Heather Tallchief is making headlines again. At the age of 21, the ex-nursing assistant pulled off a heist in 1993, walking away with $3.1 million from a Vegas casino and disappearing into thin air along with her 48-year-old boyfriend Roberto Solis. Now 49, Heather has a Netflix docuseries dedicated to her, where she explains how she did what she did.
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In 2005, after being on the FBI’s most wanted list for 13 years, Heather Tallchief walked into the United States Marshals office in Las Vegas, Nevada with a lawyer to turn herself in. Before returning to the US, she settled with Solis in Amsterdam, where the two had a son and she worked as a hotel maid.
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Tallchief told police that Solis treated her poorly, so she decided to turn herself in. She pleaded guilty in March 2006 but said she committed the crime as a result of Solis hypnotizing her before she went to work each day. She got a 63-month sentence and was later released on parole in 2010.
As she tells in Netflix’s docuseries, she left Solis not long after she had the baby, desiring a normal childhood for her son—which she was able to achieve, working as an escort and then a hotel maid to support them. In 1997, she obtained a fake passport and began using the name Donna Marie Eaton. Soon, she fell in love again and spent the following years leading a mostly normal life, reports esquire.com.
Where is Heather Tallchief now?
As the docuseries shows, she now lives in the United States, works in healthcare again. Her son graduated from college in 2019. There is no information on Roberto Solis. Tallchief has not heard from him since she left him in Amsterdam.