The 28-year-old formed a church in 1971, the United Church of the Ministers of God, where he was known as Brother Bishop to his five members. Heidnik opened a bank account in the church’s name with Merrill Lynch, with an initial payment into the account of $1,500. The account would eventually contain over $500,000, around $5.4million in 2020.
Like any normal man, Heidnik dated and eventually had a child with girlfriend, Gail Lincow. The boy was put into foster care soon after his birth due to the mental capacity of his mother, Gail. He then met Anjeanette Davidson at one of the institutions he worked at. Anjeanette was a patient at the hospital, as was her sister, Alberta. Anjeanette and Heidnik would have a daughter together, Maxine, but she was taken into foster care after her birth due to Anjeanette mental disabilities.
In 1978, Heidnik signed Alberta out of the institution on a day pass and imprisoned her in the basement of his house, where he sexually assaulted and sodomised her. She was eventually found shackled behind a disposal unit in Gary’s house and taken back to the institution, where doctors soon realised the extend of her assault.
Heidnik was incarcerated in institutions, rather than a prison where he spent four years before being released in April 1983. During his time in prison, Anjeanette vanished and it’s believed that Heidnik was responsible for her disappearance in some capacity.
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