Family friends of a Texas woman killed and stuffed in a car trunk say her fiancé is due to be reunited with his baby tonight.
Child Protective Services in Houston took temporary custody of Heidi Broussard’s three-week-old daughter, Margot Carey, after they discovered the child at the home of Broussard’s best friend – and her mother strangled to death in the trunk of the best friend’s car in the backyard.
But family of Broussard’s fiancé, Shane Carey, told friends on Monday night that he is due to get his baby daughter back ‘within the hour’.
Carey, 33, was met with immediate suspicion following Broussard’s disappearance last week.
Shane Carey (top), 33, the fiance of murdered mother-of-two Heidi Broussard (bottom), is expected to regain custody of his three-week-old daughter on Monday, according to family friends
The baby, Margot Carey, was found in good condition at the home of Broussard’s best friend. Her mother was found strangled to death in the trunk of the best friend’s car in the backyard
Broussard’s friend and alleged killer, Megan Rose Fieramusca, aka Maygen Humphrey, is being held in county jail on kidnapping and corpse tampering charges
The Austin resident was even accused on social media of killing his bride-to-be when her body was discovered in Houston, and was forced to publicly deny involvement in her disappearance.
The bereaved father, who friends say has been in shock since Broussard was found dead, was soon cleared by Austin Police of any wrongdoing.
In one interview with FOX7, alongside his father Ty, Carey addressed the suspicions and insisted that he hadn’t done anything wrong.
‘I try to ignore that, I don’t know how to handle it. But I know it’s a question. I just ignore it,’ he said. ‘I know it’s not true. It’s negative.’
Cops arrested Broussard’s best friend, Magen Fieramusca, in connection with the death, and charged her last Friday with two counts of kidnapping and one count of tampering with a corpse.
Police say another unnamed individual was arrested in connection with the case. Nobody has been charged yet with Broussard’s murder.
Heidi Broussard’s body was found inside the trunk of a car at a home in Houston and inside police found her newborn daughter Margot alive
The Austin mother’s body was discovered last Thursday after a tip led police to Magen’s home in Houston. They also found Heidi’s three-week-old daughter Margot alive and well inside the home.
Authorities say Fieramusca, who also goes by Megan Humphrey, pretended the baby was her own with the name ‘Luna Mae’
She had been faking her own pregnancy throughout Heidi’s, with the intention of stealing her baby once she’d given birth, cops say.
She kept up the act with everyone she knew, including lawyers who represented her against a year-old theft case.
Fieramusca, also 33, had set up a baby registry on Amazon with Christopher Green, who owns the house where the body and baby were found.
A friend of Heidi Broussard has revealed that the mother-of-two’s relationship with her fiancé Shane Carey (pictured together) had been rocky in the past
Broussard, 33, and three-week-old Margot Carey (pictured) vanished on the morning of December 12, when the mother dropped off her son Silas at his Austin elementary school
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 fiancée
Police said they found Magen, a 33-year-old wedding planner who had known Heidi for over 20 years, in the Houston suburban home, she had the baby alive and well in a swing.
A mutual friend of the two women, Caressa Nolte, said that Megan had told her on the phone last week that she had been breastfeeding the baby.
‘I talk to Magen every day. She’s been like sick over this. She just had a baby and she’s breastfeeding…’ Nolte told the Justice 4 Jay podcast.
‘Her name is Luna Mae…. she’s 15 days old, 16 days old,’ Nolte told the hosts.
They asked Nolte whether she had seen a photo of Luna, and she replied that she had not, but said she heard ‘Luna Mae’ on the phone whilst speaking with Fieramusca.
‘I even told her she sounded sweet,’ she told the podcast.