That is Suspicious, This could be new information that we need to solve the Case!
I am a friend of Amberās family and the admin for JusticeForAmberBerbiglia on Facebook (That is was until Facebook disabled my account for violating their community standards). Amberās page is still there but I am unable to post to it. Anyhow, I reached out to Cold Case Coalition and will be following up with them after the first of the year. In the meantime I am willing to share what ever information I have received from my FOIA which as mentioned it isnāt much. We recently found out that there are additional street cameras that picked up Amber that day as she was running her errands. I will update her time line with places and times as soon as we get them from Horry County. That should be sometime in January. We were able to raise enough funds from a Go Fund Me campaign for a large billboard highlighting Amberās cold case. It went live Dec 5th and will run until Jan 2nd. It is located on hwy17 near the Walmart in North Myrtle Beach. We pray this will generate awareness and possibly new leads as Amberās case was quickly pushed under the carpet. I am also in the process of putting together a website on Go Daddy for Amber. I will post the URL as soon as I get it complete. Thank you for all your support and help.
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Hello! I am just curious if you got any of the updates for other locations that she might have been prior to being found? Also - are any of the CCTV public or are there any photos of the dark shadow of a person in the passengers seat?
Hi everyone. Iām an independent pathologist. I usually specialize in the psychological behavior patterns of criminals in investigations like murder. This case just had me kind of curious because of the details. But it seems like there is some missing information. Iām just trying to build a little bit of a timeline based on what might be considered logical for an average person like Amber running errands to pay bills etc. based on the locations given in the case file. It seems like by the timeline on the map that she traveled to the furthest place away from her home to drop the clothes off at Marshallās and work her way back. I just started studying this case about 15 minutes ago so I havenāt looked through everything yet but I was wondering if there was ever a time given specifically to when her body was discovered? She was paying bills in town at 1pm to 1:30pm and needed to arrive at work at 4pm so itās possible she may have been lying there deceased for hours before she was discovered. Also, any information on who reported the crime at first? Sometimes criminals will report their own murders and even insert themselves directly into the investigation. They tend to like to talk to LEOās and ask them a lot questions about the case like āHey did anyone see anything, what happened etc.ā as if with the intention to be a helpful citizen. Itās pretty obvious to me that if she did have a passenger, they were probably picked up at point #3 on the map at the gas station. After returning the clothes. She was seen there by CCTV an hour before her body was found, but seen at Krogerās paying a time warner bill a half an hour before her body was found. I could be wrong but this suggests 2 things to me. #1 - She knew this person well enough to allow them into her vehicle beforehand and that she may not have (at least at first) seen this person as a threat. Otherwise this passenger would have not allowed her to leave the vehicle to pay a bill in Kroger without knowing that she would come back to vehicle or even contact the Police. They hadnāt done anything to her yet so if they needed to bail on the plan, they would have been safe. And #2. At no time did this person reveal to her what their true intentions were. She may have been headed back home before going to work. Maybe she had extra time or something. So we need to find out if she did have passenger, known persons in the area she might have had associations with and of course an accurate timeline. Also, was there any mention of robbery? Anything missing, even if itās something weird or illogical? Like personal belongings of the victim or parts of the body like hair or anything? Sorry to ask so many questions. Iām just trying to build a picture of the whole thing. Thanks!
PaulT84 - The timeline on here was based on the reports from Horry County Police Detective at the time, however since then she was paying her cable bill at 2:11 and this was after returning some items to Marshallās.
Amber and her car was found ~4pm and the car was still running when it was found and it appears on some of the dashcams that have been obtained she was still warm to the touch.
She was not robbed nor sexually assaulted.
Timeline update:
12:30 - Hairdresser 1:15 - Wyndham 1:45 - Ross/Marshalls Murphyās - either immediately after or before her returns @ Ross/Marshalls these are located VERY close to each other 2:11 - in Time Warner paying bill 2:15 - seen on business camera on Main Street in Ocean Drive 4:00 - Amber found laying beside her running car.
There is one thing that is not on the information for this case. Between 3:00 - 3:15 a neighbor heard Amber come home and said in a loud voice āWhat are you doing in hereā. It was a warm day and the upstairs neighbor had there patio door open and heard this. The neighbor reported this to the police the next day after finding found out about Amberās murder but LE told the neighbor the ātimelineā didnāt fit so they never followed up with them.
It is very possible that Amber went home to get ready for work or grab something else and walked in on somebody in her apartment.
PaulT - There is some missing time but I think this will help you and make more sense. If she was made to get in her car and leave with this person it is VERY POSSIBLE for her to be found around 4:00 the areas are very close to each other.
Iām going to reach out to the person that can make these changes to the timeline.
I greatly appreciate your reply. Yes this does answer some questions for me. However it does present a few more too. I did study these markers on the map so I do realize everything was pretty close to her home and thatās why with the extra time that might have been available, I thought she may have returned home before going to work that night. I figured itās what any regular person would do if you donāt have far to go.
