CA CA - Heidi Planck, 39, left son’s football game in Downey, dog found in Los Angeles, 17 Oct 2021

[SuziQ]

Why did police do a wellness check, find nothing, and then come back a few days later with their guns drawn expecting there to be someone there and some sort of potential danger?

Did they not know about the first check or did they learn something in between?

Imo, they found her vehicle.

 

[Lusitana]

I don't think it would be that far fetched if Heidi was a victim of foul play due to her work associations. People have killed for a whole lot less than that. If she ever hinted at cooperating with LE about fraud, money laundering, etc, that could have upset someone very badly.

Honestly, I can see her leaving her son's football game in a hurry if someone called her and threatened her. Something like "if you don't meet me at X place right now, you will be in big trouble" or whatever.

 

[JerseyGirl]

No new updates:

Mystery of missing mom Heidi Planck deepens after dog turns up


When Wayne accessed her phone, he found messages that were left by a woman who found Planck’s dog on the 28th floor of a downtown LA apartment building just three hours after the mom was last seen.

 

[Warwick1991]

I was searching to see if Heidi had a real estate license and I saw that this article had been updated and I read this -
"Smeader said her daughter completed a certification course in real estate and other business-related classes."

Is there any way to find out if she had a real estate license? I wonder if she was also working as an agent and met someone at the apartment building to show a unit.

Outside realtors list some of the units so I'd think that their agents - and perhaps other agents - could show the units just as they would for properties for sale. And I read on one of the company's websites that they do work with outside agents to make the experience more comfortable for the client but I can't remember where I read it exactly.

If something happened while she was meeting a client, that could explain why the property managers have been so hard to work with.

In California, you can look up a real estate agent's license here: Public License Lookup - DRE I did not find her listed.

 

[StarRemy8]

She worked for him a while back and he sells apartments in the building where her dog was found.

Who is "he" she worked for who awhile back that sells apts in that building?

 

[Curiousobserver]

Imo, they found her vehicle.

I think you are correct. The vehicle should have the Land Rover Vehicle locator and you can do it from her phone; which we know her ex-husband has access to.

 

[Gardenista]

Who is "he" she worked for who awhile back that sells apts in that building?

Elliman Realty

 

[Curiousobserver]

FBI becomes involved when there is complex evidence or investigation that local LE cannot do- like electronics.

 

[Satchie]

I don't think it would be that far fetched if Heidi was a victim of foul play due to her work associations. People have killed for a whole lot less than that. If she ever hinted at cooperating with LE about fraud, money laundering, etc, that could have upset someone very badly.

Honestly, I can see her leaving her son's football game in a hurry if someone called her and threatened her. Something like "if you don't meet me at X place right now, you will be in big trouble" or whatever.

I have read some interesting details about how the FBI actually operate in investigating white collar crime. For example, the true story book 'The Informant' and many detailed stories in hi-quality journalism, about how they investigate cases, like the recent sales of college admissions through corrupt sports officials.

In essence, when the FBI identify a potential informant (someone who will be useful to them), among other things, they take that person under their wing, they are available to that person day and night. So anyone who feels threatened can immediately call their contact in the FBI for help.

There's no need for anyone to be sent to sleep with the fishes, etc, in white collar crime.

JMO

 

[holsen]

This is such a strange case. Am I understanding correctly that she left home for the game with her phone and laptop? But she hasn't been seen since leaving the game and her phone and laptop were found in her home and the dog somewhere else? Or am I missing something?

 

[cvaldez1975]

Normally, I would agree but not this time.

The ex-husband has an alibi. Her ex-husband, who has remarried, was with his family at his son's football game. Heidi left at halftime. So he was there at least another hour or so. Her dog was found 3 hours after she left Downey where the football game was held. That's a tight window.

And it's unusual for the FBI (not just local LE) plus the Elite Robbery and Homicide unit of the LAPD to show up at the home of a missing person - all of whom entered with guns drawn.

