While studying abroad in London, Amber Berbiglia meets Jose Tolsar and returns home in love.
After two years of dating, they plan to marry just weeks after her college graduation. One Friday afternoon, Amber leaves her apartment to pay bills and run errands. She stops to refuel at Murphy Gas in North Charleston.
Amber texts on her phone until 2:30 p.m. and is scheduled to start work at 4 p.m., but she never shows up. A co-worker calls to check on her, but the call goes straight to voicemail.
Later that Friday, a 911 call reports an injured person near a car on Old Sanders Road, under the Robert Edge Parkway overpass in North Myrtle Beach. Police respond quickly, finding a woman lying next to her running car with no witnesses in sight. A cell phone, inches from her hand, is actively ringing with missed calls, texts, and emails.
First responders find the woman with severe facial injuries that initially make it appear she had been shot. She had already died by the time help arrived, and no witnesses were present to explain what had happened. Investigators discover the woman’s purse inside the car with cash still intact, ruling out robbery as a motive. The victim is identified as Amber Berbiglia
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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young Myrtle Beach coed is twenty three years old, found dead under an overpass, her car still running. What happened to Amber? I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
A young South Carolina woman runs errands on her way to work. She stops to pay her cable bill, gets gas, but never makes it to work.
She's absolutely stunning and was just days away from graduating from college. What happened to Amber? This is how it all starts. Listen.
The Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina gets very busy on the weekends, and at around four thirty pm on a Friday, a call comes into nine one one. The caller says there appears to be an injured person outside of a car on Old Sanders Road under the Robert Edge Parkway overpath in North Myrtle Beach. Officers arrive quickly and find the woman lying next to her still running car and no witnesses. The woman has a cell phone inches away from her fingertips that is actively beeping with missed calls, texts, and email messages.
With all that evidence, it seems so hard to comprehend. We still don't have Amber's answers as to what happened to this gorgeous young co ed. Joining me an all star panel to make sense of what we know right now, including Amber's mother, her sister, and her very best friend. I want to go straight out first, to Amber's mother, Michelle Robinson, when did you learn that Amber had passed away?
I just started work bag bag big, I said, you go. So I crossed the group and a little bit barged away in. He said, uh, we're investigating homicide Amber Pavilion. I said homicide, but over my head, I said, Amber, where's she? Where's she? One of us said she's been shot. I'm like what? And she grabbed my arm. She's right, he said no. I want to fall back and said.
No and.
Asked to be questions. I couldn't think straight. I needed to pull my mother. My mom was on her way Pennsylvania, I said, mom. The officer took the phone. I couldn't die. It was a nightmare.
Since also with miss Robinson is amber sister Amanda. Amanda, when did you learn that your sister? She's absolutely beautiful and so much ahead of her in life? When did you learn that she had been killed.
I was at work. I had gotten a few phone calls throughout the night. I was waitressing at the time, and it was a busy Friday night and I didn't answer my phone. So at the end of my shift, I I finally picked up my phone and it was my uncle and told me that she had been shot. And I didn't think I didn't think it was possible other than you know, like maybe she was in the hospital. So I was just like, well, where is she, how is she doing? And he just said, I'm sorry, honey, she's gone.
What went through your mind when you heard the phrase, I'm sorry, honey, she's gone. It was.
Not comprehendible. I just kind of like fell to the ground. There were still customers in the restaurant and nobody knew what was going on. And my coworkers just kind of picked me up and helped me out the back door, and you know, trying to figure out what was happening, and I just, you know, blurted it out.
My sister was shot. She's dead, And.
You know, they just helped me pull myself together and get home and get to my dad. And it's like my mother said, it's been a nightmare ever since.
When you first learned, Amanda that Amber had been shot, in your mind, what did you think had happened?
I had no idea.
You know, there were so many different things that could have you know, we're going through my mind. I just quick got home and you know, packed my stuff and headed down to South Carolina to try to figure out out and to make sense of any funny bit of that.
Also joining us, in addition to Amber's mother and sister, her best friend Karen Ritchie. Karen described for us when you learned Amber had been killed.
