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Fort Myers News-Press Fri. April 5. I9T4 13-B Missing Girl's Mom Still Waits, Hoping Amy's Alive Mrs. Billig believe they had Amy captive. Charles and Lawrence Glasser.

16. were charged with extortion. "Please no more crank calls like that one," Mrs. Billig said, weeping. "I would have done anything to get her back begged, borrowed or stolen." This week Amy was graduated in absentia frm Adelphi Academy of Coral Gables, the diploma being presented to her parents.

If 1 only knew she were alive or if she'd been killed. If she's dead at least I can mourn her' Mrs. Ned Billig A drop off was arranged and police staked out the Miami Beach hotel where Mrs. Billig was to hand over the money. She was greeted by a longhaired, teen-age boy but refused to give him the cash until he proved he knew where Amy was.

The boy was unaMe to provide any new information and police closed in. arresting the youth and his tw inbrother who was hovering nearby. Police said one of the boys imitated a girl's voice to make year-old son, said one of the most frustrating things was persuading police that Amy was not just one of thousands of runaways. "But now the police know." Mrs. Billig said.

"They've talked to all her friends and are convinced she wouldn't just leave home." Friends donated $2,000 in reward money and Amy's school staged a music festival to raise $1,500 for private detectives. In the family's hometown of Parkway. N.Y., Richard Rowson collected nearly $1,000 from former neighbors. The Billigs had flyers printed in English and Spanish to distribute throughout South Florida, placed ads in newspapers and stood on street corners, stopping passerby to ask if they have seen Amy. With the publicity came the phone calls from cranks, mystics, other mothers of runaways and collect calls from people who breath into the phone.

Then on March 21 came a call from a man demanding $30,000 for Amy's life. Mrs. Billig begged the money from friends and when the man called back to arrange a rendezvous the desperate mother said she heard a voice that sounded like Amy saying: "Mama, mama, please." MIAMI (AP) It is more than four weeks since Sue Billig first pasted a photograph of her daughter on a sign and toured city streets in search of clues to the teenager's disappearance. Since then Mrs. Billig's search has produced hundreds of phone calls, dozens of false hopes and a $30,000 extortion attempt by two boys.

"If I only knew she were alive or if she'd been killed. If she's dead at least I could mourn her," Mrs. Billig said Thursday. "It's the not knowing. We have hope she's alive, somewhere." Ann Billig, 17, was last heard from March 5 when she returned home from school about noon and called her father at his art gallery to ask MRS.

NED BILLIG SUE 'AMY BILLIG Tff ill mm for money to take a friend to hitchhiking. It's been a long "If Ay wanted to go lunch. wait, a long 31 days since I last somewhere, she'd pick up the Ned Billig said his daughter saw her," Mrs. Billig said. "I Phone, tell us and go.

never arrived to collect the know she didn't just runaway. 'Somebody had to have taken money at the gallery. We're a close family and we ner-" "Amy had a bad habit of tell each other things. The Billigs, who have a 16- Home Folks Special! .1 Our People Make I Number One 1974 Echo-12x60' MOBILE HOME 2 Bedroom (Front Rear) $CClf Price includes set up 3w3 1972 Academy 12x50 MOBILE HOME Chiles Opposes Gurney' Part In Attorney Reappointment 1 -Bedroom $QOQ t) House type furniture 1972 Shasta MOTOR HOME Excellent Condition Low Mileage 5 And because Briggs' office did conduct a probe of G'jrney, Chiles said Thursday, Gurney should remove himself from the hearing on Briggs' reappointment. Gurney could not be reached for comment on Chiles'' suggestion.

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