Amy Billig

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

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.

I wouldn't. The toll on my mental health would be too much. I would leave it to detectives. Obviously, at first it would hurt me, but I would still hold out hope. However, this seems to happen in most missing persons cases that are well publicised. It's a magnet for the absolute worst people in society. Form legitimate sociopaths taking pleasure in the pain and vulnerability of the family. To bottom feeders that actually try and make money off the victims, whether it be by extortion, or by so-called psychics.

Sylvia Browne, a convicted criminal, made a fortune off guessing what happened to missing children (being wrong 100% of the time). Henry J. Blair by calling and tormenting the mother for 21 years, is a sociopathic monster, who should have been sentenced to at least 20 years for the emotional damage he inflicted on the family.

[drew790]

Originally Posted by LooksLikeCRicci

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.

Hindsight being what it is, I'd have done something similar. Though I'd have stood up a separate line / voice mail for people to leave tips to rather than my home number.

[rusty spike]

I can't fault Susan, the mother of Amy, following every lead in trying to find her daughter. Those sightings, which never proved to be credible, were all that Susan had of finding her daughter. I like Bonniegirl's idea that Amy might have known her abductor/killer.

This case has always reminded me of Tammi Lynn Leppert. A young woman who was last seen walking down a city street in Florida.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by jets4life

Sylvia Browne, a convicted criminal, made a fortune off guessing what happened to missing children (being wrong 100% of the time). Henry J. Blair by calling and tormenting the mother for 21 years, is a sociopathic monster, who should have been sentenced to at least 20 years for the emotional damage he inflicted on the family.

Sheesh, I had no idea she was convicted of anything. Reading up on her wiki it seems she was nothing more than a horrible fraud making money off innocent people. I remember going to her website one time in the late 2000s and the charges for her live readings was insane. You could also pay for a reading from her son which was still several hundreds of dollars.

To take advantage of people who are hurting and missing their family members is just sick.

[Gelatinous Goo]

It should be punishable by law to claim to be a "psychic" as opposed to LE actually using them on cases. Talk about ridiculous. If people can't see that it's all a bunch of BS, then I feel very sorry for them.

[EighthStreet]

Originally Posted by Gelatinous Goo

It should be punishable by law to claim to be a "psychic" as opposed to LE actually using them on cases. Talk about ridiculous. If people can't see that it's all a bunch of BS, then I feel very sorry for them.

This is where I once again get upset at UM for using a murder case as part of their segment on Dorothy Allison without doing a full segment on the victim they exploited.

Lori Zimmerman's killer is still at large.

[xTattooedDollx]

But if she OD'd and died the night she was abducted, the UK incident isn't possible. This case drives me CRAZY because there's just so many theories that do make a lot of sense. I never heard about the Hank connection, but now I'm very curious to know more about him.

[jets4life]

Originally Posted by xTattooedDollx

But if she OD'd and died the night she was abducted, the UK incident isn't possible. This case drives me CRAZY because there's just so many theories that do make a lot of sense. I never heard about the Hank connection, but now I'm very curious to know more about him.

The UK sighting was determined to be not credible. One of the Outlaw Bikers made a deathbed confession (IIRC), and stated that the gang abducted Amy the date she went missing, drugged her, and had their way with her, before killing her, and dumping her remains into a swamp.I can't vouch for the credibility, but it could explain things.

as for Hank, it was found that Amy had wrote in her diary, described a man named Hank who wanted to take her to South America at the same time Henry's job as a customs agent was sending him to Argentina. It was never confirmed if the "Hank" that Amy was referring to, ws the same Hank who harassed the mother with indecent phone call for years.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by xTattooedDollx

But if she OD'd and died the night she was abducted, the UK incident isn't possible. This case drives me CRAZY because there's just so many theories that do make a lot of sense. I never heard about the Hank connection, but now I'm very curious to know more about him.

The whole UK thing really doesn't make any sense. I don't see bikers shipping Amy over to the UK to hook or dance. I thought we had seen Virginia Snyder featured on another UM case. I disagreed with her about Amy still being alive. In fact I was a little unhappy with Snyder for giving a bunch of false hope to a still-grieving mother. I don't see how Amy's family could cope between Snyder and the continual harassing phone calls

It's easy to feel that one can trust Unsolved Mysteries 100%, but that takes me back to the case of John and Linda Sohus. UM stated that Linda's cat's were picked up by a stranger and this was completely untrue. Linda's sister later confirmed to me that she was the one who picked them up. So not every little piece of information UM ever presented can be taken as fact.

