FL FL - Amy Billig, 17, Coconut Grove, 5 March 1974

[KDiz24]

Case # SLCSS01422 if the link doesn't take you right to it.

 

[dotr]

rbbm. imo, speculation.
If the perp wanted to misdirect an investigation, he might..
-Use Amy's camera to take a pic of a vehicle belonging to someone they know is an unstable individual.
-Plant said camera at the F.T. knowing that biker gangs travelled through there?

Amy Billig – The Charley Project
''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 U.S. Customs Department''

''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.''

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• Missing Since03/05/1974
• Missing FromCoconut Grove, Florida
• ClassificationNon-Family Abduction
• SexFemale
• RaceWhite
• Date of Birth01/09/1957 (65)
• Age17 years old
• Height and Weight5'5, 110 pounds
• Clothing/Jewelry DescriptionA denim miniskirt and cork platform sandals.
• Distinguishing CharacteristicsCaucasian 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.''

 

[Lavender Moon]

That is amazing to me that this man would persevere in harassing Susan for over two decades! How I wish I knew more about his mental health.

 

[Lavender Moon]

...or lack thereof.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Amy Billig has been missing for 48 years.

 

[Friday Fan]

She was beautiful.

I think that is why the crazies gravitated to this case.

 

[Dignityforthedead]

756UFFL

Could this be Amy?
This doe was found in a drainage ditch in June 1974 in broward county Florida. She is a close match to Amy’s height and weight descriptions, though the age is a bit off.
What really got to me is that this doe was wearing “high heeled shoes with cork soles”, the same shoes Amy was wearing when she was last seen.

 

[dotr]

756UFFL

Could this be Amy?
This doe was found in a drainage ditch in June 1974 in broward county Florida. She is a close match to Amy’s height and weight descriptions, though the age is a bit off.
What really got to me is that this doe was wearing “high heeled shoes with cork soles”, the same shoes Amy was wearing when she was last seen.

Welcome to Ws Dignityforthedead!
Interesting find, Ws thread..
FL - FL - Fort Lauderdale, WhtFem 756UFFL, 21-35, in drainage ditch, Jun'74 | Page 2 (websleuths.com)

 

[John/Jane Doe]

756UFFL

Could this be Amy?
This doe was found in a drainage ditch in June 1974 in broward county Florida. She is a close match to Amy’s height and weight descriptions, though the age is a bit off.
What really got to me is that this doe was wearing “high heeled shoes with cork soles”, the same shoes Amy was wearing when she was last seen.

I think it would be worth sending this.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

18DFFL - Amy Billig​

Name: Amy Billig
Case Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Missing Since: March 5, 1974
Location Last Seen: Coconut Grove, Dade County, Florida.

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: January 9, 1957
Age: 17 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5
Weight: 110 pounds
Hair Color: Brown wavy
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Two inch scar from appendix operation on abdomen.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available. Much dental work.
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available in CODIS.

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: A short blue denim skirt and cork platform sandals.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Billig was last seen hitchhiking along Main Highway in Coconut Grove, FL on March 5, 1974. She was headed to her father's office. Billig never arrived; she has not been seen since.

Law enforcement agencies have never closed Billig's case.

She often hitchhiked in her neighborhood. She was known as a flower child, and a very spiritual, very social, well adjusted teenager.

Her mother Susan Billig died on June 7, 2005 at the age of 80 after searching ceaselessly for her daughter for 31 years.

Investigating Agency(s)​

Agency Name: Miami Police Department
Agency Contact Person: Missing Persons Unit - anonymous - if you wish.
Agency Phone Number: 305-579-6530; 305-579-6111
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: 406906

NCIC Case Number: M-964017070
NCMEC Case Number: NCMC600311

Information Source(s)​

The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
A & E Network
America's Most Wanted
FDLE
Florida Missing Children Information Clearinghouse
amazon.com

18DFFL - Amy Billig

Amy Billig Pt. One​

The Path Went Chilly

INFO​

March 5, 1974. Coconut Grove, Florida. 17-year old Amy Billig phones her father from her home and arranges to meet him at his workplace in order to borrow money to have lunch with friends. Amy is last seen hitchhiking next to a highway, but she never shows up to meet her father or her friends and is subsequently reported missing. After being informed that Amy was abducted by a gang of bikers, her mother, Susan Billig, spends the next several years attempting to track her down and even encounters a biker who claims to have bought and owned Amy for a time. The Billig family also has to endure two decades’ worth of harassing phone calls from another man who claims to have kidnapped Amy, but even after the caller is identified and arrested, no trace of Amy is ever found. Was Amy Billig actually abducted and held captive by bikers? Was the tormenting caller responsible for Amy’s disappearance? Or could an unknown third party have murdered her instead? This week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly” chronicles one of the most convoluted missing persons cases we’ve ever covered, which has still not found a conclusive resolution after 45 years.

