WA WA - Heidi Peterson, 4, Seattle, 21 Feb 1974

[BMCapitolHill]

I would need documentation to believe this. Anyone can say they knew something a year in advance. If that were true he could have just gone there himself. I think there are some genuine psychics and a lot of fakes.

He’s full of garbage.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

You are correct. See the note I just wrote. My Dad and many other Capitol Hill Dads searched the entire area. They divided up all of the overgrown bushy areas near the freeway, around the neighborhood and my Dad’s section was where they ended up finding her nearly a year later. “I combed the entire area - she was NOT there” my Dad said someone put her there much later.

Thank you for the information and bless your Dad for helping. I was a kid in Seattle then too and remember the Heidi kidnapping like everyone.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

He’s full of garbage.

100%

 

[PNW2424]

I was a child when Heidi Peterson was kidnapped living not even a mile away on Capitol Hill. My father and many many area fathers went looking for Heidi down in the Ronoake area. The police divided up the areas near by to search. My father was given a section - his was the area where Heidi’s body would later be discovered nearly a year after her kidnapping. I heard my father say over and over “I combed that area - she was NOT there.” So whoever the crazy nut who said ‘I told them where she was and that’s where they found her a year later’ is full of *advertiser censored*. My Dad - a father of many children was certain that he checked every inch of the area. There was an article in The Capitol Hill Times that had a priest from nearby St. Patrick’s, a Rabi and other faith leaders asking whoever took Heidi to come in and speak with them as they must be in pain. I heard a rumor that someone went in and confessed.

Do you remember if any suspects were mentioned? In Ann Rules “Kiss me Kill me” she said that they had a suspect but ….. and adolescent age boy(s) were questioned and their stories didn’t add up. Etc.
Most likely The killer of Heidi is still out there and someone (or more than one) knows who it is.

 

[Earth]

Due to the distance between her neighbourhood and the disposal site, I wonder if there is a connection to Lindsey Baum. the cases are 35 years apart, but it is still probable. I always had my suspicions with the Emery brothers.

 

[Giustina]

I'm late to this thread, but I knew the Petersons. They lived three blocks away and attended St. Patrick's Church. My sisters and I used to babysit Heidi and her little brother along with other kids during mass. Her disappearance caused absolute terror and sorrow. We were advised not to play in the trees and bushes directly across from the park for fear something bad would happen to us too. And after her remains were found half a block away among the blackberry brambles by the freeway, rumors spread.
My mom told me a few years before she died that she had been friendly with the mother of the boy(s?) suspected of killing Heidi. They attended our church and lived quite close to Heidi and the site where her remains were found. Mom told me she thought the son or sons had done it based on some observations about things their mother said and did afterward, and the fact that they moved shortly after the murder/discovery...but this is hearsay only. DNA evidence would surely have solved this by now.
To illustrate how deeply this murder affected kids at the time: I went to a grade school reunion literally 32 years later...and the first thing a classmate said to me was, "Weren't you the one who was babysitting Heidi when she disappeared?" (No, no I wasn't!) But wow. Clearly this had an impact, or she wouldn't have mentioned it!

 

[PNW2424]

I'm late to this thread, but I knew the Petersons. They lived three blocks away and attended St. Patrick's Church. My sisters and I used to babysit Heidi and her little brother along with other kids during mass. Her disappearance caused absolute terror and sorrow. We were advised not to play in the trees and bushes directly across from the park for fear something bad would happen to us too. And after her remains were found half a block away among the blackberry brambles by the freeway, rumors spread.
My mom told me a few years before she died that she had been friendly with the mother of the boy(s?) suspected of killing Heidi. They attended our church and lived quite close to Heidi and the site where her remains were found. Mom told me she thought the son or sons had done it based on some observations about things their mother said and did afterward, and the fact that they moved shortly after the murder/discovery...but this is hearsay only. DNA evidence would surely have solved this by now.
To illustrate how deeply this murder affected kids at the time: I went to a grade school reunion literally 32 years later...and the first thing a classmate said to me was, "Weren't you the one who was babysitting Heidi when she disappeared?" (No, no I wasn't!) But wow. Clearly this had an impact, or she wouldn't have mentioned it!

This is very telling

 

[PNW2424]

This is very telling

Very telling and consistent with what Anne Rule wrote.

 

[WellConnected]

I'm late to this thread, but I knew the Petersons. They lived three blocks away and attended St. Patrick's Church. My sisters and I used to babysit Heidi and her little brother along with other kids during mass. Her disappearance caused absolute terror and sorrow. We were advised not to play in the trees and bushes directly across from the park for fear something bad would happen to us too. And after her remains were found half a block away among the blackberry brambles by the freeway, rumors spread.
My mom told me a few years before she died that she had been friendly with the mother of the boy(s?) suspected of killing Heidi. They attended our church and lived quite close to Heidi and the site where her remains were found. Mom told me she thought the son or sons had done it based on some observations about things their mother said and did afterward, and the fact that they moved shortly after the murder/discovery...but this is hearsay only. DNA evidence would surely have solved this by now.
To illustrate how deeply this murder affected kids at the time: I went to a grade school reunion literally 32 years later...and the first thing a classmate said to me was, "Weren't you the one who was babysitting Heidi when she disappeared?" (No, no I wasn't!) But wow. Clearly this had an impact, or she wouldn't have mentioned it!

Given what Ann Rule wrote and several other comments on this thread, it sounds like many people knew/know the identity of the main suspect(s).