In 1999, a mysterious thing happened in the USA, a disappearance that haunts the minds of people to this day. Eleven years old, the girl was left alone for 90 seconds and literally evaporated. Years later the police will find a banknote on which The girl’s name says: “I’m alive.” In this video we have collected all available information about what happened to Mikel Bix.
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stood cool evening. On the street only it was starting to get dark. Despite the height winters, Arizona is warm southern staff, so Mikel took with her bike and rode next to my sister. At some point the girls thought that they hear the sound of someone approaching ice cream van. on them install speakers and turn on music to alert children to the approach of your favorite delicacy.
The girl hurried home to ask Mom has some change for ice cream, after which returned to the street. However, the van with there was no ice cream anywhere, and the girls began wait. At some point Kimber became cold. She told her sister she was running away to the house for a jacket and will return.
When she came back, Mikkel was no longer there. Her bike was lying on the road, and his the wheel was still spinning. Next to him there were two coins lying around, which the girl prepared for buying ice cream. Kimber returned home and told her mother, that Mikel is missing. Neither she nor her mother did not even allow the thought that Something could have happened to the girl.
Mother I thought that Mikel went to the neighbors, with with whom the family had friendly relationships. However, the girl was not there, and the mother I realized what could happen to her daughter something scary. Immediately after this she contacted the police. It is worth noting that the police reaction was very fast.
After just 30 minutes the air The helicopter took off. Law enforcement officers stopped everyone suspicious cars walked around the surrounding houses. B that day volunteers from school girls distributed and posted leaflets from her photography. Later these photos will appear in store windows and on advertising bills along roads throughout Arizona.
The police searched the trash containers and inspected hundreds of houses. It was assigned by Detective Butch Gates and Jerry Geslu. The police questioned each seller ice cream in the state and could not establish that at least one of them was in that area at the time of disappearance girls.
Detectives recovered chronology of events and came to a terrible conclusion. The girl disappeared at just 90 seconds That’s how long I was absent Lakimber. Rotating wheel on bicycle confirmed the fact that the abduction happened extremely quickly. Search dogs, to whose help the investigation came running, they couldn’t take it trace of the girl.
And when they did take it, then took only a few steps to the side roads. The point is that the dog takes a trace of a person only when the missing person left on his own feet. It’s just reinforced the police’s main story. The girl was put into a car and driven away. And all this in a matter of seconds. The situation was complicated by the complete absence witnesses.
Even though the girls played on a street filled with houses, none of the neighbors saw them at that time evening. Later information appeared that that a man tried to steal two girls straight from school. On that At the time the children were 10 and 11 years old. Police checked the information for connection with the disappearance of Miquel, who was just was 11.
But the kidnapping turned out to be a bad prank. The evidence was getting smaller and smaller, so the police began to work out standard theories. In the event of a missing child Be sure to check parents and others relatives. Considering that Mikel’s mother was at home at the time of the abduction, Investigators took on the girl’s father Derian Bixa.
From the very beginning, no one really believed in his involvement. Why would a father kidnap own daughter, especially like this way? in the middle of the street in a short the period of time when the other one the daughter ran home. However, it soon became clear that the man lied about his alibi.
During the first interrogation he stated that at the time of the abduction Mikel was at work and it turned out not true. In reality he spent time with his mistress. What follows is even more interesting. The man failed lie detector interrogation. His wife admitted that she knew about cheating. Derian told her about it himself a month before the incident.
The couple thought about divorce. Despite the false alibi, the police I finally stopped looking at it father as a suspect. Even in In case of divorce, the wife did not plan prohibit him from seeing his children. He has there was simply no motive. Besides detectives admitted that the results lie detector could affect emotional state of a father whose daughter just kidnapped.
Perhaps he even laid some of the blame on myself and thought, if he were at home with his family, the tragedy could have been avoided. Detectives also tracked the movement Derian that evening and established that he I just wouldn’t have time to hide the body. The man appeared at home very quickly after after his wife called him and reported her daughter missing.
Detective Gssel later stated that Mikel, most likely, she was not familiar with kidnapper. If it were the father, she I wouldn’t throw my bike and change on land. The girl tried to run away from stranger, but simply didn’t have time. During the investigation, the police regularly clues appeared that led to nowhere.
An anonymous man called detectives and reported that Mikel’s body was on territory of an abandoned factory in surroundings of the city. The police combed their hair area, but found nothing. Later they received an email a letter in which an anonymous the man stated that he was the one who stole girl.
The FBI tracked it down pretty quickly IP address from the ruler and sent the squad SWAT team to his home in Phoenix. It turned out that the sender was twelve year old boy who just decided to joke. Meanwhile, the police have reached a dead end, starting to process even the most unintelligible theories. They combed 35 abandoned gold mines in district, and then even interrogated almost 500 psychics who supposedly could help investigation.
Of course, this is of no use led. There was one witness who saw copper-colored jeep shortly before Mikel’s kidnapping. The driver was quickly found and he turned out to be innocent. After this, the police already despaired of finding girl, because in front of them there is literally no There is not a single clue left. This continued until September 27 1999, until the Quiet District was shaken another shocking event.
A woman living near biksov, returned home and went to kitchen, where I saw a middle-aged man with unbuttoned pants. [music] He didn’t say a word, instead attacked the woman, began to choke and subjected to violence. After this the criminal set the house on fire and left. Apparently, the attacker thought that his victim is dead, but the woman survived.
Her neck was broken, but she was able to reach the phone and call ambulance Already on the way to the hospital she left whispered with her last strength to the doctors: “Mikel Bix, the girl who disappeared. He took her. You must save her.” The whole city was on edge again. Events spun rapidly. The police took action and arrested attacker. It turned out to be Di Balok.
