The confession also cleared one victim's husband, who was suspected to have killed her (via toofab)
Heinz's body was discovered in May 1972; she was just 21 at the time of her death. She was found face down in a stream and her death was determined to be the result of strangulation.
Three months after that, an 11-year-old boy found the body of 23-year-old Laverne Moye in the same area, also strangled to death. She was a mother of two children, including son John Moye, who was in the courtroom on Monday. In July 1973, Heiman was found bludgeoned to death by her husband after he returned from a department store. Her husband was actually viewed as a suspect in her murder for years and died in 2004, before his name was officially cleared. Their daughter Randi was in court as well on Monday, calling her father"a kind and generous man who loved our mother deeply and spent too many years living in the shadow of his wife's murder.
Lastly, in December 1973, 18-year-old Nieves' body was discovered covered in plastic bags and wrapped in a blanket, also strangled to death.
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