Dateline: Thank you for remembering Heidi

I want to start today's blog by saying thank you to the outpouring of love and support for Heidi, our family, her friends, and our community. Dateline NBC's airing ofheidi's kidnapping case was beautifully done and they are reporting, something I wasn't confident of after doing my interview over a year ago. Are there things that flustered me? Of course, but overall it was wonderful.

I wish they'd shown her missing person'a flyer and lusted the Oswego County Sheriff's contact information, but if someone really wants to reach out, Google will connect them. The photo above is linked to the touching video Dateline created to remember Heidi, they posted it on their website after Friday's episode.

It was difficult to see the old clips and photographs from 1994, heartbreaking actually yet motivational. I can smell April 1994 but something is different (besides it's 22 years later), in God's strength in the hurt encourages me to keep hope alive and share it and the road I traveled to get there. A few people shared about Dateline with mention of my book, thank you. I pray God continues to use this tragedy to transform me and help others to know there is hope. Thank you again, #HopeHeidiAllen Forever