"A few good men( and women)' as saying goes, stood up to evil and overwhelmed it! Peace be with these good hearts and a daughter can hopefully move on , proud in knowledge she did what that little girl could not,at the time. God bless you.

This is so freakin shocking to me!! the police then were USELESS.

And her grandma also knew the truth.

​@@tabathaogost4982 That wasn't enough to take him to trial. Oddly enough, witness testimonies can be inaccurate. For example, little Heidi could have thought of Tom, since he was the man who was around the most. We know differently, but it's just an example.

​@@tabathaogost4982 Useless how? The suspect was arrested, but there wasn't enough evidence to take it to trial.

Everything about it is infuriating. 😔

He was charged but the judge threw it out.

Yes. It's horrific

​@Brad Sanders what? I thought he got 10years to life. And he'll be up for parole at 96. He confessed.

​@@bradsanders407 oh nevermind at the beginning he got to walk free at first. Sad.

Well the weird thing is all the evidence that was through out!! She kept probably for peace of mind because the Judge was obviously lying or covering something,, kinda weird

I don't think she kept it from the police, they were just completely inept.

Yeahhh . So weird.💯

The grandma sounds like a bitch

in the beginning they mentioned she was having an affair with tom, i think grandma, in her own way, was trying to protect her daughters reputation. i'm not saying that makes it ok, i'm just trying to think of why else grandma would be so against the fight for truth.

Keep fighting and stay strong. 💪

i’m so sorry omg! i hope you get justice!

I hope with all my ❤ u get justice. I am very sorry.

So sorry you went through that. Find peace in knowing that no evil done goes unpunished. Sending you cyber hugs and love❤

Hoping justice is served in your case as it was in this one ❤️❤️

What really makes mee sad how many letters she worte to police and fbl and no one was helping jer iss ick

*What really makes me sad is how many letters she wrote to the police and the FBI and no one was helping her is sick.*

​@@potatostastegood TY

What if mother would have screamed “Tom no…” for sure daughter would remember that! And he could be put in jail right at that time!

​@@liliivanova2920yea Tom would have killed the daughter when she ran out

The weird thing though is that despite telling her to forget about it, the grandmother kept a crime journal on everything she said about the crime, and kept the photo evidence. Why would the grandmother do that? Very confusing.

@@lillianhoigard6702 Maybe the grandmother was just sad she didnt have her daughter yk? The crime journal was probably for herself to help her realize that her daughter was never going to live again

@@lillianhoigard6702 , grief makes people behave in the strangest of ways. When my oldest daughter was 4, her father committed suicide. We had been together for seven years almost to the day, but he had not married me. His family was wealthy, and that made everything more complicated. I wasn't after their money, but I was in love with their son. I was 31at the time, and had let him know that if he didn't have any plans of keeping me, I was ready to move on with my life. I was. I loved him, but I'm no doormat. His family blamed me for his death, even though he was 6 miles away and 8 or 9 police officers witnessed him shoot himself. I called the police that morning, hoping to save somebody. He was angry with his father and had spoken of killing him, but was in therapy for his mental health. I knew something bad was about to happen, but I didn't know what. Up until the moment they told me he had taken his last breath, I did not expect it to end with him dead. His family was so angry with me that they sent me to the wrong church for his funeral. The one time I let our daughter stay with them, still only 4 years old, they tried to turn her against me. We had to move back to my home state of Indiana from California. After that I told them they could come see her where we live, but I would not be sending her to them alone after the damage they did the last time I gave them the benefit of the doubt. It wasn't about me at all, it was about my daughter. When she was 14, my dad took her to see them once. Again, they filled her head full of trash about me. These people had never checked to see if we were alright, they never did anything for her, and I never once asked them for a dime, even when we were struggling. My daughter has never been the same since that trip. She started showing symptoms of bipolar 1, just like her dad. She'll be 25 this month, is pregnant with her second child, and thank God for her husband. His mother lives with them and she has a phD in psychology. She has been in an out of inpatient psychiatric wards ever since, and she struggles with it daily. I don't blame them for her condition, despite that they may have triggered it. Her daddy was the second of three sons to die by their own hand, out of seven total children fathered by his dad, and they can't blame them all on me. I guess it's true what they say about grieving: you either get better or you get bitter. I chose better, they chose bitter. I wish them the best, sincerely. This case really touched my heart, bc Heidi was the same age as my daughter was when she lost her dad. It is so confusing to a child and it can cause a lifetime of emotional problems. It makes me happy to see her do well and find peace. I hope someday my daughter can find the same. Cheers!

