A mom of two from Pennsylvania appears to fade out of skinny air. 11 years later the household will get a name they by no means anticipated. This is the story of Brenda Heist.
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A mom of two from Pennsylvania appears to fade out of skinny air. 11 years later the household will get a name they by no means anticipated. This is the story of Brenda Heist.
WKRG News 5 is wanting again on the crimes that shocked the Gulf Coast. Brenda Heist’s story is the seventeenth in the collection.
It was the morning of Feb. 8, 2002. Brenda Heist, a mom to a 12-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter, had simply dropped her children off at college. At the time Brenda went lacking, she and her husband, Lee Heist, have been going by means of a divorce. According to a website made to help find Brenda, she had taken a couple of days off from her job to have a look at housing complexes.
When the children received residence from faculty that day, they realized the home was empty and their mother was nowhere to be found. Dinner had been got down to defrost and the laundry was half executed. The children referred to as their dad who then referred to as the police to file a lacking individual report. Four days after the report was filed Brenda’s automobile was found in a parking zone close to a bus station in a neighboring county.
Over the years Lee was one of the suspects in the case, nevertheless, he handed a polygraph check and was finally cleared. At one level a chilly case unit was created to research the case. In 2011, Lee had Brenda declared legally useless.
In April 2013, the household received a name they have been by no means anticipating to get – Brenda had been found alive. According to reports, Brenda went to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and turned herself in on some excellent warrants. She then knowledgeable deputies that she was a lacking individual. Deputies mentioned she informed them she was “tired of running.”
She had spent most of the time residing in a trailer with a person and doing odd jobs like cleansing properties. For the final two years she was in Florida she lived in a homeless shelter the place she mentioned she needed to scavenge for meals.
During the 11 years she had been lacking she had used a faux title and, underneath that title, she had warrants out for many crimes. Brenda informed detectives she had gone to a park on that February day to alleviate some stress. While sitting on a bench crying, two ladies and a person befriended her and satisfied her to affix them whereas they have been going to hitchhike to Florida. She determined to go and parked her automobile in the parking zone close to the bus station.
Although Brenda was residence secure, her household was indignant. Her ex-husband mentioned their youngsters weren’t in speaking together with her. Because he was seen as a attainable suspect, folks wouldn’t let their youngsters be mates together with his mates. It is unknown now if the members of the family have reunited.
Brenda was ultimately put in jail for probation violations out of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. Her alias, Kelsie Smith, remains to be listed as Brenda’s title in the Santa Rosa County jail log.