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Missing woman suffers from bipolar disorder
Huber Heights native never returned from walk near home in Spokane, Wash.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
FAIRBORN — A Huber Heights native is missing in Washington and her mother has flown from Dayton to Spokane to help with the search.
So far there have been no leads in the disappearance of Amy Wheelock, 26, and the official search for her has been suspended, according to authorities.
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Amy WheelockLast Saturday evening, Wheelock went for a walk near her Spokane, Wash., apartment and never returned home.
Wheelock's father, Bob Wheelock, is a retired Dayton police sergeant who now lives in Coeur d-Alene,
Idaho, an hour away from Spokane.
When his daughter missed a family dinner Sunday, he and her roommates filed a missing persons report.
Since then, her family, authorities and countless volunteers have been trying to find Wheelock, who grew up in Huber Heights and graduated from Wayne High School in 1998.
Her mother, Meloney Hall of Fairborn, flew to Spokane Wednesday after her Premier Health Partners co-workers and boss gave her a kindly push.
On Tuesday, her boss, Dan Echevarria, told her co-workers had donated their vacation time to her.
On Friday, she said, "The only way I can thank them is for people to know they did this for me."
The family is concerned because they said they don't think she is on her medication for bipolar disorder.
Spokane Police public information officer Jennifer DeRuwe said Wheelock's roommates reported she had been "very tense when she left."
Her father pulled her phone records and discovered his daughter had contacted a suicide crisis line the same day she left, according to the police spokeswoman.
"We don't know what the conversation was," DeRuwe said. "Because of privacy rules, we don't have access to that."
