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An ominous new development occurred Monday in the missing person's case of 25-year-old Amanda Murphy, 25. Her empty car, personal effects and cellphone were found by North Coventry Police in a parking lot next to a pond in Montgomery County.

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An ominous new development occurred Monday in the missing person's case of 25-year-old Amanda Murphy.

According to the Pottstown Mercury, her empty car, personal effects and cellphone were found by North Coventry Police in a parking lot next to a pond in Kenilworth Park, Montgomery County, Pa., at about 3 a.m. Monday.

This after Amanda, who has been battling heroin for four years, recently left a rehab clinic against the medical advice of the staff and quit her methadone treatments cold turkey, her parents tell the newspaper.

Amanda is the single mother to a 6-year-old son, who is in the custody of his father, the Pottstown Mercury reports.

Since she left the clinic, Amanda's parents, Tim and Wendy Murphy, who say they haven't seen their daughter in two weeks, have taken to Facebook, pleading for the public's help in finding their troubled 25-year-old. She is also being sought by her parole officer, the newspaper reports.

"Amanda, we love you," her father wrote in the parents' Facebook post. "Please call us if you see this post."

So far, there have been numerous tips but no contact from Amanda, the newspaper reports, adding:

"We just want to know she's OK," Tim Murphy was quoted as saying.