Amy Mihaljevic Replay

On Friday, October 27th, 1989, at about 3 p.m., 13-year-old Jason Mihaljevic is returning home from school in Bay Village.

It's a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.

He expected to find his 10-year-old sister, Amy, home from Bay Village Middle School, where she was a fifth-grade student.

But Amy wasn't there.

So Jason just followed his routine.

Every day after school, he and Amy would call their mom, Margaret, who worked at Trading Times magazine, to tell them that they got home from school safe.

So Jason calls his mom at work and says that he's home, but Amy isn't there.

Now, she isn't really overly concerned at this point.

Amy had mentioned going to choir tryouts after school.

So she just told Jason to call again if Amy wasn't home by 3.30.

So at 3.30, when Amy still wasn't home, Jason did exactly that.

Now, at this point, Margaret started getting ready to go home and just figure out what's going on.

But then, between 3.30 and 4 p.m., Amy called her.

She sounded totally normal, like any other check-in on any other day.

So Margaret assumed that Amy was calling from home.

Margaret later discussed this call in an interview with Cleveland Magazine.

She said that she asked Amy how the tryouts went, and Amy responded, okay.

When she asked how Amy was doing, it was another brief response, fine.

The conversation was short.

It ended with bye and see you soon.

So Margaret just goes back to work, and she gets home sometime between 4.30pm and 5.30pm, depending on the source.

Of course, when she gets home, she realizes that Amy wasn't there, and likely didn't make the call from the house.

So Margaret starts calling around to friends and neighbors to see if anyone had seen Amy.

But no one had.

She also retraced Amy's usual route from home to school.