voice that there was some concern there that she hadn t come back yet. and you picked that up. yeah. it was not typical for her to not come back and not tell anybody. with their dad out of town, they kept trying to reach their mom. nothing. at about 6:30 that evening, alicia called her grandparents, clarence and margaret dolan. i answered the phone. it was alicia. she said, gram, can you get us some milk?” and i said, what what do you mean, can i get you some milk? she says, well, mom didn t come home yet, and she says, we don t have any milk. and i said, alicia, i will be right there. and you re thinking what? i didn t know what to think. but as a mother, you know that this is something bad, something very bad. that night, kathy s mother and father contacted everyone they could think of. no one had heard from her. and that was i remember picking up on that, that they seemed they seemed worried. i mean you could just tell. your grandparents were acti
yeah. i i mean like every other day. yeah. same routine all the time, every time she left us, she kissed us goodbye. it was a july morning. alicia, 13, and john, then nine, were home for summer vacation. a little after 9:00 a.m., alicia says her mom called from her job. we discussed having dinner and having pork chops. uh-huh. yeah. because that was one of my favorite things that she cooked. later they tried to contact their mom at work. one of the times we tried to call her was around lunchtime. and she had left for lunch. yeah. and then we waited and called after lunch, and she still wasn t back to work yet. at 40, kathy heckel had spent half her life working at the local paper plant in lock haven, pennsylvania. i can t remember who i was speaking to at the office. but you could hear in their
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 parent, have a way of circling back upon us in a ceaseless loop of memory and regret. that s the way it s been for john heckel and his sister alicia talbot ever since that completely normal morning in 1991 when their mom kathy heck l kissed them good-bye, left for work, and never returned. do you remember her leaving that morning?
understand. can you sep accept the idea that maybe there were needs that she felt that she had to meet with men who were not you, but that she still loved you? oh, no. i believe she did love me. she had a secret life that she wasn t showin anybody else. but you don t know how long that secret life was, and neither do i. it could have been her plan to wanna end that the day when she asked me why i had to leave so early. i don t know. but i m not going to hate her for being human. do you blame yourself? little bit. 22 summers came and went. john heckel remarried. the kids grew up. they started new lives out west. alicia became a ski pro, john, a fishing guide. but through it all, their mother was never far from their thoughts. she missed all those
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