Missing From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Missing: June 24, 2002
Age at Disappearance: 20
Height: 5′ 2″
Weight: 130
Hair: Dark Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing Characteristics: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Caucasian female. Sabrina has braces on her teeth, and one of her ears is pierced. Sabrina is mildly mentally disabled; she has the mental capacity of a fourteen-year-old.
Details of Disappearance: Sabrina was last seen at a swimming hole at Eagley Park in western Erie County, Pennsylvania on June 24, 2002. She was in the company of a David Sherman Heck at the time. A photograph of Heck is posted with this case summary. He is a friend of Sabrina’s live-in boyfriend.
While she and Heck were swimming, there was apparently a confrontation with Heck’s ex-girlfriend. Heck and Sabrina went to the Tasty Twist ice cream stand and he called the police. A state trooper accompanied them back to Eagley Park, where Heck gave his ex-girlfriend a pair of pants that belonged to her, then he and Sabrina left again. Later that day they may have been seen on Old Albion Road in Springfield Township, but that hasn’t been confirmed.
Heck claims he dropped Sabrina off to at the West Erie Plaza Movie Theater and he gave her money so she could see the film Lilo & Stitch and then get back home. He is considered a suspect in her disappearance; police have stated that they do not believe Heck’s story about dropping her off at the theater. He drove her around in a black and red Ford Bronco on the day of her disappearance.
A witness claimed Sabrina may have visited the Elk Creek Access area, a popular local fishing spot, the day she disappeared. It is unknown whether the woman seen was Sabrina or another individual who resembled her. Heck was incarcerated on burglary charges after she disappeared.
Investigative Agency: Erie Police Department 814-870-1157
If you have any information on this case, please contact CUE Center for Missing Persons at (910) 343-1131 or call the CUE Center 24-hour tip line at (910) 232-1687. All information submitted to CUE Center for Missing Persons is confidential.