Someone at the scene recognized Amber and called my manager.
At overtime and told him, and they called me in the office and.
Told me.
It was unbelievable shot her. And that's what they said in the beginning. And you know, he spends because the New world to do something like that. It took me a few minutes to get together to be able to drive home. And it's just been unbelievable ever since, because it's just like one dad and after another.
Karen Ritchie is joining us, Amanda Barbilia and Michelle Robinson. Let me understand, Karen, when you were first told that Amber had been killed, what did you believe happened? In your heart of hearts? When I was first told my fiance was dead, I thought there had been some horrible car crash, some accident, That's what I thought. Then I found out he had been shot. And I couldn't even imagine a scenario under which that would happen. Neither one of us owned a gun, nobody had a gun in their home, So how was he shot? But I was in such shock, I didn't think it through. When you first heard this news that Amber had been shot? What did you think happened? And I have a reason for asking, go ahead.
Well, you know, like something random, or possibly a robbery or something to that effect. I mean, it just didn't make any sense. She didn't hurt anybody. It didn't make any sense that anybody hurt her. She was the most scary, hearing person. She had such a spirit in aura.
I just couldn't wrap my head around that anybody would want to hurt her for any reason.
Just days away from graduating college, her life cut down, found underneath and overpass her car, still running, her fingertips near her cell phone, which was buzzing, buzzing off the chart. What more do we know? Listen.
First responders find a female victim wine outside her still running car. Injuries to her face are so severe at first glance it appears she has been shot in the face. The woman has died before help arrives, and no witnesses are around to provide any context for what has taken place. Investigators find the victim's purse inside the car with money still in it, and rule out robbery as a motive. They also find the victim's identification, Amber Burbilia joining us.
US in addition to Ambery Burbilia's family, Michelle Robinson, Amanda Barbilia, her sister and best friend, Karen Ritchie. Barry Hutchinson Senior now joining US twenty six years in law enforcement, veteran detective now chief investigator with Barry and associates. Barry Hutchison, thank you for being with us well. Immediately, police rule out robbery because her purse, her pocketbook is still there, her cell phone is still there. There's money in the purse, so it's not robbery. We also see that she's outside of the car, so it's not a random drive by shooting. She's outside the car.
What do you think I think it was somebody that was that she was familiar with. I think it was a crime of opportunity. My first instinct is telling me that it's probably somebody that had romantic answers in her, but they weren't reciprocated, and I think it was a crime of passion. From that standpoint, what.
More can we deduce from the scene? Listen?
Hory County Police Detective Jonathan Martin says, Amber Rebilia's body is found along Old Sanders Road under the Robert Edge Parkway overpass. There are no witnesses on sene. Although the injuries to our face appeared to be gunshot wounds, the coroner reveals that Amberverbilia wasn't shot as previously thought. She was beaten to death and cause of death is bloom forced trauma.
So when responders first get there, they believe that Amber has been shot, but then they realize she was beaten so badly she appeared to have been shot in the face. Also joining us a renowned chief medical examiner out of Terran County. That's Fort Worth and esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, doctor Kendall Crown's. Doctor Crown's thank you for being with us, explain to me in medical terms what the that means.
So, sometimes gunshow wounds can be or blunt force injuries can be confused with gunshow wounds because the natures of wounds on the head can look like a gunshow wound injury. You can get these kind of stellate tears or star shaped tears that it can look like entrance wounds from gunshots, but instead are from blunt force injuries, especially if they've used a weapon or a rock or a hammer, it can leave these type of stellate wounds or star shaped wounds. The other thing is is often with blunt force trauma, there can be so much deformation or damage to the head that it can look like a gunshow wound, which also causes a significant trauma to the head as well.
So you're telling me a person can be beaten so badly that it actually resembles a gunshot wound.
Yes, they can be beaten so badly that the destruction that happens to the head and the skull can have the appearance of the massive trauma caused a gunshot wound.
