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Pagnac,Amy S.missing August 5,1989; Minnesota
Topic Started: Aug 18 2006, 03:52 PM (895 Views)
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Amy Sue Pagnac
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Left and Center: Pagnac, circa 1989;
Right: Age-progression at age 26 (circa 2002)


Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance

Missing Since: August 5, 1989 from Osseo, Minnesota
Classification: Non-Family Abduction
Date Of Birth: June 15, 1976
Age: 13 years old
Height and Weight: 5'0, 100 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Brown hair, blue eyes. Pagnac has scars on her left cheek, left eyelid and the side of her nose. She has a circular-shaped scar on her left knee. Pagnac's ears are pierced. She has a petite stature.
Clothing/Jewelry Description: Sweatpants, a light-colored shirt, and tennis shoes.
Medical Conditions: Pagnac suffers from occasional seizures due to undetermined causes. She also has occasional fits of anger. She is required to take allergy medication.


Details of Disappearance

Pagnac and her father stopped at the Holiday Inn gasoline station in Osseo, Minnesota at 4:30 p.m. on August 5, 1989. They were on their way home from a visit to the family farm at the time; they lived in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Pagnac's father went inside the station for a brief moment to use the toilet. When he returned, he saw that she had disappeared from their parked vehicle. She has never been heard from again.
Authorities initially believed Pagnac ran away from home. She had done so once before after packing clothing, but had only been gone for a day. She is no longer considered a runaway; it is thought that Pagnac may have had a seizure while her father was inside the building and became disoriented as a result. She may have walked away from their car afterwards.

There was a possible sighting of Pagnac in July of 2002. Someone reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Pagnac, who would have been 26 at the time, may have been seen in Bay City, Michigan and was possibly a student at a local college or university in the area. Nothing came of the lead, however.

Pagnac remains missing and her case is unsolved. Maple Grove police are investigating her disappearance.



Investigating Agency
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Maple Grove Police Department
612-494-6114



Source Information
The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education Of America
Delta College Campus Police Department
The Doe Network
The St. Paul Pioneer Press



Updated 1 time since October 12, 2004.

Last updated October 6, 2005; details of disappearance and medical conditions updated.

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http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=147067

Minnesota family finds hope in discovery of missing Missouri boys

Joy replaced hope today in Missouri as the family of 15 year old Shawn Hornbeck welcomed him home. He had been missing for more than four years.

His stepfather, Craig Akers, spoke at a press conference saying, "Over the last four years, I've told everyone in this situation not to give up hope. There's always hope. Hope is what gets you through."

He called today the best day of his life.

Hornbeck was found in the suburban St. Louis apartment of 41 year old Michael Devlin, a funeral home employee, when police went looking for 13 year old Ben Ownby, another boy who had disappeared earlier this week after stepping off his school bus.

When police found Ben, Shawn was there too. Police say they were euphoric.

Devlin is now in custody facing kidnapping charges.

The case is renewing hope for families of other missing children.

The family of Maple Grove's Amy Sue Pagnac has never given up hope. Her mother, Susan, says, "You don't stop believing that you'll find them."

In 1989, when Amy was 13 years old, she disappeared from an Osseo gas station while waiting in the car for her dad.

Even after 17 years, her mother still looks for her daughter in the crowd. She says, "Sometimes I'll walk up to somebody that's the right age and I'll start chatting."

She says her family has kept the same phone number all these years hoping Amy will someday call home.

Pagnac urges everyone to pay close attention to the missing children cards they get in the mail because children are found.

The executive director of Missing Children Minnesota, Carol Watson, says parents should never be told to give up. "It really does let people know that this is not a hopeless thing. Just because a kid's been gone for more than 72 hours, more than 6 months, more than a year... it doesn't necessarily mean that it's over and done with."

Because Amy has been gone this long, Susan Pagnac says the rescue of the Missouri boys doesn't give her more hope but she is happy for them and their parents. "I'm very pleased that these boys got rescued and now they got the hard part of recovering from whatever happened to them."

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Investigation Continues 22 Years After Disappearance of Maple Grove Girl

Twenty-two years ago, a Maple Grove girl disappeared from her family's car at a gas station.

Thirteen-year-old Amy Sue Pagnac was with her dad at the time. They were on their way home from a trip up north and stopped at a gas station in Osseo. While her dad was inside, Pagnac vanished.

Today, she would be 35 years old.

Police say each anniversary they get anywhere from six to 12 new tips. They investigate all of them. In fact, there's still an entire room at the Maple Grove Police Department dedicated to the search for Amy.

"As long as we are actively investigating, it will stay open forever," said Detective Travis Pobuda, who's in charge of the investigation now. "I want to see this solved, I want to see this done, because we've put a lot of time and effort into it, and it's the right thing to do for Amy."

If you have any information about the case, you're urged to call the anonymous Crimestopper Tip Line at 1-800-222-TIPS.
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2228695.shtml?cat=1
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Name: Amy Sue Pagnac

Date Missing: August 5, 1989

Missing From: Osseo, Minnesota

Height: 5'0" Weight: 100 lbs. Age Missing: 13 yrs.

