Fawn Marie Mountain was born March 2, 1987, and grew up in the Altoona area of Blair County, Pennsylvania. Friends and family remembered her as warm and full of life — someone who would do anything for the people she loved. She went by the nickname “Bambie.” By her mid-twenties, Fawn had already endured significant loss — she had three children, had lost custody of two, and her third child, a daughter, was stillborn. Fawn carried her daughter’s ashes with her in an urn, rarely letting it out of her sight.
An Abusive Relationship
In 2009, Fawn began a relationship with Heather Dibert, a woman from Claysburg. According to accounts from Fawn’s family and friends, the relationship quickly turned abusive. Dibert was reportedly extremely possessive and disliked Fawn going anywhere without her, and Fawn was hospitalized on multiple occasions for injuries related to the abuse, including one incident where Dibert allegedly tried to strangle her. Fawn’s contact with her own family grew increasingly restricted during this period, something her relatives believe was engineered by Dibert.
In October 2012, following a fight with Dibert, Fawn fled to her mother’s house — even though she was technically under a restraining order barring her from being there, a legal complication from an earlier family dispute. When Dibert discovered Fawn had gone to her mother’s, she contacted police, and Fawn’s mother ended up spending a weekend in jail for the restraining order violation. It would be the last time Fawn’s mother ever saw her.
The Last Known Sighting
A few days after Thanksgiving 2012, Fawn and Dibert traveled to Dibert’s parents’ home to help clean and sterilize the family’s butcher shop. Dibert’s brother and his girlfriend, who lived in the same trailer park as the couple, helped out as well, and the four of them returned home together afterward. That night — November 25, 2012 — was the last time anyone outside of Dibert reported seeing Fawn alive.
The next morning, Dibert’s brother’s girlfriend saw Dibert outside smoking a cigarette, talking with her parents. When she asked where Fawn was, Dibert said that when she’d woken up around 3:00 a.m. to use the bathroom, Fawn was simply gone, and she hadn’t seen her since.
What Fawn left behind is what has haunted investigators and her family ever since. She left all of her clothing behind in the trailer — along with the urn holding her stillborn daughter’s ashes, an item she was known to carry with her everywhere. To those who knew her, the idea that Fawn would walk away from that urn voluntarily, without a word to anyone, was almost impossible to believe.
Three Years of Silence
What happened next is one of the most troubling aspects of the case: nobody reported Fawn missing for over two years. It wasn’t until April 2015, when Fawn’s stepfather was dying in the hospital and her family tried desperately to reach her, that the truth began to surface. A family friend was sent to Fawn’s last known address on Binks Mill Court, where Dibert reportedly told them Fawn had “taken off” three years earlier. Only then did Fawn’s family formally report her missing to authorities.
By that point, any physical evidence, witness memories, or investigative leads from November 2012 had gone cold for years.
The Investigation Since
Pennsylvania State Police, Troop G out of Hollidaysburg, has continued investigating Fawn’s disappearance in the years since. In 2018, Pennsylvania Crime Stoppers issued a public appeal for information, and by 2024, a $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to a resolution. Community vigils have been held in Claysburg in Fawn’s memory, along with fundraising and awareness events like the “Justice for Fawn” car show, organized by advocates who’ve refused to let her case fade from public attention.
In more recent years, developments in a separate case involving Dibert have reignited scrutiny. When Dibert was later arrested in an unrelated matter involving allegations of abuse against another woman, Fawn’s mother said she recognized painful similarities to what she believed her daughter had endured — and expressed hope that the case might finally produce information leading to answers about what happened to Fawn.
Despite the suspicion that has followed Dibert for over a decade, no charges have ever been filed in connection with Fawn’s disappearance. Dibert has denied any wrongdoing.
Still Missing
Fawn Marie Mountain would be in her late thirties now. Her family has spent over a decade without her — without a body, without an arrest, and for years, without even an official investigation, because no one knew to look. What remains is a trailer that once held all her belongings, an urn she never went anywhere without, and a community that has refused to stop asking what really happened that November night.
Anyone with information about the disappearance of Fawn Marie Mountain is asked to contact Pennsylvania State Police, Troop G – Hollidaysburg, at 814-696-6100, or PSP Tips anonymously at 1-800-4PA-TIPS.
Case Number: PA17-572793