[JenniferS.]

Originally Posted by Allierain

The whole UK thing really doesn't make any sense. I don't see bikers shipping Amy over to the UK to hook or dance. I thought we had seen Virginia Snyder featured on another UM case. I disagreed with her about Amy still being alive. In fact I was a little unhappy with Snyder for giving a bunch of false hope to a still-grieving mother. I don't see how Amy's family could cope between Snyder and the continual harassing phone calls

It's easy to feel that one can trust Unsolved Mysteries 100%, but that takes me back to the case of John and Linda Sohus. UM stated that Linda's cat's were picked up by a stranger and this was completely untrue. Linda's sister later confirmed to me that she was the one who picked them up. So not every little piece of information UM ever presented can be taken as fact.

the whole biker thing dosent make sense.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by JenniferS.

the whole biker thing dosent make sense.

No it doesn't, the whole investigator thing just doesn't jive with me at all either. Who knows if Amy's mother got the information about the biker thing in the UK from the investigator himself, or Snyder. It makes no sense to me, an older gentleman in a UK post office is approached by an American biker trying to sell someone who could be Amy? wtf?? Does not compute. Was the world "mute" even used? And Virginia Snyder....I don't know how she got wrapped up in the case.

I just feel for Amy's family and especially her mother. Losing your baby, your child, rather if that child is a newborn or an adult, there is a part of your heart that is gone and can never be replaced.

[James T]

Originally Posted by Allierain

No it doesn't, the whole investigator thing just doesn't jive with me at all either. Who knows if Amy's mother got the information about the biker thing in the UK from the investigator himself, or Snyder. It makes no sense to me, an older gentleman in a UK post office is approached by an American biker trying to sell someone who could be Amy? wtf?? Does not compute. Was the world "mute" even used? And Virginia Snyder....I don't know how she got wrapped up in the case.

I just feel for Amy's family and especially her mother. Losing your baby, your child, rather if that child is a newborn or an adult, there is a part of your heart that is gone and can never be replaced.

Likely Snyder told him about the case & they concocted it. I cannot begin to say how ridiculous it is that a biker would walk into a post office in Cornwall with people posting letters/parcels & collecting their pensions & loudly offer some old guy a kidnapped sex slave & that guy just happens to be an investigator.

One would think a biker if it was true would be trying to sell her to fetish sex clubs, or at nightclubs/dive pubs & it would be in London-not a village post office in a nice, respectable sleepy town like Falmouth-where probably the most exciting thing that happened there back then was the Yachting Regatta.

[dynoguy88]

The biker gang going through their city at the time really sent the Billigs on a wild goose chase that was doomed from the start. UM never mentions what articles did; that Amy walked about two blocks from her home to an intersection and pulled out her thumb. Road crew workers were right there and told police they saw her standing there trying to hitch a ride. They would have said something if that entire huge biker gang had passed by. You’re going to hear that many motorcycles coming down the road.

I’m 99% sure whoever picked her up at that intersection killed her. It’s just such a shame that Susan had to go multiple decades thinking Amy was a sex slave living in captivity.

[James T]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

The biker gang going through their city at the time really sent the Billigs on a wild goose chase that was doomed from the start. UM never mentions what articles did; that Amy walked about two blocks from her home to an intersection and pulled out her thumb. Road crew workers were right there and told police they saw her standing there trying to hitch a ride. They would have said something if that entire huge biker gang had passed by. You’re going to hear that many motorcycles coming down the road.

I’m 99% sure whoever picked her up at that intersection killed her. It’s just such a shame that Susan had to go multiple decades thinking Amy was a sex slave living in captivity.

Strange how this idea permeates over the decades-Amy Bradley, Lisa Bishop, pretty much every woman who goes missing in recent years the first suggestion is sex trafficking gangs running round kidnapping them-rather than hitchhiker gets in the wrong guys vehicle, lone sex offender sees an opportunity in a deserted/remote area, looking at their partner/husband etc.

[Killarney Rose]

Originally Posted by James T

Strange how this idea permeates over the decades-Amy Bradley, Lisa Bishop, pretty much every woman who goes missing in recent years the first suggestion is sex trafficking gangs running round kidnapping them-rather than hitchhiker gets in the wrong guys vehicle, lone sex offender sees an opportunity in a deserted/remote area, looking at their partner/husband etc.

I believe that it gives the family a glimmer of hope that their loved one is still alive and might someday come home if they were trafficked. It’s very unlikely but it’s all they have and they hang on to that hope.