GRAND CHUTE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Nearly 200 pinwheels quietly spin in the breeze at Fox Valley Technical College in Grand Chute.
Each one has a photo and a date of a missing person in the state.
Jenna Wood spoke to FOX 11. Herniece, Amber Wilde, is represented on one of those pinwheels.
“Amber was 19 when she went missing; she was 4 and a half months pregnant, and we believe that she did not leave on her own.”
Wilde was a UW-Green Bay student who disappeared nearly two decades ago.
Although investigators named a prime suspect, the case remains open.
Wood says the family continues to search for answers.
“I think you always want to search, that doesn’t ever want to go away. “I think that when you think of not searching, that feels like there’s no hope and you have to keep hope.”
Marsha Loritz of Green Bay is struggling with a similar tragedy. Her mom, Victoria Prokopovitz, vanished 5 years ago.
“I think something terrible had happened. She wouldn’t have just left and not let us know and it was a struggle.”
Both Loritz and Wood are members of the Wisconsin Missing Persons Advocacy group.
They hope the pinwheels will grab the attention of the public heading into April, which marks Missing Persons Awareness Month.
