Not a joke: I believe I have found Flutter's real name. If my sleuthing is correct, I believe her real name is
Alexis Marttila. She is indeed of Finnish descent and appears to be from Lynchburg (her grandmother
Laverne Martilla and immediate family lives in the area). Her grandparents and great-grandparents are from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, an area of the United States with a large population of people of Finnish descent.
But how did I find this?
It was this easy:
- Hear that Flutter may be Finnish-American
- 2 seconds on Wikipedia will tell you that a good majority of Finnish-Americans are in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- Search several Upper Peninsula news sites for "Lynchburg"
- Find 2 separate obituaries naming Laverne Marttila, a woman with a Finnish last name who lives in Lynchburg: the obituary of James "Gary" Lyttinen, published in The Keweenaw Report in 2018: http://www.keweenawreport.com/obits/obituary-james-gary-lyttinen/ (archive) and the obituary of Thomas Marttila, published in The Mining Gazette in January: https://www.mininggazette.com/obituaries/2024/01/thomas-marttila/ (archive)
- Search "Marttila" in the archives of Lynchburg's News and Advance
- Flutter (possibly) found in the April 11, 1999 edition of the News and Advance in the weddings section. Highlights were done by me: note that Laverne Marttila is named here. Guessing by the relationship this is from her aunt's wedding, where she was listed as a flower girl.
- I believe Sheri, Kevin, and Brent are Laverne's children, from what I was able to gather.
Why do I think Alexis Marttila is Flutter?
- The Marttila family is literally the only Finnish family I have found so far who is in the Lynchburg area, and by extension Virginia. The only other people with that surname that I could find had ties to Virginia were international student atheletes.
- A wedding in December 1998 and a possible birth year of 1992 or 1993 would be a pretty standard age for a flower girl at a wedding.
- The audio from the airport sighting strongly suggests that Flutter has a name beginning with "Al-". This would fit if Flutter's first name is indeed Alexis.
I was able to find literally nothing with Alexis Marttila's real name on the Internet (so far). Not even any records on people search sites, which suggests she did probably wipe her online record very well. Unfortunately, she couldn't delete newspaper archives off of the Internet.