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Brenda Heist's criminal record: Missing mom stole woman's identity, had run-ins with police in Florida


Brenda Heist's criminal record: Missing mom stole woman's identity, had run-ins with police in Florida

Intelligencer Journal
Lancaster New Era
Updated May 03, 2013 08:39
Florida
Originally Published May 02, 2013 18:12
By CINDY STAUFFER 
Staff Writer 
cstauffer@lnpnews.com
As Lovie Smith, Brenda Heist lived a good life in the Florida Panhandle for two years.
She cleaned beautiful homes, staying in some of them as she hopped from place to place in the northern part of the state in 2011 and 2012.
Photos show her enjoying life in the surf, having a drink with a friend, walking down a boardwalk near a condo complex.
But amid the pools, the beach and the nights out for oysters at a popular beach restaurant called Peg Leg Pete's in Pensacola, she also had a darker, more desperate side.
It landed her in trouble with police earlier this year, under yet another assumed name: Kelsei Smith.
Heist, 54, disappeared from Lititz in 2002, leaving behind two young children, her husband and her suburban lifestyle.
She emerged in Florida last week, telling the Lititz police detective who had investigated her disappearance that she had hitchhiked south on a whim, distraught over a pending divorce and money problems.
More coverage of Brenda Heists's disappearance:
She said she had lived as a vagrant, under bridges and in tents, panhandling and scrounging trashed food from restaurants.
She did not mention her recent life in the Panhandle, in northern Florida.
But it was during that time that she got into trouble with the law, perhaps due to the fact that she had left behind her identity when she vanished.
Police never found any evidence that she used her Social Security number or opened credit-card accounts during the 11 years she had disappeared. They, and her family, assumed she most likely had died.
To manufacture a new identity, Heist stole a driver's license from one of her housekeeping clients.
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