Brenda Heist | 140

People are the Worst

Bleav

Horror, Comedy, Redrum, Detective, Murder, True Crime

4.8 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In February 2002, siblings Morgan & Lee Heist came home from school to an empty house. They assumed their mom, 42 year old Brenda Heist, was at the grocery store, but when hours passed with no sign of her, they called their dad to come home from work. This would be the start of a missing persons case that lasted over a decade with an ending nobody saw coming.

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0:00.0	Detective Schofield emailed Lee Morgan and Lee Jr. and asked if they would meet him for lunch at a local diner.
0:08.1	When they got to the diner, Detective Schofield sat down and said, we found her.
0:20.4	I'm still a little hoarse, but oh, that's from the hangover.
0:26.0	Don't you blame that on the flu?
0:30.6	That was our little secret.
0:32.9	Oh, no, the people deserve to know.
0:36.5	I was eight yesterday.
0:37.5	I couldn't get it together to record.
0:39.2	All right?
0:39.7	We had Billy Strings here in Asheville.
0:42.6	It was fun.
0:44.2	You know?
0:45.3	Sunday, fun day indeed.
0:47.0	Jeez.
0:48.0	I was like, I can't record today.
0:49.6	I'm tired.
0:50.4	Worked out for me.
0:51.1	I got to work on my story all day.
0:53.4	Well, it's a dozy. I do not like this story.
0:56.3	I'm going to tell you that right right now. It is scary and we'll get into it at the end.
1:01.7	Scary. Yeah, I just, I'm like, aren't they all? Well, I mean, sure. They're all scary. But this really, wow.
1:10.7	First, before I get into it, I'm just going to make the announcement again, new merch available for pre-sale on the website to everyone.
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