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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 26, 2015 13:59:47 GMT -5
AMW does have a tendency to gloss over details both for time and to portray sympathy for the victim. You've pretty much covered it that whoever Maria ran to in that strip club is the most likely involved in her murder.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 26, 2015 13:55:11 GMT -5
The biggest clue is the mark. If someone know a man with that mark, this creep an be caught.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 26, 2015 13:42:43 GMT -5
If the ECAP's numbering of these John Does are any indication, he could have done this sometime in the mid to late 2000s.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 26, 2015 13:39:16 GMT -5
Just like with IJD 17, it's unfortunate that despite isolating video of him. this perp might be still at large.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 26, 2015 13:36:34 GMT -5
I find it unfortunate that no one could identify this creep even when the FBI could isolate even video and sound of him. I hope he gets caught.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 12, 2015 18:46:13 GMT -5
I watched the UM segment in which they talked about "Dave", who I assume is Paul Branch. "Dave" told Susan he had Amy for a while and offered to help Susan's search for Amy. But when he got into a barfight in which Susan was escorted out, he cut off contact with Susan.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 11, 2015 15:44:53 GMT -5
The disappearance of Amy Billig has been one of the most interesting missing person cases aired on TV (featured on both UM and AMW). Thanks in part by the efforts of her mother Susan. Mysteries surrounding as to why she went missing and what happened to her since has been debatable over time. From the Charley Project: Missing Since: March 5, 1974 from Coconut Grove, Florida Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: January 9, 1957 Age (at time of disappearance): 17 years old Height and Weight: 5'5, 110 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Amy has a two-inch appendectomy scar on her abdomen. She may have a tattoo. She has a high-stepping gait. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A denim miniskirt and cork platform sandals. Amy was last seen hitchhiking along Main Highway in Coconut Grove, Florida on March 5, 1974. She was headed to her father's office to borrow money from him so she could meet friends later in the day. Amy never arrived at the office and her friends never saw her that evening. She has never been heard from again. Amy enjoyed playing the flute and guitar, as well as reading and writing poetry, at the time of her 1974 disappearance, and was considering becoming an actress. She often hitchhiked through her neighborhood. Charles and Larry Glasser, sixteen-year-old twin brothers, called Amy's family a few days after her disappearance and claimed to have kidnapped her. They said they were holding her for $30,000 ransom. The Glassers turned out to be lying; they did not know Amy and had nothing to do with her disappearance. They were subsequently charged with extortion. A photograph of the Glasser twins at the time of their arrest is posted below this case summary. Amy's mother, Susan Billig, began investigating her daughter's case in addition to law enforcement's attempts immediately after Amy disappeared. Photographs of Susan at the time of Amy's disappearance are posted below this case summary. Susan began receiving tips from numerous individuals who claimed that Amy had been abducted by members of The Outlaws or The Pagans, both motorcycle gangs that traveled through the Coconut Grove area of Florida in 1974. Some people claimed that Amy was alive and others maintained she had been killed; these tips led Susan on a cross-country chase through the U. S. and even into Great Britain through the years. Sometimes Susan would seemingly come within days of finding her daughter, but Amy was never located. She may have used the aliases "Mute," "Sunshine," "Little Bits," and/or "Mellow Cheryl" while with the bikers. Paul Branch, a member of The Pagans, initially told Susan in the late 1970's that Amy was alive and being held by Pagan members in the U. S. Branch's widow claimed he recanted this statement on his deathbed in the late 1990's; he then said that Amy had attended a party thrown by The Pagans in Florida on the night of her disappearance and died of a drug overdose, and that her body had been taken to the Florida Everglades by gang members and tossed to the alligators. His widow relayed this information to Susan. Amy's camera was located at the Wildwood exit on Florida's Turnpike shortly after Amy's disappearance. It was turned in by a man who had heard she was missing. Wildwood would have been on the route the biker gangs took traveling