come and gone since heidi s disappearance. and now with johnny s story, everything was new again. the dea starts looking into the evidence, tanya helped gather. but, what will it mean for the case? coming up. when the investigator talked to jennifer westcott she explained that, look, my statement to tanya were not true. when dateline continues. ne continues this is a cranberry. full of ancient, antioxidant, taste bud blasting power.
so did she run to the police then and there, scream out anyone who would listen? it was not that simple. tanya, why didn t you go to the sheriff s office at that point and i had a story to tell? you while he lived a mile down the road from my house. tanya says she was paralyzed by fear of somber. i went home and cried, i did not want to know what to do. but she never forgot about that chilling conversation. she tried to cut off contact with her friend vicky and the boyfriend, and eventually tanya moved out of state. she was an 18 year old girl, and it broke my heart. it destroyed me. the turning point came in 2010, three years later. that is when tanya learned some sickening news. in a domestic dispute, thumper had shot and killed her former friend. did you then think he was capable to have done that to heidi? of course. the domestic and then of course. thumper, real name james steed, was convicted and
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 to dateline. secrets, everybody has them, but some are more dangerous and take longer to be revealed and others. like the curious case of how the allen, why did she disappear one fateful easter morning and how would it come to be that years later to women heidi never knew would help uncover her secret and tried to bust a case wide open? now here s dennis murphy with rear window. tanya priess never wanted to be a star witness least of all a murder investigation, but after that guy blurted out what he did she felt she had to come
forward. would you live with it? could you live with all of that? and she found herself on the phone talking to a district attorney in upstate new york. tanya believed she knew who had done it, who had done the terrible thing at the convenience store on easter sunday many years ago. the store clerk abducted and never seen again. they probably only took maybe 60 seconds to do what they needed to do. what tanya reopened was a wound that had never healed in new york. i can t let it go. i won t let it go. i will die trying and fighting for her. if they think i m going to walk away, they are mistaken, i will not. even today, just say the name heidi allen and swirl of memory come back, some of them fuzzy now, it was 1994 that missing girl, the van, was it