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Already Gone Podcast

the death of Karl Heikell

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Halloween, 1981. 11 year old Karl Heikell leaves his home in Michigan's upper peninsula and disappears.

Check out Dillon's website - Halloween, 1981: An Investigation and Archive (halloween1981.com)

This episode written by Nina Innsted, audio production by Bill Bert.

Come see Nina in Albuquerque on March 5!

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/AlreadyGone

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0:00.0

Hey friends, Nina here. If you're in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area, I hope you'll join us on Sunday,

0:06.7

March 5th at 6 p.m. at Rio Bravo Brewing Company. We're doing a true crime live event. There's

0:13.2

going to be a bunch of podcasts there. We're doing a live episode, Q&A, and then a meet and greet.

0:19.6

Tickets are available on Eventbrite, and I really hope you'll join us. Again, that Sunday,

0:24.9

March 5th, 2023 at the Rio Bravo Brewing Company in Albuquerque. Hope to see you there.

0:34.3

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. Right now there is no trace.

0:38.2

Investigators say evidence leave them to believe that she's dead.

0:41.8

Stick my nose back in that trail. That's all I can do.

0:45.5

This is already gone.

0:55.6

I think most listeners of the podcast know that I am passionate about cases involving children.

1:01.8

And I understand that cases involving harm to children are not always an easy listen.

1:07.6

But I believe that when a child is lost and the case is unresolved, we need to give that case

1:13.2

our attention even when it's uncomfortable. Today is another one of those cases where a family

1:20.8

faces a terrible loss and now, more than 40 years later, they are still waiting for answers.

1:27.7

So come with me to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where an 11-year-old boy vanished on Halloween night.

1:35.1

11-year-old Carl Heichel was the only boy and a family of girls. He lived with his sisters

1:52.0

and parents in the small community of Centennial Heights, Michigan. Centennial is near Cali-Mat,

1:58.7

a former UP boom town. Cali-Mat was known for copper mining in the late 1800s into the 20th century.

2:07.2

The entire community is quite small. If you fold in nearby towns like Centennial Heights and

2:12.8

Lorium Township, the population surges to about 2000 people. The nearest big city is Marquette

2:20.0

Michigan at two hours away. If you need a larger town, it's a four-hour drive to either Green Bay

2:26.6

Wisconsin or Duluth, Minnesota. On the afternoon of Halloween, 1981, 11-year-old Carl told his

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