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Phoenix, Arizona
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Wednesday, October 25, 1 995 The Arizona RepublicTHE PHOENIX GAZETTE 3 JUL Mom seeks daughter through TV show PERFECT C0LfHv.IJ9G ByClartUllk Staff writer Since 1978 Arizona's Finest If You Are Just Beginning And Want To Improve, momnir 6 Daytime, evening Hi Sat CJmm AvmHabto ZJIL I '1 I' A 0i "I am anxious, I am nervous right now I'm just trying to keep myself very, very occupied." Penny Nickel-Relf Heather's mother i ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL tion's Missing Children Inc. "I know she's OK in my heart, in my gut," Nickel-Relf said. "But what he's doing to her, the moral issue, is not OK." Heather's older half-sister also is anxious about the show's outcome. "Maybe this will be an end to the search, an end to the hole in our lives," said Tammy Hughes, who last saw Heather during a fun-filled weekend the girls spent with their mother. "I can't believe she's been gone this long." At the time, he lived in a large home in Cave Creek with Johnston; her daughter, Tiffany; and Heather.

Relf and Heather left Sept. 9, 1992, in a 1991 GMC Suburban that has never been found. A month later he was indicted on two counts each of fraud and theft. He faces up to 48 years in prison. Relf had legal custody of Heather at the regained custody last summer and i registered her daughter with Valley law-enforcement agencies, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and The Na FAMILY MEMBERS 12 PRICE I 1 mxrj Grada Your Way Ta We'll test each area of your game and design a program (or you Private Semi Privets Basic Swing Short Game Mid-Long Irons Fairway Woods Drivel "If they're anywhere in the country I'd be really surprised if we don't find them," she said.

Interviews were taped in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa in June with 2CC3E. BTKi-JRd. C-1CS Mesa Since 1378 vJw Nickel-Relf; Heather's 22-year-old half-sister, Tammy Hughes; Phoe Penny Nickel-Relf will surround herself with loved ones and hold her breath when she sits down Friday night to watch NBC's Unsolved Mysteries. One of the segments will be about her missing 14-year-old daughter, Heather Relf. The child clfeappeared in 1992 with her father, 42-year-old Richard Relf, a fugitive charged with stealing nearly $1 million from his Phoenix employer.

"I am anxious, I am nervous fight now I'm just trying to keep myself very, very occupied," said Nickel-Relf, who lives in Apache Junction. "I know better than to pin all my hopes on the show. I just hope that she (Heather) is in the percentage they find." -Unsolved Mysteries learned about Heather from an April 3 story in Program director Jim Lindsay said producers were interested in the case because, of Relf crime coupled with Heather's disappearance. The show solves about a third of the mysteries featured. However, producer Shannon McGill said photos of Relf and Heather boost the chances of locating the pair.

nix police Detective John Stahl; and Kelt tormer doss ana coworkers at Brown Wholesale Elec tric Co. 1 i'-'anr' Producers also interviewed Relf third wife, Joanne Johnston. She was married to Relf and was helping raise Heather at the time the two disappeared. She later divorced him and now lives in SAT. OCT.

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Tempe was just a test market, and if has proven that the possibilities are there. Also, I'm in the process of building another plant in Page." Yamamoto has kept h'iA' product off the shelves of such mass marketers as Wal-Mart "in order to keep my products unique," his lures are in numerous tackle shops around the country and he's considering opening other hare showrooms. have so many color combinations it is impossible for most retailers to carry our whole line," Yamamoto said. According to Derek Yamamoto, the Tempe store handles a lot of mail orders and an estimated 60 to 7jQ percent of the company's prod-uSt goes to Japan. :r.i'My Dad is like a celebrity over there," the younger man said.

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