Amber's mystery San Diego Union Tribune
AMBER DUBOIS FUNDRAISER
A walk-a-thon to raise money for the Amber Leeanne Dubois Trust Fund is 8 a.m. Saturday at Escondido High School, 1535 N. Broadway. For information, go to BringAmberHome.com or AmberLeeanneDubois.com .
REWARD
A $100,000 reward has been offered for information about Amber’s whereabouts. Call (760) 743-8477. When Amber disappeared, she was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighed 130 pounds, and had brown hair and blue eyes.
On a dresser in Amber Dubois' bedroom sits a pile of neatly folded clothes. For the longest time, Carrie McGonigle, Amber’s mother, was unable to make herself clean her daughter’s jeans and blouses. Just last month she finally washed the items, almost a year after Amber went missing.
Saturday marks the anniversary of her disappearance. She was 14 at the time and would be 15 now, if she is alive.
“I never want to say it, but I would rather lose a child to death then to have a child missing,” said McGonigle, 42. “I have a friend whose daughter died. She said she would rather know that (her child) was in heaven than not know where she is at all.”
Amber disappeared shortly after 7 a.m. Feb. 13 while walking to classes at Escondido High School. Despite thousands of hours of continuing investigation, what happened is still a deep mystery.
“This case has been very hard on everybody involved,” Escondido police Sgt. John Russo said. “Nobody can pretend to know what it’s like to lose a child unless it’s happened to you. But as professional peace officers, we feel very frustrated by this as well because we take great pride in our job.