Do we know what time of the day or night she was attacked? Let me go out to Karen Ritchie or Amanda Barbillia. Let me go to you, Amanda. Do we know what time of the day or night this occurred.
It was around I think three or four in the afternoon. It was broad daylight.
My understanding, it was closer to four pm in the afternoon. And when you say broad daylight, that's very significant because to Barry Hutcheson Senior joining us again twenty six years in law enforcement, this person that attacked her was so bold and there's no way this can be deemed self inflicted because it's not a gunshot wound. It's blunt force trauma so severe her skull was fractured. I just wanted to make sure I understood the time of the attack. This gerson is brazen to commit a crime like this. It's not just a drive by shooting. Wam bam, you're done. She has to get out of the car and then she's beaten, beaten horribly around the face to the point she dies, her skull fractured, and nobody sees a thing.
Yeah, Nac, it's just as it makes sense, and to me, it has all the hallmarks of something to where there's so much passion involved in the crime itself, so much pain and injury that was inflicted that to me, it just really stands out as somebody that knew her and she was there for a very specific reason. Maybe that person was following her and she pulled off the road because she saw them. You know, we don't know. I mean, the case it's pretty much hush hushed with the Horay County Police. They're not discussing it in any regard whatsoever. But to me, it has a lot of key indicators as somebody that she was familiar with. And again, I think because of all the passion involved in the crime that it was probably I'm really leaning towards somebody that, for lack of better words, that she yielded, that wanted a relationship with her, but she just did not reciprocate. She was very happy with the person she was with, had plans on getting married, and I think this was kind of a confrontation by that person as the last ditch effort to say, hey, why not me instead of this guy? And then when she didn't go with it, I think that passion just overcame that person and the young lady lost her wife track.
A beautiful young woman found beaten to death lying next to her running car under a freeway overpass.
Who could do this?
Amber Bbilia is originally from New York, but calls South Carolina home now. She is a college student at Hoary Georgetown Technical College with designs on becoming a costume designer. Studying abroad in London for part of her education, She meets Jose Tulsar and comes back home in love.
After two years of dating.
Amber and Jose make plans to marry weeks after she graduates from college, and that time is fast approaching.
That casts some light on the theory. A quote jilted lover or boyfriend killed her. If she had been involved in that relationship for two years and very happy, it's highly unlikely that there was another guy on the side. We don't have any information about that.
No, there's no information that there was anybody on the side. I don't think you know, she would have had anybody, but she was. She's had a lot of friends, and it could have been somebody that she had a friendship with that just really wanted more than that and she just wouldn't reciprocate.
Now, thinking all of this through, let me figure out, can either of you three ladies, her mom, her sister or best friend, enlightened on her love interest, her relationship, her fiance. They were a few weeks away from getting married. She was very happy with Jose.
She was very excited to get married and start her future. She was moving to London, and I mean she was just so happy. They were smitten. They were a perfect fairy tale love story too.
Michelle Robinson, this is Ambermilia's mom, Michelle. What was she doing for a living until she moved back to London. Where was she working?
She was working at Austria and Growth, which is very high class restaurant serving and she was going to.
School to see done.
Here's the picture me and her mother grandmother went and picked up wedding dresses just weeks before. I do not believe it was someone that had passion for I believe it was a stranger because if they knew Amber, they would not kill her. She lit up a room. She was happy that if someone had something against her, they would have told her that. I don't think it was someone she knew.