So as far as the witness that heard the āwhat are you doing here statementā, they didnāt look into any information on this person to see if their report was credible? The only reason I ask is because of what I mentioned before about criminals sometimes involving themselves in their own crimes sometimes. Iām not saying thatās the case here but itās something they should at least eliminate the possibility of and itās completely justified when dealing with murder.
The fact that nothing was missing and she was not sexually assaulted makes this a bit more challenging. Then clearly the motive was not robbery. It still could be sexually motivated though. BTK for example didnāt sexually assault any of his victims at all but all of his murders were in fact sexually motivated. However, he took trophies and that doesnāt seem to be the case here so this is tougher.
Yeah let me know if you happen to find anything new. Iāll keep looking around to find what I can with my limited means. I wish the family and investigators luck in finding leads.
Just a weird question as I imagine a lot of people might visit the memorial site erected for, is there a way for someone to set up some sort of surveillance at that site? I mean looking at the memorial to view the visitors that come to see the memorial. It might be a useful tool. A lot of killers have been known and even admitted it themselves that they often return to the scenes of their crimes to re-live the experience. If a memorial is presented for her death, and this person was sexually motivated in some way to kill her, I guarantee the killer wouldnāt be able to resist regularly returning to that location to honor that memorial. This might be a way to identify someone at least. If someone shows up and treats the memorial like it is sacred to them in some way, for example they show up, start touching the picture gently, cleaning the area to keep it pretty, relocating items, etc but this person isnāt family or a close friend or something and someone maybe family members do not know, then this would be a person of interest at that point.
The news reporter working her case claimed that at the Time Warner place, there was a person in line behind her that appeared to be looking at her aggressively in some way I guess. Nothing more came out about that and they have not released that video footage so in my opinion, surveilling the memorial might be the only shot forward atm.
0232 am - Iāve been looking at stuff all night and came across something that may have a bite to it. I was watching this > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G49bjcw_628&ab_channel=EvilleCJMedia%26Investigationsš where they transcribed the footage from the initial crime scene investigation. Someone in the transcription had suggested that a Hispanic male had possibly been seen in association with her somewhere. It was a mention and I donāt have much more on that but, there is something else in the video that struck me. There was a mention of a Scott Kalisch commenting on the justice for Amber Berbiglia facebook page. Iāll insert a couple images of the comments mentioned in the video As well as a close image of this Scott Kalischās FB photo. Around that time, there was a man named Scott Tully Kalisch who has recently been arrested after also being disbarred as a Florida state attorney. Heās being arrested for drug smuggling and trafficking. They call him El Rojo. A hispanic male from Guatamala I think that lived in Florida and worked as an attorney who at the time of Amberās death was trafficking drugs, then he is asking about a tox screen on Amberās justice group facebook page and suggesting the area where she was found was a heavy drug area. Iāll post his photos as well to compare with the facebook profile photo. This just seems like there could possibly be some weight to it. This is a larger stature guy probably strong enough to bludgeon someone smaller like Amber to death with little difficulty, heās methodical with an extensive criminal history, unorganized lifestyle and obviously impulsive tendencies to possibly commit crime.
Scott Kalisch claimed to have known Amber and said she was sweet, and this is a small town we all know each other. Can anyone confirm this person as a townie of that area that might have been a friend in her circle somewhere or does this seem stranger instead?
Scott Tully Kalisch
Facebook comments and photo of Scott Kalisch
The neighbor that heard Amber that afternoon did not realize that she had been murdered until the next day after and immediately called the police and told them what they had heard and the detective didnāt think the timeline fit. To answer your question or concern about them trying to insert themself into the investigation - NO this person was only a concerned neighbor and thought it would be important to the case. After almost 12 years they have not wavered in their account of that afternoon.
Scott Kalisch name as come up because of him being in that circle of acquaintances but I have not heard anything about him that you have mentioned. Hummm Interestingā¦
As for the memorial there are several things in the works and the camera being their has been talked about. The local news and hopefully community/state leaders will be there
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Okay, thatās a good start. Thanks for clarifying all that. I thought this all was an interesting sidebar that I really didnāt expect. Yeah good luck with the memorial. I think pointing a camera at it might help. The killer, if he visits it might only visit it at night when there arenāt a lot of people around. Take night / day cameras into consideration. I would try if itās possible to get that memorial as close to the actual spot where she died as you can. That would be a sacred place to a compulsive sexual sadist. It wouldnāt have the same effect if it was anywhere else. If thereās anything else I can do to help, donāt hesitate to message me. Iād like to help her family get some closure on this. Good luck!
FriendlySleuth - Iām afraid you are so wrong about that assumption. There are so many more ways to prove who the killer(s) are and rest assured they will be brought to justice soon.
The advancement in technology can take cell phone and determine where it traveled and even who may have been with her. As for forensics they can collect skin cells from items that was not possible 12 years ago. The clothes Amber wore that day will most certainly have her attackers skin flakes (cells) on them, her car will have more of them and then to top it off the item used to bludgeon her to death will have more than both of the two items already mentioned! So please know DNA is not the only way to solve a case in 2025!