What happened to Skye Budnick?
Skye Lynn Budnick visited her family on March 31, 2008 and told them that she was going to stay with a friend the next day. When a few days passed and there was no contact with Skye, her family became concerned, and reported her missing on April 4th. That same day, her family gained access to her e-mail account and found that she had booked a one-way trip to Hokkaido through Tokyo.
Skye left the United States on April 1, 2008 without telling her family she was going to Japan. Her sister Megan Budnick and her mother Susan Budnick travelled to Japan to look for her. They soon discovered that Skye had booked a stay at an inn on April 7, 2008 and told the staff there that she planned to travel to Sapporo, Japan. Her movements seemed to look like those of an ordinary tourist, she made stops at spas, inns and a hot springs resort. She has not been sighted since April 7, 2008.
Skye had been interested in the Japanese culture since she was a child and did take three years of Japanese language classes, but they believe she had limited fluency. Skye was struggling in school, sleeping a lot and was failing her classes. Megan says that Skye was showing signs of clinical depression. But she refused to see a doctor. Her family doesn’t know how she paid for the pricey plane ticket to Japan.
An email draft of a possible suicide note was found in her email, addressed to a friend but was unsent. She didn’t own a cell phone and her sister stated that she didn’t pack any bags, she only took her computer, which has never been found.
