Amy and her father, Marshall Midden, stopped at the Holiday Inn gasoline station in Osseo, Minnesota at 4:30 p.m. They were on their way home from a day trip to the family farm at the time; they lived in 9700 block of Hemlock Lane north in Maple Grove, Minnesota, two miles from the gas station. Midden went inside the station for a brief moment to use the bathroom. When he returned, he saw that she had disappeared from their vehicle. Authorities initially believed Amy ran away from home. She had been having some problems that summer and ran away repeatedly, but always returned home on her own after a short time period. She is no longer classified as a runaway. It's worth noting that no other witnesses reported seeing Amy at the gas station that day, and police were unable to independently verify that she had been there. She was 13 years old at the time. Age-progression photo to age 45 on the right.