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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 150 - Amy Billig

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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 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 Trail Went Cold” chronicles one of the most convoluted missing persons cases we’ve ever covered, which has still not found a conclusive resolution after 45 years. 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 “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

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March 5th, 1974. Coconut Grove, Florida.

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17 year old Amy Billick phones her father from her home and arranges to meet him at his

0:11.4

workplace in order to borrow money to have lunch with friends.

0:15.6

Amy is last seen hitchhiking on a highway, but never shows up to meet her father or her friends

0:21.1

and is subsequently reported missing.

0:23.8

After being informed that Amy was abducted by a gang of bikers, Amy's mother spends the next several

0:29.4

years attempting to track her down without success.

0:33.0

The Billick family also endures two decades worth of harassing phone calls from a man who claims

0:37.9

to have kidnapped Amy, but even after the caller is identified and arrested, no trace of Amy is ever found.

0:45.0

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.

0:53.0

Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, yeah. Oh, uh,

1:04.0

uh,

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there, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.

1:27.0

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering a very memorable

1:31.1

missing person's case which was featured on Unsaw Mysteries, the 1974 disappearance of Amy Billig.

1:38.0

Ever since the inception of this podcast, I've received numerous requests to cover this case, a very convoluted saga which

1:45.4

wound up lasting over two decades. It involves a 17 year old girl from Florida who

1:50.9

vanished without explanation while on her way to meet her father and her family

1:55.1

soon received a tip that Amy had been abducted by a notorious biker gang who was in the area at that time.

2:02.2

One of the most remarkable aspects of this story is Amy's mother, Susan Billig, who may be the

2:07.6

most relentless parent of a missing person I have ever seen.

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