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Heidi Allen

At the age of 18, she was kidnapped from the New Haven convenience store where she worked on Easter morning 1994. She has never been found.

• Who was Heidi Allen?

• Allen exposed as confidential drug informant on card cop lost before teen kidnapped

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Gary Thibodeau

He was convicted in 1995 of kidnapping and presumably killing Heidi Allen and is serving 25 years to life in prison. He maintains he is innocent.

• Gary Thibodeau from prison: "I've been innocent since Day One"

• New evidence in Allen case casts doubt on Gary Thibodeau's guilt

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Richard Thibodeau

Gary Thibodeau's brother, he was acquitted of kidnapping Heidi Allen in a separate trial in 1995.

• Richard Thibodeau: Oswego sheriff's office cannot be trusted to thoroughly investigate case

• Richard Thibodeau: Witness in Allen kidnapping case should come clean with investigators

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Tonya Priest

A former Parish woman who notified the Oswego County Sheriff's Office in February 2013 that a man confessed to her in 2006 that he and two others kidnapped and killed Heidi Allen. Gary and Richard Thibodeau were not among those three men.

• Whistleblower in case: Sheriff's office wasn't interested in truth

• Video: Priest describes telling investigators about new kidnapping evidence

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Jennifer Wescott

She admitted to Tonya Priest in a secretly recorded phone call that three men brought Heidi Allen to her home in a van. She was the girlfriend of one of the alleged suspects.

• In secretly recorded call, woman says Allen was brought to her home

• Video: Investigator catches Wescott in a lie, then backs off

• Wescott will talk for $5 million, according to friend

• On the stand, Wescott denies and denies

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James 'Thumper' Steen

He's the man who allegedly confessed to Tonya Priest and three others that he was involved in Heidi Allen's disappearance. He murdered his estranged wife, Vicki Steen, and her boyfriend, Charles Carr, in 2010 and was sentenced to prison for the rest of his life, without the possibility of parole. He denied to sheriff's investigators in 2013 that he was involved in Allen's disappearance.

• Steen described as a violent braggart capable of kidnapping Allen

• Video: Oswego County Sheriff Reuel Todd on Steen

• Oswego County DA: Steen is pathological liar, but not Allen's killer

• Steen: Breckenridge admitted his involvement in Allen kidnapping

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Roger Breckenridge

Jennifer Wescott's former boyfriend who James Steen said was also involved in the kidnapping and killing of Heidi Allen. Breckenridge is in prison for stealing two antique tractors. His earliest parole date is June 24, 2015. He denied to sheriff's investigators in 2013 that he was involved in Allen's disappearance.

• New witness: Two suspects admitted crushing van with Allen inside

• Prison interview video: "I had nothing to do with Heidi Allen's kidnapping"

• Woman told deputies her relative killed Allen, but they didn't investigate

• Steen, Breckenridge contradict each other on witness stand

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Michael Bohrer

He's the third man James Steen allegedly identified. He's living in Parish. Another man says Bohrer boasted at a bar in 2000 that he knew where Allen's body was hidden. He denied to sheriff's investigators in 2013 that he was involved in Allen's disappearance.

• Witness says Bohrer boasted he knew where kidnapped teen was buried

• Video: Oswego sheriff's investigators grill Bohrer about Allen kidnapping

• Bohrer breaks down testifying about investigating Allen kidnapping

• Possible suspect in Allen kidnapping abducted a woman 13 years earlier

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Catherine Schmitt

Michael Bohrer was convicted in 1981 of false imprisonment after Schmitt told Milwaukee police Bohrer was the stranger who grabbed her from behind at 2 a.m. one night in 1981, punched her in the face, and tried to force her into his car. That was 13 years before Heidi Allen was kidnapped.

• Possible suspect in Allen kidnapping abducted a woman 13 years earlier

• Bohrer's 1981 victim retells horror of abduction 13 years before Allen's kidnapping

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Bill Pierce

Pierce told sheriff's investigators for the first time in 2014 that he witnessed a man punch a woman and try to force her into a van outside the D&W Convenience store on Easter morning 1994 — the day Allen was kidnapped there. He identified James Steen as the assailant he saw.

• New Allen witness: I saw Steen at crime scene 21 years ago

• Man says he witnessed Steen abduct Allen in 1994

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Danielle Babcock

Babcock, who worked for Michael Bohrer in the 1990s at a computer repair business, said he told her and other female employees "he would do us like he did Heidi."

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Carl Robinson

Robinson, a former friend of Jennifer Wescott, testified she told him "they had the wrong guy in prison" when they talked about the Heidi Allen kidnapping. But Wescott explained to him she wouldn't disclose what she knew because "I don't want to end up the next one dead in a box in the woods."

• Key witness begs friend to say she never lived near cabin being searched for teen's remains

• Robinson testifies at the Heidi Allen hearing

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Sheriff Reuel Todd

He was the undersheriff when Heidi Allen was kidnapped and was elected sheriff four years later in 1998. Todd says he's convinced Gary and Richard Thibodeau are guilty. He said Tonya Priest's allegations were not credible. His investigators failed to find two cabins in the woods after being told that James Steen had allegedly confessed Allen's body was hidden in the floorboards of a cabin there. "There's no cabin," Todd said. "Never has been a cabin."

• Cadaver dog, state police, medical examiner join search for Allen's remains at cabin

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Lisa Peebles

The federal public defender filed a motion on behalf of Gary Thibodeau to overturn his conviction.

• Peebles: Daughter of police officer, driving force in revisiting Allen case

• Q&A with Thibodeau's lawyer about Allen kidnapping case

• Read the lawsuit filed to overturn conviction in Allen kidnapping case

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District Attorney Greg Oakes

He said he's convinced Gary Thibodeau kidnapped Heidi Allen. Oakes has said James Steen is a pathological liar and any statements he made about kidnapping Allen with Roger Breckenridge and Michael Bohrer were fabricated boasts.

• Video: Oswego County DA says he still believes Gary Thibodeau kidnapped teen

• Oswego County DA: Steen is pathological liar, but not Allen's killer

• Read Oswego County DA's filing in Allen kidnapping case

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Judge Daniel King

The Lewis County Court judge was assigned to handle the motion to vacate Gary Thibodeau’s kidnapping conviction after two Oswego County judges recused themselves. He was elected as a judge in 2012.

• Outside judge will hear Thibodeau's request to overturn verdict in Allen kidnapping