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

  • #61
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.)
 
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That does seem likely.
 
  • #64
I personally looked for recently missing, but couldn't find any that matched yet. Still researching though... :)
 
  • #65
I have a sincere question. Why are people searching for people missing for a long, long time? I am seeing a lot of posts both here and on the various FB pages showing women/girls missing for 20, 30, 40 years. My thought is that she probably went missing in the past 6 months to maybe a year ago, when the cancer or whatever illness started effecting her brain. What is the thought process behind looking at much older missing person cases?
Omg....this. Thanks wasn't enough.
 
  • #66
Lisa Weaver has a turned up nose. Sam has a broad, flat nose. Their profiles would be way different. I wonder if she's an avid reader? Because she could have never left the state of California and be describing things she's read in books. She could have even been reading an English novel before she became ill and she's speaking like she's heard or read, not her native tongue. If I was the FBI, I'd start right in the neighborhood she was found. You know how people have been dead in their recliner for 5 years and their neighbors never checked on them? Sam could have mail piling up in her local mailbox and her neighbors just not know anything is wrong. She could have been reclusive before.

I dunno....put me in the sketchy camp. I mean, she can remember all sorts of details about Perth and restaurants she frequented, boats with crews, but yet one.single.name from her past isn't creeping up.....like her first crush, the name of her elementary school, places she had her eyebrows and hair done, stores she might have shopped in? She can't remember any special piece of jewelry she might have owned and who might have given it to her? Favorite bands/songs of her childhood? Foods? Her wedding or births of possible children? If you sat down and asked her a million questions, and she truly had amnesia, at least one of those questions would bring forth some tidbit of recollection that one could work off of. I'm not an amnesia specialist, but it strikes me odd that she not remember even the name of someone she's no longer associated with. Maybe even a deceased relative from years ago. But to just not be able to remember ONE address, ONE name, ONE number, ONE clue at all, but yet be able to walk, talk, feed self, compete daily tasks just seems a little far fetched and Lifetime movie-ish to me.
 
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I noticed she got emotional when she mentions a man she might remember.Maybe a artist can draw a picture of the man in her dreams.What is his description? He might be the key to finding out who she is. Also go to Annapolis Harbor Maryland where her shirt says to maybe find out who she is. I feel very sad for her.I pray she finds her family soon and they love her.
 
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But why isn't anyone looking for her??
 
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  • #71
She does kind of look like her to me.
 
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I have a sincere question. Why are people searching for people missing for a long, long time? I am seeing a lot of posts both here and on the various FB pages showing women/girls missing for 20, 30, 40 years. My thought is that she probably went missing in the past 6 months to maybe a year ago, when the cancer or whatever illness started effecting her brain. What is the thought process behind looking at much older missing person cases?

I wondered that too. I've been checking many dates & also even looked through Canada's missing but so far nothing is a match.
 
  • #73
looks like most people think the same way

I'm gonna go with fake (I think she's trying to sound Austrailian but doesn't know the difference between English & Auzzie accents)

honestly when the reporter asked her something - she looked at him & for a split second she looked like Rachel Delozal with that slight smirk on her face

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aky but her accent sounds me english to me :/ jut my opinion as an aussi lol[/QUOTE]

I agree, I'm English and she sounds very much English to me. We also use the word 'bloke' and 'brekkie' I'll be very surprised if she's from Australia. Maybe she's had holidays there or has relatives there but brought up in England is my guess. Jmo.

ETA- I listened to her speaking in the short interview airing on 7News website.

I'm usually pretty good at picking out accents and I don't hear any aussie accent at all.
I do hear a combination of accents, british and something else but not australian.

Certainly not Australian and not consistently British either. Possibly mix of south African but honestly if I were to hazard a guess I would think the accent is a function of her brain damage or is faked.

She has brown eyes. My friends in England say she has a English accent. However that accent could be fake. Some people have awakened with accents or speaking another language. Even a doc that treated her doesn't think she is Aussie... False memories

She sounds pretty English, to me. I've friends from the East Anglia area that often have people think they are Australian. Also I was in New York last week and got talking to a man who we (as English people) thought was Australian only to establish he was actually from England and lived in the USA after a few years in Düsseldorf.

The whole thing seems quite "off" to me though. I would not be surprised if it turns out to be a hoax.
 
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Without a great amount of experience, I'm leaning toward South African.

For comparison, think about the actors in the Mad Max series, the Harry Potter series, and Invictus.

( Harry Potter movies are a treasure trove of regional accents. An English colleague asked me to identify some of the accents & agreed with the person/place pairings I offered. )
 
  • #76
I think they should look in the Annapolis Harbor Maryland area and Washington DC area to see if any one recognizes her.Can they please show pictures of what her clothes, her shirt and shoes looked like.She was wearing a shirt that I believe said Annapolis Harbor with anchors on it.Has any one checked the Annapolis Harbor Maryland area where her shirt was maybe from? Can they or will they put her story in the Washington DC newspapers and on the news.
 
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The sailing community is one where people all over the world seem to know each other.

There are sites where people are looking for crew members. I don't know if they are free. It would be a good place to post info,

I am going to go search for some
 
  • #79
But why isn't anyone looking for her??

They might be. But if she went missing from, say, Annapolis, or Australia, they might not be looking as far away as California.
 
  • #80
Burberry tie. Does anyone else find this out of place with t-shirt and shorts and Sperry boat shoes? Was she actually wearing this?? or is it a clue that a man may have been wearing it?
 

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