AMBER GLATT-22 yo-(2012)Valley City ND

BREAKING–Search Being Planned for Missing Valley City Woman

06/06/2012





VALLEY CITY (NewsDakota.com)–A group of Valley City State University
sorority members will meet to discuss searching for a Valley City woman
missing for two days.

Trina Lee of the VCSU Philomathian Sorority says the group will meet
at 6:30 this evening to discuss their options in searching for
22-year-old Amber Glatt, who was reported missing July 4th by her
boyfriend. Glatt is a VCSU student and a Philomathian member.

Lee says the search will likely consist of camping venues, due to a
tent that has gone missing from Glatt’s apartment in Valley City. Lee
says Glatt’s mother had recently sent Glatt a new tent in preparation of
a camping trip in the near future. The tent is described as a small,
red, sleeping-bag-style tent.

Glatt’s boyfriend searched the apartment, but was unable to locate
the tent, leading the group to believe that Glatt likely has the tent
with her.

Valley City Police requested information from the public yesterday.
Officer Pat Sand says Glatt may be driving a silver Mittsubishi Lancer
with rear driver’s side window broken out. This vehicle has Virginia
license plates XFK1538.

Sand says Amber is white about 5’4″ tall and weighs 96 pounds. She
has brown eyes and brown medium length hair. She was reported missing by
her boyfriend on July 4.

Acting Valley City police Chief Mark McDonald told NewsDakota.com
that Glatt has gone missing before and that she suffers from reoccurring
amnesia. These episodes last from 4 to 6 weeks.

Anyone who has information on the whereabouts of Amber Marcia Glatt
should call the Valley City Police Department at 701-845-3110.
http://www.newsdakota.com/2012/07/06/breaking-valley-city-woman-missing/

Mother of missing N.D. woman with amnesia says note left was fake

The mother of a missing 22-year-old here who has suffered episodes of
amnesia believes a note found by police indicating she lost her memory
was not written by her daughter.

07/07/2012
VALLEY CITY, N.D. — The mother of a missing 22-year-old here who has
suffered episodes of amnesia believes a note found by police indicating
she lost her memory was not written by her daughter.
Amy Rines,
the mother, said Friday that she was the last person to have contact
with Amber Marcia Glatt before her boyfriend, Andy Mushet, 20, reported
her missing on Wednesday to the Valley City Police Department.
Mushet
told police that when he returned to the home he shares with Amber at
about midnight, he found a note saying she had amnesia with her name
signed at the bottom, her mother told Forum Communications on Friday.
Glatt
has her driver’s license, and her mother said she probably knows what
her name is, but Rines does not believe her daughter wrote the note. She
told this to Valley City police as soon as it was faxed to her.
“The
whole note was strange. I know my daughter’s handwriting, and it is
messy and full of misspelled words,” she said. “You could read
everything in the note. It had the proper punctuation and spellings. I
think if my daughter had written it, it would have taken her two to
three hours.”
A woman who answered the phone at the Valley City
Police Department late Friday afternoon, relaying a message from a
sergeant, confirmed that officers think Glatt wrote the note.
Messages left for Mushet through Facebook and via Rines weren’t returned Friday. A phone number for Mushet couldn’t be found.
After texting her about camping equipment about 2 p.m., Rines said
her daughter told her she was on her way to her job at a snow-cone shop,
but authorities say she never made it.
Glatt has suffered from
focal retrograde amnesia for two years, her mother said. Her amnesia is a
result of a traumatic brain injury she suffered July 8, 2010, an
incident her daughter didn’t recall occurring. Rines said all they knew
was something hit her in the right front part of her head hard enough to
penetrate the skull and cause swelling.
Shortly after, her
daughter had her first amnesia episode at a friend’s house. She walked
into the house, passed out and when she came to, she did not know who
she was, her mother said.
“I was the only one who could try to calm her down,” she said. “She was just sitting in the corner crying when I got there.”
After
a week in the emergency room, Rines took her home, only to have to walk
her daughter around the house to show her where everything was.
“She
didn’t know who I was, she didn’t know who she was. She didn’t know
anything about her life personally,” Rines said. “Amber said it was like
being an alien dropped on another planet.”
After her daughter
said she wanted to go to school away from some “bad influences” she was
encountering in Virginia, Rines, and Amber’s father, Roger, decided on
Valley City State University for its smaller size and available
counseling. Her parents remained in Virginia, where they retired after
years spent living in Maine.
It was at VCSU that she had her
second amnesia episode last year, which lasted for 4½ weeks. Rines said
Amber’s reaction was to hide in a corner like the first episode, not to
run away.
Rines said she has been calling the Valley City police
every two to three hours for updates, and officers told her there have
been several possible sightings of her car. She said the police are also
checking local campsites and lakes.
Amber Glatt is white, stands 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighs 96 pounds. She has brown eyes and medium-length brown hair.
She
may be driving a silver Mitsubishi Lancer with the rear, driver-side
window broken out. The car has Virginia license plates XFK 1538.
Anyone
with information regarding Amber Glatt’s whereabouts is asked to
contact the Valley City Police Department at (701) 845-3110.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/240321/group/homepage/

Missing N.D. college student found in Arizona speaks

07/13/2012
Fargo -- For the first time , in an exclusive interview with WDAY
news, we hear from Amber Glatt, the missing Valley City State Student
who was found in Arizona earlier this week.
It's a bizarre
journey that few of us in this world can understand. Amber Glatt suffers
from recurring amnesia. When these episodes happen, she doesn't know
who she or anyone around her is.
In her words, this is her journey over the last week.
Amber
Glatt: "I didn't know who I was, and I sat around the house for a
while, looking at books and stuff. I started getting really scared,
because I didn't know what was going on, where or who anyone was."
"After
I figured out how to drive my car, I took off and didn't see anyone for
two hours. Eventually it got dark and I saw fireworks in the sky. I
followed the fireworks and chased them around town to see where they
were coming from."
"When I started to get back to a main
road, I started following other cars and eventually one led me back to a
bar. That's where I met Kirk. Kirk was really nice, we had that
nonverbal communication thing. He looked at me and gave me that "Are you
okay?" look, and I said, "Not really." He nodded over saying I could go
over to his table."
"My driver's license said I was from
Virginia so I told him that I was from Virginia. He asked where I was
going, and I said I was just kind of driving. He was saying that he was
going to the Grand Canyon and that if I wanted to tag along I could and
that it was beautiful up there. So, I decided to follow him up there."
We
stopped in Salt Lake City and we were in a place where we could get
internet and he looked me up online and woke me up and showed me I was a
missing person. He encouraged me, saying "If I went missing my family
would miss me so much!"
"So eventually the next day we got to the Grand Canyon, I called the
number and nobody answered the first time or the second time. After the
third time I called they didn't answer, but then the payphone rang back
and she was like, "Amber is that you?" And I had no idea who it was, I
was amazed that the telephone even rang. We talked and I told her where I
was and then she talked to Kirk and he told her I was safe."
Amber said she regained most of her memory on Wednesday morning.
Most
importantly she wants people to know that she is safe, and that at no
point during the trip did she feel like she was in any danger.
Amber will be moving to Washington next month to go to Wilderness school and hopefully become a park ranger.
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/240728/group/homepage/

Very strange story - but such a happy ending - for a change! Angel I'm so happy you found this.