May 5, 2017, would forever change Alex Heineman’s life. He was 16 at the time and working at the Hudson, Wisconsin, YMCA during an event for teenagers. Heineman, who is autistic, left the event with then-15-year-old Sierrah Parmeter to take a walk into the nearby woods. The two had an on-again, off-again kind of relationship due to their mutual troubled family lives and apparently kissed in the woods, where Heineman left a hickey on Parmeter’s neck.
Heineman was described by Susan Du in City Pages as “a quiet kid with a gangly athlete’s build, jet black hair that stood straight up, and a slightly sunken gaze” who also “had learning disabilities that relegated him to the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and a lower rung of Hudson High’s social food chain.”
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