Amy Grace Robertson: Missing in Alma, FBI Joins Search

# DHF-027 — Amy Grace Robertson: Missing in Alma, FBI Joins Search

**Case No. DHF-027 | Subject: Amy Grace Robertson | Date: 21 October 2026 (last seen) | Location: Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, USA | Status: MISSING**

**Posted:** 31 October 2026

**Status stamp: MISSING**

> **Image note for readers:** All images in this file are original illustrations created for Dark History Files. They are atmospheric artwork, not photographs and not real evidence. No image in this file depicts Amy Grace Robertson, any member of any family, any investigator, or any real person, and no image depicts any act of violence or any harm.

*Caption: Case card for DHF-027 — Amy Grace Robertson case, Alma, Georgia. Status: MISSING.*

## THE FILE CARD

| **Case File No.** | DHF-027 |

| --- | --- |

| **Subject** | Amy Grace Robertson, 16, of Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, USA |

| **Date** | 21 October 2026 (last seen, around 6:30 p.m.); 30 October 2026 (FBI involvement confirmed) |

| **Location** | Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, USA; last seen walking away from her residence in Alma |

| **Status** | MISSING |

| **Investigating authorities** | City of Alma Police Department; Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit; Bacon County Sheriff's Office; FBI assisting (confirmed 30 October 2026) |

| **Tip contact** | Investigator Sergeant Z. Sarro, Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, 912-632-8751; or the Bacon County Sheriff's Office |

| **Description (police flyer)** | 5 feet 3 inches tall, about 120 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes; last seen wearing a blue sweater and black sweatpants with multiple patterns and colours |

| **One-line summary** | Amy Grace Robertson, 16, was last seen around 6:30 p.m. on 21 October 2026 walking away from her home in Alma, Georgia; after searches of nearby woods and leads reaching into surrounding counties found no trace of her, the FBI joined the search on 30 October 2026, and she remains missing. |

> **Why this file is stamped MISSING:** The stamp records only the position as it stands on 31 October 2026. Amy Grace Robertson has not been located in any source relied on here, and no source relied on here reports that she has been found safe or otherwise. The stamp is not a claim about what happened to her, why she left home, or where she is now. It records one fact only: she is still missing. If she is located, this file will be updated, dated, and re-stamped — never quietly rewritten.

## THE CASE

### An evening in Alma

Alma is a small city in Bacon County, in south-east Georgia. On the evening of Wednesday 21 October 2026, it became the centre of a search that has now lasted ten days and drawn in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The public record of that evening is short, and this file keeps it short, because there is very little in it that is not already fixed by the official flyer. Amy Grace Robertson, 16, was last seen at around 6:30 p.m. on 21 October, walking away from her residence in Alma. That is the wording of the City of Alma Police Department's missing juvenile flyer, and it is the last confirmed sighting in the sources relied on here. The flyer is headed "MISSING/RUNAWAY JUVENILE". This file reports that heading because it is the flyer's own wording; it does not treat the heading as a settled explanation of why Amy left home, and it draws no conclusion from it about what happened next. A heading on a flyer is a classification for a search, not a finding about a young person's reasons, and this file will not turn it into one.

Around half an hour later, at about 7 p.m., police were called to a home off Floyd Street in Alma, following a report of a missing juvenile. Officers spoke with Amy's guardian, and the investigation began that night. The guardian's name is not given in the sources relied on here, and this file does not seek to identify the guardian. What the sources do establish is the order of events: a last sighting at around 6:30 p.m., a call to police at around 7 p.m., and a search that started the same evening.

Every sentence in this file that describes Amy comes from the police flyer or from reporting of it. Nothing here describes her character, her school life, her friendships, or her state of mind, because no source relied on here establishes those things. What the public needs from a flyer is narrower: what she looks like, what she was wearing, when she was last seen, and who to call. Those are the facts this file carries, exactly as the flyer states them.

Amy is described on the flyer as 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue sweater and black sweatpants with multiple patterns and colours. Those details have been repeated identically across the reporting relied on here — in the News Now Georgia account of 30 October, in the CBS Atlanta account of the same day, and in the WTOC account of 23 October — which is one reason this file can state them plainly. When three separate accounts agree on a description word for word, and all three trace it to the same police flyer, the description is as solid as a missing-person file gets.

### The first search: the woods near home

The first search was close to home, and it was thorough in the way that first searches usually are. Alma police requested assistance from the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit. Police officers, members of that unit, and Bacon County sheriff's deputies searched the woods near the residence. They did not locate Amy.