The man was famous in the area an alcoholic who lived with his wife and three children. Repaired broken cars and from time to time violated public order. His house was just two Otbiks quarters. Dee was one of the first to volunteer help in the search for Mikel and willingly let the police into the house to search.
But not in trailer, in the backyard. For trailer he asked for a warrant. Agree, this behavior is extremely strange. A man with a bad reputation is called to help in the search missing girl without any the police give questions to look at your house and suddenly forbids them to look into trailer. Since then, Balok has become the main suspects.
Despite the fact that the wife Alibin provided him with the moment of abduction Mikel, no one believed her story. Most likely she was just afraid her husband. Detectives began to delve into the past Baloka and found out that he was three times convicted of violence and harassment, and also for kidnapping minors. He was released from prison only in 1995.
And in those days none of the neighbors even guessed what kind of monster settled in neighborhood. Mikel visited several times a week private piano lessons neighbor who lived across the street from the house Beam. This meant that the man could have known the girl long before her disappearance. After Balok’s arrest for assault on woman the police again came to him with search and planned to study that the trailer he didn’t let them into earlier, but they were disappointed.
The trailer disappeared without a trace. For Mikel’s parents it became powerful blow. They were sure that their daughter there, alive or not, he disappeared, and the police were unable to trace him location. For assaulting a woman on September 27, 1999 Balok was sentenced to 15 years prisons. His involvement in Mikel’s disappearance he categorically denied.
Nothing there is no surprise here. For attacking neighbor and the atrocities that he committed with her did, 15 years in prison can be called a soft decision by US standards. Recognition in the abduction of an eleven-year-old girl, on the contrary, it could lead him straight to the electric chair. Parents could not come to terms with the fact that their only hope is the truth disappeared.
Mother and father wrote to Balok letter straight to the prison where they asked The main question is: does it relate to Micheli’s disappearance? Get recognition no one hoped, but the criminal’s answer caught my parents by surprise. He wrote, that the conversation was too personal, and suggested parents visit him in prison. At that moment in the hearts of parents again hope arose that Balok admits, but great things awaited them disappointment.
Sitting opposite criminal, the father asked if he had attitude towards the disappearance of his daughter. Balok simply replied that he did not. The conversation continued in this vein a few minutes, after which the criminal just picked it up and went with the escort security It looked like he was just teased parents by giving them false hope and destroying it, looking at them eyes.
For a sadist like Balok, suffering from other people can bring unsurpassed pleasure. For this reason, he, apparently, started a meeting with the grief-stricken parents. After this, Father Mikel admitted that convinced of Balak’s involvement. He stated: “I was sitting a few meters from the guy who killed my daughter and nothing I couldn’t help it.
” At this point there is hope for revelation business left even the most persistent. Absolutely everyone believed that there were new leads will never appear again. Years later they will realize they were wrong but more on that later. On the fifth anniversary of Micheli’s disappearance parents buried an empty coffin, finally saying goodbye to my daughter.
For At this time their marriage broke up. They changed residence and reluctantly contacted journalists. Until 2018, this matter took a long time box. The police simply have nothing to do with it it was work. But unexpectedly for everyone an event occurred that shook all of America. March 14, 2018 to the police station Neenah, Wisconsin, by chance a dollar bill hit.
It’s clumsy on her It was written in handwriting: “My name is Mikel Bix, kidnapped from Mesa. I alive.” The bill was discovered by a local resident who collected coins and dollar bills in jar. It was he who came across this dollar, after why he reported the find to the police. The police immediately resumed investigation.
Mikel’s mother rushed over almost 2,000 miles to look at handwriting and understand if it’s real message written by her daughter. Others relatives also came to the station, but they all did disappointing statement. The handwriting doesn’t look like it at all. Mikel, the name is misspelled. Mother suggested that the bill could be someone’s extremely unfortunate prank.
Other relatives also supported this version. Despite this, the police tried track the path of the banknote. Alas, do it was practically impossible. Paper money changes owners so many times that I can’t find the author of this inscriptions were not possible. Experts who examined the banknote assumed that the inscription was made a grown man who tried imitate a child’s handwriting.
Despite everything, this message is a paper bill seems extremely suspicious. Could it be someone’s prank? Odds of what about the bill the police and relatives find out, extremely small She could walk from hand to hand for years or even settle in a bank vault, and no one would pay attention to her. The fact that she fell into the hands caring person who reported report this to the police, it’s more of a miracle than inevitability.
As for the handwriting, it cannot be ruled out the most obvious version. Mikel could write in a hurry, for fear of being caught. Besides, she disappeared after 9 years before the banknote appeared. If we admit that someone was holding her captive, did she give he gives her the opportunity to write something in it time? For 9 years without practice handwriting may change beyond recognition.
There is one more question, the answers to which no one knows. How long ago was it made? this inscription? The banknote could be in circulation years, but could have appeared shortly before detection. It’s worth remembering about Balok, who had to free himself from prisons in 2017. Maybe it’s evil the draw of his handiwork.
Enough remember how he tormented the unfortunate parents, giving them false hope. Perhaps we have the answer to all these questions We won’t know anymore. Or is it happening again? will shock the world with unexpected details. Kimber, who was the last to see her older sister before the kidnapping, until now I still can’t forget that terrible January evening.
For a long time she blamed herself for went home to get my jacket. But now she realizes against an adult kidnapper she would be helpless. Kimber is raising a young son to whom he constantly tells about him Aunt Mikel. She calls her an angel who looks after him. The girl, like her whole family, We are sure Mikel kidnapped Bala, but without evidence of this will never be possible prove.
Unless the criminal himself decides confess to strike again for the family of the missing girl. Do you think there is hope for that the inscription on the banknote was made Mikel herself, and is she still alive?