LE knew she wasn't there. Her ex-husband and a friend, who let him in, had already been in the home during the two weeks she was missing before LE finally showed up. That has been reported in news reports linked several times in this thread.

i was thinking another unk bf, if it isnt this SEC case.

 

[cvaldez1975]

If she went back home after the game, wouldn’t that be on camera like when she left for the game?

unless someone turned it off or told her to.

 

[Satchie]

California mom, 39, vanishes and her dog is found wandering alone on the 28th floor of a high rise | Daily Mail Online

Friends and family said that Planck was not known to have any connection to the building.

On Friday, federal agents and robbery homicide detectives from the LAPD entered her home with their guns drawn. Sources told CBS that officers believed they could be walking into a crime scene.

Photographers for LAPD were present at the house, as well as nearly a dozen other agents, who CBS reported went through every room, the garbage and planters around the home.

This is the usual DM mess. For example, they say in the headline she's an accountant. In the text they saying 'managing partner'. Not at all, she's maybe an executive assistant to a private family. They confuse the shell company Camden Capital Partners, with a major investment firm, Camden Capital.

Unfortunately, IMO whatever happened to her will be misunderstood, as long as this misinformation is so carelessly promoted.

It reminds me of Chandra Levy, everyone was in a tizzy over her alleged liaison with a Congressman, the story was all about him and the scandal and the effect on his political career, etc. Meanwhile, poor Chandra had died a miserable death, because of a sex predator who attacked her in a park. But all the media cared about was this guy and his political career.

 

[waldojabba]

"Jim Wayne believes his ex-wife's job may have played a role in her disappearance after he received a phone call from a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official on Oct. 21 asking him what he knows about her boss, JS."

Missing California woman's ex-husband suspects foul play: 'Something's dirty here'

 

[sds71]

Jim Wayne believes his ex-wife's job may have played a role in her disappearance after he received a phone call from a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official on Oct. 21 asking him what he knows about her boss, JS.
Missing California woman's ex-husband suspects foul play: 'Something's dirty here'

 

[JerseyGirl]

Jim Wayne believes his ex-wife's job may have played a role in her disappearance after he received a phone call from a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official on Oct. 21 asking him what he knows about her boss, JS.
Missing California woman's ex-husband suspects foul play: 'Something's dirty here'

JS appeared to delete his LinkedIn profile on Tuesday after Fox News reached out for comment.

Planck told her friends and family that the company had "some tax filings that were due" and had complained that "her boss has her name on so much of their corporate paperwork," Wayne said.

Wayne traced the dog's microchip to the apartment complex after she was reported missing.

"He was found wandering around a luxury apartment complex downtown Los Angeles," Wayne said. Residents of the apartment complex found and cared for the dog until Wayne contacted the microchip company and tracked down its location, as The Daily Mail first reported.

He added that Planck had no connection to the building, and when he checked its parking garage a few days later, he did not see her car there.

 

[Lusitana]

Well. It's looking more and more that this is about her job.

 

[Gardenista]

"Jim Wayne believes his ex-wife's job may have played a role in her disappearance after he received a phone call from a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official on Oct. 21 asking him what he knows about her boss, JS."

Missing California woman's ex-husband suspects foul play: 'Something's dirty here'

Well this is good:

After police served them a warrant, however, the owners began cooperating.

 

[MrsWatson]

Well, that's certainly a turn, if the SEC is calling her ex, asking what he knows about her boss.

Am I being thick or is it not really clear exactly what she does and for whom?

 

[swedeheart]

Timeline shows missing mom Heidi Planck's final movements

Oct 17- Went to her son's football game

Oct 17- Was last seen in Downtown LA

Oct 17- Her dog was found at Hope + Flowers

Oct 20-Failed to pick up son

Oct 20- Missing persons report and wellness check performed

Oct 29- FBI raid

(Is this correct? I've had a tough time making out the timeline, and don't have 100 percent faith in The Sun.)