Honestly, at first, I had a really hard time. I still have a hard time with this situation,

and my feelings. I don't even know if I was fully understanding what was going on. I couldn't

grasp the different things that people were saying. It doesn't make sense. I just feel very confused.

And when I think about it, I get scatterminded.

It is different than being able to grieve the, God forbid, the loved one with cancer who passed.

It's been really hard. I mean, my grandmother is still not okay. She's getting older now,

so her physical ailments. She was the one going around in Tensington, which is not a good part of Philly, posting flyers. She's the one who's staying on top of law enforcement and pushing. And recently it's been more me. She's had to tell me, and I need your help a little bit more with this. So now it's me that's trying to pick up those pieces and keep my mom's name out there. But it's really hard

when her story is not exactly the cleanest story to tell. On June 13th, 2016, 44-year-old Amy McHale

said goodbye to her mother and left her home in South Philadelphia. Nothing about that moment

suggested it would be the last time her family would see her,

but it was. In the early morning hours of June 14th, Amy called her daughter Amanda and left a voicemail.

When Amanda listened to the message later that morning, it didn't raise immediate alarm bells.

But when she tried to call her mother back, it went straight to voicemail.

In the message, Amy said she was staying at her ex-husband's house, something she did from time to

time. At first, no one was overly concerned. Amy was an adult who had her routines,

and everyone assumed she would resurface, as she always had before. But as hours turned into days with

no word, concern began to grow. Amy's ex-husband told family members that she had been at his home

when he went to bed on the night of June 13th. But when he woke up the next morning, Amy was gone.

From that point forward, there were no confirmed sightings and no clear answers about where Amy may have gone.

Nearly a decade has passed since Amy vanished, and her loved ones are still searching for answers,

still holding on to hope that someone out there knows what happened and will finally decide to step forward.

I'm Marissa, and from Audible, this is episode 514 of The Vanished, Amy

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