Heidi Broussard and the ‘best friend’ charged over her death are pictured at church camp as teens as it’s revealed ‘kidnapper’ even faked that she was pregnant to her own lawyers before snatching baby to pass off as her own
- Heidi met Magen Fieramusca at a church camp when they were teenagers
- They remained close friends throughout their twenties and thirties
- Another woman who attended camp with them said they were kind to her
- Magen is now accused of faking her own pregnancy throughout Heidi’s
- Lawyer Eric Devlin saw Megan in November and said she was ‘very pregnant’
- Police say she plotted to steal Heidi’s baby, Margot, once she was born
- They found Margot alive and well inside the home with Magen last week
- Heidi’s body was found strangled in the trunk of a car outside
Photographs of the ‘best friend’ charged in connection with Heidi Broussard’s death and the strangled Texas mother as happy teenagers at the church camp where they met have emerged.
Magen Fieramusca has been charged not with Heidi’s death but with corpse tampering and kidnapping. Police found Heidi’s strangled body in the trunk of a car on her Houston, Texas, property last week.
They also found Heidi’s three-week-old daughter Margot alive and well inside the home.
Authorities say Magen, who also goes by Megan Humphrey, pretended the baby was her own. She had been faking her own pregnancy throughout Heidi’s, with the intention of stealing her baby once she’d given birth, they say.
Magen Fieramusca (left) and Heidi Broussard (right) are shown in a 2002 photograph from a church camp where they became best friends
Heidi and Magen are shown in a more recent photograph. Magen is now in custody on charges of corpse tampering
Heidi is shown at the camp (left) and Magen is shown at the camp (right)
On Monday, a woman who attended the same church camp where the pair met years ago spoke out.
She also shared photos of the pair when they were at the camp and where she says they comforted her when she complained about low self-esteem.
‘I was a little younger one of the dorm, so they were a little older than me.
‘Magen really looked out for me at camp, they clicked instantly. I believe they were about 11 years old,’ Kristina Sellers told KHOU.
She added: ‘I hated my hair, and I remember, Magen sitting me down, her and Heidi, explaining that we’re not always going to like the way we look, but we’ve got to be confident and strong. I just remember them being very attentive to me, especially since I was the youngest in the dorm.’
The women lost touch as they got older, she said. Sellers was horrified to read this week that police think Magen tried to steal her baby and raise her as her own.
Police found Heidi’s baby Margot in the home where Magen was. She had been pretending she was her own child. Heid’s body was found strangled in the trunk of a car
Magen’s appearance changed drastically over the last year. She is shown (left) after being arrested for theft last year and (right) last week. Her lawyers say she pretended to them that she was pregnant
‘I’m extremely shocked. I was there when the friendship started which makes it even more surreal.
‘I spent the summer of my life with those two,’ she told DailyMail.com, adding that she comes from a ‘wonderful family’.
When officers arrived at the house, she told them the baby was called Luna Mae and that she had not long given birth to her.
Magen had been pretending for months that she was also pregnant.
She kept up the act with everyone she knew, including lawyers who represented her against a year-old theft case.
Lawyer Eric Devlin represented her in the 2018 case.
He told NBC that he saw her seven times between August 2018 and November 2019 and that towards the end of that year, she appeared to be ‘very pregnant’.
Photographs taken of her in 2018 compared to her most recent mugshot show how drastically her appearance altered.
Friends say she acted ‘concerned’ when Heidi and Margot were first reported missing by Heidi’s fiance, Shane Carey.
He has not spoken publicly since her body was found.
This was the home where Heidi’s body was found in the trunk of a car at this home in Houston, Texas, last week