me, what do you do? you just keep fighting. heidi allen was sweet, spirited and supersmart. she took a job here to earn cash for college. she wanted to be responsible. she was working the early shift on easter sunday and that s when she vanished. i go to the store and i say i can t find heidi. they notice someone wrestling with someone in a van. it became the two brothers did it together. mystery solved? maybe not. years later during a chance encounter they said to us do you really want to know what happened to her? a horrifying story. he said i grabbed her like this and old case blown wide open. i said we can t let this go. two women teaming up for the truth. if you think i m going to walk away, you are mistaken. uncovering an astonishing twist. attach was a photograph from heidi allen it had a code name julia roberts. a teen with a secret identity, did she also have the secret enemy. they wanted to shut her up, permanently. welcome
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teresa and said as much. and richard said oh my god i was there, about two packs of cigarettes. so he picked up the phone he called. called the sheriff and set in motion a sequence of life-changing events he could not stop. other callers that morning offered tips about a suspicious van at the store. he was sheriff at the time. they noticed somebody driving very radically, wrestling are struggling with someone in a man. this ban, sheriff, did you get a model? different color, white, light blue. but in those early hours in the days before smartphones and ubiquitous security cameras, nothing was coming together. well in tears searched, national guard was cold out, but heidi was gone and stayed gone. we followed up on every lead we had no major people. weeks went by without an arrest, without answers and
that had her life taken from her. she was a good kid. with goals. but the sheriff s department was pursuing a promising lead and it concerns the guy who had bought cigarettes from heidi thought morning. richard thibodaux. did the cops on the phone start to ask you questions? they said to someone over to the house and asked me a bunch of questions. investigators had turned out or suspicious of him from the get-go. they d even put him under surveillance. the reason? thibodaux s was the last transaction recorded on the register that morning. and richer tip it also drove a white fan. what seemed to match a vehicle described by a witness at the scene. at first it was blue, a change to white but he did say in the end that van, the thibodaux van that was the fan. the witness reporting more than one man, so investigators also brought in richard s brother gary for questioning. the brother said he was home to sleep that morning and his girlfriend vouched for him. but gary thibodaux did
dennis murphy: tonya priest had gone to the authorities authorities with an explosive allegation. she said a man nicknamed thumper had confessed to her that he had two bodies had abducted and murdered heidi allen back in 1994. she was devastated when the prosecutor checked out her story and ultimately chose not a believer. i was doing it because i was a good person. and that is how i felt. but tony would not give it up. she was convinced that an innocent man, gary was in prison. she made kohl s and was eventually put in touch with a new york federal public defender named lisa somebody who had ties to the defense lawyers who had worked on his failed appeals. tanya felt as though things were on this by the time she called our office. lisa, the lawyer, listened