by FourthBase » Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:30 am
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983846,00.html">www.time.com/time/magazin...46,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Posted Monday, Dec. 18, 1995<br>WHEN THE PHONE CALLS CAME, THE Voice was low and menacing, the messages cruel. I've cut out Amy's tongue. Sometimes Susan Billig clung to the line, pleading for news of her daughter who had disappeared in 1974 at the age of 17. Amy will be sold off at a livestock auction. At other times, the mother hung up. But the connection was never really severed. You know who this is. Whether the calls came seven times in a night or once in several months, the Voice haunted Billig every hour of every day for nearly 22 years, jolting her awake in the morning, mocking her attempts to find her daughter, robbing her of any peace ... a mother-daughter sex team ... Billig could not let go of Amy, whose birth seemed such a miracle after four miscarriages. You'll be abducted like your daughter and sold into a slave trade. She did not dare change her number. The Voice that tormented also held out the hope that Amy might yet be alive, trying to get in touch.<br><br>Finally, however, that merciless voice may be silenced. Working off a tip supplied by Billig, investigators traced a series of incoming phone calls to her one-story stucco home in the Coconut Grove enclave in Miami to a cellular phone owned by Henry Johnson Blair, 48, a U.S. Customs special agent with 24 years of distinguished service...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>...Blair's admirers are adamant that he could not be the obsessive caller. Colleagues describe him as a model of moderation, the kind of guy who drives a fuel-efficient Honda, jokes breezily at lunchtime over a fried fish sandwich and iced tea and indulges in one vice: late-afternoon candy bars. At day's end he hurries home to his condominium in Kendall to fix dinner for his two daughters and wait for Cynthia, a hospital administrator <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>whom he married two weeks before Amy's abduction</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. "Hank is one of the most down-to-earth, common-sensical, likable people you would ever meet," says an agent at the Customs building in downtown Miami, where <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Blair specialized in drug interdiction and supervised 17 agents before he was placed on paid leave.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Until his arrest, Blair was best known for helping to recover a 1636 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, stolen from a Spanish museum. That won him Spain's highest civilian honor. Now, a conviction for aggravated stalking could earn him 15 years maximum behind bars.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Also, as an aside Billig's brother is a stonemason who was once hired to remove the ancient Miami Circle.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.greatdreams.com/mayan.htm">www.greatdreams.com/mayan.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>