That's how things were back then unfortunately. Kids were expected to carry on .

Just because the grandma told Heidi to let go doesn't mean she did. She probably wanted her granddaughter to be happy and lead a normal life. Plus they dealt with things differently back then. Luckily things have gotten better at knowing how to handle trauma

Manifestation of how they handled the whole damn case - sloppy af

Thought family took picture.

thats actually decent detective work.. she was there.. they did everything via paper and by hand back then.. and think about it.. they still had the right guy..

Agree!!

It’s really sinister and sad.

True exactly 💯

Tom Eagly killed a mother. Left a daughter with out a mom. Monster. Evil 👿

God Bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 daughter and detective

Amen 🙏

@@catherinesyme901 Amen❤

I lost my mom 3 months after this happened. The grief never ends, and there is no such thing as closure. There are longer time periods where you don't think about your loss as time goes on. But it never leaves you. Not ever. Her mom died on my 7th birthday. 😢

@RepentfollowJesus it is different for everyone. I apologise for your loss. Even though you may not have found closure within your grief, some people do and it's important to remember that getting closure isn't something that happens to everyone. ❤️‍🩹

Heidi's mother was so incredibly brave in order to ensure Heidi's survival, and Heidi did her mother proud in never letting go. Like mother, like daughter.

But the grandmother could’ve told the cops what her granddaughter was saying.

Too bad her mother's parents did nothing to help solve the case or help Heidi cope.

That's so messed up

when someone i'm close to leaves/dies, i remember this random quote "don't be sad because it ended, be happy because it happened." (r.i.p for your mother

​@@claraitawanga8353 not the time or the place for this kind of comment

She's the standard mother. If she's a legend then every single mother who's ever protected their child(ren) is a legend. That includes mother bears. My mother (as manipulative of a human being she is) and I'm sure your mothers would've done the same thing, short of defending themselves and fighting off the killer.

Amen 🙏

@@claraitawanga8353yes you entitled to have free speech, it comes down to wether you have morals to wether you open your mouth and have no compassion or decorum!

​@@wadewilson8011 nailed it. 👏

I think it would be harsh to say that; we don't know how the original case proceedings went. If she wrote down everything Heidi said-- who's to say she didn't bring it up as a secondhand witness? She must have, given that it was her daughter, and that she was so scrupulous in making sure that everything was documented. There simply wasn't enough to circumstantial evidence to go on in 1970, and that's why the murderer went unsentenced. It might have been rather difficult for the judge to try someone on the word of a four-year-old alone, looking through a keyhole no less. Afterall, it has to be 'beyond a reasonable doubt'.

@@charredtodeath2205regardless, she kept telling her grandchild to forget it, and to stop talking about it at all which is horrible and not helpful in solving the case. To the grandma letting her rest in peace was sweeping it under the rug so she didn’t have to deal with it

@imnotreal6275 the grandma is wrong for forcing her opinions on young Heidi, yes, but we are all fallible human beings. A person's response to pain can differ: the grandmother tried to avoid it but clearly never moved on from it as it was too painful to mention both the loss and the failure to exact justice for her daughter, while Heidi sought to overcome it, no matter how long it took. There could be other considerations too, such as financial reasons for not pursuing the case, societal standards for women back when, old age, etc.

