Though her mother has suddenly reappeared after 11 years, don't expect a family reunion any time soon, Morgan Heist says. Anger is one of the many emotions Morgan Heist has gone through since she learned last week that Brenda Heist, the mother she last saw when she was 8, had mysteriously reappeared. Brenda Heist disappeared from her Pennsylvania family some 11 years ago, leaving her husband,daughter and son wondering if something terrible had happened to her. Police searched for her for years, even at one point creating a cold case task force.
Then last week Brenda Heist, 54, turned herself in to authorities in Key Largo, Florida, saying she had just walked away from her family because of stress. Missing mother was 'far from homeless' Missing mom's dramatic transformation Son to mom: We did well after you left Ex: I don't want to talk to runaway wife Missing woman turns up 11 years later The fact that her mother abandoned her and never even called has left her seething, Morgan Heist said.
The anger is captured in a post on the daughter's Twitter page that reads she hopes her mother "rots in hell. Whether they will want to reconnect with the mother who dropped them off at school 11 years ago and never returned remains to be seen. Lee Heist told ABC News that the cloud of suspicion hovering over him all these years and its effect on his children have been difficult. This is a little bump in the road were going to work through it.
Heist, 54, was going through a divorce with her husband and applying for housing assistance in when, while distressed and crying in a park in Lititz, she told police, she was approached by a trio of drifters who told her they were about to head to Florida. The mother of two, who worked as a car dealership bookkeeper, had just dropped off her kids at school when she decided to join the group, and vanished without a trace.
They drove to York, Pa. It was a community down there living together. Schofield has been working on Heist's missing person case for years. She told him that she was at the end of her rope, and tired of running, the officer said. Police quickly figured out that she was the same woman who had vanished in Her disappearance led to an extensive investigation involving local, state and federal agencies.
Heist's missing person case eventually went cold, only to be reopened in The one consistent thing was that they said there's no way she would have left her children," Schofield said. After years of futile investigation, Brenda Heist was declared dead in Lee Heist, who was once a prime suspect in her disappearance, began a new life: He remarried four years ago and lives in a modest ranch house in Norristown with his wife and dogs.
When Lititz police called last week, he assumed they were going to tell him they had found a body. Instead, they said they had found Brenda Heist alive - living under an assumed name in Florida. The last several days have been a whirlwind for Lee Heist and his two children, now 19 and 23, as details emerge of his ex-wife's life on the run.
Brenda Heist left town on a whim, she told police, after being denied housing assistance while the couple were going through an amicable divorce in While crying in a Lancaster park, "thinking about how tough it's going to be to raise kids on her salary," she met three homeless people who invited her to hitchhike with them to the Florida Keys, Lititz Detective John Schofield said.
The decision took a split-second. The journey took a month. Brenda Heist and her companions slept in tents on the side of I at night and thumbed rides by day, eventually arriving in Key West, 1, miles away.
She begged for food behind restaurants and lived on the streets for two years before moving in with another man in a trailer, Schofield said. She did odd jobs, cleaned boats, and moved in and out of the trailer until the relationship became abusive and she went back on the streets, Schofield said. From there, the details get fuzzy.
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