Introducing: The Path Went Chilly - The Disappearance of Amy Billig

We Saw the Devil: A True Crime Podcast

Robin Coleman

True Crime, News Commentary, History, News

4.2 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

The Path Went Chilly is a spinoff of Robin Warder's wildly popular podcast the Trail Went Cold, where Robin, Jules and Criminologist Ashley discuss the most perplexing cases from unsolved mysteries already covered on the Trail Went Cold.

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.

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Additional Reading:

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

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Amy_Billig

http://charleyproject.org/case/amy-billig

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/the-night-caller-21-years-of-unspeakable-grief.html

http://people.com/archive/the-night-caller-vol-45-no-8/

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-02-26-9802250754-story.html

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

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, Hello everyone. This is a reminder that the Path Went Chilly is a discussion
0:38.4	podcast in which myself, Ashley and Jules have in-depth conversations about cases I previously covered on the Trail
0:45.8	Went Cold.
0:46.7	If you're someone who prefers solo podcasts involving one person, my original Trail Went Cold episodes
0:52.4	are available for download, but if you're someone who likes discussion style podcast and wants to hear myself, Ashley and Jules, get way more adept into these cases I've previously covered than the Path Went Chilly is the podcast for you.
1:06.3	Welcome back to the Path Went Chilly. I'm Robin. I'm Jules. And I'm Ashley.
1:12.1	Robin, you were just at CrimeCon. Do you want to fill us in on how this year's festivities went?
1:17.0	Well, this year's CrimeCon event took place in Las Vegas and it marked my first time being able to travel outside of Canada in nearly three years because of the pandemic.
1:26.0	I attended the first three crime con events in Indianapolis, Nashville, and New Orleans,
1:31.0	but I had to miss last year's event in Austin because the Canada-US
1:34.8	border was still closed. But it was great to get back into the grind again and see and hang
1:39.5	out with my fellow podcasters, listeners, and friends.
1:43.3	And it's probably a good idea that we waited an entire week after I got home to record this
1:47.3	episode because all this activity left my voice pretty horse.
1:51.9	The way the whole process works is that the trail went cold has its own booth on
1:55.4	podcast Row at CrimeCon and which attendees can stop by and meet you and it's pretty
2:00.5	humbling to have people tell me how much they love my podcast and
2:03.8	asked to take selfies with me.
2:05.9	And my booth just happened to be right next to the true crime garage booth where Nick and the
2:10.4	captain always have the longest lineups of fans, so I was lucky enough to get a lot of spillover traffic.
2:17.0	I spent a couple of days exploring Vegas and attended a number of interesting sessions at CrimeCon, including one about the West Memphis 3, and another
2:24.9	one featuring John Benet Ramsey's father, John Ramsey.
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