That's my Let's analyze what Michelle Robinson is saying. Join me now. Crime online dot Com investigative reporter Alexis Tereschuk, Alexis, thank you for being with us tonight. I'm trying to analyze what I've just heard. Now. You and I, Alexis, have handled a lot of homicide cases together, and one thing I've always been puzzled with is that it seems sometimes like the very best, the sweetest people end up being homicide victim and even at random victims. So while I understand what mom is saying, that's not always true. Because a person is wonderful and loving and innocent and lights up her room, that does not protect them from predators. Ano they're saying, Alexis Terrestrick. Any light you could shed on this, Many people, including the mom, Michelle Robinson, believe that this was stranger and stranger for a robbery. But think it through, and I'm going to go back to you on this, Barry Hutchinson Senior, If you want money, you want to rob somebody is following a woman in a car in broad day light, dragging her out of the car and beating her in the face, then you don't take the pocketbook with the money in it. That's that's just like the John in a Ramsey case, all right, where somebody said when they decide a kidnapper breaks in at Christmas and leaves the ransom note for one hundred and eighteen thousand dollars and said, oh, hey, you know what, I've come this far, but never mind, I'm just gonna kill her and leave here. That doesn't make sense. So if you're going to commit a robbery, why don't you mug somebody in a dark alley, Why don't you grab somebody's pocketbook and the mall parking lot when their bags their arms are full of bags, or the grocery or the grocery lot or the parking deck outside of target. Why chase down a car, get the woman out of the car, beat her in the face, fracture her skull. It's a vicious beating, okay, to her face. That's full of all sorts of psychological implications. And then you don't take the pocketbook, you don't take the purse or the money. That doesn't make sense, alexis what facts can you shed on this?
Well? Also, there was not a weapon found as as far as the police have said, at the crime scene, so we don't know if she was hit with the person's fist or if they had another weapon. But they did not take the money. So you think maybe something went wrong, Maybe she owed somebody money for some reason they felt they followed her. They said to get the money back, but they left the purse. And again it is broad daylight. While this isn't a heavily trafficked area, as you can see from the photos, it is still a public location where she was just found. Literally her car was running, so she was very surprised when this happened.
And they left.
No, they didn't take anything. So if she was let's just say she owed somebody some money, she was going to meet them with the money. Something happened, she didn't give it to them. They didn't take the money, they didn't take anything, and they didn't take her cell phone either.
Anlesis terreschuk I specifically asked if you could shed light on the facts not come up with the wild hypothesis. Are you actually saying you have any facts to support she owed anyone money? A just guessing.
I am just guessing, but I'm saying that she did owe somebody money, they didn't take it when it was found in her wallet.
Sh No facts support that. As a matter of fact, facts support the exact opposite listen.
Amber Bermilia's mother, Michelle, says the murder simply happened to the wrong person, saying, quote, Amber was a social butterfly. She had friends from school, she had friends from work. She put herself through school. Her mother says she was looking through some of Amber's bills and papers and finds her daughter doesn't owe anything to anybody. All of her bills were up to date, and she paid off all of her student loans. The twenty three year old hid in the face twice with a blunt object so hard that investigators believed she was shot.
What more do we know about the scene that can shed light on her murder? Listen.
Investigation into the murder of Amber Burbilia is difficult. From the first hours. There are no witnesses to describe hearing or seeing anything. There was no robbery, as her phone, keys and wallet were left untouched. The keys are still in the ignition in the car is running, but the suspect doesn't use the car to get away from the scene.
It sounds to me like a crime of opportunity. Now, Alexis Tereschuk, I just attacked you about your claim that this young girl about to graduate college heading to London to become a costume designer. A few weeks away from her wedding to the man of her dreams. They're moving together. That she owed somebody money. She even she's one of the few in the country along with me, that paid off all her student loans. This woman did not owe money. What I was expecting you to describe, Alexis Terestchuk is video surveillance. What can you tell me about video surveillance of Amber just before her death.
So first she seen paying her cable bill.
That is on video.
The video has not been released by the police. After that, she goes to the gas station. That video has been released. She's wearing black pants, leperprint shirt. She has cute little glasses on. Then so the police took the video. They went all up and down this highway and they found video of her car and in it she's by herself. She's driving her car. She turns a corner, they lose sight of her for about half an hour. Half an hour later, her car comes back round.
She is driving.
There appears to be a passenger in the seat from the video. What has been described is that this passenger appeared to be a dark person. It may have been a black man in the car with her. This is what was seen, and then we don't see them again and mirror minutes later, within an hour or so, she is murdered on the side of the road. But there is no evidence of this person at the crime scene that we have seen.
