she was an 18-year-old girl. it broke my heart. it destroyed me. what do you do? you just keep fighting. heidi allen was sweet, spirited, and supersmart. test more, no sweat. yeah. she took a job here to earn cash for college. she wanted to be responsible. she was working the early shift on easter sunday, that s when she vanished. they called from the store, i can t find heidi. they noticed somebody wrestling with somebody in a van. the theory became 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 an 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, they are mistaken. uncovering an astonishing twist. attached was a photograph from heidi allen. it had a code name julia roberts. a teen with a se
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
he says those jailhouse snitches lied and their testimony was the only real evidence against him. did you tell those no. you re not doing drugs with i.d.? no. he had been inside for 20 years, he had always proclaimed his innocence, but do you say why me? i ve gone through all of them feelings and emotions and thoughts over the years. but i ve got to believe that you are what you are in life. that s what you re supposed to be, whether it has anything to do with the innocent and guilty. but yours is more than 20 years now in the new york state correctional system. for a crime you say you did not commit. i did not. back in 2013, when tanya stepped forward, gary had no idea the case was being given another look. he had exhausted his appeals. the other brother, richard, 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