Brenda Heist, Pa. mom who disappeared in 2002 and resurfaced in Fla., sentenced on probation violation
(CBS) PENSACOLA, Fla. - A mother who disappeared from her central Pennsylvania home in 2002 and was later declared legally dead before resurfacing in Florida has been sent to jail on a probation violation.
According to The Pensacola News Journal, Brenda Heist, who's known in the Santa Rosa County court system as Kelsie Smith, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail.
The 53-year-old woman pleaded no contest to failing to check in with authorities in the Tampa area after leaving the Pensacola area following her April release from jail. She'd been on probation for using someone else's identification during a traffic stop.
Heist left behind a husband and two children when she disappeared from her home outside Lititz, Pa., in February 2002.
She turned herself in to deputies in Monroe County, Fla., in April and revealed she was a missing person.