Okay, let me understand something like the stroschuck goes off video cam. Okay, what kind of video was? It was at a store? Was it a red light? Do we know what kind of video cam it was?
We do not know what kind of I think it was, Like said, they searched on the highway, so it might might have been one of the interstate video cameras.
Yeah, yeah, Okay. It sees her turn off the roadway onto a side street. She's alone. When she comes back onto the roadway from that side street, there is we believe to be a mail in the car with her in the front seat. Correct.
Correct, He appears to be a blackmail from the video.
Amanda, what have you been told about the video?
Exactly what she just said, Just that they have video of her on the street stopping to pay her cable bill, and then she goes goes onto a side street and comes back. But I don't know, and that there was somebody in the car with her when she comes back onto the highway.
But I didn't.
I don't know what street or the area. I don't. I'm not familiar with the area.
We understand that the cameras were those installed along the roadway. Alexis Treestchuk, you're right about that. Michelle Robinson, Amber's mom. Were you ever told what is down the street or did you investigate what was down the street why she went there?
Yes? And I saw that video and to me, it was a shadow. It was not a person. I went to the police station and it did not appear to be a black person or anybody. It's just a shadow, maybe not even not even visible to being on They're saying that it was a black person. Maybe to me, it looked like just a shadow, no clear indication of a person.
Is law enforcement telling you they believe it's a person, yes, okay, so they believe it's a person. You believe it's a shadow? Correct?
Yes?
And how quickly after seeing what they believe is a person in the car with her? Is she killed within damp hower? What do we know about defensive wounds? Listen, the mother of Amber Burbilia. Michelle Robinson says her daughter was hit with something in the head twice, causing two skull fractures. She also says Amber did not go down without a fight. According to Robinson, the funeral home suggests putting on a long sleeve dress for visitation to cover up the bruises and cuts on her arms. According to her mother, Amber Burbilia put up a good fight. Two. Doctor Kendall Crowns joining us out off Fort Worth, Texas. Doctor Crown's, I want to understand something we earlier heard that we've laurened she had a skull fracture. Two. In fact, could a skull fracture result from a blow from a fist or would it have to be a blunt object?
So your skull can fracture from a punch, depending on how much force is put behind the punch where you're hitting your face, the skull, the bones of the skull in these areas are easily fractured. But from a punch you can break the nose, you can break the orbital rims. But the type of injuries that are being described to me sounds more like a heavy blunt object like a pipe or a hammer, because you're not going to see the extensive injuries that look like a gunshot wound unless it's something that you can put a lot of force behind causing major fractures of the skull.
This is where I'm going, Doctor Kennel Crown's, and I want to follow up with you about how how many veins have venous the face is that would produce a lot of bleeding to resemble a gunshot wound. But we're talking about potential fractures. We're talking about whether a weapon was used. She was off camera, Doctor Kendall Crowns for about thirty minutes. The highway cam, what we've learned was a highway cam sees her going down the highway. The roadway, she turns off into the side street, Doctor Kendall Crowns. She's not seen for thirty minutes. When she comes back on camera, Doctor Crowns, according to law enforcement, there is a male sitting in her front seat. Within an hour, she's dead. I'm trying to figure out was a weapon used and if so, what weapon. It seems to me that's the guy we need to be looking for now, Doctor Kindall Crown's. Two fractures to the skull, if the fractures. Can a skull fracture be to the front of the face or doesn't have to be saved from the eyebrows back? What would the nose, the mouth, the cheeks? Would that be the skull? Is that considered the skull.
So yeah, again, the skull can be any portion of this could be a skull fracture. So facial skull here, nose, cheek, side ahead where your ear would be, can also be considered a skull fracture. So any of that can be considered a skull fracture.
In the description, okay, doctor Kennel crowns, it looked like a gunshot wound. Was that bad? Would there be more bleeding if the attack was to the veinous area in the mouth and the nose and the eyes. They bleed so profusely.
