Lance Heflin

Lance Heflin

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Lance Heflin

Producer
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Lance Heflin

Producer

November 21

Independence, Missouri

November 15, 2020

Lance Heflin was an American television producer.

Heflin spent his early career in Miami, as a photographer at WCKT (now WSVN), and an investigative producer at WPLG.

Heflin started his producing career with 48 Hours. The CBS series highlighted various true crime stories and criminal cases. Heflin worked on 48 Hours until 1989.

He served as executive producer on America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back from 1989 to 2011. During the span of Heflin’s decades-long producing career, America’s Most Wanted reunited more than 30 abducted children with their families.

In 1995, Heflin received a Primetime Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Children's Program for the TV movie Smart Kids, which, as executive producer, he shared with John Walsh, creator and host of America’s Most Wanted.

Heflin died November 15, 2020. He was 67.

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