He appeared disoriented and complained about memory problems. Then, last month, three nurses reported seeing a man who matched Mortier's general description at a Tennessee music festival that included bands he liked. As time has gone on, friends have prepared themselves for the worst, especially after Fitchburg police announced this April that they were considering the case a homicide. Mortier, who was 27 when he disappeared, attended classes at Madison Area Technical College, shopped at the Willy Street Co-op, frequented the Inferno, and had worked at the Den and Shakti, two shops on State Street in downtown Madison. But missing-persons fliers posted at the event and shown to local sheriff's deputies failed to turn up any new leads. If Mortier was stricken with memory problems or on the run traveling the country hanging out at music festivals, this might be a good spot to find him. 13, days after he seems to have vanished. Eerily, his mother says it was a Jurassic 5 album that friends found spinning endlessly on his turntable when they entered his Fitchburg home last Nov. When the hip-hop group Jurassic 5 played a concert in San Bernardino, Calif., in late June, friends of Amos Mortier hoped he'd be spotted in the crowd: disoriented, homeless, stricken with amnesia, perhaps even hiding from people wanting to do him harm. Note: This article was originally published in Isthmus on July 22, 2005.
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