MURDERED AUSTIN MOM'S BEST FRIEND SOUNDED GENUINELY CONCERNED SHORTLY BEFORE HER ARREST

Suspect in Austin mom disappearance sounded "so convincing" just days before arrest

KTRK
December 20, 2019

HOUSTON, Texas -- One of the lead searchers following the disappearance of Austin mom Heidi Broussard said the suspect in the case sounded sincere when he spoke to her before her arrest.

Magen Fieramusca was arrested and charged with two counts of kidnapping and tampering with a corpse after Broussard's body was found in the trunk of a car at a home in northwest Harris County Thursday. Broussard's baby, Margot Carey, was found alive and well.

Tim Miller, of Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit search and recovery organization, said Fieramusca sounded genuine, saying, "I can't believe how sincere she sounded. So then, we got the news yesterday, I was just scratching my head."

"How in the world could this person sound so convincing?" asked Miller. "Now, (she's) being held on kidnapping and abuse of corpse charges. I don't know. It's still kind of like in shock."

Miller said that Fieramusca and Broussard had been close friends for years, adding, "Magen was there when Heidi had the baby. That's how close of friends they were. They had been friends forever. They were friends when (Broussard's boyfriend) Shane (Carey) and Heidi got together 10 years ago."

Medical examiners ruled Broussard's cause of death as "ligature strangulation."

EDITOR’S NOTE: I was a Texas EquuSearch volunteer helping Tim at his office for several months some years ago. Tim is really a great guy. He founded Texas EquuSearch in August 2000 as a tribute to his 16-year-old daughter Laura who had been abducted and murdered in September 1984. Her body was found in February 1986 buried in League City’s infamous “Killing Fields”.