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
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
to that secretly recorded phone call between tonya and her childhood pal and came away with different takes in the dna. i would never open a can of worms like that. god almighty. that was like, jaw-dropping. what do you hear on that to? a woman confiding is that it took her a long time to get the images out of her head. i heard her say in the van. she also said that she would never go to police. did you believe it tanya when she came forward? i absolutely did. i said we cannot let this. go lisa called up her friend dawn o brien, then a reporter with syracuse.com. she says, you have always told me to call you when i have good case and i ve got one. lisa had a morsel that intrigued him. this was the first time in 20 years that anyone said they knew anything about what happened to heidi allen. one of the early doors reporter knocked on was richard, the brother who had been accused and acquitted. finally, it was unbelievable. finally somebody comes