20 years after disappearance, family honors teens life [Video]

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. (WOOD) — “Twenty years gone and still not a moment forgotten,” Amanda Lankey’s mom and loved ones said tearfully during a memorial service Saturday.

Amanda was 13 years old in 2004 when she disappeared from a friend’s house in Newaygo County during a sleepover. Amanda and her family were in town from Florida, and her mom, Victoria Foster, said she had spent the night with this friend dozens of times.

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“The home we thought she was safe in wasn’t. It wasn’t safe at all,” Foster said.

The morning after, when Foster went to pick up her daughter, all she was told was that Amanda was no longer there.

“She was not there. Her clothes, her shoes, her money — everything was there except for her,” Foster said.

Police initially classified Amanda as a runaway, but …