143 - The Abduction of Heather Kullorn

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Twelve year old Heather Kullorn was looking forward to spending a week with family friends but what she imagined to be a fun week would instead become a nightmare. During the early morning hours of July 15th, 1999, Heather mysteriously vanished.

What police had imagined to be a straight forward search for a child quickly became a chaotic situation filled with inconsistencies, lies and evidence that showed Heather was in dire trouble. The discovery of a drug lab aroused their suspicions and soon Heather's case was deemed a violent abduction.

While investigators initially considered the crime random, the further they dug, the more the sinister reality came into view. It seemed apparent that the child had likely been taken not by a stranger, but by someone she knew and trusted. Did she see something she shouldn't have and someone moved to silence her or was there something else going on beneath the surface?

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0:38.9	Twelve-year-old Heather Cullorn was excited to be spending the week with family friends
0:43.8	at their apartment. During her time there, she would hang out with the couple while helping
0:48.8	look after their two-month-old baby. Everything was going fine until she mysteriously vanished.
0:56.3	Investigators came into what they believed may have been a stranger abduction, but soon
1:01.3	evidence discovered in and around the apartment would suggest something far more sinister.
1:07.1	The search for Heather revealed that the apartment complex doubled as a methamphetamine lab,
1:12.7	and police quickly theorized that the pre-teen may have been the victim of foul play.
1:18.5	A string of contradictory statements, stories within consistencies, unreliable witnesses,
1:25.3	and a cast of potential suspects with long criminal records hindered the investigation,
1:30.6	but the more police searched, the more reasons they found to fear for the child's safety.
1:36.6	Was Heather Cullorn the victim of a random abduction, or was the child directly targeted by someone
1:42.4	she knew, perhaps, because she had seen something that could threaten the entire drug operation?
1:49.9	This is Trace Evidence, Episode 143, The Abduction of Heather Cullorn.
2:04.5	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today we examine a case as mysterious
2:11.8	as it is horrible. Before getting into the details, just a few notes about the show. Trace
2:18.3	Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and disappearances.
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