Identified! CA - Carlsbad, LIVING WhtFem, 50s, amnesia, Feb'15 - Ashley Menatta

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Several things bother me about this.
#1 I'm especially bothered by her hair color prior to the chemo which left her bald and her eyebrows are well groomed (waxed?) It was bleached blonde and seems fairly well kept. As a 50 something out of the box blonde myself, it seems pretty clear that she had her hair colored very near the time of her being found. She has no dark roots or gray areas and yet they made it clear that it was not her natural color. In the hospital bed picture it looks freshly colored. SO, where and when did she get her hair colored? How can you end up on a street corner with amnesia, alone, no one looking for you, and perfectly colored hair? The hair color is the answer.
I hope this isn't a hoax but the freshly colored hair has me puzzled. Now, if she knew she had cancer, was going to loose the hair, family helped her with hoax for medical care. then knowing she was going to loose the hair it would naturally be important to her and she would want it to look good going in.
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#2 The shoes and tie. She had on fairly expensive shoes and a $200 men's tie?. Given the nautical theme of her clothes I think ties to the water can be fairly certain or it could be part of the hoax. The shirt was from east coast and I feel like she most likely has ties there.

#3 They do not mention children. If she gave birth then that would have been discovered as they did her exam and operation yet there is no mention either way that she did or did not give birth. This would be a huge clue in finding her identity.

#4 The accent. It's odd. I'm not an expert but there is just something off about it. Almost talking like I would if I were pretending the be the Queen of England.

#5 Smirks. The smirks in pictures and interview. Almost like she knows and she slipped up a little and said like I won't recognize someone I knew. She also didn't look very hard at the picture shown to her. Just me,but I would be looking very closely at anything if I had no memory. She didn't look very hard and said no. I think she did recognize him just for a second it showed on her face.

#6 The Bloke. This was obviously painful and I think she was hurt by him either leaving her or forcing her into the amnesia story. Why isn't this person who she obviously cares for looking for her. Why isn't anyone look for her?

I really hope this isn't a hoax. The longer no one comes forward the more suspicious I get. I think the worldwide search may end up with a story very much right here at home JMO.
 
Someone commented on the fb page to my question that she could have been wearing a bed sheet and calling herself Caesar. Um, yeah a Burberry tie is not a bed sheet and is not cheap. I'm curious that's all. It's highly unusual. Another possibility is, with her attire, that she came off a boat or cruise ship which btw San Diego is a Port for Hawaii cruises. Holland America cruises out of there to Hawaii. It is common for ladies to wear anchor motif clothing on cruises. I just took a cruise and had navy blue boat shorts with anchor designs and anchor earrings.
 
Also, that sounds like it could be a Perth/western Australian accent, which is quite different from the more familiar Queensland and Sydneyside accents. (True story: Mr. Carbuff's from Queens NYC and I grew up in Montana. We spent three weeks in Sydney, Perth, and Queensland and were never identified as American. Everybody thought we were from a different part of Australia.)

I can promise you beyond a shadow of a doubt that her accent is not Perth / Western Australia.
 
I hadn't thought much about the tie but I agree and they are also not cheap about $200 from what I can see. So, that with the fairly expensive shoes are a bug clue.
 
Carnival and Holland America ( sister companies) hire Australians. I have met many on the ship. If she were an employee lets say and she wanted to leave the ship and went off at the port to shop (some can do this) wouldn't customs know this and woudln't the ship have a missing person now?
 
That's an odd comment when they are searching for her identity. The tie and her shoes were worth about 300.
 
If she wrote her own story as above, she has a distinctly American "voice." I am certainly not saying she is pulling a hoax, but I will be shocked if she was not born and raised in the good old USA.
 
Also may I please ask Did they check any of the area motels,hotels or resorts and spas and restaurants of the area she was found or in Carlsbad to see if she was a tourist there.I have a feeling she had money or her bloke did.
 
I can promise you beyond a shadow of a doubt that her accent is not Perth / Western Australia.

If you're from WA, I'll take your word for it. She sounds like I remember it, but it was 20 years ago and my memory might not be accurate.
 
I agree she sounds like she is putting on the accent ??? I just watched the video at his link
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Woman-Carlsbad-Cancer-Amnesia--310983371.html

I don't think aussie's say "can't" like she did.... and when she was explaining the brain fog , she stumbled and it was almost like she had to find other words that she could pronounce with her accent. I dunno... I hope someone comes forward to help her..

Well she says the word "can't" in two different ways. Unusual.

She also says the short "O" vowel in more than one way. Also unusual.

I think they should look in the southern states of the USA. I have no explanation for the accent, it is an accent that I would make fun of if it were an actor in a movie. The inflections seem southern. That's all I got.
 
If she did not have money maybe her boy friend (bloke) did.Maybe she was traveling with him maybe for awhile.
 
Would love to see a picture of the outfit she was found in as she was wearing it. I just can't picture it.

As an aside, how does burberry get off charging $250 for a tie? There is something wrong with this world.
 
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How can you end up on a street corner with amnesia, alone, no one looking for you, and perfectly colored hair? The hair color is the answer.

Here's one made-up scenario: she was on the last day of her vacation. She was supposed to fly back to Oz from LA the next day but fell ill that evening. Her family in Oz met the plane and she wasn't on it. They don't know where she is and all the airline knows is that she was a no-show. They've looked all over LA but found no trace of her. San Diego is quite a distance so even if this was plastered all over the San Diego news they might not have seen it.

As I said, made up scenario and I'm not proposing that's what happened. But there are a lot of ways a person can become lost.
 
I'm staring to think her bloke she was possibly traveling with dumped her.It's sad.
 
Some of the women crew on cruise ships and luxury yachts wear ties. What if she got off at port to buy one? I know for fact that women staff in the casinos wear ties, many of them wrap them around their necks fancy like. There are a few yachts that are basically smaller cruise ships like Seaborn Yacht (out of Australia) and Azamara (sails out of San Diego). In this article she remembers being on a ship with a crew/staff not a cruise ship. A passenger yacht to Hawaii? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...emories-Australia-no-idea-ended-hospital.html
 
I do think there is a unique twang to the accents of people from WA and SA as well... but it's still an Australian accent - but heading more towards being like a NZ or even UK accent compared to the broader accent of the eastern states. They definitely don't sound American.

The only thing I'll say is that having known people who move to other countries and live there a long time, you start to change your accent. And you'll sound like the "new" accent to people from where you're from, but to the people in the "new" place you still sound like where you're from.

To me, some of her words sound Australian, some sound southern US, others sound English (very English, maybe too English - definitely not Australian). It's not inconceivable she was quite well traveled. But I'm open-minded (read: skeptical) about the whole thing at the same time.
 
Maybe she is traveling with her bloke on a yacht or his yacht.
 
Well she says the word "can't" in two different ways. Unusual.

She also says the short "O" vowel in more than one way. Also unusual.

I think they should look in the southern states of the USA. I have no explanation for the accent, it is an accent that I would make fun of if it were an actor in a movie. The inflections seem southern. That's all I got.


I was going to say they exact thing. Southern US.
 
Would an Australian write "....in the hospital," as here (OP), or "in hospital," as a British person would?
 

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