"Brilliant But Clueless" Med Student Missing Found In NYC

Aimee Angle Zahn

A Michigan native who had been living in a Midtown Manhattan apartment has apparently disappeared and her family is worried. Aimee Angle-Zahn's mother said that her 34-year-old daughter, who is a fourth year medical student at Cornell, "can be clueless about the real world... My daughter has an IQ I believe equal to Albert Einstein’s. But if you send her to the grocery store for bread, she’ll come home with spaghetti." Angle-Zahn also reportedly suffers from epileptic seizure-disorder. Update: Angle-Zahn was found at the West Side YMCA; more details.

Angle-Zahn was last heard from on Thursday when she told her parents that she was kicked out of her apartment. According to the NY Post, she was subletting a place at The Vogue on Sixth Avenue from Randy Williams, who "threw Angle-Zahn out of the apartment for not paying the rent." Angle-Zahn's mother Debbie Angle said that Williams called asking for the $650 rent, but added that her daughter also emailed them saying that Williams hit her with a broom and that he took their phone. Her family booked her a room at an airport hotel for Thursday night and a plane ticket from Laguardia Airport back to Michigan for Friday, but Angle-Zahn never showed up.

Her father, Allen Angle, who came to NYC when his daughter didn't fly out on Friday, said that most worrisome thing was that Angle-Zahn would call her 8-year-old daughter (who lives with Angle-Zahn's ex-husband in Michigan) every day, but hasn't called since Wednesday. He also said that the NYPD said they couldn't help him because his daughter had a Michigan driver's license so he needed to work with Michigan authorities. (It seems like the NYPD is helping now.)

Debbie Angle said, "We are concerned because we haven't heard from her all week and we don't know where she is. We just hope nothing bad happened. We hope she's not hurt or sick. She could've gotten involved with some bad people because she is a little naive." Angle also hopes that her daughter was so stressed out by being thrown out of the apartment that she had a seizure and is now in a hospital, worrying, “Did she decide to save money and not take a taxi to LaGuardia? The subway stops 2 miles away (from the airport) and walking through Queens in the dark is not nice. She knows. She did a trauma rotation in Queens."

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By Jen Chung in News on November 16, 2010 9:36 PM

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potsmoker

id do her, yeah id hit that in a minute, bet she doesnt realize shes getting it in the p00per.

bet she gets all confused about stuff, i was going to cook dinner but gave him bl0wjob, was about to watch tv but ended up getting jizzzad in teh face....

hahhaa

really id hit that, any saxxxy pix of her online?

Nyctini11

Please go home transplant, stop wasting our city's money and your parents. Your 34, GROW UP.

robingee

I refuse to believe that adorable little terrier would say such a mean thing.

mswas

She was found safely

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/17/missing-student-found-in-nyc/

Dogsbody

In the mean time, even if she is found, I assume her medical career must be ruined. Future potential employers will google her and say "hey aren't you the girl who can't tell spaghetti from bread, and can't be trusted to take a bus ride without supervision? Do I want you in my hospital?"

datyou

missing white woman syndrome, indeed.

jessecal

I do hope she's found soon. . .and is found to be OK!

(Perhaps she could join the Obama Administration- sounds like she'd fit right in with that crowd!!)

robingee

HA HA BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TELL BREAD FROM SPAGHETTI!!!

theevilone

They found her. She's fine. She was at the Y.

capitalist

Actually she was looking for the Y, but ended up at the Z (with spaghetti).

robingee

ROFL!!

Wza

lol

potsmoker

huh, does anybody want to be treated by or get surgery from a doctor who brings back chef boy r dee when you wanted a loaf of bread???

SFOtoJFK

Good thoughts and also big thank you to the nearly worthless NYPD. Bunch of idiots who don't give a crap unless oh maybe you're a terrorist.

Look up RICHARD MASSEY IS MISSING and see what a wonderful job the NYPD does.

NYPD...always passing the buck.

capitalist

Go back to San Francisco if you don't like it.

I'm sure you can be coddled in the arms of Nancy Pelosi & shushed back to sleep.

robingee

San Francisco?

Wza

lol

exnyer

I hope she fails....we don`t need a Dr. who can`t tell the difference between a catheter and a sip stick. I hope she is OK.

elgati

Sounds like the whole family is stupid as hell.

If you are 34 and not even close to doing your residency you don't get to call yourself brilliant. Plus who the he'll needs to walk 2 miles to LaGuardia? There are 3 bus routes that take you there and all 3 connect to a subway.

Plus where does this yokel get off bad mouthing Queens? What the hell does she know about us? People in Queens are as decent as they come. Plus the area she would have ended walking through is a really nice middle class area.

I hope she's just on some sort of escapade and not hurt, but her parents are imbeciles!