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Never Seen Again- Irene Gakwa Part One · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Nathan Heytman, the boyfriend of Irene Gakua, a nursing student
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  from Wyoming, has been sentenced to a prison term of
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  three to six years and ordered to pay thirteen thousand,
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  two hundred dollars in fines and restitution after admitting to
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  charges of theft and unlawful use of credit cards. This
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  occurred following Gakwa's disappearance in twenty twenty two, during which
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  Hetman was found to have misappropriated her funds and accessed
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  her credit accounts, as well as deleting her email account.
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  During a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Judge James M. Mike
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  Carsey of the Campbell County District Court imposed the sentence
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  on the thirty nine year old resident of Gillette. As
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  reported by the Gillette News Record, the prison sentences will
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  be served concurrently with a suspended two to three year
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  sentence related to intellectual property of faves. Additionally, upon his release,
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  Hetman will be subject to three years of supervised probation.
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  As stated by the news outlet, the judge has mandated
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  that Heytman pay a total of thirteen thousand, two hundred
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  dollars in fines, fees and restitution. According to reports, Heytman
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  is required to pay two thousand dollars in fines for
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  each of the three convictions, although the judge has suspended
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  one of these fines. Additionally, he is ordered to reimburse
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  three thousand, six hundred sixty six dollars and forty six
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  cents for the funds he misappropriated from Guckwa's checking account,
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  and three thousand, two hundred thirty dollars and sixty five
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  cents for unauthorized charges made on her credit cards, as
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  stated by the Gillette News Record. Furthermore, Heytman must pay
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  eight hundred twenty five dollars in various fees and one thousand,
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  five hundred dollars to cover the expenses of his public defender.
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  This sentencing follows Heitmann's guilty plea to three out of
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  five felony charges, which included theft, unlawful use of a
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  credit card, and crimes against intellectual property. He entered this
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  plea in March, just days before his trial was set
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  to commence on April third. In return for his guilty pleas,
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  prosecutors agreed to dismiss two related charges. Gaqua's two brothers
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  residing in the United States along with her parents in Kenya,
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  expressed relief at Heytman's impending imprisonment. We are pleased with
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  the resolution of the current charges, stated Gakua's brother, Kennedy
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  Wainena in an exclusive comment to People. However, we continue
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  to seek answers regarding our sister, Irene Gakua, who was
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  thirty two years at the time of her disappearance in
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  February twenty twenty two, while living with Heytman in Gillette,
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  last communicated with her family on February twenty fourth, twenty
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  twenty two. During a video call via WhatsApp, Heyiteman informed
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  law enforcement that during a night in twenty twenty two,
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  the woman, characterized as a reserved individual who preferred staying
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  at home, gathered her possessions, entered an suv, and departed
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  from their shared residence. He stated that he was unaware
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  of her whereabouts. Following his arrest on May eleventh, twenty
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  twenty two, Heytman initially entered a plea of not guilty
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  to two counts of felony theft, two counts related to
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  intellectual property crimes, and one count of unlawful credit card use.
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  As recorded by the court clerk, He faced allegation of
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  misappropriating nearly three thousand, seven hundred dollars from Gakwah's checking account,
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  charging six hundred four dollars and sixty five cents on
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  her visa card, and exhausting her Capital one card with
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  a charge of three thousand, two hundred thirty dollars and
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  sixty five cents, according to court documents reported by the
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  Gillette News Record, He depleted her bank account and utilized
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  her credit cards after Guckwa's disappearance, claiming to the police
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  that he took her funds in the hope that she
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  would reach out to him once she ran out of money.
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  He continues to be regarded as a person of interest
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  in her missing person investigation, although he has not been
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  formally charged in relation to her disappearance. Devastated family seeks
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  answers As each day goes by, Guckwa's family increasingly fears
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  that she may never be found alive. Guckwor relocated to
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  Boise in twenty nineteen from her home country of Kenya
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  to pursue a nursing degree. She frequently spent time with
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  her older brothers Wainana forty four and Chris Gakua thirty eight,
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  who had arrived in the United States prior to her
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  along with her nieces and nephews. In twenty twenty, she
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  began a romantic relationship with Heymann after they connected through
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  a Craigslist forum, as reported by her family. As their
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  relationship deepened, Heitman and Gakua began to attend family gatherings
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  less frequently. Kennedy has claimed that Heitmann was controlling, stating
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  he started isolating us from our sister. Unbeknownst to Kennedy
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  and his brother, Heitman and Gakua relocated from Boise to
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  Jillette in July twenty twenty one without informing them. However,
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  she continued to communicate regular with her parents in Kenya
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  until their final video call on February twenty fourth, twenty
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  twenty two. Concern arose when they could not reach her
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  via WhatsApp and they began receiving strange text messages that
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  did not resemble her usual communication style. After several weeks
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  without any contact from his sister, Waynana contacted the police
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  in March to request a welfare check. The information they
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  received from the police was alarming. Her boyfriend told them
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  Irene took a couple of trash bags with her, got
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  into a dark suv and left. Waanana told People magazine