She was my first friend. I remember walking by her classroom got they. I didnt know. I was scared. She vanished one october afternoon. 10yearold amy mahalik. She never came home from school. She was going to buy a present for her mother. Come home. Its been a mystery for more than 30 years. Who took amy . Now, investigators are opening their files to us. This is more like your ted bundy type. And you will get the chance to help crack this case. My new piece of information. There is still a killer out there, and somebody has to know something. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Never stop investigating until the mystery is solved. Thats the mystery of detectives. There are many clues, and the decades of past, the trail of evidence has not grown cold. Police decided to do something rare ask for your help to answer a burning question. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with, what happened to amy . These are all boxes of leads and they are all numbered. The first leavy ever got in this case going past 10,000 leads. Mark special was a Patrol Officer when amy disappeared. He worked the case for decades along with a team of investigators, including detective j ellis, i know it goes against your creed to open up the evidence locker and show pieces of evidence to orders. We feel the benefit would be showing people what we have and what we are looking for. We are willing to listen to anyone with any information about then. These things always involve one missing piece of the puzzle. If one person can bring that to us even now, we are happy to have it. Its a piece they have been searching for ever since october 27, 1989, the day amys mom came home from work to find her daughter missing and called everyone in the neighborhood. And she sounds different . Hysterical. Is amy there . Is amy there . Please tell me if amy is there. No, shes not. Im sorry. Where is she . Why are you looking for her . She never came home from school, she never came home from school. I dont know what to do. Its a day amys father, mark , has lived with for more than 30 years. Oh, you are Amy Mihaljevics father. I still get that today, even. Im so sorry. Sorry to hear that. I didnt realize you were amys father. One thing i never do, i try not to, ill never answer that way. I say, no, i am amys father. So and its a day these investigators have poured over for decades. Heres what theyve learned and what they want you to know about the day Amy Mihaljevic disappeared. October 27, 1989. She went to school around 7 20. She rode her bike from her home. She usually writes with a friend. On this day, she did not. One of the friends she rode with was kristy sabo. I lived further from the school than she did. Tell me what you remember about amy. I remember her being really sweet and really fun. She was also my first friend. My first sleepover. You guys were inseparable . Yeah, we were. Kristis home was just a few streets over from amy. It was a town where everybody knew each other growing up. You knew your neighbors. It was a great place to learn how to ride bikes. Amy made the short trip to school. She parked her bike at the rack and headed in. That day, amy was wearing silver and turquoise earrings shaped like horses heads. You can see them in these drawings. Just Normal School kid items that, as you will see, would become vitally important in the months ahead. At 7 45 a. M. , the bell rang. Amy began her day in the fifth grade gifted class. She was a good student and loved to read. She is giving a book report. Amy adored animals, especially horses, and her dog, jake, and wanted to be a vet when she grew up. She also loved to draw and leave little notes for her dad, mark. Dear dad, you are the specialist person in the world so for that, i bring you this little gift. Probably fourth gift, maybe. I love how she signed it Amy Mihaljevic, otherwise you dont know who it is. She was very accomplished for her age. Kristin came in with this little girl and said, this is my new best friend, Amy Mihaljevic. And i said, well, hi, amy. How are you . And with that, you were amys second mom. Absolutely. I adored amy. During one of amys classes that day, a young Patrol Officer visited the school to give a talk about safety. Amy sat there and listened, along with her friend kristi. Dont go with somebody who calls you, and if somebody tries to pick you up, dont go with somebody you dont know. Amy was there for that . Yeah. That young officer, mark, rose through the ranks to become Chief Of Police. You have to look back on that talk to the students. I do. Is there Something Else i could have said . Lunch time. Up until this point, it had just been a regular day at school. Then in the cafeteria, amy mentioned something to one of her friends, something she said was a secret. We learned that amy received a call from a male. This male wanted to take her to buy a present for her mother who had received a promotion at work and that they were going to go to the mall with 45 to buy this gift. That secret would become the focus of intense investigation for the next 30 years. Lured by the chance to surprise her mom, Amy Heads Out to the strip mall and into a trap. She did and saving about her plans today . No. She was seen walking down for that shop as if she is walking with a purpose. The kidnappers plot is set in motion. 210yearolds that saw this both describes that a male walked up to her, engaged her in conversation. When they looked back, amy was gone. When dateline continues. The test of time. Long lasting eylea hd could significantly improve your vision and can help you go up to 4 months between treatments. If you have an eye infection, eye pain or redness, or allergies to eylea hd, dont use. 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Lets get you a break while you wait. What is this place . This is our dmvip. Vending machine charcuterie . For a great low rate, go with the general. Just before noon on the day she disappeared, Amy Mihaljevic told a friend during lunch at that she had a secret. A man had called her home and offered to take her shopping to buy a surprise present for amys mother. Amy was going to meet the man after school. Her brother jason you none of this. She didnt say anything at all. I wish she would have. Amy didnt mention anything to her friend, kristy, either. I remember looking in her classroom. I thought amy. That was the last time i saw her. After school, which ended at 2 04, she walked with a couple of friends to bay square. Bay square is a small strip mall Shopping Area. Its only a quartermile from the Middle School, so kids would often walk from the Middle School to the bay square. There was a baskinrobbins Ice Cream Store there. Fbi agent phil bores me. She seen walking to that Shopping Center as if shes walking with a purpose. That girl later told kristy about the conversation. She told me that amy told her, im going to meet a friend, and she thought nothing of it. She thought okay. Have fun shopping with one of your friends. She walked down the sidewalk here to the plaza. To talk to j ellis retraced the steps she took that day. She wouldve felt completely safe. Very