How old is brenda heist

Morgan Heist said Thursday that she's still trying to sort out why Brenda Heist would have decided to abandon her and her brother in Pennsylvania in and hitchhike with strangers to Florida. Morgan Heist is now a year-old freshman at a community college outside Philadelphia. She says she thinks about how she's spent the last decade mourning a woman who was alive. Scroll down for video. All grown up: Morgan Heist, pictured with her brother Lee, has said she wishes she had never cried for her missing mom who has finally showed up after eleven years.

Eleven years on the run: Brenda Heist pictured left at the time of her disappearance and right as she looked when she walked into a Florida police office last Friday. An avid tweeter, Morgan Heist's updates since finding out last Friday that her mom is still alive reveal a young woman whose joy has quickly turned to anger. Her initial joy quickly soured and the next day she wrote: 'This doesn't seem real. I feel like I'm in my own horrible nightmare and can't wake up.

She also tweeted that she was glad her father was now exonerated of any blame or suspicion about his wife's disappearance. Morgan Heist's Twitter updates since finding out last Friday that her mom is still alive reveal a young woman whose joy has quickly turned to anger. Missing: The then year-old was last seen dropping off her two children at school in Lititz, Pennsylvania. On Sunday she wrote: 'Tomorrow will be the day I will hopefully finally get closure in my life.

I need the truth more than anything. But later that day she tweeted: 'My brother and I don't want contact with her as of now. By the next day her tweets about her mom had become more negative: 'You were finally becoming less and less of a memory. You're a horrible nightmare.

Since then they have continued in a similar vein. I can't believe I wanted to possibly see you. Another read: 'You will never gain my love or respect. You deserve to rot in hell for what you have done to me.

Her anger continued with this tweet: 'I don't think anyone could understand my pain for the past 11 years. I said, honey, how did you know that? But while Heist was making friends and living an apparently normal life in Florida, the husband, son and daughter she'd left behind in continued to wonder whether something terrible had happened to her.

Police searched for her for years, at one point creating a cold case task force. Her family remain angry over the pain her disappearance caused.

The fact that her mother -- who she last saw when she was 8 -- never even called has left her seething, Morgan Heist said. The anger is captured in a post on the daughter's Twitter page that reads she hopes her mother "rots in hell. She was great. But, I mean, I guess something happened. Something snapped in her. Her father, Lee Heist, said he is not planning on visiting his ex-wife anytime soon.

They were going through a divorce at the time she disappeared, and he was treated for a time as a suspect in her disappearance, though he was eventually cleared. In , he filed a petition with the county court to have Brenda declared legally deceased, according to a Lititz police news release. He was seeking closure, he said. He later remarried and said he will learn to forgive his former wife.

Brenda Heist vanished in February after last being seen dropping off her children at school. She was great. But, I mean, I guess something happened. Something snapped in her. Her father, Lee Heist, said he is not planning on visiting his former wife anytime soon.

Brenda Heist disappeared February after last being seen dropping off her children at school. She was going through a divorce from Lee Heist and was applying for housing assistance so that she could get an apartment. She worked as a bookkeeper for a car dealer and hoped to receive some financial aid. John Schofield, a Lititz Borough, Pennsylvania, police detective.

It wasn't long before she was approached by two males and a female who asked her what was wrong. What's next for Brenda Heist is unclear. She was released from custody Wednesday and "has some things to clear up" related to false identification in Florida, Schofield said. She faces no charges in Pennsylvania and will likely stay with her mother in Texas, Schofield said.

Lee Heist said he was not sure if meeting Brenda "will do either of us any good. I hope she makes peace," he said. Morgan Heist, 19, who learned last week that her mother, Brenda, had surfaced in Florida after 11 years, said the news had made her recall the years of mourning when she assumed her mother was dead and she feared she had been killed. I wasn't mad at her. I wanted her to be there because I thought something had happened to her. I wish I had never cried.

Morgan Heist said she was not sympathetic, partly because her mother had a choice, unlike the family she abandoned.