Alabama police chief surprised at retirement party by abducted girl he rescued

TONIGHT, RICK KARLE BRINGS US THE STORY OF HEIDI’S SURPRI.SE ♪ RICK: WHAT WOULD THEY HAVINE COMMON? A RETIRING POLICE CHIEF AND ASSUMED TO BE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS HEIDI’S SURPRISE. >> I TOLD HER, YOU GET TO BE A SURPRISE. HE DOESN’T KNOW THAT YOU’RE COMING. WHAT? I GET TO BE A SURPRISE? RICK: A SURPRISE THAT IF NOT FOR RIVERSIDE POLICE CHIEF RICK OLIVER, MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENE IT WAS THREEEARS Y AGO WHEN BRITNEY TAUGHT AND THREE OF HER YOUNG CHILDREN WERE ATTACKED AT THEIR SOUTH CAROLINA HOME . BRITTANY LOCKED UP, KNIF,ED BEATEN, KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS HER ENTH FOUR-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HEIDI ABDUCTED. BRITTANY’S HUSBAND KEVIN RUSHED HOME TO MAYHEM. >> TIME IS ALMOST IN SLOW MOTION BUT IT’S AZBLING BY AT THE SAME TIME. RI: A DAY LATER, FEBRUARY 14 2018, RIVERSIDE, ALABAMA RAILROAD WORKER MARK BURK NOTICED A CAR PARKED NEAR THE TRACKS. INSIDE WAS A MAN ASLEEP AND A YOUNG CHILD WEARING ADULT CLOTHE CHIEF OLIVER HEADED TO THE SCENE. HE PICKED UP THE CHILD AS THE ABDUCTORLE F >> SHE WAS LIKE A MAGN, EET LATCHED ON, AND I KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS . RICK: FOUR-YEAR-OLD HEIDI DDTO WAS RESCUED. HER MOTHER STILL IN THE ICU. >> I KNOW THAT GOD PUT ME HERE . HE PUT ME ON THAT DAY, ON ATTH SHIFT AT THAT TIME TO GET HDIEI BA.CK >> WAS THE BEST WORST DAY OF MY LIFE, SHE WAS STILL INCUND I THAT WAS HORRIBLE. A HORRIBLE SITUATION BUT SHET A LEAST WAFOS UND. RICK: IT WAS FOUR DAYS AGO AND THE FOLKS IN RERIVSIDE WERE CELEBRATING CHIEF OLIVER’S RETIREMENT. HUGS, HANDSHAKES AND A KNOCK ON THE DO.OR THREE YEARS LATER, HEIDI’S SURPRI.SE >> I TURNED AND IT WAS HEIDI AND BRITTANY, I COULD NOT BELIEVE .IT >> SEEING HEIDI, IT WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. >> IT WAS JUST AN HONOR TO SEE HEIDI DAN BRITTYAN THERE, TO HONOR MY LAST HURRAH FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. RICK: CHIEF OLIVER AND HEIDI HAD SOME TIME TO CHAT OVER THE WEEKEN AND WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE TODD FILAMY TO LEAVE, >> ONE MORE HUG. RI:CK RICK OLIVER, AFTER 31 YEARS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, NTWE OUT THE WAY HE DREAMED. >> IT’S AWESOME. IT’S ICING TONHE CAKE, NOTHING BETTER I CAN DO, SO I BOW OUT, RICK: AND T THEODD FAMILY? IT NOW HAS A THIRD GRANDPA WHO PROMISES TO VISIT SOUTH CAROLINA OFTEN. >> HE’S STUCK WITH US FOREVER. [LAUGHTER] RI:CK WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE IN COMMON? A RETIRING POLICE CHIEF OMFR ALABAMA AND A SOON-TO-BE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL GIRL FROM SOUTH CAROLI?NA WHAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS MORE THAN YOU THI.

Alabama police chief surprised at retirement party by abducted girl he rescued in 2018

Updated: 8:19 PM CDT Aug 3, 2021

Retired Riverside police Chief Rick Oliver had a very special guest attend his retirement party a few days ago. In 2018, Oliver saved Heidi Todd from her abductor after the assailant brutally attacked her mother, locked her in their South Carolina home and fled to Alabama with the 4-year-old girl.Over the weekend, Heidi was in Alabama again, but this time it was to surprise Oliver at his retirement party. Along for the seven-hour ride? Her parents, five siblings and her grandparents.WVTM 13’s Rick Karle tells you more about the sweet surprise in the video above.

RIVERSIDE, Ala. —

Retired Riverside police Chief Rick Oliver had a very special guest attend his retirement party a few days ago. In 2018, Oliver saved Heidi Todd from her abductor after the assailant brutally attacked her mother, locked her in their South Carolina home and fled to Alabama with the 4-year-old girl.

Over the weekend, Heidi was in Alabama again, but this time it was to surprise Oliver at his retirement party. Along for the seven-hour ride? Her parents, five siblings and her grandparents.

WVTM 13’s Rick Karle tells you more about the sweet surprise in the video above.

This content is imported from Facebook.
You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.