A possibly faked message on a dollar bill seen in Wisconsin mentions an Arizona girl who disappeared in 1999.
Eleven-year-old Mikelle Diane Biggs disappeared from the street in front of her home in Mesa, Arizona, on Jan. 2, 1999.
Mikelle and her 9-year-old sister were waiting in for the evening visit of the ice-cream truck outside their suburban home. While her younger sister ran inside to get a jacket, Mikelle rode her sister’s bicycle in circles on the street, waiting.
When her sister returned, the bike was lying unattended in the street and Mikelle was nowhere in sight.
She has not been seen to this day.
Police are fairly certain she was taken against her will. The bike and the money she was carrying to buy ice cream were found in the middle of the street.
“She dropped the bike, she was running toward home, she dropped quarters, and it was swift. And somebody grabbed her and, I believe, abducted her in a car and drove away with her.”
Likely a False Lead
Police investigator Adam Streubel, of Neenah, Wisconsin, doesn’t believe the message on the bill is genuine.Streubel noted that the handwriting is childish, shaky, and Mikelle’s first name is misspelled. The bill was printed in 2009, so Mikelle would have been at least 21 when the note was written.
On top of that, there would be no way to know when or where the note was written. It could have been penned last year by a Wisconsin resident playing a prank, or at any time since 2009 and in any state in the nation.
“There was a little spring of hope for a second, and then reality set in,” he said. “There is nothing you can do with it, which is rather frustrating.”
No one in the Neenah Police Department had heard of the Biggs case, he said.
“None of us were really aware of the kidnapping,” Streubel said. “We had to do some research.”
Despite the note probably being a fake, Mesa police are going to investigate.
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