safe. A lot of kids from the Middle School wouldve been here. You can see how many cars are here. It would have been like this in 1989. Two kids saw amy in the Plaza Standing by this black pole. She seemed to be waiting for somebody, and they both described that at some point, a male walked up to her and engaged her in conversation. They looked away, carried on their business. When they looked back, amy was gone. The two 10yearolds who actually saw this helped provide a composite drawing of the individual that they saw. These are the composite sketches based on descriptions from two 10yearolds who each had different memories of the man. They were widely circulated, and came to symbolize the face of amys abductor. But police want you to know they may not be entirely accurate. These were done by recollections from a couple of 10yearolds that were standing at opposite ends of the Shopping Area down here and down here with amy standing in the middle. Investigators do believe the man is a white male with a medium build who is 30 to 35 years old at the time. He would be about 60 to 65 years old today. So you want to hear about everybody, even if they dont match the sketch and even if they dont look like that then . That is correct. Police say the man was somehow able to gather enough information about amy to get her to trust him. Thats a key to determining who did it. What is this method of operation that hes able to identify the mother with enough information to use their employers information, and also know the childs name . However the man did it, it worked. Amy walked off with him willingly, right in front of everyone. The spot where amy was taken was directly across the street from where the Police Station was, barely 500 feet away. This was mark spaetzels view from the old office window. Right down the sidewalk there is where she was last seen. You literally could have seen it happen if someone is looking out the window. Yeah. Just after 3 00 that afternoon, amys big brother, jason, got home from school and noticed amy wasnt there. I walk in the door where she normally would have been, watching tv or doing homework. I noticed that she wasnt around there, so i looked in the house, looked in her room. Made a phone call to my mother about, where is she . Their mom, margaret, was at work, working for a local newspaper. She wasnt too concerned because amy had told her she would be at choir practice that afternoon. I go back to doing my own homework. Not long after that conversation, another phone call would become the most haunting moment in the case. At 3 30, margaret gets a phone call. The kids would call margaret at work when they got home and were safe. Margaret assumed that call would come from home. Exactly. Good to have you home, amy. Make sure you get a snack. There was no sense of urgency. In that moment, margaret did not realize that that phone call, at the time almost to routine for her to remember, would be a call she would never forget. When amy calls her mother, she doesnt sound upset. Theres no indication anything is wrong. That phone call from amy did not come from home. Hes taking a huge chance. Hes willing to take risks. This is somebody that comes across as charming and ingratiating. This is someone who is intelligent but will commit a heinous crime. Its a very unusual pairing. Went dateline continues. At 3 30 p. M. On the day she disappeared, Amy Mihaljevic called her mom to check in the way she always did, even though she was, at that moment, with her kidnapper. When amy calls her mother, she doesnt appear upset. Theres no indication anything is wrong. She doesnt say anything to her mother. That shows an astonishing amount of daring and planning by that man. I mean, he is taking a huge chance, and yet he goes ahead and lets amy call her mom. He has no idea how that conversation is going to go. Hes willing to take risks, but risks he is comfortable with. And people do that when they plan things out. Suggesting he knew that if amys mom received a phone call, she wouldnt start looking for her right away. Right. He bought himself also some time to make sure amy still felt comfortable. Police dont know where amy was when she made that call, because back then, local calls within an area code werent even logged. They do know this amy was in the hands of a calculating and devious planner. We are talking about somebody who is intelligent but who will commit an heinous crime. Fbi agent phil towards me wonders if she might have called from the Westgate Mall, which was about six miles from the Shopping Plaza where amy was last seen. Its very likely during the initial part of the subduction she is still shopping. He says a woman gave a detailed description of a little girl who looked like amy in the Westgate Mall that day between 3 00 and 4 00 p. M. , roughly an hour after amy was taken. She said the girl was with a man. It was really her walking three food court into the mall with a white male. Now, least want to know if anyone out there remembers seeing anything similar at the Westgate Mall that day. Your kind of hoping maybe somebody remembers that. 5 30 p. M. Thats when amys mother returned home from work and realized amy wasnt there. She raced to the school and to a horrifying site her daughters blue bike was still parked on the rack. We immediately took it at face value, that this child was missing. Amys dad mark returned home from work to a chaotic scene. Margaret was running around the house. Could you tell something was really wrong . No, no. This is the real thing. Mark took the family dog and went right out to search for amy himself. We tried to find amy. She rushed to the local abc station with amys class photo. And i said, look. I am not leaving until you put this picture on. And i didnt leave until they put the picture. And i drove in the yard. I heard this primal screaming. Margaret was screaming because she saw amys picture on the television. And realized all of a sudden she is that mom, and this is that kid. Yes, she did. She was heartbroken. Amy have been missing for about five hours in the company of a man who had lured her with lies, a man who had meticulously planned the whole thing. Who was he . Investigators have an idea about his profile, and now, they want you to hear it, too. So thats another thing that you want viewers to think about, is who was around back then who likes kids, can get gets to trust them. Is a planner, is manipulative, and is methodical and not impulsive. Of all those things, manipulative is the key. I may be able to interact socially with other people. Some of the people that are like this, people find them somewhat charming. You are not looking for some frightening freak. This is more like your ted bundy type. This is somebody who comes across or hat can come across as charming and ingratiating. Correct. As the sun began to set, amys parents hunkered down, desperately hoping to hear from their daughter. The kitchen wall phone, thats where margaret slept that night, underneath that phone. Yup. A long night past, and the call Margaret Longed for did not come. Coming up. 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