So your head actually has a lot of vascularity to it, your nose, your face, even your scalp has a tremendous amount of vasculature. So anytime there's injuries to the facial or head area, there is always going to be a lot of bleeding. It doesn't care, It doesn't matter what exactly the area is. It just if it's part of the head, it'll bleed quite profusely.
Hory County Police Detective Jonathan Martin says, Amber Babilia's body is found along Old Sanders Road under the Robert Edge Parkway overpass. There are no witnesses on sene. Although the injuries to her face appeared to be gunshot wounds, the coroner reveals that Amber Verbilia wasn't shot as previously thought. She was beaten to death and cause of death is bloom forced trauma. First Responders find a female victim laying outside her still running car. Injuries to her face are so severe at first glance it appears she has been shot in the face. The woman has died before help arrives, and no witnesses are around to provide any context for what has taken place. Investigators find the victim's purse inside the car, with money still in it, and rule out robbery as a motive. They also find the victim's identification, Amber Verbilia.
Hey mom, I just wanted to call and tell you I love you. Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. I love you. Good night. A mother cherishes the last voicemail from.
Her daughter, Alexis Tereschuk. If l E Law enforcement is correct, that could very well be her killer caught on video. So I'm trying to learn more about that, Alexis what's the car fully processed for DNA and fingerprints.
The police have said that they've investigated all of it. They have never released a suspects name. They have never released any information saying they're looking for a suspect they and even if so, they could run this through if there was DNA anywhere found, they could run it through one of the genealogy sites and maybe get a match on somebody else, But they have never released any information about that.
Back to doctor Kendall Crowns, I'm still on the stillfrichur And the reason I'm asking doctor Crowns is, I'm trying do you determine if you or someone like you, another medical examiner would be able to tell if she was beaten with Let's just say, was she pistol whipped? Was she attacked with a pipe? If we could figure out from her injuries, what was the murder weapon, what was the type of murder weapon? A hammer? For peace sake, like doctor Teresa sever you can look at the wounds sometimes and you can determine what type of weapon was used. Isn't that true?
It's correct. So with bloom force injuries, there can be patterns that are left by the weapon. Pipes can leave like what we call tram track bruising, where you see bruising on either side of the wound. Hammers actually leave kind of circular or kind of almost Mercedes bin type symbol of allsions as well. That can be mistaken for gunshot wounds. It just depends what the object is, but it will. It can leave pattern injury. Well. A fist doesn't usually, but other objects can. So you can get kind of an impression of it based on what the wounds look like.
If this was not to the nose or the face facial area, and it left skull fractures, this was not done with a fist, that tells me the person that got in her car, the man in her car, had some sort of a weapon. Was it a pipe, Was it a hammer? Was it a gun used to pistol whip her? I don't know, but I do believe. Barry Hutchinson, Senior joining me Private Eye, chief investigator for Burying Associates Investigative Services in Kansas and Missouri Barry, we say that you know statistics, teach us, you look first at those closest to her, and that would be the fiance. It's not the fiance. I've already investigated it myself. He's ruled out. He has a rock solid alibi. He was in Europe at the time, No question, it's not him. But I'm very interested in your theory about a romantic interest she worked as her mom just told us at a very high end restaurant. Who was watching her, who was sitting at the bar watching her every move? Who could have been obsessed with her? Because Barry, I'm very torn right now. Did she give some random guy a ride and he attacked her? Because nobody can identify who this person is, or is it someone that had been watching her and she agreed to give him a ride. The fact that we know it's not a robbery, we know it's not a sex assault, we know that it's in broad daylight. So who would have been so bold to attack this beautiful young co ed just a couple of weeks away from her wedding. I really want to hear your thoughts, Barry.
The police had the ability they know a timeline of her disappearing for thirty minutes or so. You know, there are elements that they can use to investigate too, like her vehicle. I don't know if her vehicle was equipped with on Star. I don't know if she had her cell phone with her. I'm assuming she did. I think in the earlier conversation you said that she had her cell phone with her.
Yes, she did.
