t get a call back sometimes through a week, if that,” she said. “It’s been like pulling teeth with getting any information.”

26 year old D’Shaun Robinson was arrested for disposing of Tench’s body. The told police that he met Tench at Bar 316 in South End where they left together and had sex. Robinson told police that Tench died during sex and he put his body in a dumpster. Police searched the dumpster, but it was empty. Since then, Tench’s mother has called the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department consistently to try and get answers from the case’s lead detective, Adam Bonaparte.

“He keeps making the statement that it’s our belief because the guy confessed that (Andy’s) probably in the landfill.”

WCCB’s Emma Mondo called Bonaparte twice and the Anson County landfill where that dumpster is taken and left messages, but no one returned those calls. Blanton says CMPD is telling them that landfill can’t be searched, but the landfill manager says differently.

“The manager said it is viable to cover his recover his body,” says Blanton. “He said he’s probably about 20ft down, but it can be done by hand and pickaxe and stuff.”

Blanton hopes that more pressure on police will help bring her son home.

“If it was a Chief Johnny Jennings child, would they do that job? What makes Andy less than that? They don’t want to go to whatever lengths it takes them to get him for us and for him.”

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