Eleven years ago, Brenda Heist of central Pennsylvania vanished. She
had dropped off her kids, then 8 and 12, at school. Dinner was
defrosting. Laundry was half-done. And then she was gone without a
trace. There was a long investigation. Her husband was considered a
suspect at one point. Eventually, she was declared dead. Then last week,
Heist walked up to police in South Florida and told them who she was.
Not surprisingly, her children aren't ready to forgive her. From CBS
News:
It began when three strangers reached out to comfort (Heist) as she
cried in despair in a park in 2002, then offered to let her accompany
them. She took them up on it…
Heist decided to join the three strangers as they hitchhiked for a month
along Interstate 95 on their way to South Florida. She told (Lititz
Borough Police Detective John Schofield) she slept in tents and under
bridges, survived by scavenging restaurant trash and panhandling, and
kept her previous life a secret, contacting no one and using a
pseudonym.
Now 54, Heist told police she spent seven years living with a man in a
camper and working odd jobs, but more recently she was homeless again,
living in a tent facility run by a social service agency.
"She said she was at the end of her rope, she was tired of running," Schofield said.
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