north. Nobody knows if Amy had the camera when she disappeared, however; it might have disappeared before she did. The film inside, once developed, revealed no clues as to her whereabouts. The majority of the photographs were completely overexposed. Another sidenote to Amy's disappearance involved harassing phone calls that Susan began receiving shortly after Amy vanished in 1974. A then-unidentified male caller informed Susan that Amy was abducted by members of an illicit sex ring organization and being held captive. The caller tormented Susan for 21 years until 1995, when FBI agents were able to trace a call the man made using his cellular phone. Until that time, the caller always used a pay phone to harass Susan, making him difficult to apprehend. The caller was identified as Henry Johnson Blair, who worked for the US Customs Department. A photograph of him is posted below this case summary. Blair claimed that he was an alcoholic and had an obsessive-compulsive disorder which caused him to harass Susan; he also stated that he never met Amy and knew nothing about her disappearance. Blair was sentenced to a two-year prison term for harassing Susan and has since been released. Susan settled a lawsuit against him for five million dollars. The addition of Blair into this case focuses renewed attention on to a man Amy described in her journal. Amy wrote that she was considering running away to South America with a man she called "Hank." Blair's nickname is Hank. A photo developed from a roll of film in Amy's camera showed a white van which was identical in color and model to a van Blair drove in 1974. Blair's job with the Customs Department required him to relocate to South America around the time Amy specified in her journal. Blair has not been positively linked to Amy aside from his incarceration for the harassment of her mother, however. The A & E Network aired a program about Amy's case on its Investigative Reports series in 1998. The documentary shows elements of Susan's decades-long search for her daughter with law enforcement and also provides footage of Susan's meeting with Branch's widow. Susan accepts his widow's statement at the program's end, but authorities believe that his widow was lying about his confession in an effort to financially profit from Amy's disappearance. Amy's father died of lung cancer in the early 1990s. Susan co-authored a book about Amy's disappearance in 2001 with Greg Aunapu, called Without A Trace: The Disappearance Of Amy Billig--A Mother's Search For Justice. She died of a heart attack in 2005, at age 80. Amy's case remains unsolved. Thoughts? When I first saw the UM segment, I thought she could've wallowed or died under the captivity of the Outlaws biker gang. But since reading the Charley Project piece on her, I'm not entirely sure. I still side with the possibility that she got taken by the biker gang, but not really sure what happened to her after that. However the angle surrounding Blair is strange. Is it known for sure that Billig had a relationship with Blair? If so what did he do to her? It will be out of sync that she planned a meeting with her friends only to run off with Blair unless he had more sinister motives. Admin Note #1: According to missingkids.org, anyone having information should call 1-800-THE-LOST or the Miami Police Department (Florida) at - 1-305-579-6111Admin Note #2: If you have any (news-related) updates on this case, please contact us here: amwfans.com/thread/1662/website-contact-formwww.charleyproject.org/cases/b/billig_amy.htmlwww.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/600311/1findamybillig.webs.com/www.facebook.com/Help-Find-Amy-Billig-205088089544267/timeline/www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/the-night-caller-21-years-of-unspeakable-grief.htmldeaniepeters-missingangels.blogspot.com/2014/03/amy-billig-still-missing-without-trace.htmlwww.wsvn.com/story/22945707/amy-billigicaremissingpersonscoldcases.yuku.com/topic/396/Amy-Billig-missing-since-1974-from-Coconut-Grove-Florida#.VfM8NBHBzRYarticles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-02-26/news/9802250754_1_confession-paul-branch-disappearancepsychiccrimefighter.com/forum/thread/796/amy-billig-missing-3-5-1974-coconut-grove-florida/www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?19475-FL-Amy-Billig-17-Coconut-Grove-5-March-1974www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2x16ea/disappearance_of_amy_billig_1974/[/span]
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 9, 2015 16:58:43 GMT -5
My best bet is foul play from someone in the neighborhood.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 9, 2015 16:51:55 GMT -5
Here's a reenactment of the case. As far as the theories go, unless there was a serial strangler in the area at the time, I side with drowning the possibility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oe4aazSYJw
