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Ann Kibalo

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Ann Kibalo

Real Name: Ann Yermak Kibalo
Aliases: Ann Yermak, Ann Saul, Ann Kaplan
Wanted For: Abduction
Missing Since: February 3, 2001

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Details: Mike and Ann Kibalo of Suffern, New York, married after dating for nine months. Two-and-a-half years later in January 1999, they had a daughter named Samantha. Almost immediately afterward, Ann began behaving erratically. She yelled at Mike, saying that she didn't need him anymore. The following afternoon, he came home and found all of their furniture missing. Samantha's room was also cleaned out. He called his mother-in-law; Ann answered, saying that the marriage was over and that he would never see Samantha again. She also said that she had called the police and told them that he had beaten and abused her and that he was also hurting Samantha. However, they later determined that there was no evidence of abuse.
Mike sued for divorce and full custody of Samantha. As this case went through the legal system, Ann was ordered to share custody of Samantha with him. After a week-long visit with Ann, Samantha apparently came back to Mike with several bruises on her face. He took her to the pediatrician, where it was determined that the bruises were between three and five days old. This meant that they most likely occurred while she was with Ann.
A court-appointed psychiatrist evaluated Mike and Ann's fitness as parents. While they did not determine how the bruises occurred, the psychiatrist concluded that there was something odd in the way Ann was treating Samantha. Over the span of eleven months, Ann took her to seven different doctors on thirty-three different occasions. She also hired eleven different psychiatrists and twenty-three different lawyers; this is reportedly a classic behavior of someone suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.
The final diagnosis was that Ann had a severe personality disorder with a mixture of traits from several other disorders. Soon afterwards, Mike was awarded full custody of Samantha. However, Ann appealed the court ruling and still had the right to see her. On February 3, 2001, the day before the court's decision on the appeal, Mike dropped Samantha off at the police station for a scheduled overnight visit with Ann. He returned the next day to pick her up, but they never showed up.
Ann and Samantha had vanished without a trace. Mike now fears that Samantha is in grave danger. Two months after they vanished, Ann's SUV was found abandoned in a Brooklyn parking garage. However, a search of it provided no clues to their whereabouts. Ann is wanted for kidnapping and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. She may be traveling with a red Tibetan terrier named Vodka. She may be in contact with medical professionals. She is 5'0, 120 pounds, has brown hair, blue eyes, and would today be late fifties. Her birth date is March 25, 1963.
Extra Notes:

  • This case first aired on the June 24, 2002 episode.
  • It was also profiled on America's Most Wanted.
  • It was excluded from the FilmRise Release of the Robert Stack episodes.

Results: Wanted. In 2006, Ann and Samantha were sighted in Santa Fe, New Mexico. However, no trace of them was found there.
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