Wilbur is 30-Something Now, If She's Still Alive
Sam Hemingway
BurlingtonFreePress.com
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Middletown, Vermont (US):
Heide Dawn Wilbur's file sits in a box next to the desk of Vermont State Police Detective Cpl. Helaine Gaiotti.For 14 years, Gaiotti has been trying to locate the blonde-haired teen from Middletown Springs without success.
Her inability to find Wilbur, to even know if she's dead or alive, haunts the veteran detective. "There's never been a really hot lead in the case," Gaiotti said in an interview last week. "Cases like this take away a little piece of me. It's horrible."
Wilbur was 16 and under the custody of the state Social and Rehabilitation Services department. She was living in a Rutland foster home in early 1991 when she got a weekend pass to visit her family in Middletown Springs.
On Feb. 11, it's believed she thumbed a ride out of town -- and into oblivion. "She's 30-something now, if she's still alive," Gaiotti said. "Her father's deceased and her mother's had a stroke. Part of me wonders why she's not come back and said, 'I'm free. You can't touch me now.'"
Oct 30, 2005
Sam Hemingway
BurlingtonFreePress.com
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Middletown, Vermont (US):
Heide Dawn Wilbur's file sits in a box next to the desk of Vermont State Police Detective Cpl. Helaine Gaiotti.For 14 years, Gaiotti has been trying to locate the blonde-haired teen from Middletown Springs without success.
Her inability to find Wilbur, to even know if she's dead or alive, haunts the veteran detective. "There's never been a really hot lead in the case," Gaiotti said in an interview last week. "Cases like this take away a little piece of me. It's horrible."
Wilbur was 16 and under the custody of the state Social and Rehabilitation Services department. She was living in a Rutland foster home in early 1991 when she got a weekend pass to visit her family in Middletown Springs.
On Feb. 11, it's believed she thumbed a ride out of town -- and into oblivion. "She's 30-something now, if she's still alive," Gaiotti said. "Her father's deceased and her mother's had a stroke. Part of me wonders why she's not come back and said, 'I'm free. You can't touch me now.'"
Oct 30, 2005
