EP292: Vashished Before Sunrise

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the quiet winter of 1994, the small town of New Haven woke to a mystery that would refuse to fade. On the morning of April 3, a young convenience store clerk named Heidi Allen unlocked the doors at D&W Convenience Store just as she had countless times before. Customers came and went, the coffee brewed, and the ordinary rhythms of a Sunday morning settled in. Then, sometime between one routine moment and the next, something went terribly wrong. Within hours, the register sat open, Heidi’s car remained in the parking lot, and a handful of chilling clues hinted that whatever had happened inside that small roadside store had unfolded in seconds. What followed would consume investigators, divide a community, and leave a question hanging in the cold air for decades: how does someone simply vanish in the middle of a normal morning?

1) Heidi Allen's Page on The Doe Network
2) Heidi Allen's Page on The Charley Project
3) People v. Gary Thibodeau
4) People v. Gary Thibodeau
5) Gary Thibodeau Looks to Have Conviction Overturned
6) Gary Thibodeau, convicted of kidnapping Heidi Allen in 1994, dead at 63
7) Thibodeau's death offers no closure for either side
8) Judge Denies Thibodeau Motion for New Trial
9) State’s Highest Court Turns Down Thibodeau’s Attempt For New Trial

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:21.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:34.3	Hi, this is Tanya.
0:36.5	Hi, this is Shannon. And we are Crimes and Consequences, a is Tanya. Hi, this is Shannon.
0:37.9	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore true crime podcast.
0:42.9	Hey, Shannon.
0:44.3	Hey, Tanya.
0:45.1	How are you?
0:46.1	I'm doing all right.
0:47.8	Oh, no, it's not February anymore.
0:50.6	It's March.
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:52.3	Springs are coming.
0:53.7	Springs are coming around the corner.
0:55.6	We had what this early this morning.
0:58.0	It was, gosh, everything was happening on the full moon of March 3rd.
1:03.4	It was the eclipse.
1:04.4	It was the red moon.
1:06.1	The Jewish holiday Purim started today, whatever they do moon times two. And then I think Ramadan started today.
1:15.1	I mean, no, Ramadan started, I think last week or the week before. Yeah. Did it start on the same on.
1:23.0	Like those to Ash Wednesday. Yeah, or Ash Wednesday. I know there was like some alignment.
1:28.1	So thank you for that correction.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crimes and Consequences, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crimes and Consequences and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.