Amber Lynn Wilde was a 19-year-old female University of Wisconsin-Green Bay student when she was last seen on September 23, 1998, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She was six months pregnant at the time, a young woman with brown hair and brown eyes who wore glasses and had eight piercings in each ear. Official missing-person records list her last known location as Green Bay, Wisconsin, and describe her as 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 135 pounds.
The FBI places her disappearance from her apartment in the 2000 block of August Street and states that her last known contact was a phone call made from the apartment landline at 7:16 p.m. that evening.
Amber’s life before her disappearance was full of promise. She was from Campbellsport, Wisconsin, and was remembered as an intelligent and driven young woman who had already moved quickly through her education. She had enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay only weeks before she vanished and was pursuing pre-medicine, with hopes of becoming a pediatrician. The fact that she was preparing for both a career in medicine and the birth of her child has remained one of the most heartbreaking parts of the case. She was not simply a missing person in a file; she was a daughter, a student, an expectant mother, and someone whose future appeared to be unfolding when she disappeared.
The day Amber was last known to be alive included a minor car accident that later became part of the timeline investigators and family members tried to piece together. Public case summaries state that she had struck her head on the windshield and complained of a headache afterward, raising concern that she may have suffered a concussion. She reportedly spoke with her father after the accident and asked him to call her the next morning to make sure she woke up for class. When he tried to reach her, there was no answer. Amber then missed obligations that those close to her considered out of character, including class and an eye appointment. Her father traveled to Green Bay, found her apartment locked, and reported her missing.
A key piece of evidence surfaced more than a week later, when Amber’s 1988 Subaru GL was found abandoned in Green Bay near Lambeau Field, in the parking lot of a sports bar or tavern. The FBI described the vehicle as having front-end damage and noted identifying details such as a Wisconsin license plate, a brown stuffed monkey hanging from the rearview mirror, stuffed animals in the rear window, and a University of Wisconsin decal across the back window. Other public summaries report that the vehicle was found unlocked, with her purse and phone located inside, and that the car had unexplained mileage on it. The discovery of her car did not bring Amber home, but it deepened the mystery, suggesting that whatever happened after her last known contact had taken her away from the ordinary routine of her life.
Over time, authorities came to suspect foul play. Publicly available summaries state that police have conducted multiple searches for Amber’s body without success. In 2016, authorities named Matthew John Schneider, the father of Amber’s unborn child, as a suspect in her case, according to The Charley Project’s summary of the investigation. Court-document reporting from Wisconsin outlets also stated that investigators were treating the disappearance as a homicide investigation and that documents described a possible motive connected to the pregnancy. Those documents reported that the father of Amber’s child was upset about the pregnancy and wanted her to have an abortion, which she refused. No one has been charged in Amber’s disappearance, so those details remain part of an unresolved investigation rather than a legal conclusion.
The investigation has continued for decades, with Amber’s family and law enforcement still seeking answers. The FBI has issued a ViCAP alert asking for public assistance, and Green Bay police have remained the investigating agency. Amber’s case is not listed in the provided case data as resolved as Alive or Deceased, so it remains an unresolved missing-person case. The years have not diminished the grief carried by those who loved her, nor the importance of remembering that Amber and her unborn child disappeared from a life that was still in motion. In overview, Amber Lynn Wilde was last seen in Green Bay on September 23, 1998, at age 19 while six months pregnant; her car was later found abandoned near Lambeau Field, investigators have long suspected foul play and later named a suspect, but no charges have resolved the case, leaving her family still waiting for the truth about what happened to Amber and her child.Last Seen: Sep 23, 1998
