Amy Billig

[beaglelover]

Here is the link to my writeup on Amy's case.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6317...3275623738221/

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by beaglelover

Here is the link to my writeup on Amy's case.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6317...3275623738221/

Thank you!

[drew790]

Since we're revisiting Amys .... where is everyone's head today on Amy Billig?

[James T]

Originally Posted by drew790

Since we're revisiting Amys .... where is everyone's head today on Amy Billig?

Got in the wrong guys car while hitchhiking. Sadly all the bikers stuff was total crap invented by them to take her money & various other parasites joined in.

Amazing how two missing Amy's a quarter of a century apart were clearly basic murders or misadventure & yet both ended up with ludicrous international human trafficking network theories being pushed by the parents, television shows & the internet.

[Killarney Rose]

Originally Posted by James T

Got in the wrong guys car while hitchhiking. Sadly all the bikers stuff was total crap invented by them to take her money & various other parasites joined in.

Amazing how two missing Amy's a quarter of a century apart were clearly basic murders or misadventure & yet both ended up with ludicrous international human trafficking network theories being pushed by the parents, television shows & the internet.

Everyone wants to be so quick to blame the disappearance of any young lady on trafficking and the sinister white van.

[cordwainer1453]

I like how the family seems to grasp onto anything. First it was the bikers, then Henry Blair. Or are they saying Henry Blair was one of the bikers?

[JenniferS.]

Originally Posted by cordwainer1453

I like how the family seems to grasp onto anything. First it was the bikers, then Henry Blair. Or are they saying Henry Blair was one of the bikers?

I think they were chasing after a biker girl was not her. The guy she mentioned in her journal she was meeting up with probably the one did some thing to her and she isnt alive. Sad !

[drew790]

I have more empathy for the Billig family than I do the Bradleys when it comes to the leads they followed. the Bradley's had to invent a trafficking plot out of thin air (and racism), the Billig's had people from the gang that allegedly took her dangling Amy in their faces. There was more credibility there. Plus the phone harassment.

[WishfulDreamer]

I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't yet read the book "Without a Trace", which Amy's mother co-authored. UM couldn't even scratch the surface with their lengthy segment. You will see the numerous leads the family got and how draining it was on their mental health. And it's very easy to see why the biker theory was so enticing once you read the book. There were so many leads dangled in front of the family's faces that looked very solid, but they were just getting the run around.

I think the biker who made the deathbed confession was lying, as he was well-known to do (or his girlfriend, who was paid for her interview, lied about it). I think she just got in the wrong car while hitchhiking on a day that coincided with the bikers being in town.

I do find the theory that Blair is the mysterious Hank in Amy's diary (and the one who abducted her) to be fascinating, but unfortunately, there isn't a lot of evidence beyond his nickname being Hank and the one photo from Amy's camera having a vehicle that looked just like his. Looks good on paper, but it isn't a slam dunk theory that he is responsible for her disappearance.

[James T]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

I do find the theory that Blair is the mysterious Hank in Amy's diary (and the one who abducted her) to be fascinating, but unfortunately, there isn't a lot of evidence beyond his nickname being Hank and the one photo from Amy's camera having a vehicle that looked just like his. Looks good on paper, but it isn't a slam dunk theory that he is responsible for her disappearance.

Could have been Big Bad Hank-cause he was everywhere.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't yet read the book "Without a Trace", which Amy's mother co-authored. UM couldn't even scratch the surface with their lengthy segment. You will see the numerous leads the family got and how draining it was on their mental health. And it's very easy to see why the biker theory was so enticing once you read the book. There were so many leads dangled in front of the family's faces that looked very solid, but they were just getting the run around.

I don't know if I have the stomach to read that book. And I say this as someone who has read several books covering UM cases which were all tragic in their own ways. But with this case...the UM segment already made it pretty clear how that biker took Susan on a wild goose chase to find Amy when he really knew jack sh*t about where she actually was. I've read a few articles from the 70's about how the Billig family were subjected to endless prank phone calls from nutcases who got their phone number off Amy's missing posters. And the story of two teenagers pretending to be kidnappers of Amy and trying to extort $30,000 from the family for her safe return.

From her interview, you could tell how amazing of a woman Susan was. She seemed like the kind of mother any person would want in their corner. And to hear how so many garbage human beings took advantage of her pain for such a long period of time, it's difficult to process the horrible treatment she was given for so long. I just don't think I could read the book.

[James T]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

I don't know if I have the stomach to read that book. And I say this as someone who has read several books covering UM cases which were all tragic in their own ways. But with this case...the UM segment already made it pretty clear how that biker took Susan on a wild goose chase to find Amy when he really knew jack sh*t about where she actually was. I've read a few articles from the 70's about how the Billig family were subjected to endless prank phone calls from nutcases who got their phone number off Amy's missing posters. And the story of two teenagers pretending to be kidnappers of Amy and trying to extort $30,000 from the family for her safe return.

From her interview, you could tell how amazing of a woman Susan was. She seemed like the kind of mother any person would want in their corner. And to hear how so many garbage human beings took advantage of her pain for such a long period of time, it's difficult to process the horrible treatment she was given for so long. I just don't think I could read the book.

Why the police always tell people they shouldn't put their home phone or mobile number on missing posters-they themselves get all the cranks, cruel idiots & time wasters ringing their hotlines up, so they know what the family will get. Just being featured on a show/making an appeal if your number is in the local phone book etc will get you enough cranks as it is.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by James T

Why the police always tell people they shouldn't put their home phone or mobile number on missing posters-they themselves get all the cranks, cruel idiots & time wasters ringing their hotlines up, so they know what the family will get. Just being featured on a show/making an appeal if your number is in the local phone book etc will get you enough cranks as it is.

I get that. But I think you have to take into account this was 1974 and…I don’t know, the thought process of how you handled something like this would have been different. I could see police overlooking that back then. There’s no way it would have been handled like that today.

[LooksLikeCRicci]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

I get that. But I think you have to take into account this was 1974 and…I don’t know, the thought process of how you handled something like this would have been different. I could see police overlooking that back then. There’s no way it would have been handled like that today.

If it were my kid that were missing, I would probably do the same thing. Even though you would absolutely get the crank and hoax calls, there would still be a chance that you could get the one phone call that could actually lead to their location.

For me, that would be worth every single false lead and crank phone call.

[soilentgreen]

Originally Posted by drew790

Since we're revisiting Amys .... where is everyone's head today on Amy Billig?

Abducted by an unknown perpetrator while going to her parent's art gallery to get money for lunch. What ever happened to her, I don't believe that she was alive months or years afterward.

I sympathize with why her family focused on the biker leads because of the initial tips about two young women being held by bikers and that Paul Branch knew about both the tattoo and the appendectomy scar that Amy had (Sue had not publicly divulged this information). One of the Outlaws who ran the organization in the 1970's and whom Susan met, James 'Big Jim' Nolan, was later accused of both homicides and kidnapping and prostituting women.