Wilde, Amber Lynn

Missing Since:  September 23,1998

Missing From:  Green Bay, Brown County

Age: 19

DOB: March 26, 1979
Gender:  Female
Race: White
Hair Color:  Brown
Eye Color:  Brown, Wore glasses
Height:  5'5"
Weight:  135 lbs.
Piercings: Both ears have been pierced eight times, wore eight small gold hoop earrings in each ear

Exclusions: 7

Case Owner: 

Green Bay PD

(920) 448-3200

Agency Case Number 98-059126

Details of Disappearance

Amber L. Wilde was six months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. She had eight piercings in each ear. Amber was last seen in the evening at her residence in the vicinity of the 2000 block of August St. in Green Bay. Her 1988 Subaru GL was located, more than a week later, abandoned in a parking lot at a Green Bay sports bar, on the south side of Lombardi Access Road, near Lambeau Field in Green Bay with her purse and cell phone in the trunk and the keys in the ignition. The last person to drive the car was likely larger than Amber, because the seat was pushed back from the steering wheel. There are also some fingerprints that investigators have not been able to identify.

 In 2016, authorities named Matthew John Schneider, the father of her unborn child, as a suspect in her case. From Charley Project: "Wilde had told her aunt and godmother that Schneider, whom she met at a party in May 1998, had denied paternity. He was engaged to marry another woman at the time Wilde's baby was conceived and he didn't want his fiancee to find out about her pregnancy. About a month before her disappearance, Wilde told Schneider's fiancee and his mother that she was pregnant with his child. According to entries in Wilde's diary, Schneider was furious after he found out she spoken to his fiancee, and he had pressured her to have an abortion, but she refused. 

He later told police he barely knew her and that they had never had sex, but his phone records showed they had had about sixty phone conversations back and forth, and Wilde's family said they saw each other for approximately four months. Police stated Schneider showed no apparent concern for Wilde's welfare after her disappearance. No one has been charged in Wilde's disappearance, but her case is being investigated as a homicide. One theory is that Schneider, a highway worker, buried her remains under Highway 29, which was under construction in 1998." Doe Network adds, "Police launched a massive search but turned up nothing. Police in 2001 drilled holes every 60-feet and used cadaver dogs along Highway 29 in Shawano County."

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