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 9, 2015 16:45:29 GMT -5
I haven't read much on the mother. Though in either scenario, the family share blame.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 8, 2015 17:08:28 GMT -5
Law enforcement in Sturgis, Michigan have been searching for Brittney Ann Beers for over 18 years. AMW had at least aired this case in 2000. From the Charley Project: Missing Since: September 16, 1997 from Sturgis, Michigan Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: August 1, 1991 Age (at time of disappearance: 6 years old Height and Weight: 4'0, 45 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Blonde hair, blue eyes. Brittney was missing her four upper baby teeth at the time of her 1997 disappearance. She often wore her hair pulled back into a ponytail. Clothing/Jewelry Description: A white tank top or t-shirt with a floral design, pink tie-dyed shorts and white sneakers with a pink design on the sides. Her shoelaces had a red stripe down the center. Brittney was playing outside of her family's residence at Village Manor Apartments during the evening hours of September 16, 1997. She went outside to ride her bicycle at approximately 7:30 p.m. Brittney's mother, Tina Stetler, left to run errands at approximately 8:30 p.m. and saw her daughter riding her bicycle around the neighborhood at that time. Brittney's half-brother told authorities that he saw his sister sitting on a bench about five minutes after their mother departed. A witness told investigators that he saw Brittney speaking to an unidentified male driving a red or brown mid-size vehicle shortly thereafter. Brittney walked over to the witness and told him that she "made a new friend." Brittney has never been seen again. Stetler returned home at approximately 9:05 p.m. and asked Brittney's brother to find her. The authorities were summoned when the child could not be located near the apartment complex, which is located on U.S. 12, the major thoroughfare through Sturgis. Brittney's bicycle was discovered abandoned shortly after she was last seen. Sketches of the unidentified man seen speaking to Brittney were distributed through the area in the days following her disappearance. It is not known if the man is connected to her case. He was in his late twenties or early thirties with short dark hair and a thick mustache and was driving either a mid-sized red car or a brown Renault. Police are still looking for the man; he is not being called a suspect, but a witness whom they would like to question. Michigan courts removed Brittney's older brother and younger sister from the family's home in 1998 after allegations of child physical and sexual abuse and neglect were issued. Brittney's father, Raymond Beers; his brother, James Beers; and Kevin Folsom, the father of one of her half-brothers, were allegedly involved in the abuse of the children. Folsom was imprisoned for molesting Brittney, but he was released in 2008. Her case received more publicity in 2000 after the arrest of a St. Clair Shores, Michigan man who had images of child pornography saved on his computer. One of the victims resembled Brittney, but was later determined not to be the missing girl. Brittney's case remains open and unsolved. Thoughts? I already mentioned earlier about the angle regarding child porn photos of the girl resembling Brittney, her perpetrators were since arrested. However since Brittany's family have been implicated in child sexual abuse, I would not rule out that Brittany had been the victim of child porn or had been given up by the family by some predator. Admin Note #1: According to missingkids.org, anyone having information should call 1-800-THE-LOST or the Sturgis Police Department (Michigan) - 1-269-651-3231 or Your Local FBI
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Post by TheWebDetective on Sept 8, 2015 16:36:04 GMT -5
Also, AMW drives me crazy with unknown cases sometimes (on the old forum I stated AMW should adhere to an only one unknown case per episode rule since they're so hard to solve) but this is one I have no problem with them airing again as I feel it can be solved. I can't entirely blame them. There are a ton of cold cases that are languishing for 40 or 50 years now.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Aug 31, 2015 12:25:12 GMT -5
Hopefully this DNA evidence can narrow the search for this cretin.
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Post by TheWebDetective on Aug 31, 2015 12:20:44 GMT -5
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Post by TheWebDetective on Aug 29, 2015 21:05:25 GMT -5
This case and cases like it always creep me out. Thankfully, the FBI is mostly successful in catching these perps. Here's a link to the FBI's listing of this case and similar cases from ECAP. www.fbi.gov/wanted/ecap
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