Additional Reading:

“Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig” by Greg Aunapu and Susan Billig

Amy Billig

Amy Billig – The Charley Project

The Night Caller: 21 Years of Unspeakable Grief (Published 1995)

The Night Caller

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO AMY?

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article226721904.html

Amy Billig Pt. One

March 5, 1974. Coconut Grove, Florida. 17-year old Amy Billig phones her father from her home and arranges to meet him at his workplace in order to borrow money

www.spreaker.com

 

[spartanx]

I knew about Amy's case due to unsolved mysteries and it has always caught my attention and there are so many theories that those motorcyclists took her away, that she was taken to England, that she died of an overdose, that she wanted to go to South America, etc. In the end, there is nothing reliable anymore and I think we will never know what really happened to Amy... beautiful young hippie girl...
I hope with all my heart that your passing was not painful. Rest in peace, Amy.

 

[dotr]

 

[arielilane]

Imo, looking back and recalling memories of both Amy Billig and Natalee Holloway cases it appears that Beth Holloway has gone through similar experiences as Amy's mom Susan did trying to found her daughter Amy. It's so unfair to endure the pain of a missing child let alone have a third party mislead you about your child is beyond cruel. No one should have to experience the struggles they have gone through. More help for parents trying to find a missing child is needed and perhaps turning over partial case file to the parent(s) after awhile may help in some cases. Again, imo.

 

[Sweetluv]

BUMPING!

 

[dotr]

18DFFL - Amy Billig

18DFFL - Amy Billig​

Name: Amy Billig
Case Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Missing Since: March 5, 1974
Location Last Seen: Coconut Grove, Dade County, Florida.

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: January 9, 1957
Age: 17 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5
Weight: 110 pounds
Hair Color: Brown wavy
Eye Color: Brown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Two inch scar from appendix operation on abdomen.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Available. Much dental work.
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Available in CODIS.

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: A short blue denim skirt and cork platform sandals.
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Amy was last seen hitchhiking along Main Highway in Coconut Grove, FL on March 5, 1974. She was headed to her father's art gallery, which was located less than one mile away from her home one Commodore Plaza. Amy never arrived; she has not been seen since.

Two weeks, after Amy's disappearance, a hitchhiking college student found Amy's camera in the grass beside the Florida Turnpike, near the Wildwood exit, about 250 miles northwest of Miami. When the film was developed, there was only one photo-an overexposed photo of a light-colored pickup truck in front of a light-colored wall with a vine growing up it. Police were never able to find the truck or the wall.''

 

[dotr]

No good solid reason why i do not believe a biker gang murdered Amy, just hoping that people are still keeping eyes and ears open for her in case the body was not in fact 'dumped in a swamp'. imo, speculation.

24-year-old mystery is solved, detective says

The deathbed confession of a former gang member may finally have shed some light on the fate of a 17-year-old girl whose disappearance has haunted investigators and family members since 1974.

www.tampabay.com

Published Feb. 27, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005
''Billig, a willowy young woman who weighed 102 pounds and stood 5 feet 5 inches tall, was taken to a Pagans' party in the Everglades, where the gang had a trailer-clubhouse. The Pagans were major dealers in drugs, guns and prostitutes in the 1970s.

"She became insulting to some of the bikers," Calvar said. "You don't do that in those groups. That's when they started to teach her a lesson. Through the rape, she probably fought back, and that's why they kept pumping her with dope."

About two dozen gang members raped Billig as they controlled her with drugs, Calvar said. Finally, she had had too much. Her heart stopped.

Through with her, her tormentors dumped her in the swamp.

"We will never find a body," Calvar said.''

 

[Same Old Stella]

Did anyone actually see her with those bikers? I think there was more evidence against the guy who tried to shake down her Mom as being "the one" than some biker bragging on his deathbed. Hard to believe she would in close reach of her 70th birthday; her youth and beauty are frozen in time.

