Katharina Buczek
“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.