I doubt that she will ever really be "okay". But hopefully, she's learned how to live with something that horrific. It's all she really can do really.🤷🏻‍♂️

Ya. She may not be able to forget what happened to her, but I hope she is doing fine right now.

I agree. If that happened to me I would never forget it

There’s a great Tv show about this murder on ID. It’s Cold Case Files, Season 2, Episode 19.

She did well. The scenes from childhood never go away u just learn to deal with them.

I'm exactly the same way, it never usually gets me like this story got me. What an amazing mother Loretta was, I'm so glad her daughter fought for justice.

How she made her clothes and dolls:"(

There's no reason to believe that the grandmother didn't tell the police, since he was arrested at the time'. He was released because of a lack of evidence. The vague testimony of a 4 yo was probably deemed insufficient to go to trial. And I'm not sure what the police missed back then, either. At least one person remembered about the name written in blood, so it must have been known at the time, for instance.And the 10 yo recognized him, but there was no evidence that the man who tried to abduct her was the same who committed the murder three blocks away.

What makes you say that? What evidence is there in this video that they were ashamed of their daughter? And given that she was murdered, it was certainly publicized anyway that she was a single mother. Finally, it was the 70s, not the 30s or 50s.

​@@olivierdastein2604 Some families were still like that in the 70s.

@@spencerfrankclayton4348 Some maybe. But you can't assume without any reason that Loretta's parents were like this. It totally comes out of the blue. To make such an assessment without any reason, you must be assuming that all families were like this at the time.

@@olivierdastein2604 We don't know for sure, of course. But I'd say that the 70s were the last decade in which society (in general) looked down on that. Nowadays it's mainly religious society that disapproves.

@@olivierdastein2604 It's a good guess. They were in Utah.

That’s what I was thinking. How was she smiling in the that picture? No matter what habit I have I or if someone told me to, I could never smile at my own mother’s crime scene.

That’s what I was thinking. How was she smiling in the that picture? No matter what habit I have I or if someone told me to, I could never smile at my own mother’s crime scene.

@UnicornLover101 She is smiling in the photo because she was 4. A child that young may know something is wrong but they can't understand and comprehend the situation.

@@crystalb4178 exactly

they could have just asked her to stand there for the camera and she smiled automatically as kids often do for adults taking photos of them.

Exactly the grandmother is disgusting something tells me she’s behind it all , how she was covering for him , why wouldn’t you want to get Justice for your daughter, it’s like she never wanted him to be jailed

@@nooraqueen2716 exactly!!!

Exactly that wasn't Justice at all The Grandmother Knew all along

@@nooraqueen2716 What? How was the grandmother covering for him????? He was arrested at the time, there just wasn't enough evidence. What a 4 yo had seen was presumably not considered reliable enough to go to trial (assuming even that she was still remembering it and could testify, as the grandmother saying "my granddaughter said after the murder that it was Tom" would have been an hearsay). I guess that you think that she "didn't want justice" because she tried to discourage her granddaughter to focus too much on the crime? I assume that she thought that her granddaughter needed to move on, which doesn't strike me as necessarily bad advice. Doesn't mean that she didn't want justice for her daughter.

@@olivierdastein2604 if the granddaughter knew who murdered her mother regardless if she wanted her to move on or not she should’ve said something to the police its horrible advice

I know its crazy

There's nothing weak about a kind heart. Thinking that is part of what turns so many men into far worse than beasts.

I truly pray and hope you get the same justice and peace also. I do believe these people will pay the price whether it's when they're alive or after they're dead. I wish you the very best.

I don't think that they missed anything, in fact. They arrested him, they just didn't have enough evidences to go to trial. Presumably the testimony of a 4 yo was considered too unreliable (assuming even that she hadn't already forgotten about it and could testify), and even though he was recognized by the 10 yo he assaulted, there was no evidence that it was the same guy who did the assault and the murder. And since someone remembered about the name written in blood, it means that this too was known back then. It seems to me that the new enquirers just rediscovered the same evidences already know at the time and wouldn't have been able to do anything this time around, either, if he hadn't spilled the beans himself.

