Cops searching for missing Texas mom Heidi Broussard and her month-old daughter have recovered a baby girl alive from a house near Houston.
Broussard, 33, and her baby daughter Margot have not been seen since the morning of December 12 when Broussard dropped off her son at an Austin elementary school.
Last night a baby girl was discovered with ‘no obvious injuries or problems’ and taken to hospital after Austin police and FBI agents swarmed a home in Harris County near Texas, according to KXAN.
The girl’s identity has not yet been confirmed.
Law enforcement entered the two-story building and searched a car at the back of the house with the medical examiner’s office also believed to be on the scene, but further details of the investigation are unclear.
A house near Houston, Texas, which authorities were searching yesterday in an operation linked to the disappearance of Heidi Broussard and her daughter Margot
A police cordon is seen outside the property in Harris County after darkness fell last night
Heidi and Margot, pictured, were reported missing last Thursday by Broussard’s fiance Shane Carey, who is also Margot’s father. The FBI have now joined the search efforts for the pair
Heidi and baby Margot were reported missing by Broussard’s fiance Shane Carey, who is also Margot’s father, at 7.30pm last Thursday, December 12. FBI agents have been combing their apartment this week.
The 33-year-old’s parents begged for the pair’s safe return earlier this week, with mom Tammy telling KVUE: ‘We miss all of them very much, and we want them home. So, anybody who has her, please let them go – just let them go – and it’ll be alright.
She added: ‘Heidi wouldn’t do this, there’s no way. She loves her son Silas and she would never do this, and she would never take Margot down those stairs without her carrier and have her strapped in and her diaper bag strapped to her back.’
David and Tammy Broussard traveled from Lake Charles, Louisiana after news of their daughter and granddaughter’s disappearance.
David said: ‘We’ve just been hoping and praying that they find some clues to my daughter’s disappearance. I’ve just been going out in the surrounding area and looking, hoping and just doing a little detective work.
‘We’re not giving up. We don’t believe in anything else but Heidi coming home.’
Tammy added: ‘We’re just trying to do everything we can to let them know and let the public know that the authorities are doing their job, and we want to bring our babies home.’
Authorities at the scene were seen entering the two-story building and searching a car at the back of the house
Last night Austin police and the FBI were swarming a home in Harris County near Houston along with Texas Rangers and public safety officials
Heidi’s parents David and Tammy Broussard, pictured, have made a tearful plea to find their daughter and granddaughter as they say there’s no way she would have left voluntarily
Carey, pictured, gave tearful TV interviews saying that he didn’t believe Heidi would leave on her own accord. He denied any involvement in the disappearance of his daughter and fiancee
Police, who have given few details about the investigation, said at a Tuesday press conference that they currently had no suspects in their disappearance.
Detective Brad Herries said investigators are currently working on the assumption that Broussard and her daughter have not been harmed. Herries said authorities are exploring ‘every possibility’ and at this point are assuming they are alive.
‘It´s possible that Heidi and Margot have left on their own accord,’ Herries said. ‘It´s also possible that there may be something nefarious or foul play involved.’
He said police do not have a person of interest in the case.
Herries refused to confirm or deny whether there had been previous domestic callouts to the family home but did say past police contact is part of the investigation, along with social media posts.
Herries also refused to confirm if Broussard’s fiance was a suspect.
It comes after Carey gave tearful TV interviews over the weekend saying that he didn’t believe she would have left on her own accord.
In one interview with Fox7, Carey denied any involvement in the disappearance of his daughter and fiancee.
Detective Brad Herries said investigators are currently working on the assumption that Broussard and her daughter, pictured, have not been harmed
FBI agents canvas the apartment complex in Austin where missing mom Heidi Broussard lives. Heidi has been missing since December 12 when she was last seen dropping her son Silas, at school. Her daughter three-week-old daughter Margot is also missing
Investigators are trying to determine if Broussard left on her own or if the pair are victims of foul play. Detectives have been interviewing her family and friends and reviewing surveillance footage from the Austin apartment complex where Broussard lives
Police believe Broussard returned home after dropping her six-year-old son Silas off at school before vanishing.
Investigators are trying to determine if Broussard left on her own or if the pair are victims of foul play.
Detective Brad Herries, pictured, said authorities are exploring ‘every possibility’ and at this point are assuming they are alive
Detectives have been interviewing her family and friends and reviewing surveillance footage from the Austin apartment complex where Broussard lives.
Carey said he last saw Broussard when he left for work at around 6.40am on December 12.
Authorities said Broussard arrived at the school with Margot to drop off her son at around 7.30am. A surveillance image released by police showed the mother at the school wearing a purple shirt about 20 minutes later.
Carey said Heidi called him at about 8am to telling him she had bought some books for Silas at a school fair. He said he tried calling her again at around 1.40pm but her phone was turned off.
Carey arrived home from work at about 2pm and said Broussard and the baby were not there.
He said Broussard’s car was unlocked and her purse was inside with her ID and bank cards still in it. Carey said her keys and cellphone were the only things missing.
Carey said he got a call from Silas’ school soon after saying Broussard hadn’t returned to pick up her son.
He said he went to pick up the boy and that Broussard still wasn’t home when he returned. Police were notified several hours later.
Yesterday an anonymous friend who spoke to CrimeOnline told the outlet that Broussard and her fiancé Shane Carey went through a difficult break-up earlier this year.
She said she was taken aback when Heidi informed her during a conversation back in May that she’d gotten back together with Carey.
‘We didn’t talk about Shane very often but the last conversation we had I was shocked to find that they were back together,’ the friend said.
‘She had told me that they broke up but never told me they got back together [until this summer].
‘I always found that weird. Wouldn’t she have told me out of excitement? I knew she was pregnant I just didn’t know she was back with Shane.’
Broussard is described as standing at 5-foot-3 inches tall, and weighing 150 pounds, with long dark hair with highlights. Margot was born on November 26, 2019, and weighs about 7 pounds, 7 ounces. She is roughly 22 inches long
Heidi’s car is still parked outside the apartment she shares with Carey, pictured
Carey told Fox7 that when he first noticed Broussard was missing, he walked around the apartment complex ‘going through dumpsters’ to see if he could find her keys.
‘I sat outside to see any suspicions, anything that was weird,’ he said.
‘The next morning I sat out here for hours asking everybody if they’d seen or heard screaming, anything that was off or suspicious. They’re all saying no.’
Carey repeated his account in a phone interview with KVUE on Sunday during which he appeared unsettled and overwhelmed.
‘Okay I’m gonna I’m gonna call you back or something, I don’t know what to do man. You make me nervous, you know…I just want to be natural man,’ he told the reporter.
‘I just want to like… this is not… I don’t know… get the word out there.’
He added: ‘I don’t know why anybody would ever harm or touch these two beautiful women together.’
Carey begged anyone with information to contact him or authorities and pleaded with the public to share social media posts about her disappearance.
‘She would not do this by herself. She would not be doing this. This is definitely something that happened that was wrong,’ he said.
‘She is an amazing person. She has amazing support, friends behind her. She’s so personable – one of the best people I’ve ever met, so kind, and she does anything for her kids – one of the best moms.’
Carey said that when he first noticed Broussard was missing, he walked around the apartment complex ‘going through dumpsters’ to see if he could find her keys. The couple are pictured
Broussard is described as standing at 5-foot-3 inches tall, and weighing 150 pounds, with long dark hair with highlights.
Margot was born on November 26, 2019, and weighs about 7 pounds, 7 ounces. She is roughly 22 inches long.
Anyone with information is asked to call police by dialing 911 in Austin, or directly at (512) 974-5017.