Missing mom Heidi Planck has been officially pronounced dead two years after she mysteriously vanished, official court documents have shown.
A judge ruled that the mom-of-one tragically died on the night she disappeared on October 17, 2021, concluding a case that had baffled investigators and the public for years.
Planck, 39, had been last seen attending her then 10-year-old son’s flag football game, before she was never seen or heard from again.
Her cause of death has not been announced, but it comes after years of speculation, including claims that Heidi may have died of a prescription drug overdose at a strippers and crypto gambling party.
The announcement of he death was first reported by the US Sun, after her ex-husband Jim Wayne, 64, petitioned for authorities to close her case so her son can receive funds from her life insurance policy.
Heidi Planck, 39, (pictured) was last seen at her 10-year-old son’s football game in Los Angeles, on October 17, 2021. She was reported missing on October 20 when she failed to pick him up from school
Ex-husband Jim Wayne, pictured left, and Planck were married in 2008 and divorced four years later after the birth of their son
The mother-of-one was last seen at her son’s football game in Downey, California. Security footage showed her walking her dog near a luxury apartment building in downtown LA less than an hour after she left the game. Her dog was later found alone on the 28th floor of the building
Following her disappearance, DailyMail.com revealed that the bookkeeper was caught on surveillance footage walking her dog near a downtown LA apartment building.
The dog was later found alone hours after her disappearance.
Rumors over her final moments have swirled in the years since, after court documents revealed that she had a history of drug abuse and bizarre behavior.
A witness claimed in the months following her disappearance that she died after taking fentanyl-laced Adderall at a wild strippers and crypto gambling party, leading panicked revelers to dump her body.
Within weeks of her death, authorities said they found evidence at the apartment building that led them to believe she was dead.
An internet sleuth later revealed to The Sun that a partygoer witnessed Heidi’s death, claiming she took the laced drug at a party on the 40th floor.
After stopping off at the building to collect Adderall from a man she was dating at the time, the mom joined in the ‘huge’ party on one of the upper floors.
‘There was a huge party up on the 40th floor so she dropped her dog off with a dog sitter, apparently she had done the same before,’ the witness claimed.
‘So she was up at this really big party and they were gambling with cryptocurrency, there were a lot of drugs and strippers and they had brought a stripper pole up there and they had a DJ.
‘She did not do any other drugs but they told me the Adderall was laced with fentanyl.
‘I was told that she OD’d in the middle of the dance floor, fell down and broke a glass that she had in her hand.
‘A group of people tried to revive her but they couldn’t and they got scared because there was a lot of illegal stuff going on in that apartment that night.’
The alleged witness also claimed that she stumbled upon Heidi’s body after it was disposed of on the trash shoot, where it got stuck on the 28th floor.
That same day she disappeared, her dog, Seven, was later found alone wandering the 28th floor of the Hope + Flower apartment building (pictured) in downtown LA, to which she had no known connection
Home surveillance footage shows Planck leaving her home in the Reynier Village district of Los Angeles, with her dog Seven
Home surveillance footage shows Planck leaving her home in the Reynier Village district of Los Angeles, with her dog Seven
While her official cause of death has not been revealed, the judge in the case officially said that she died at round 9pm on the October 17, following ‘compelling arguments’ and testimony from the investigating officer in the case.
The petition from he ex-husband comes after he previously revealed a string of bizarre antics from Planck in the years before her death.
He said in a statement that she once trashed her then four-year-old son’s bedroom before jumping out of the window and climbing onto neighbors’ roofs semi-naked.
That was after she had told him she had to leave a Rite Aid because it was ‘too intense’ and repeatedly tried to feed him a plate of bacon as he was driving her home.
Former husband Jim Wayne made the statement in 2015 as part of his bid to gain custody of their son.
