Nicknames: No Known Nicknames
Location: Coconut Grove, Florida
Date: March 5, 1974
Bio
Occupation: High School Student
Date of Birth: January 9, 1957
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 110 lbs.
Marital Status: Single
Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes, possible tattoo
Case
Details: Amy Billig vanished in 1974 while hitch-hiking to her father's office. A few days after she vanished, sixteen-year-old twins, Charles and Larry Glasser claimed to have kidnapped her and asked for a $30,000 ransom, but the police discovered this was a ruse and arrested them for extortion. Am's mother, Susan Billing, recieved tips that Amy might have been kidnapped by a motocycle gang and taken cross-country. Susan followed all these tips all the way to England on what was deemed a wild goose chase. Another claim was that Amy died from a drug overdose and her body dumped to alligators in the Florida Everglades.
Sometime after Amy vanished, her camera was found at the Wilwood exit on the Florida Turnpike and surrendered to the police. Many of it's photos were overexposed with the few decent photos having no further clue to her whereabouts. her mother would like to know what happened to her.
Sadly, Amy's father died in the 1990s of lung cancer and Susan died of a heartattack in 2005 at the age of eighty. To date, no trace of Amy has ever been found.
Suspects: Following Amy's disappearance, a man named Henry Johnson Blair was identified as the source of harassing phone alls to the Billig family. An alcoholic, his obsessive-compulsion disorder caused him to harass Susan, but he later claimed to never know Amy. He was sentenced to a two-year prison term for harassment and lost a suit to Susan who recieved a five-million-dollar settlement. However, he is a person of interest in the case because a white van similar to his appears in one of Amy's photos and Amy describes a man named Hank who wanted to take her to South America at the same time Blair's job as a customs agent was sending him to Argentina. Officially, Blair has not been postively linked to Amy's disappearance.
Extra Notes: This case originally ran on the January 26, 1994 episode.
Susan Billing published the book With A Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig with Greg Aunapu in 2001.
This case was also profiled on America's Most Wanted.
Results: Unsolved
Links: None known