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Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida / Case record

Amy Billig: still missing from Coconut Grove

Amy Billig disappeared from Coconut Grove at seventeen. Her official missing-person notices preserve identifying details and a route for anyone with information.

Amy Billig was seventeen when she disappeared from Coconut Grove on March 5, 1974. More than half a century later, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement still carried her missing-person notice when checked in September 2026. It preserves a name, a date and a request for information.

Black and white photograph of a large river steamboat with twin smokestacks, small rowboats and waterfront docks in Miami.
Boats on the Miami River, circa 1900. One frame from the Library of Congress's two-part waterfront view. Historical Miami context, decades before Amy Billig's disappearance. This image does not depict her case or its location.Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, LC-DIG-det-4a05898. ↗

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children also maintains a poster for Amy. It says she was last seen hitchhiking near her Coconut Grove home. That brief description establishes the poster's last-seen account; it does not establish what happened afterward.

Both notices identify an image as age-progressed to fifty-six. It is an illustration of how Amy might have looked at that age, not a later photograph or a confirmed sighting. The label is a small but important part of reading the appeal accurately.

These notices offer a practical response to an unresolved disappearance. Someone who recognizes a detail or has relevant information can reach investigators through the contact details or tip route on the linked official pages. Readers do not need to resolve the story themselves before passing information to the people responsible for the case. Amy's name remains at the center of that appeal.

Have information about Amy Billig? Use the official case notice for contact details ↗

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The Miami Files includes Amy Billig's disappearance among cases across Miami-Dade, alongside the Sun Gym gang, the Joe Cool murders and Arthur McDuffie. The official notices above remain the route for information about Amy.

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Sources & further reading

  1. Florida Department of Law Enforcement — Amy Billig missing-person flyer ↗
  2. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children — Amy Billig, case 600311 ↗

This original companion article offers a separate, focused look at the public record. Historical images are identified as contextual where appropriate.