@olivierdastein2604 well hopefully it was that and they didn't just go nah cba, cause they have been known to do that too. Either way it sucks though, especially when you know who it is and they don't get caught for years

​@@dark_baphomet the grandma wasn't helping at all becauce she don't tell the police and keep telling the daughter to forget all of it

Well done to the grandma? Bitch shouldve spoken up instead of insisting of forgetting.

There's zero reason to believe that she kept it a secret, especially since she even wrote it down. Presumably her detailed notes about what her granddaughter had said were precisely intended to inform the police. The files were lost, so we don't know what the police was told at the time, but the guy was arrested, so presumably they knew.

Basically the grandmother withheld evidence, yet had the nerve to tell the girl to just forget about it. Damn😬

Things don’t add up I agree. They had him and then two little girls testimony wasn’t enough evidence that’s just fishy. The police/detective work looks really poor from them. And not sure what’s up with grandma, but by today’s standards and even then she was an accomplice in my eyes, even if she did fear for her granddaughters life, but they don’t give us all the information it was a limited video. I’m glad justice was served.

@@abbiereynolds8016 No, there's no reason to believe that the grandmother withheld evidence, I'm not sure why so many people understood it that way. She presumably informed the police, and presumably the police arrested the culprit on part on this basis. I assume that the testimony of a 4 yo wasn't considered enough to go to trial. During the second inquiry, they seem to have just rediscovered the evidences known at the time (what the daughter had seen from the grandmother's notes, the letters in blood from someone who remembered it...) and could have done nothing more than the first time if the culprit hadn't confessed.

Yes, the grandmother knew what Heidi had said. But presumably the police as well. The video seems to have confused people into believing that Heidi's testimony, or the letters in blood, weren't known by the police back then. It's not that. It's that since the files were missing, these evidences had to be rediscovered during the second inquiry. If some random person remembered the letters in blood, the police most certainly knew about them as well. If the grandmothers had noted down what Heidi said, she most certainly had informed the police as well.

I know right? I just left the same comment....what they actual hell ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

And then told Loretta's CHILD to just .. forget about her mom getting murdered????

That’s what I wanna know. Why was she in the home at that time and who made her take that photo?

Yeah, that’s what I wanna know! Also, I wonder if it was the grandmother that took the picture of the victim’s daughter at the crime scene… Knowing there were no crime scene pics… all the information she saved for later …maybe the grandmother was scared of saying something… so strange tho🥺

Since someone who remembered it told the police, the letters in blood thing was known at the time, so the cops were aware of it back then. But two letters in blood aren't an evidence that a specific person committed the murder.

@olivierdastein2604 Sure, they wouldn't try to convict on such flimsy evidence, but maybe a good place to start?

You cant replace a life priceless

Because it seemed to the grandmother that it was the best for her, presumably, and that she needed to move on.

It makes me think that the grandmother was also an emotionally-repressed person, didn't know how to deal with her own grief, and it also didn't occur to her that she could grieve with her granddaughter.

Awh thanks man! =]

They arrested the guy at the time, and knew about the two letters in blood...There just wasn't enough evidences. And he wouldn't have been tried 50 years later, either, if he hadn't confessed to the neighbor.

I think that you misunderstood the case. The police back then knew about what Heidi had reported, about the letters written in blood, about the attempted abduction. But none of this was sufficient evidence (Heidi's statement was a hearsay and/or unreliable, the abduction is irrelevant since the two crimes couldn't be connected). After a judge had decided about it, there was nothing Loretta's mother could have done to "push for justice" unless new evidences could be found. And the guy couldn't have been tried the second time around, either, if he hadn't confessed, as despite the cop's efforts, he hadn't discovered anything new.

She didn't. Or rather there's no reason to believe that she did. It's probably one of the reasons why the guy was arrested. It's only that since the original police files were missing, this information had to be discovered again in the grandma's notes.