Two weeks after giving birth, the woman took her other child to school and then returned home with her baby. Along the way, he disappeared without a trace.
Heidi Broussard, 33, was last seen on the morning of December 12, when he took his six-year-old son to his elementary school in Austin, Texas. "She's a great mother, she has to go back, " her boyfriend, Shane Carey, father of the newborn girl, also missing, said tearfully.
The man said that when he returned home that Thursday, he found his girlfriend's car parked. At first he did not worry , thinking that he would be visiting a friend in the apartment complex where they lived, but in the late afternoon he phoned the police and reported his disappearance, according to the NBC network.
" To be totally honest , this case is unique and we don't have a suspect so far," said the FBI days later, "we are exploring all the possibilities."
The woman's girlfriend said that if he had voluntarily disappeared, he had told someone. Also, both his ID and the baby's diapers were in the apartment. " This scares me even more, " he added.
"Something has happened, she would not have left without more," said the woman's mother.
A week after the disappearance, the baby was found in good health in a home in Houston (Texas). His mother's lifeless body was also found, hidden in the trunk of a car , NBC reported.
Heidi Broussard had been strangled. A shopping list was found next to his body, according to the Austin American-Statesman newspaper.
The woman who lived in the house where the baby was found, Megan Fieramusca, who was friends with the victim , was accused of kidnapping. He had told people around him that he was pregnant, and had a birth record with the same date as the victim's baby, according to NBC.
According to court documents to which the aforementioned newspaper had access, the woman, the same age as her dead friend, had been faking her pregnancy for months.
Fieramusca had been described as the victim's best friend, whom he had met 10 years earlier at the Texas Bible Institute in Columbus. When Broussard told her she was pregnant, in early 2019, she replied that she was also pregnant, according to The Washington Post, joking about whether they would give birth on the same day.
When the time for Broussard finally arrived, her friend drove the 165 miles that separate Houston from Austin and helped her in the hospital with her contractions, being one of the first people to hold the baby in her arms.
The detainee also told her then boyfriend that she was pregnant, in March 2019, and that was when the couple broke up. But they continued to live together; he said, the belly of his ex-partner was growing , and when he touched her he felt hard, but he never saw her naked because they were no longer together.
On December 12, Fieramusca told the man that he was going to the beach with a friend. The next day he didn't see her, and when he returned he had the baby with her. A week later, the man was stopped by police when he was going to look for clothes for the newborn; the agents handed him a photograph of a missing baby. He replied: "That is the baby in my house."
