team. she argued that is something called a brady violation, prosecutors are required to turn over any evidence that might help the defense. lisa filed a motion to have gary s convictions thrown out. john o brien broke the news, writing the first of many heidi stories to come. it just took off and people or devouring it. a rock had been kicked over. the reporter is now getting hundreds of tips and leads. he even tracked down one of the jailhouse informants from the trial. robert bald sorrow and recorded the interview. the man s story had changed somewhat. your testimony came out that he confessed to it. i never said he confessed to anything. i just said, you know, he never came flat out and told me that he killed anyone. any coworker of i.d.s said in a statement that shortly before heidi went missing, she had been afraid because the sheriff s department wanted her to nail people for dealing coke. but, i.d.s sister, lisa, was having nothing to do with a new series. do you be
heidi allen was a confidential informant. telling us who is selling acid on school grounds, who s dealing dope? right. she had been issued a three by five informant index card. it had name, fingerprints, even a secret informant alias. it had the code name julia roberts. it had all or personal information on this current. saying this woman, code name julia roberts, is a drug informant for. i was thinking, how did this not come out during the trial? the discovery of hides informant status opened up a whole new series about her disappearance. it certainly would have opened up the field to many other possible suspects with a motive to harm her. it turns out some power had said as much to tanya. he said that is what happens to rats. she was a rat, she was going to turn some of the big guys in and that is why they did it. as thumper tells, if she is a snitch. she is a snitch. lisa immediately got on with his trial attorney from 1995.
blue or was it white? and did they get the guy that did it and sent him away? tanya was a teenager back then. did you follow it in the news, did the kids talk about it in school? i knew that they were looking for a van that is basically all i knew at that point. here is what s not in dispute about that snowy easter sunday morning. 18 year old heidi allen taking the early shift for a worker open the convenience store about 5:45 am, it was a part-time job for her, a way to defray some of her college freshman bill. lisa was heidi s sister. she was sassy and energetic and a risk taker. did she like school? she likes school because she was smart, she didn t have to study, she was one of those kids. she was one of those kids, really? one of those kids. what was her job? it was our friends, her mom and dad felt safe. before they bird started
parking lot, but was returned to the office right away. only the store owner sought. but, something else was going on in the hearing. lisa, the defense attorney, was also acting a little bit like a prosecutor. she was about to introduce evidence about those three men identified as the so-called of doctors and killers. all i have to do is say hey, there is new evidence and had it been available, it would ve created reasonable doubt for a jury to acquit him. the attorney called other witnesses who, like tony, i had heard stories about of these three men killing heidi and disposing of her body. he would tell us several times that he would do us like he did heidi. and, that girl from the phone call, jennifer westcott, she changed her story again. telling authorities on tape that she did not know what happened. the only thing you said to me is that body was burned in a in a wood stove and taken care of in a van. and then the men themselves. first, there was some, her real name
to that secretly recorded phone call between tonya and her childhood pal and came away with different takes in the dna. i would never open a can of worms like that. god almighty. that was like, jaw-dropping. what do you hear on that to? a woman confiding is that it took her a long time to get the images out of her head. i heard her say in the van. she also said that she would never go to police. did you believe it tanya when she came forward? i absolutely did. i said we cannot let this. go lisa called up her friend dawn o brien, then a reporter with syracuse.com. she says, you have always told me to call you when i have good case and i ve got one. lisa had a morsel that intrigued him. this was the first time in 20 years that anyone said they knew anything about what happened to heidi allen. one of the early doors reporter knocked on was richard, the brother who had been accused and acquitted. finally, it was unbelievable. finally somebody comes