Heidi's Legacy

Thank you all for your concern about my daughter and myself. We continue to live and have hope for justice. Shortly after Heidi was abducted the Heidi search Center was formed. “What started in tragedy continues in hope “ is the motto that appears on their website Heidi's Legacy

From the history section of the website:

According to the FBI, the search for Heidi was one of the largest and most expensive searches in our nation's history. Never before had so many people been involved in a search for one child over such an extended period of time. For 21 days over 8,000 volunteers searched each day, covering 1,200 miles and using over 50 miles of yellow ribbon as a symbol of the search. On August 11, 1990, then-mayor Lila Cockrell declared "Find Heidi Day", a day in which over 300,000 citizens of San Antonio participated in a joint effort to search.

The Heidi Search Center has been in service for 16 years and serves to

educate the community on abduction to try to prevent tragedies such as these from occurring again. We offer guidance, assistance and emotional support to families in and around San Antonio. We are a non-profit organization funded solely by donations from businesses and private individuals.

Since it's opening in 1990, the Heidi Search Center has assisted the

families of 2,328 missing persons. And this is only the number of cases

the Center has taken in. It is estimated that this many families or more

have turned to the Center for emotional support and advice, with their

loved one being located before there was even a chance to take in the

case. Knowing exactly how many families the Center has helped is simply impossible.

The following information comes from cases taken between 1990 and June of 2003.

2,328 total cases have been actively worked

This includes:

467 missing

1,664 runaways

146 parental abductions

35 stranger abductions

14 non family abductions

2 unknown or unavailable