A search of nearby woods that finds nothing does not establish that Amy was never in those woods, or that she left the area. It establishes only that the ground near her home was searched in the first phase of the investigation, and that she was not found there. The sources give no detail about the size of the area searched or the methods used beyond the agencies involved, and this file invents none of that detail.

What the first search does tell the reader is how the case was treated from the start. The call came in at around 7 p.m. on 21 October, the Crime Suppression Unit was brought in, sheriff's deputies joined, and the ground around the home was searched the same night.

### The leads that went further — and stopped

By 26 October, five days after Amy was last seen, the search had widened, and so had the geography of the case. In an update on 26 October, Alma police said that calls and investigative leads had taken officers into surrounding counties, and as far as Bulloch and Chatham counties. She had not been located as of that update.

Bulloch and Chatham counties are not near Alma in the sense of being next door. Alma sits in Bacon County; Bulloch County lies to the north-east, and Chatham County, home to Savannah, lies further east on the Georgia coast. The fact that leads reached that far is itself a piece of information, but it is information that has to be handled with care, and News Now Georgia's account handles it the right way: it states plainly that those leads do not establish that Amy was seen in either county. A lead that takes officers to a county is not a sighting in that county. It is a call, a tip, or a line of inquiry that had to be followed, and following it is what investigators do. This file follows that discipline throughout. Wherever this file mentions Bulloch or Chatham, it means only that investigative leads reached those counties, not that Amy was confirmed to be there.

The CBS Atlanta account of 30 October adds one further detail about this phase, and it is a sobering one: multiple leads had turned out to be dead ends. That is the ordinary, frustrating shape of a missing-person investigation in its second week. Leads come in, they are followed, and many of them close without finding the person. Reporting that honestly matters, because it stops the reader from mistaking activity for progress. Officers were active across several counties. Amy was still not found. Both of those things are true at the same time, and this file holds them both.

It is also worth stating what the record does not contain at this point, because the absences shape the case as much as the facts. No source relied on here names any person of interest. No source relied on here states that any crime is suspected in connection with Amy's disappearance. No source relied on here reports any vehicle, any companion, any message, or any sighting after 6:30 p.m. on 21 October. This file does not fill any of those gaps. In particular, it does not suggest that anyone took Amy, or that she came to harm, or that she is safe somewhere. All three of those statements would be speculation, and speculation about a missing sixteen-year-old is exactly what the sensitivity locks on this blog exist to prevent. The honest position, and the only one the record supports, is that Amy left her home on the evening of 21 October, that she has not been found, and that the investigation is continuing.

### 30 October: the FBI joins

On Friday 30 October 2026, the case changed in one visible way: the FBI joined the search. CBS Atlanta reported that day that the FBI had joined the search for a Georgia sixteen-year-old who had been missing for more than a week, and News Now Georgia reported that the FBI was assisting in the search, with its involvement confirmed on 30 October. The FBI's Atlanta field office shared the Alma police flyer on its social media accounts the same day, on 30 October, putting Amy's description and the tip number in front of a far larger audience than a small-city police department can reach on its own.

It is important to be precise about what "the FBI joins" means here, because the phrase can easily be over-read. The sources relied on here describe the FBI as assisting in, and joining, a search led locally — by Alma police, the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, and the Bacon County Sheriff's Office. They do not describe the FBI as taking over the case, and they do not describe any federal charge, any federal investigation into a crime, or any new lead that prompted the FBI's involvement. This file therefore says "assisting" and "joined", and no more. The significance of the FBI's involvement is real but limited: it brings wider reach, wider resources, and a wider audience for the flyer. It is not, on the record relied on here, a statement about what happened to Amy, and this file does not present it as one.

Why the FBI's involvement matters is practical, not theoretical. A missing-person flyer works only if people see it, and a flyer shared only locally reaches only local eyes. When the FBI's Atlanta office shares it, the description, the clothing, and the tip number travel across Georgia and beyond, to people who might have seen a sixteen-year-old in a blue sweater and patterned black sweatpants and not known anyone was looking for her. That is also why this file is published now, while the search is still active.

That is also why the timing of this file matters, and why it is being published now rather than held for a fuller story. A missing-person file is useful while the person is missing. If Amy is found, this file will be updated the same day, dated, and re-stamped. Until then, the most useful thing a file can do is carry the description accurately, carry the tip number prominently, and refuse to add anything that might send the public looking in the wrong direction. Unverified sightings, invented companions, and guessed destinations do not help a search; they clog it. This file adds none of them.

