LITITZ, Pennsylvania – A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously 
disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has 
surfaced in Florida and has told police she traveled there on a whim 
with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by 
scavenging food and panhandling, authorities said Wednesday.
Brenda Heist, 53, had been declared legally dead, Lititz Borough 
Police Det. John Schofield said. The detective said he met with her in 
Florida on Monday and she expressed shame and apologized for what she 
did to her family.
Heist was going through an amicable divorce in 2002 when she got some bad news about future housing plans, Schofield said.
She was crying in a park when some strangers befriended her, then 
invited her to join them as they began a monthlong hitchhiking journey 
to south Florida, he said.  Full Article
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