 

[DD Byrd]

My first thought was always she found a way to throw her camera out of whatever vehicle she was in to leave a trail. If you were the kidnapper, and esp if you thought you were on the film, you wouldn't leave it along a road, especially near an exit. But regardless, that means she either had the camera when she left for her father's gallery, or she came back to get it. If she came back to get it via car, I'd imagine she knew who she was with since a rando hitchhiking doesn't usually involve a pitstop because you forgot something.

IMO, the biker confessions and swamp dump did happen, just maybe not to Amy.

 

[upz12]

This is my first post, and I really don't know how to go about laying this out, so here goes:

I've been looking into an ex Hialeah Police Officer the past 6 months or so, Marc Leroy Holliday (died September 2000). He was fired in 1973 for harboring a 15 year old runaway on his boat at Dinner Key Marina and in his apartment on Key Biscayne, but was later reinstated, only to be fired in 1976 for falsifying an arrest report.

In 1978 he was arrested for raping and robbing a 15 year old girl, however, he was acquitted due to prosecutorial misconduct. He was defended by renown defense attorney Roy Black. When arrested he mentioned "The Canal Murders", 12 unsolved homicides of females in Dade and Broward counties in 1975 and 1976, which is how he popped up on my radar, I was looking into those cold cases.

Marc Leroy Holliday (MLH) moved to California sometime in 1979 or 1980 (he had lived there as a child) and kidnapped a 5 year old girl in Palm Springs in November of 1980, and a 4 year old girl from Indio in early 1981. He let both girls go, the 4 year old was not sexually assaulted, the 5 year old Palm Springs girl was however.

Before being sentenced he told two different psychiatrists that he abducted many young women, mostly hitchhikers, for his own sexual gratification. He said the oldest was 15.

I contacted one of MLH's ex wives a couple months back, and she had no idea about any of the 1978 Florida stuff or any of the California stuff. She said that as soon as they got divorced she moved somewhere else in the state. She did however say a couple things that stood out:

After she moved she said some detectives came and got a gun of hers that she had owned while they were married (it was later returned to her).

While telling me how surprised she was about the young ages of the California girls she said she wasn't as surprised about the 1978 case, and said that MLH had a disdain for prostitutes.

She told me that "he got a little crazy with her". When I asked her if she wanted to elaborate, she said "he knocked her around".

So now that the backstory is out of the way, here's why I had to come here and post this.

-MLH's boat was docked at Dinner Key Marina, LESS THAN A MILE from where Amy went missing.

-His apartment was ~5 miles from where Amy went missing.

-In 1974 when Amy went missing it looks like MLH's job was in limbo, and it doesn't seem like he had been reinstated yet.

-MLH was a Narc Officer with Hialeah until they dissolved the Narc Squad.

-In Susan Billig's book it says the bikers would convene at Dinner Key Marina before driving North to Daytona for Bike Week.

-MLH's ex wife and an ex co-worker of his who I've been in contact with said everyone thought he died in the early 1990's. The following is speculation, but according to the ex co-worker, he thinks MLH or his family kind of floated that bad info back to Florida on purpose.

Did he see the bikers coming through town and think that this was a perfect opportunity?

This is a very interesting suspect

 

[Friday Fan]

Did anyone actually see her with those bikers? I think there was more evidence against the guy who tried to shake down her Mom as being "the one" than some biker bragging on his deathbed. Hard to believe she would in close reach of her 70th birthday; her youth and beauty are frozen in time.

I don't think so.

I read her mother's book years ago. I think some construction workers saw her hitchhiking and that's where she was last seen. No description of her with a vehicle etc.

The intersection where she was last seen was very exclusive and I think people would notice a motorcycle gang on this street. I just appears too quiet. If construction workers noticed her, they would have noticed a motorcycle gang.

I get more creepy stalker vibes than motorcycle gang.

Main Hwy & Poinciana Ave · Miami, FL 33133

Intersection

maps.app.goo.gl

Her destination was only 1/2 mile away. I couldn't quite understand why she hitchhiked. I'm a few months older than Amy. I occasionally hitchhiked myself, but we all knew it wasn't safe. I get the impression she may have hitchhiked with the intention of getting rides from friends/acquaintances. (As a way of socializing with people)

I don't think she would have gotten in a vehicle that felt unsafe etc. It just wasn't worth six blocks.

There is a very exclusive girls' school less than a block from where she was last seen on the way to her destination.


Also, people would have likely noticed a motorcycle gang around her father's gallery. It's mostly cafes and was likely the same type of venues when she disappeared. Additionally, there is another private school near her father's gallery. Both schools were at these locations in 1974.

Seems like an area where they would have remembered a motorcycle gang traveling through.