That phone can also be pinged and they could find out where she was in that immediate area that she went missing for those thirty minutes. And then at that point, what I would do, it's just good old fashioned police work. I would canvass that area door to door, find out anybody and everybody in that area that has a criminal record, anybody that could match, you know, theoretically the type of crime that was committed, if they have a history of that. Look for people that just got out of the penitentiary, Look for people to have that kind of a vicious background or violent background, and see if I could come up with a list of viable subjects that could be possible suspects. It just does not make sense to me that a young lady like this would get out of her vehicle and have a confrontation with somebody in a remote area where she's not safe and not know that person. It just does not add up to me at all. I think that again, I'm going to stick with my idea that it's somebody that she's familiar with, and I think that it's somebody that probably had an interest in her that she just did not reciprocate because she was very happy with whom she was with.
Amber Rebilia is originally from New York, but calls South Carolina home now. She is a college student at Horay Georgetown Technical College with designs on becoming a costume designer. Studying abroad in London for part of her education, she meets Jose Toulsar and comes back home in love. After two years of dating. Amber and Jose make plans to marry weeks after she graduates from college, and that time is fast approaching.
Years later and still no suspects. Her family deserves closure. What happened to Amber Barbilia?
When you don't know where to go, you start over and you look at who is your victim? Listen?
Amber Burbilia is originally from New York but calls South Carolina home now. She is a college student at Hora Georgetown Technical College with designs on becoming a costume designer. Studying abroad in London for part of her education, she meets Jose Tulsar and comes back home in love. After two years of dating, Amber and Jose make plans to marry weeks after she graduates from college, and that time is fast approaching.
What more do we know? Listen?
At age twenty three, Amber Burbilia doesn't live at home, but talks to her mother daily. When one of her calls to her mother isn't answered, Amber leaves a message for her mother. Roses are red, violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, and so are you. I love you good night.
Oh my stars, Roses are red violence for blue, sugar is sweet and so are you. I love you you good night, a message she leaves her mom and joining me right now is Amber's mother, Michelle Robinson. Miss Robinson. I almost hated to say those words back, because I know it's like a knife to your heart to hear that rhyme, that message she left to you, that little poem. But I want to ask you about the facts. We keep saying she went to go pay a cable bill, but there is something very probative about her paying the cable bill. Have you been informed about the video from inside the Time Warner cable office where she paid her bill that while she's in there, there is a man standing behind her staring at her, and it's been described as in an aggressive manner. But it's my understanding, Miss Robinson, that the guy, for all I know he's angry about having to wait in line, has been investigated thoroughly and he has been cleared. Correct. That's what I was still to Karen Ritchie joining us, Amber's best friend, and to her sister, Amanda Rebelia Amanda, was there anything else happening in her life that she seemed disturbed about or worried about that you know.
Of No, not at all.
I just a couple of weeks before she was killed, she came to visit me for Easter. I had to I had some things I had to take care of, so she had come to take care of my daughters while I was away. And then when I came home, you know, we spent Easter Sunday together before she.
Went back home. And you know, she didn't mention at all anything.
Nothing at all. Would she have told you she was worried about someone or something. Yeah, we were pretty close.
She's to call me all the time, but she would have made me aware if there was something bothering her.
Alexis Tereschuk crimeonline dot com. Where does the case stand right now?
The case is still open. There have been no suspects released to the public. There, there has been nobody arrested for it.
Nothing.
The police have not given any leads as to what anybody should look for. They have not said anything. They've never identified publicly a murder weapon at all. So this is a case that is still very open and still all of the evidence has not been released, and they're still looking for the murderers or murderer.
To ease their broken hearts, Amber's family erected a memorial photos, mementos, flowers underneath the freeway overpass where she lost her life. They've also set up a website with information about her murder. Justice for Amber dot org. Repeat Justice for Amber dot org. If you know or even think you know anything about the murder of this beautiful young co ed, please call toll free eight eight eight crime s C eight eight eight two seven four sixty three seven two eight eight eight two seven four sixty three seven two. There is a six thousand dollars reward for information leading to the discovery of the facts behind the murder of Amber Rebelia. We wait as justice un false. Goodbye man
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