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

EP292: Vashished Before Sunrise