In 1989, The Son Of A Prominent Hollywood Producer Mysteriously Disappeared After Befriending A Homeless Man: One Month After He Vanished, His Car Was Found Abandoned In Beverly Hills With The Keys Left In The Ignition And His Wallet Inside
In 1989, Adam Hecht was the son of famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecht. So, after being born in 1965, he grew up in the luxurious Beverly Hills area– surrounded by mansions, movie icons, and money.
Then, upon graduating from Beverly Hills High, Adam opted to work as a tennis instructor.
Those who knew the 24-year-old regarded him as an independent, bright, and friendly man. Although on the morning of January 10, 1989, something changed.
That day, Adam and his brother, Harold, visited a restaurant to grab breakfast. And while arriving, they met a homeless man who was reportedly blind in one eye.
So, just a few minutes after sitting down to eat, Adam apparently got up and headed back outside.
“Adam said, ‘Excuse me.’ Then, he went outside and started talking to this person,” Harold recalled.
“And I could see him through the blinds, and I couldn’t understand it. I was quite surprised. I didn’t understand his reason for being out there.”
Once Adam returned to the dining table, his brother asked him what he and the homeless man had been talking about. But, the 24-year-old claimed it was nothing of importance, and he and Harold continued eating breakfast.
After they left the restaurant and began walking to their car, though, Adam approached the homeless man again.
City of Beverly Hills – pictured above is Adam
“Just before I got in my car, I looked back. He was talking to this person. I was very surprised,” Harold said.
The young homeless man Adam befriended was named Tony. And within just a few weeks, he actually asked Tony to move into his apartment.
According to Harold, his brother did this because he had become disillusioned with his privileged life.
So, Tony ended up moving in with Adam. And soon afterward, the 24-year-old brought his new roommate to his mother, Martine’s, home for dinner one evening.
Upon meeting Tony, Martine was reportedly shocked that her son would become roommates with a homeless man.
“I thought, ‘My goodness, that’s strange.’ But knowing Adam the way he is, I really understood it. I thought, ‘Oh my goodness, that’s so nice that he wants to help him,'” she explained.
“When I saw Tony and how he talked, and my God, the smell, it was unbelievable. And wow, it was scary. It was really scary.”
Then, during the meal, Tony apparently started to wave his hands over the food– appearing as though he were blessing it.
In spite of Martine’s shock over her son’s new relationship with the young man, though, she detailed how Adam appeared to really understand Tony.
“And I was led to believe that Tony was really being very kind to Adam as far as helping him grow up as a person and mature. That’s what he said to me– ‘He’s helping me mature as a person,'” Martine revealed.
As Adam and Tony’s friendship continued, the 24-year-old started the frequent homeless regions in Los Angeles. He even began sleeping out on the streets at night, something that his brother, Harold, admitted to not being surprised about.
“I know that when Adam sets his mind to something, he really goes whole-heartedly into any type of project. His involvement with street people increased, and he started to understand their problems,” Harold said.
In addition to understanding Tony’s struggles, though, Adam reportedly also began taking part in mystical rituals he learned from Tony.
At one point, the 24-year-old even severely burned his hand. And after his mother, Martine asked what had happened, Adam claimed to have been participating in a “test of endurance” with Tony.
Then, just five months after Adam and Tony met each other, the 24-year-old mysteriously vanished.
It all began on June 10, 1989, after Harold noticed that he had not spoken with his brother in several days. So, he grew concerned and decided to travel to Adam’s apartment to check-in.
Upon arriving, Tony reportedly answered the door, and Harold noticed that neither his brother nor his brother’s car was there.
Harold also claimed to have asked Tony where Adam had gone, but Tony reportedly did not answer the question “in his strange way” or appear to have any clue about the 24-year-old’s whereabouts.
Afterward, Adam’s mother, Martine, also traveled to the apartment in search of her son. Rather than finding Adam, though, she detailed a concerning encounter with Tony.
“As I am walking back down the corridor, he is following me, and he says, ‘Give us a kiss.’ He starts to put his arms around me, and it was the most scary thing,” Martine explained.
Following this incident, the Hecht family went to the Beverly Hills Police and filed a missing person report for Adam. They also sought to get Tony evicted from the apartment– and on July 9, he was.
However, Tony reportedly did not try to avoid the police. And after detectives questioned him, they ultimately concluded that Tony had had no involvement in Adam’s disappearance.
Then, about one month later, there was a break in the case. Adam’s abandoned car was discovered on a side street in Beverly Hills with numerous parking tickets lying on the windshield.
Inside, investigators found Adam’s credit cards, wallet, and hundreds of dollars in checks and cash. The car keys had also been left in the vehicle’s ignition.
Unfortunately, though, no other clues were uncovered. So, authorities began to consider the possibility that Adam left of his own volition.
“We wish we knew specifically what happened to Adam Hecht. Apparently, he, in the past, occasionally had gone away for a few days at a time but always had returned. And whether he did this time and just decided not to return, we don’t know,” said Beverly Hills Police Department Lieutenant Robert Curtis.
According to Adam’s brother Harold, though, the 24-year-old would never do something like that.
“He had a very solid business. He was very active with a number of different people on a number of different levels. For him just to disappear does not fit his character,” Harold reasoned.
But Adam’s sister, Rachel, had a different perspective– that her brother had become someone she no longer knew after he met Tony.
“In the beginning, Adam was an elite, preppy businessman. He drove a great car and taught tennis. And then he met Tony, and it just all changed. And he became a mystical person, and I just didn’t know him anymore,” Rachel revealed.
Regardless, Lieutenant Curtis claimed that there was no real evidence of criminal involvement or foul play. So, authorities are handling Adam’s disappearance strictly as a missing person case rather than a crime.
And this has left Adam’s mom, Martine, searching for answers and wishing her son would return home.
“What can I say? I just love him, and I just want him to come home. I miss him with all my heart. It’s not a complete family without him,” she said.
“And I would try and understand whatever he was thinking, and I would not be mad at him in any way. I just want him to just come home because he is truly loved by all of us and many other people, too.”
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