### What is known, and what is not

It helps, at the end of a case narrative built on a short record, to separate the two lists cleanly. What is known: Amy Grace Robertson, 16, of Alma, Georgia, was last seen at around 6:30 p.m. on 21 October 2026, walking away from her residence. Police were called to a home off Floyd Street at around 7 p.m. that evening, after a report from her guardian. Officers, the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, and Bacon County sheriff's deputies searched woods near the residence and did not find her. By 26 October, leads had taken officers into surrounding counties and as far as Bulloch and Chatham, without locating her, and several leads had proved to be dead ends. On 30 October, the FBI's involvement was confirmed, and the FBI's Atlanta office shared the police flyer. She is described as 5 feet 3 inches, about 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, last seen in a blue sweater and black sweatpants with multiple patterns and colours. The tip contact is Investigator Sergeant Z. Sarro of the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, on 912-632-8751, or the Bacon County Sheriff's Office.

What is not known: where Amy went after 6:30 p.m. on 21 October; why she left home; whether she is alone; whether she has been seen since; whether any crime is involved; and whether the leads into Bulloch and Chatham counties represent sightings at all, which the reporting explicitly says they do not establish. No family statement beyond the guardian's report to police appears in the sources relied on here, and this file quotes none. No photograph of Amy is reproduced in this file: the illustrations here are artwork of empty places, not depictions of any person, and the official flyer photograph remains with the police and the FBI, where it belongs.

That second list is longer than the first, and that is honest. A ten-day-old missing-person case with no confirmed sighting after the first evening is, by its nature, a file of gaps. The gaps are not a failure of the file; they are the case. The next verified development — a sighting confirmed by police, a location, a statement from the investigating agencies — will change this file, and when it does, the change will be dated and sourced, not slipped in silently.

## TIMELINE

- **21 October 2026, around 6:30 p.m.** — Amy Grace Robertson, 16, is last seen walking away from her residence in Alma, Bacon County, Georgia, according to the City of Alma Police Department's missing juvenile flyer.

- **21 October 2026, around 7 p.m.** — Police are called to a home off Floyd Street in Alma following a report of a missing juvenile; officers speak with Amy's guardian and the investigation begins.

- **21–26 October 2026** — Alma police, the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, and Bacon County sheriff's deputies search woods near the residence; Amy is not located. Multiple leads are followed and turn out to be dead ends.

- **26 October 2026** — In an Alma police update, officers say calls and investigative leads have taken them into surrounding counties and as far as Bulloch and Chatham counties; Amy has not been located as of that update. The leads do not establish that she was seen in either county.

- **30 October 2026** — The FBI's involvement is confirmed; the FBI is assisting in the search. The FBI's Atlanta field office shares the Alma police flyer on social media the same day. Amy remains missing.

- **31 October 2026** — As of the sources relied on here, Amy has still not been located. This file is published on this date, ten days after she was last seen.

## EVIDENCE & LEADS

- **The last sighting (City of Alma Police Department flyer, via News Now Georgia, CBS Atlanta, WTOC):** Amy was last seen around 6:30 p.m. on 21 October 2026, walking away from her residence in Alma. The flyer is headed "MISSING/RUNAWAY JUVENILE".

- **The report (News Now Georgia, 30 October 2026; CBS Atlanta, 30 October 2026):** Police were called to a home off Floyd Street in Alma at around 7 p.m. on 21 October, following a report of a missing juvenile by Amy's guardian.

- **The description (police flyer, via all three accounts):** 5 feet 3 inches tall, about 120 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes; last seen wearing a blue sweater and black sweatpants with multiple patterns and colours.

- **The first search (News Now Georgia, 30 October 2026; CBS Atlanta, 30 October 2026):** Alma police, the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, and Bacon County sheriff's deputies searched woods near the residence and did not locate Amy.

- **The widening leads (News Now Georgia, 30 October 2026):** In a 26 October update, Alma police said calls and investigative leads had taken officers into surrounding counties and as far as Bulloch and Chatham counties; she had not been located as of that update, and the leads do not establish that she was seen in either county.

- **The dead ends (CBS Atlanta, 30 October 2026):** Multiple leads had turned out to be dead ends.

- **The FBI involvement (CBS Atlanta, 30 October 2026; News Now Georgia, 30 October 2026; FBI Atlanta social media, 30 October 2026):** The FBI joined and is assisting in the search; its involvement was confirmed on 30 October, and the FBI's Atlanta office shared the police flyer the same day.

