we did consider that her husband made known that she was having an affair. where was? she there were no. answers nearly 30 years, 60 investigators, and it all kept coming back to one elusive suspect. he just very commonly said, i know how to get rid of a body, so it would never ever be found. him? murder something that could be done over it was basically an hour never situation. hello, welcome to dateline. when kathy had cole disappeared, police didn t know if they are dealing with a missing person case or cold-blooded murder. with little evidence to go on, the investigation grew cold. decades later, a young detective who was just a kid when kathy vanished, dusted off the old files. investigators couldn t solve her case then, could he help solve it now? here is josh mankiewicz, with she didn t come home. time can be like a river, a long stream of events rushing by. most barely make a ripple, but a few, like the sudden loss of a close friend, a child or a p
on july 15th, 1991. did you really think she lived that day? i certainly have a reasonable doubt as to whether she died. to support that theory, the defense introduced statements that john heckle made more than 20 years ago. in one, heckle said siphon thousands of dollars from the joint bank account. in another, he asked investigators about a woman pictured in a swingers magazine might be as wife. is there any credible argument that kathy heckle scrolled away money, vanished, ran out on her husband, and her family, and then posed for pictures that were put in a swingers magazine, that anybody could ve seen? i certainly don t think it s been disproven that that could ve occurred. on the stand, john heckle said those decade old statements had been the frantic musings of a desperate man. i was grasping anything that i could think of to try and find what happened to my wife.
the defense conceded. groves did go home that day to change his shirt, but said, that was because he got dirty at the plant, where you had to lead a tour for a group of children from. that lunch hour trip home, they argued, simply made the prosecution s version of events even more unlikely. if you factor in all of the witnesses, when they saw him at the plant, how does he have anywhere near enough time to do what they claim he did? for 27 years, the question of what had happened to kathy heckle had hung over lock haven. now, it was up to a clinton county jury to finally provide an answer. it was contentious. sean sanford, a toddler at the time that kathleen heckle disappeared, was the jury foreman. the very first but we took was 75, 84, four guilty. i thought it will be the other
might have known she was having an affair, and may have taken some action on the zone. did you feel like you wherever a suspect? never worried about it. i knew they were trying to find where kathy was, and what had happened, and if that included questioning me, i have no problems with that. at some point somebody said to you, we believe she was having a relationship with some other people, was that shocking to hear? it was surprising. because that wasn t the way kathy was. in his interview with robert caldwell, he said he noticed a change in his wife s demeanor in recent weeks, and wondered if she might be having an affair. he was emotional. there was times when john and i just sat together, with my arm around him, and he would cry, who s concerned about his wife. and i felt very bad for the man. john heckel alibi checked out, and police found no
that s gotta be a terrible thing to tell your kids, because they want you to tell them this is going to be okay. that always had all the answers. and you can tell them it s gonna be okay. no. you don t want fabrication. across town that morning pennsylvania state trooper fred caldwell was on the case, his first call had been to margaret kathy s mom. i remember asking her if she noticed changes recently that were unusual, and she said in the last 4 to 6 weeks or so she just wasn t herself. then, the trooper asked one of those probing and indelicate questions, that cops have to ask. i asked her mom if she had any indication that she was seeing anyone, if she said she d reestablish contact with an old acquaintance from school. that man s name was dennis taylor, he and kathy had