Amy Mihaljevic

The search for Amy is over. This is actually the search for the person who killed Amy. Mark Mihaljevic and his surviving children might have some hope that whoever abducted and killed his daughter, Amy, might be found. His ex-wife, Margaret McNulty, won’t. She’s already dead.


Amy was the daughter of Mark and his ex-wife, Margaret. She was abducted from a shopping center in Bay Village, Ohio, several years ago. The reason why there might be new hope when it comes to solving this highly-publicized cold-case about the abduction and murder of Amy Mihaljevic is that the Bay Village Police Department hired Phil Torsney, a retired FBI agent to help them in their search for the person who killed Amy. She was 10-years old when she was kidnapped from Bay Square Shopping Center in Bay Village, Ohio, on October of 1989.


If Torsney thinks differently than the Bay Village Police department, Amy’s surviving family members might have something to look forward to. If he doesn’t, Amy's father, Mark Mihaljevic, and his surviving siblings won't. For Margaret McNulty, Amy’s mother, it doesn’t matter. She died a few years ago. It is Margaret's life and background that might yield some clues to solving this crime that has plagued the Bay Village Police Department for the last 24-years. The police department has been working on the assumption that Amy and the person who abducted her know each other quite well. They seem to have dismissed at least two other factors to this unsolved murder. There might be more. The two links I have in mind is the place where her body was found and the fact that whoever abducted her knew her mother and might have gone to school with her mother. I wonder if the guy who met Amy at the shopping center to buy a present for her mother who had recently received a promotion at her job knew each other. Is it possible the guy was trying to get even with Margaret McNulty by kidnapping and killing her daughter?


The other overlooked clue to this case is Ruggles Township. It is the place where Amy’s body was found. To dump a person’s body in a field and get away without being spotted seems to mean the guy is familiar with this area. I wonder if there has been a resident of that community or the surrounding community of Ashland County who knew Amy’s mother. If Torsney is willing to consider those possibilities in his search for the killer, Amy’s surviving siblings and her father might have something to look forward to.


If the retired FBI agent follows only the leads given him by the Bay Village Police Department, the perpetrator of this crime should have little to worry about.

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