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This week\u2019s sponsor is BetterHelp.com \xa0Save 10% with my promo code WHOwww.betterhelp.com/WhoFollow me on Twitter @billhuffman3If you'd like to help support the podcast via PayPal with my email billhuffman123@yahoo.com\xa0or Venmo @Billhuffman3http://www.cityofbayvillage.com/safety-services/police-department.aspxCALL 440-871-1234 if you have any information regarding Amy's murder.\xa0It has been just over a year since I published the first episode of Who Killed Amy Mihaljevic?It has gone the way I had thought it would if I did it right of course.\xa0I must have done something right because there have been over 1-million downloads, 100 new tips, an Investigation Discovery Channel Documentary, an appearance at CrimeCon in New Orleans and several media stories.\xa0The podcast has allowed me to rejoin the journalism world and have made some great friendships along the way. October 27th will mark 30 years that Amy\u2019s Case has remained unsolved.\xa0October 27, 1989, started like any other for Amy Mihaljevic. She packed her backpack, kissed her mom goodbye, hopped on her blue bike and rode off to school.\xa0Two things made this day different though; one Amy was carrying a secret and two, she never came home.\xa0It was a warm day for Northeast Ohio in October, with temperatures in the 70\u2019s.\xa0Having grown up in the suburb next to Bay Village, I understand how normal and common it is to ride your bike to school...especially if the weather allows it this late in the fall.\xa0Amy had told her mom and dad that she had a choir tryout after school and would be late.\xa0Neither parents questioned Amy\u2019s story, she had never lied to them before, why would she lie about this.\xa0Margaret had just started being a full-time employee and Mark heading to Cincinnati for a work meeting and they probably just assumed everything was on the up and up.\xa0Amy\u2019s brother Jason, who was a year ahead of Amy, did not notice anything unusual.\xa0As Amy pedaled away that Friday morning nobody in the Mihaljevic family knew how much their life would change in less than 10 hours.\xa0A normal day became anything but when Amy didn\u2019t come home from school.\xa0The last time Amy spoke with her mother was when she called to check in after school.\xa0There have been some reports saying that Amy sounded a bit distant but we are taking that from Margaret and she was not in a state where she could think clearly.\xa0There have been many stories about family members being in a daze those first few days after a tragedy.\xa0With Amy being abducted on a Friday it was a time where most families were heading to football games or planning the weekend's activities.\xa0The FBI\u2019s Reactive squad was called after Margaret went to the police station and explained the situation.\xa0Sensing that this was more than just a girl going to a friend's house the alarm was sounded immediately.\xa0Add Clip- we got the newsAmy\u2019s Case was easy for the local media to get behind because she was a young white girl from an upper middle-class family.\xa0There have been plenty of examples of people of color not being given the same treatment and since this was 1989 the media did not do much self-reflection.\xa0Either way, the story caught fire locally when it was learned that Amy\u2019s abduction wasn\u2019t random and had been part of a ruse.\xa0Two of Amy\u2019s classmates went to the police and told them that Amy said she had been planning on meeting a man who she said worked with her mother.\xa0With hindsight being 20/20 we can now question how credible those sources could have been. Hear me out...The two witnesses were Amy\u2019s age. They did not know Amy well enough to know who her father was because one of the witnesses thought it might have been her father.\xa0Once they saw and heard the news about Amy\u2019s abduction they had to tell the police.\xa0Phil Torsney was a special agent for...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices