MISSING: Heidi Planck

Dateline: Missing In America

NBC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

38-year-old California mother Heidi Planck was last seen leaving her 10-year-old son’s football game in Downey, California on October 17, 2021. Her ex-husband, Jim Wayne, reported her missing three days later when she failed to pick their son up from school. Hours after Heidi was last seen, her dog was found on the 28th floor of an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles. Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz speaks with Jim Wayne and one of Heidi’s close friends. Heidi is 5’3” and 120 lbs., with blonde hair and blue eyes. If you have information on Heidi’s case, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department at (213) 486-6840 or the Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 1-800-222-TIPS.

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0:00.0	It's the do-see-do of divorced parents everywhere.
0:07.4	Dropping off your child at your exes for the weekend, picking them up from sports practice
0:13.4	or ballet class a few days later.
0:16.9	It's all part of the well-choreographed dance that keeps a family humming and children's
0:22.5	secure in knowing exactly when they'll next see Mom or Dad.
0:31.2	On the cool, clear afternoon of Wednesday, October 20, 2021, it was Heidi Planck's turn for
0:38.2	pickup.
0:39.8	The 38-year-old mom who worked in finance was scheduled to collect her 10-year-old son
0:45.2	Bond from his private school in Los Angeles, except that as the time for pickup approached,
0:52.4	Heidi's ex-husband Jim Wayne felt something was off.
0:58.1	I talked to him on Tuesday night and I said, did you not talk to your mom last night?
1:03.9	And he goes, no, I didn't, I texted her, but she didn't text me back.
1:08.0	I said, well, did you text her tonight?
1:09.8	He goes, yeah, I texted her tonight and she didn't respond to me.
1:14.2	And I said, hmm, okay, I texted her that night and she didn't respond to me.
1:19.7	And I would always get some type of response, so I'm on alert, but I'm not on high alert
1:25.7	yet.
1:26.7	Soon though, he would be everyone would.
1:33.7	I'm Josh Manquets, and this is Missing in America, a podcast from Dateline.
1:40.2	We're taking a deep dive into stories you brought us on social media as part of our Missing
1:45.0	in America digital series, stories of people who have simply vanished.
1:50.9	What we're hoping to do is shake free some information, so listen closely, because you
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