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Unsolved Mysteries

Secret Diary of a Missing Girl

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On September 23rd, 1998, 19-year-old University of Wisconsin junior Amber Wilde disappears from her off-campus apartment, never to be seen again. At the time, Amber is 4.5 months pregnant and has a troubled relationship with the baby’s father. Will the discovery of her secret diary be the key to solving her disappearance? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amber had had a fender bender on her way to school and she had hit her head on the steering

0:10.4

wheel and nobody heard from her.

0:14.6

We thought maybe that she was delirious, you know, lost some memory or something, but

0:20.1

then when they weren't able to find her car, then I just had a bad feeling that something

0:25.9

bad had happened to her.

0:28.1

But I don't think any of us ever imagined it going on this long and never thought we'd

0:34.7

never find her.

0:43.4

In 1998, college junior Amber Wilty vanishes.

0:48.3

One minute she's in a apartment and the next she's gone without a trace.

0:52.8

This can't find a single clue to what's happened until her diary is discovered.

0:58.2

And like a voice speaking from beyond, Amber herself reveals a hidden past and a tragic

1:04.2

love affair that may have gone desperately wrong.

1:15.3

I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Secret Diary of a Missing Girl.

1:24.5

Amber was a pretty girl.

1:36.2

She had long-brown hair, brown eyes, beautiful smile.

1:41.9

She was always bubbly, always smiling and she was a very special person.

1:48.8

I loved her very much.

1:51.4

Laurie Ainerz, his Ambers aunt and godmother.

1:54.5

She helped raise Amber and her sister after their parents divorced.

1:58.1

The oldest of the two girls Amber always radiated an air of confidence as she grew up.

2:03.0

She had an exceptionally clever mind, got straight A's every year in school and had no fear

2:08.0

of hard work.

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