Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The latest on Amy Ahearn (10/26)

[UPDATE: Ahearn found!]
O.C. English professor missing for two months (LA Times)

     Orange County sheriff's detectives are asking for the public's help in finding an English professor at Saddleback College who has been missing since August.
     Amy Ahearn, 40, who has a home in Lake Forest, did not show up for classes she was assigned to teach at the college on Aug. 22, when the semester started.
     Ahearn has no family in California, said her sister, Marjorie Ahearn, though she was recently divorced by her husband, a teacher at another community college.
     Her family in Illinois has hired a private detective to help locate her.
     The private investigator reported that Ahearn was last seen Sept. 11 in Norwalk when she reportedly went to an attorney's office looking disheveled and homeless in appearance, seeking an attorney to handle estate issues and a complaint against "OC Police."
     The attorney told Ahearn he could help her, and she left.
     A paralegal in the area told the investigator that he had spoken with Ahearn several times about a case against "OC Police." She told him she was living in her car.
     Ahearn also was reportedly seen renting a sports utility vehicle at John Wayne International Airport, where a clerk said she was a frequent customer and had a debit card. The vehicle was found Sept. 24.
Her family says Ahearn may suffer from Huntington's disease, a degenerative brain condition.
     Folk singer Woody Guthrie is the best-known victim of the disease. Several members of her family suffer from it, her sister said.
     Ahearn, who may be going by her previously married name of Amy Juntilla, is described as white, 5-foot-6 with brown eyes and brown hair, weighing 140 pounds, though she may have lost weight.
     Anyone with information is asked to call Orange County sheriff’s investigators at (714) 647-7055 or (714) 628-7170.

Special Amy Ahearn Facebook page


UPDATE, 10/27:

Today, Amy’s sister Margie writes:
Her [i.e., Amy's] ex-husband has access to their home and to Amy's mail (they still co-own the house though it was supposed to be refinanced and put in Amy's name by October 1, 2011). He has said from the beginning his lawyers have advised him not to get involved in this. Also he says they tell him he can not provide Amy's mail to our family (including bank and credit card statements that will help us track her) without a court order due to privacy issues. I know if he had provided this information to us from the beginning we might not still be searching for her two months later. Our additional PI will be working on this as well.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was just on the TV news.

Anonymous said...

Channel 7.

Anonymous said...

I sort of understand their silence about Reeve (they're trying to be careful or else he's somebody's friend) but you'd think they'd be out in front trying to help find Ahearn. They act like they don't care.

Anonymous said...

I took her for English at Saddleback maybe a a year before all this happened... She was a great teacher, but she had a strange obsession with showing us videos about torture and what not. We saw videos about different cults, as well as the tortures that happened in Iraq with our military. Interesting, but strange. Especially since it was an English course.

Anonymous said...

You would think that her colleagues would have taken action to protect her and her students.

Roy Bauer said...

One of the last things I've seen in print, I believe, was an article by the Reg's Mickadeit

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...