Notes: Amy suffers from occasional seizures for unknown reasons. She has occasional bouts of anger. It is mandatory that she takes her allergy medication. Amy is a caucasian female with brown hair and blue eyes. She has scars on her left cheek and also the side of her nose and left eyelid. She has a circular scar on her left knee. He ears are pierced and she has a petite stature. Amy's clothing consisted of sweatpants, a light colored shirt and tennis shoes.

Amy's Story: Amy was last seen by her father when they stopped at a Holiday Inn gasoline station in Osseo, MN at 4:30 P.M. They lived in Maple Grove, MN but were visiting a family farm. He father briefly went inside to use the restroom and when he came back, she vanished from the parked vehicle. It was intially thought at first that she was a runaway, but the theory has been dismissed. Amy's thought to have had a seizure while her father was gone. It is thought that she may have been disoriented and walked away afterwards, but it is not probable. There was a possible sighting of her in July 2002 in Bay City, MI. However, the lead was a dead end. Her family has kept the same number in case she attempts to call them. Her case remains cold and unsolved.

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KARE 11 Staff, KARE 12:14 a.m. EDT May 19, 2014

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – Police will spend the week searching a Maple Grove home as part of a decades-old missing person investigation.

Officials said they executed a search warrant at a home located on the 9700 block of Hemlock Lane North around 9 a.m. Sunday as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Amy Pagnac.

Pagnac was 13 years old when she disappeared in 1989. She was last seen inside her step-father's car, which was parked outside of a Holiday gas station in Osseo.

Maple Grove Police Captain Keith Terlinden said he can't release details of the investigation, but said police plan on being at the home, which is were Pagnac lived when she disappeared, until Friday, around the clock. Property records show her parents still live at the home.


Police search Maple Grove home where missing girl lived

Terlinden said police have worked tirelessly on the case since Pagnac was first reported missing.

"We really, really want to bring Amy home. There's not an officer in our police department that's not aware of Amy, and we really think it's important and it's our mission to make sure she's brought home," says Terlinden.

Crime scene experts carried out boxes of evidence and scoured the backyard, hidden by a tall fence and thick vegetation.

Terlinden said his investigative team has traveled to Iowa and California to follow leads, and after 25 years, still keeps a photo of Amy posted in the police office.

"I will tell you, as a father of daughters, we want to make sure we find Amy. We are all in this profession to take care of folks, and this is one of those cases that is deep in our agency," said Terlinden.


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Police search home where Amy Pagnac lived when she went missing in 1989.(Photo: KARE)


A crowd of neighbors, many who remember Amy, and describe her parents as quiet and reclusive, crowded around the home.

"Every time you drive by that house, it's like, where is that little girl? It's sad," said Debbie McLennan. "We hope they find her. For crying out loud, it's been so long. Closure and peace. She deserves it. "

Police say the FBI and Hennepin County Sheriff's Department is assisting in the investigation. They do not have anyone in custody.
http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/201...-lived/9257483/

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The parents of a Minnesota girl who has been missing for 25 years have been asked to leave their home while police and FBI agents who have reopened the cold case appear to be concentrating on the property.

Amy Sue Pagnac has been missing since 1989. Pagnac was 13-years-old when she was last seen in the passenger seat of her step-father’s car at a gas station on Aug. 5. Police say he submitted the missing person report, telling police he went to use the bathroom, came out, and she was gone. Pagnac was never seen again, police said. Next month, she would be 38 years old.

Pagnac’s parents’ home is now the subject of the search. Maple Grove Police have asked the couple, Marshall Midden and Sue Pagnac, to leave for the time being.

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Amy Sue Pagnac was last seen at this gas station, 25 years ago.

The girl’s mother, Susan Pagnac, told ABC News today that the cops politely asked them to leave.

“They came in, they told us what they wanted to do, were very polite, very helpful. I have a broken foot, one even helped pack a luggage so I didn’t have to lift a finger,” she said. Police told her would likely have to stay away from her home for a week. She said cops did not tell her why they were at her house.

Susan Pagnac said she believes her daughter is still alive and cited the rescue last year of three women who had been held captive for a decade in a Cleveland, Ohio, house of horrors.

“There’s never been a moment that we give up on her,… How do you do that? The worst thing is the concept that someone you know is a victim of trafficking, like that guy in Ohio having her. Those are very scary thoughts. But once they are found, those individuals will recover,” Mrs. Pagnac said.

“We wonder if she still has a beautiful singing voice,” she said.

Susan Pagnac said that on the day her daughter disappeared the two were planning to go shopping for school clothes.

“She told me not to get too active or overdue because we had a lot of shopping to do,” Mrs. Pagnac said.

Police and FBI agents have brought in heavy machinery to aid the search for clues, authorities said.

“It’s our mission to make sure she’s brought home. Since the Maple Grove Police Department took this report in 1989, we have actively investigated this case. We have been following up on every lead. Part of the investigation is still ongoing. That is why we are here today,” Maple Grove Police Captain Keith Terlinden said on Sunday.