- **The tip contact (police flyer, via News Now Georgia and CBS Atlanta):** Investigator Sergeant Z. Sarro, Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, 912-632-8751; or the Bacon County Sheriff's Office.

- **What is NOT evidence in this file:** any sighting after 6:30 p.m. on 21 October; any claim that Amy was seen in Bulloch or Chatham county; any named person of interest or suspect; any claim that a crime is suspected; any account of why Amy left home; any claim about where she is now or what has happened to her; and any family statement beyond the guardian's report to police, none of which appears in the sources relied on here.

*Caption: Illustration of an empty wooded lane at dusk — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of any search area in this case and not evidence.*

## STILL UNKNOWN

- **Where did Amy go after 6:30 p.m. on 21 October 2026?** No confirmed sighting after that time appears in the sources relied on here.

- **Why did she leave home?** The flyer's "MISSING/RUNAWAY JUVENILE" heading is a classification, not an established reason, and no source relied on here states a reason.

- **Was she seen in Bulloch or Chatham county?** The reporting explicitly says the leads into those counties do not establish that she was seen there.

- **Is any crime suspected?** No source relied on here states that a crime is suspected, and no person of interest is named in any source relied on here.

- **Is she alone, and is she safe?** Neither question is answered in the sources relied on here, and this file does not guess at either.

- **Has she been located since 30 October 2026?** No source relied on here, checked on 31 October 2026, reports that she has been found.

> **What would change this file:** if Amy is located, if police confirm a sighting, if the investigating agencies issue a further update, or if the FBI or Alma police change the status of the search, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten. Until then, the stamp stays MISSING.

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## SOURCES

- City of Alma Police Department, missing juvenile flyer for Amy Grace Robertson (as reproduced and reported by News Now Georgia, CBS Atlanta, and WTOC; FBI Atlanta social media, 30 October 2026) — last seen around 6:30 p.m. 21 October 2026 walking away from her residence in Alma; 5 feet 3 inches, about 120 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes; last seen wearing a blue sweater and black sweatpants with multiple patterns and colours; tip contact Investigator Sergeant Z. Sarro, Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit, 912-632-8751. Read via the reporting below. This is the primary source for every key claim in this file.

- News Now Georgia, 30 October 2026 — "FBI joins search for missing Alma teen Amy Grace Robertson; leads reach Bulloch and Chatham": FBI assisting, involvement confirmed 30 October; police called to a home off Floyd Street around 7 p.m. 21 October, guardian report; Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit and Bacon County sheriff's deputies searched woods near the residence without locating her; 26 October update, leads into surrounding counties and as far as Bulloch and Chatham, not located as of that update, leads do not establish a sighting in either county. Read in full.

- CBS Atlanta, 30 October 2026 — "FBI joins search for Georgia 16-year-old girl who has been missing for over a week": FBI joined the search; reported missing from a home off Floyd Street on the night of 21 October by her guardian; officers and deputies searched nearby woods and could not find her; multiple leads turned out to be dead ends; description and tip contact corroborated. Read in extract via syndication.

- WTOC, 23 October 2026 — "Alma Police searching for missing 16-year-old girl" (Alexis Derickson): City of Alma Police Department asking for the public's help; Amy last seen around 6:30 p.m. 21 October walking away from her house in Alma. Read in extract via syndication.

- FBI Atlanta, social media, 30 October 2026 — official sharing of the City of Alma Police Department missing/runaway juvenile flyer for Amy Grace Robertson, with the same last-seen time, description, clothing, and tip number. Noted via social search; no photograph from the flyer is reproduced in this file.

- No competitor article text or image is reproduced in this file. Facts are stated in Dark History Files' own words, with official material attributed to its source. No source beyond those listed above was relied on for facts in the draft. No search-volume numbers are stated, because no tool returned any.

> **Tip box — if you have information:** If you have seen Amy Grace Robertson or have information about where she may be, contact Investigator Sergeant Z. Sarro with the Alma-Bacon County Crime Suppression Unit at 912-632-8751, or the Bacon County Sheriff's Office. If you believe you see her now, call 911 first. Do not approach, follow, or attempt to detain a missing teenager yourself, and do not send money to anyone claiming to know where she is or offering to bring her home — genuine tip lines never ask for payment. Share only the official flyer description, not rumours or unverified sightings.

*Caption: Illustration of an empty small-town main street at dawn — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of Alma and not evidence.*

**Reader question:** Before sharing a possible sighting of a missing teenager online, what should a reader check first — and why does waiting for police confirmation matter more than being first to post?

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