the investigator asked about that recent phone call with tanya, and the fact that they had it all on tape. did you make reference saying that they brought and that you stayed she kept her out of the van. no, i never said anything to her about a van. well, in fact, she had. that is when they told her that the call was recorded. oh my god, i really don t i mean i was. this lady. where does she even come up ? what is about? i said i don t know anything about them taking i just thought i was shutting her up. i don t. i guess i was confessing i had heidi allen at my house. when the investigator talked to jennifer westcott she explained that, look, my statement were simply not true. i was trying to get her off the phone, i was trying to appease her. the dea tracked down thumper, aka james dean and the
forward to help my brother get out of prison. i was like if you have anything that might help here, let me know. so he had seven dogs boxes of documents in his garage. absolutely i d like to see those where it away. for two decades, richard had kept every scrap of paper related to his trial. was there something buried in there that of the other lawyers had missed? something that might help his brother? fort lisa and the reporter, eagerly digging through those boxes was like opening presents at christmas. i thought, what is this stuff? it was so bizarre to me. there was something buried there, something forgotten that almost gloat it turned out to be so important for their quest. what they searched out wasn t in terms that put heidi allen in a whole new light. she was not just the bright faced smart girl selling papers, she had a secret arrangement with local law enforcement.
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
had taken heidi in the van to the home of a young woman named jennifer westcott. he screamed if you do not believe me, go ask jennifer. what we want to do is try to follow up to see if there s any truth to that. jennifer westcott was a girl tanya new from high school. the dea encouraged her to get in touch by facebook, they exchanged telephone numbers, and then it was time for a phone call. they plugged into my phone, tape the whole conversation. hopefully she will answer. hello? it had been years since they last spoke. tanya made small talk at first. and then eased into the story that she had heard. the murder of heidi all those years ago. he just told me that they grabbed her from the store and they brought her to your house. i really, in my own head, i dropped that. right. i don t know, probably about ten years ago. jennifer did not deny anything, but she was not saying much either. why did they even involve
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.