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Give Me Back My Daughter Audrey!

by Milton Nerenberg

143 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0431; ISBN 1-4120-0068-8; US$46.00, C$54.00, EUR37.50, £26.50

There are 95,777 missing persons in America; 80% of them are children. This is the story of Audrey Nerenberg's disappearance and her family who's been searching for her since 1977.

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About the Book The book begins with the story of Audrey Lyn Nerenberg, who's been missing since 1977. It describes the day she went for a walk around the corner to buy a pack of cigarettes and never returned home. No one has ever discovered what happened to her despite the efforts of the Police, FBI and many missing person organizations. The story continues with some of the circumstances surrounding Audrey's disappearance that made her case less likely to be carefully scrutinized by the 1977 law enforcement team. As a result, the NYC Missing Persons Squad of today must trace stale clues left over from the past two decades in order to retrace Audrey's last known foot steps. Although Audrey was ill with Schitzophrenia, and had been determined of having the mental capacity of a minor, she was not searched for as missing child would have been. She was considered nothing more than just another runaway. This section ends with the huge battle on April 10, 2002 to convince Florida Congresswoman Karen L. Thurman to introduce the bill H.R. 4162, also known as the "Audrey Nerenberg Act" in the House of Representatives. The big fight was won, but the battle is not over yet because it has to be voted on by congress. But Rep. Thurman is convinced that this bill will seek to amend the "Missing Children's Assistance Act" to include missing adults determined to have a mental capacity of a child under 18 years old. Comment on the work "Give Me Back My Daughter, Audrey!" is a stirring and emotional work that conveys the love and joy you have shared with your family over the years, as well as the pain you have suffered over the loss of loved ones. This work can be of great help to others who have suffered losses similar to your own. Elizabeth H. House The book, "MILTON NERENBERG: GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER, AUDREY!" is a compelling well told, but sad story of a father's and family's ongoing search for their daughter, Audrey. The book provides a vivid account of the Nerenberg's family history with text and color photos. A must read for everyone. Milton was thoughtful enough to remember his good friend, Jim, whose wife, Patricia Viola, has been missing since 2/13/01 and is documented in a web site, http://patriciaviolamissing.homestead.com. Jim Viola About the Author "Before Audrey disappeared at the age of 18, she was a smart beautiful girl with a beautiful figure and today I'm afraid I'll never know what happened to her. However, this is something I'll just have to get used to and I know it will be very difficult, but as everybody knows, time will heal almost everything." Today as time has healed most of the pain, Milton Nerenberg for the first time reveals his side of the story. With insight, humor and a candor that will both shock and delight many readers, he discloses the truth behind Government policy and speaks frankly of the unhappy events of his search. With a depth of feeling rarely found in memoirs, he tells of his own successes and failures as a son, brother, friend, husband, father, and as a man. Sample Excerpts Parents never give up search for woman who went missing 26 years ago by Nancy Kennedy Citrus County Chronicle, FL July 11, 2003 On July 15, 1977, 19-year-old Audrey Nerenberg left her Brooklyn, New York, home to go around the corner for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. Her parents, Milton and Evelyn Nerenberg, now living in Citrus Springs, have never stopped looking for her. Mr. Nerenberg has recently published "Milton Nerenberg: Give me back my Daughter, Audrey!" about his quest to find his beloved daughter. He will sign his book and answer question from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at Awesome Books and Gifts, 2780 N. Florida Ave., No. 18, Hernando. Audrey was a schizophrenic, with the mentality of a child. She attended a day center, but it had burned down, and she didn't have anything to do. She often walked around the corner to buy ice cream or go to the store. This day was like any other, except she never returned. Without a trace, without a clue. "I've been looking for her for 26 years," Nerenberg said. "I did everything." The first thing he and his wife did was to drive around the neighborhood looking for her, asking everyone, "Have you seen my daughter?" No one had seen her, no one knew. "The next day we got a call," he said, "someone saying 'Hello, I got your daughter. Get as much money as you can and I'll call you back later.' Maybe I was stupid, because the first thing I thought was to call the FBI. This was a kidnapping - someone had my daughter!" The FBI came, but no one called back. To Nerenberg anguish, they closed the case. With dozens, hundreds of people missing, Audrey was just one of the many. But to the Nerenbergs, she was and still is their precious daughter. Throughout the years, not a day goes by that they don't think about her and hope they'll hear something - anything. At one point, they received a call from a psychic who told them she was in the water somewhere 10 miles south of them. Nerenberg told the psychic, "That's Coney Island!" and spent an entire day combing the beach, but didn't find anything. They had tried to have Audrey listed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, but were told the cutoff age is 18. Now living in Florida since 1985, the Nerenbergs had been in contact with former U.S. Rep. Karen Thurman, who introduced a bill, HR4162, that would have mentally handicapped adults eligible for the national registry. But since Thurman was not re-elected, the congressional bill needs to be reintroduced. They tried contacting television programs such as "Unsolved Mysteries" and "America's Most Wanted," and TV personalities such as Oprah, Maury Povich and Barbara Walters. With every effort, they come up empty handed. The police say the case is too old, or that she's a runaway. Currently, Audrey Nerenberg's story is on about 150 Web sites. The Nerenbergs are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to her whereabouts. "If my daughter was in the military, and a sergeant knocked on my door saying, 'Your daughter is missing in action' I could accept that," Nerenberg said. "But with the military, someone's missing and they go out and look." Mrs. Nerenberg said if they were to learn that Audrey had died, it would hurt, "but at least we'll know. We just want to know what happened to her." 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