Last Seen Katoomba 03 | The Best Friend
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ABC Australia
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🗓️ 19 February 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Heidi Wailes was close to Belinda and says she looked out for Belinda like an older sister would. But a break-in at Belinda’s house just days before she disappeared suggests Heidi might not have always been the friend she claimed to be.
Many, including the coroner at Belinda’s inquest, believe Heidi may know more about what happened to Belinda than she is revealing. As pressure mounts in the courtroom, cracks begin to show. We also hear from another person in Belinda’s friendship circle, Wanda Loynds (aka "Storm") who admits to punching Belinda on the last day she was seen alive.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Just a warning, there's some strong language in this episode and discussion of domestic violence. I met her at the Gerens at the pub. |
| 0:17.0 | I really liked her happily, bubbly outgoing personality. |
| 0:22.0 | Like she was always happy and fun and really like fun energy to be around. |
| 0:28.0 | Heidi Wales was in her 20s when she met the Linda Peasley. |
| 0:34.0 | Heidi was a young mom like Belinda, |
| 0:36.0 | and they had kids about the same age. |
| 0:38.0 | So our relationship was more based around |
| 0:42.0 | like a big sister, little sister kind of relationship like I |
| 0:45.0 | really looked out for her and I would like to think and believe that she looked |
| 0:50.1 | up to me and she was able to tell me so many things. I think she did trust me a lot. |
| 0:55.4 | There were other similarities between them. They both kind of had their lives on |
| 0:59.7 | fast-forward and maybe on a track they hadn't necessarily planned. |
| 1:03.0 | Heidi says they became friends and she even moved into Belinda's house for a while. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean I didn't know her for that long but in the time that I did get to know her you know she shared some |
| 1:15.2 | really deep and meaningful things with me and I did with her and you know I lived in |
| 1:21.7 | her home and helped raise her child and I'll never forget that. |
| 1:26.7 | But Heidi wasn't the only one who came and stayed at Belinda's house. |
| 1:30.4 | I can remember like warning her that those type of people who use heroin are different types of people than people who use |
| 1:39.1 | Speed or smoke marijuana. It's a different kind of drug. You know people get sick. They'll do anything to get money for it. I'm Gina McKeown and this is unravel. |
| 1:57.0 | Episode by episode we're looking at the six people named at the inquest as persons of interest in Belinda Peasley's case. |
| 2:05.0 | Belinda was last seen in Katoomba on the night of September 26, 1998. |
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