Heather Porter
DNA: ID
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Episode 67 Heather Porter
Heather Porter had a fight with her mother and walked out of her Baltimore County, Maryland house on a Tuesday night in September 1981. She hung out with some friends, but around 11:10 p.m., started the .4 mile walk home. It was a school night, and Heather was just 13. She never made it. Somewhere in that distance of less than a half mile, Heather was abducted. Her body was found the next morning, miles away in Towson, raped and strangled. Police investigated the case thoroughly, but were stumped, and decades passed. Finally, forensic genealogy pointed to a man who lived in the area at the time – and had an extensive history of rape. John Petrecca had no known connections to Heather – but he was the one who raped her and snuffed out her short life.
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| 0:45.3 | I'm It was 1981. |
| 1:05.0 | It was 1981. |
| 1:10.0 | Barbara Porter was frantic. Yes, she had argued with her daughter Heather. Yes, Heather had shouted that she hated her mom and stalked out of the house at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday night. Yes, Barbara and Heather had been budding heads in recent months. But Heather had never walked out before and not come home all night. Heather |
| 1:29.5 | was only 13 years old. Barbara had at first admittedly been really angry. Heather was not supposed to |
| 1:36.7 | leave the house, especially at 10.30 on a school night. But leave she did. And when she didn't come |
| 1:42.2 | back, Barbara initially figured she was crashing at a girlfriend's |
| 1:45.4 | house and decided it was best if they both cooled off. But the next day, Wednesday, came and went, |
| 1:51.9 | and Heather didn't come home from school. Barbara called around to Heather's friends, but none of them |
| 1:56.8 | knew where Heather was. And one of them, Donna, told Barbara that Heather had intended on going |
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