According to ABC News Minnesota affiliate, KSTP, the search warrant in the case is sealed and no details will be made public while the investigation is underway. No one has been taken into custody and no suspects have been named.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014...girl-cold-case/
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COLD CASE: What ever happened to Amy Sue Pagnac?
By Kelly Smith

MINNEAPOLIS On a quiet Saturday evening in 1989, a police officer was called to a Maple Grove house on a routine report of a teen runaway. He interviewed the parents. And the report was filed, drawing little police, public or media attention.

Now, 25 years later, dozens of FBI investigators, state forensic scientists and police officers are intensifying work on an unsolved mystery: What happened to Amy Sue Pagnac?

The 13-year-old, who vanished after a trip to her family's central Minnesota farm, would now be 38, and her birthday this month was a reminder to her family and classmates of a case they say never got the attention it deserved —until now.

"It's another year where she's not present," her mother, Susan Pagnac, said Friday while going through Amy's childhood photos. "You focus on all the good memories —that's all you have left."

Two months after Amy disappeared, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted by a masked gunman in St. Joseph, Minn., sparking national media coverage and drawing thousands of people to community searches. Jacob became the face of missing children in Minnesota and nationwide, and the search for him, which continues to this day, changed the way Americans look at missing-children cases.

But Amy's case, without a suspect or evidence of a crime, was filed away quietly. When classmates started eighth grade, they found out she was gone when her smiling face showed up on their milk cartons. Years later, Amy wasn't even mentioned at their 1994 high school commencement.

Now, the case is getting renewed interest statewide. On May 18, about 40 officers showed up at the family's Maple Grove home with a sealed search warrant, conducting a six-day search and tearing up the backyard patio. On June 2 they did a four-day dig at the family's wooded 140-acre Isanti County farm.

Police won't say what prompted the searches or whether anything was found. No suspects have been named.

At 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 5, 1989, young police officer Jeff Garland was called to a two-story green house with purple siding in the 9700 block of Hemlock Lane N. It was a rather routine call for a juvenile runaway —a call police had responded to there several times that summer. Garland said Amy's parents were frustrated with her running away repeatedly, suspecting she was wandering off to have sex or drink alcohol.

"They were upset with Amy, with her behavior; they thought she was promiscuous," said Garland, now retired. "They didn't know how to control her behavior ... no different from a typical parent with a teenager."

Susan Pagnac disputes that, saying that there was no family argument and nothing unusual about Amy's behavior except for having a headache.

Pagnac's husband, Marshall Midden, told police he and Amy went to tend crops at the farm at noon. The whole family was supposed to go, Pagnac said, but Amy's sister had an event that day that she and her mother were supposed to attend. Midden and Amy were returning home about 5 p.m. when he stopped at an Osseo gas station 2 miles away. After he used the bathroom, he came outside to find the car empty, he said.

In a copy of the original police report, the couple told Garland that Amy had a cerebral medical problem that put pressure on the brain, creating headaches that caused her to wander off. Pagnac said recently that Amy had seizures and may have been bipolar, but she hadn't been medically diagnosed or treated yet.

Police had responded to the house for several runaway reports that summer, according to a record of 65 calls to the address in the past 30 years. In the summer of 1989, police responded to a juvenile runaway report May 2. Then on June 28, there was a reported domestic assault, which Pagnac said was Amy having a seizure and accidentally flailing her arm up at her mother. Two juvenile runaway calls were reported June 29 followed by another the next day.

About a month later, Amy vanished.

Details about the calls may never be disclosed; the city said records not linked to the active investigation were purged in 1999, part of the city's records retention policy.

Midden and Pagnac have clean criminal records.

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MINNEAPOLIS — On a quiet Saturday evening in 1989, a police officer was called to a Maple Grove house on a routine report of a teen runaway. He interviewed the parents. And the report was filed, drawing little police, public or media attention.

Now, 25 years later, dozens of FBI investigators, state forensic scientists and police officers are intensifying work on an unsolved mystery: What happened to Amy Sue Pagnac?

The 13-year-old, who vanished after a trip to her family’s central Minnesota farm, would now be 38, and her birthday this month was a reminder to her family and classmates of a case they say never got the attention it deserved — until now.

“It’s another year where she’s not present,” her mother, Susan Pagnac, said Friday while going through Amy’s childhood photos. “You focus on all the good memories — that’s all you have left.”

Two months after Amy disappeared, 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted by a masked gunman in St. Joseph, Minn., sparking national media coverage and drawing thousands of people to community searches. Jacob became the face of missing children in Minnesota and nationwide, and the search for him, which continues to this day, changed the way Americans look at missing-children cases.

But Amy’s case, without a suspect or evidence of a crime, was filed away quietly. When classmates started eighth grade, they found out she was gone when her smiling face showed up on their milk cartons. Years later, Amy wasn’t even mentioned at their 1994 high school commencement.

Now, the case is getting renewed interest statewide. On May 18, about 40 officers showed up at the family’s Maple Grove home with a sealed search warrant, conducting a six-day search and tearing up the backyard patio. On June 2 they did a four-day dig at the family’s wooded 140-acre Isanti County farm.

Police won’t say what prompted the searches or whether anything was found. No suspects have been named.
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