Have you heard the voice? The case of Amber Tuccaro
On August 18th 2010, Amber Tuccaro (20 yrs old) from Mikisew Cree First Nation in Alberta was staying at a motel in Nisku near Edmonton, Alberta, where she was visiting, along with her one year old son and a close female friend after arriving from Fort McMurray. Hoping to catch a ride into Edmonton, Amber got into a car with an unknown male and unfortunately, never returned back to the motel that night and was later reported missing by her mother.
Mishandling’s of the case were apparent from the beginning as the RCMP did not consider her a missing person. When first reported missing by her mother, RCMP asked her if “Amber ever went missing before.” And had made the assumptions that she was just probably out partying. She’s going to come home or that she’d call. This could not be any more further from the truth.
Amber was not considered a missing person until long after she disappeared and only after one month the RCMP removed Amber’s name from the missing persons list, despite no one seeing her. RCMP also destroyed all of Amber’s belongings that were found in the Nisku motel room, without informing the family.
The night Amber went missing she received a phone call from her brother, who was being held in the Edmonton Remand Centre at the time. Amber, while still in the vehicle with the unknown man, answered the phone call. The Centre her brother was at began recording all outgoing calls made by inmates in early 2010 and had recorded 17 minutes of audio of Amber interacting with the male.
2 years later and still no sign of Amber, investigators, at this point, had now considered Amber’s case a homicide and asked for the public’s help identifying the man’s voice on the recording taken that night and put up billboards around the area with a headliner reading “have you heard the voice?”.
Transcript of the chilling call
Unknown Male - We’re just heading south of uh, Beaumont or north of Beaumont.
Amber - We’re heading north of Beaumont…
Amber - Yo, where are we going?
Unknown Male - Just… (Inaudible)
Unknown Male - (Inaudible)… The back roads.
Amber - Are you fucking kidding me?
Unknown Male - No, I’m not kidding you.
Amber - You better not take, you better not be taking me anywhere I don’t wanna go. I wanna go into the city, okay?
Unknown Male - One end of the street.
Amber - Yo, we’re not going into the city are we?
Unknown Male - We are. We’re going…
Amber - Then where the fuck are these roads going to?
Unknown Male - To 50th street.
Amber - 50th street? Are you sure?
Unknown Male - Absolutely.
Amber - Yo, where are we going?
Unknown Male - 50th street.
Unknown Male - 50th street.
Amber - (Inaudible)… Over now.
Unknown Male - (Inaudible)… Gravel.
This is the only part of the 17 minute recording that was released to the public and RCMP have stated that this was the only time in Canadian history they released an audio recording to the public in a murder investigation. You can listen to the call here.
On September 1st, 2012, only four days after its release, horseback riders found Amber’s partial skeletal remains in a farmer’s field in Leduc, Alberta. The police have stated the remains being found just days later was a “total coincidence.“
Remains of four other women were found in the same area as Amber’s. They were within a few kilometers of each other in Leduc County.
Edna Bernard went missing in September of 2002 and her body was found the next day.
Katie Sylvia Ballantyne went missing in May of 2003, her remains were discovered in July of 2003.
Corrie Ottenbreit went missing in May of 2004, her remains were discovered in April of 2015.
Delores Brower went missing in June 2005, her remains were found in April of 2015.
This information has made many come to the conclusion that these women were possibly murdered by the same man and that a serial killer is out there walking free. Amber’s mother has set up a Facebook account in hopes to find her daughter’s killer. She posts the audio of her daughter’s last known words very frequently in hopes someone recognizes the man’s voice.
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