USA Unsolved 19 (CA) - Qianya "Amy" Huang

**Jessica** (0:00)
Welcome back to episode 19 of USA Unsolved. Today, we will be staying in California for another episode, and then we will be heading out to other parts of the US to discuss other unsolved cases.
It's simply unfortunate that there are so many out there, and while the list is extensive, not every case has a lot of information out there. I am keeping track of these names, and I may or may not consolidate a few cases into one episode. But for today's case, we are looking into an unsolved death. I cannot say that it's murder, because there is currently nothing pointing to murder, but it is a strange case and a very recent case. Her name is Qianya Huang, otherwise known as Amy Huang. She went missing in the early hours of the morning. And although her body has been recovered, the details surrounding how she lost her life still seems a little bit murky. Let's begin.
Amy Huang immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was 8 years old, around the year 2009 She lived her life as the child of an immigrant family. She picked up English in the US, and pretty soon she became someone her family relied on. I believe this is a rather common occurrence with immigrant families. The parents work on making money, many times in an environment where their first language is spoken. Their children go to school, learn fast, and become the unofficial family translator. This can be a big responsibility for a child to burden, but in a way, everyone has their own role, and this seems to be how Amy and her parents worked together.
I don't have much information on Amy's upbringing and personal life, but it would appear that she was very well liked and was a kind and compassionate person. For college, she attended UC Berkeley and graduated in the year 2022 From there, she went on to obtain her master's degree at San Francisco State University, studying at the School of Social Work. She was passionate about helping people, studying to explore, quote, the underutilization of mental health services among Asian Americans in San Francisco, unquote.
That is very admirable, and I believe it speaks volumes on who she was as a person. Mental health issues is very real, and depending on your background, your immigration story, your family life, certain therapists and professionals can be of more help if they are familiar with certain issues that their patients face. It's not just the ability to relate, but also to look deeper into it and offer solutions and advice.
Amy was specifically looking into providing help to first-generation Chinese immigrants because moving to a new country and adjusting can be very difficult, and many do not yet have a grasp of the English language. Amy was trilingual, fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Cantonese. To add to this, people of Chinese descent make up nearly a quarter of San Francisco's population, so her expertise would have definitely been needed. Right before her disappearance, Amy was actively working on accumulating enough hours to obtain her clinical social work licensure, and she was working on her way to being full-time employed. Her parents were also on their path towards retirement, and Amy was more than happy to support them financially.
With some background on who Amy was as a young adult, let's look into the days she went missing.
Starting with March 31st, 2025, Amy was at home, working, and doing laundry. She was apparently suffering from seasonal allergies, so she did not head out and instead went to bed, time unknown. Around 1.17am, which would be April 1st, Amy got up and left her room with her phone, heading to the restroom. I'm not entirely sure how this was determined, but perhaps they had indoor cameras or someone noticed her leaving her room. At around 1.20am, Amy left her house, got into her car, and drove away.
This we know because the family home did have cameras outside their property, and it showed Amy leaving her house in gray pajamas.
The following information is based off information I found online, posted by a friend of Amy's, which the police provided based off dashcam footage and device history. It appeared that Amy was driving as she normally would, stopping at red lights, stopping at stop signs, and going within the speed limit. She eventually arrived on the San Mateo Bridge, which is a seven-mile long bridge connecting San Mateo and Hayward. It's the longest fixed-link bridge in California, and Amy was heading east towards Hayward. At around 1:50 a.m., Amy pulled into the shoulder of the bridge and stopped for around 10 seconds. Nothing happened during that time, and no one else was seen to be around the bridge at that time. She got back onto the road and eventually made a turn back towards San Mateo, driving back west. Around 2:12 a.m., she pulled over and stopped again. And that is where the tracking stops. The dash cam in Amy's car apparently turns on and off with the car, so once Amy turned off the engine, her dash cam also turned off.