The fiance of a Texas mother found dead in the trunk of her friend’s car in an alleged scheme to steal the couple’s newborn baby wants to confront the suspect, according to a report.
Shane Carey, Heidi Broussard’s fiance, told ABC News in an interview Thursday on “Good Morning America” that he wants answers from his partner’s friend of 10 years, Magen Rose Fieramusca, 33, as to why she allegedly abducted Broussard last month.
“I want to look her straight in the eyes and ask her why,” Carey said of Fieramusca, who has been charged with kidnapping and tampering with a corpse, but not in Broussard’s death. “That’s all I want to say. There’s no reason for any of this.”
Carey also suggested that someone else may have helped Fieramusca in the alleged baby-stealing plot, which remains under investigation.
“I believe somebody talked her into it,” Carey continued. “I mean, from knowing Magen, I would never imagine it. I don’t know what happened … Heidi is way stronger than Magen. There has to be a second person. There is no way Magen was by herself.”
Fieramusca told her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Green, that she gave birth to a newborn on Dec. 12 and that he was the father, according to police documents.
But the baby was actually birthed by Broussard, who was found dead in the trunk of a Nissan Versa at Fieramusca’s Houston home on Dec. 20, one week after she and her baby, Margot, were reported missing, according to a probable cause affidavit.
An autopsy found that Broussard died from ligature strangulation.
The couple’s infant daughter was found alive and unharmed inside the home. She has since been reunited with Carey and his relatives.
Fieramusca, who met Broussard about a decade ago at a church camp, has not been charged in the woman’s death. Carey said he’s frustrated by how investigators have handled the case.
“I guess it’s tampering with evidence, [but] how is no one charged [with murder]? … There has to be someone charged,” he said. “I don’t know why this happened. She had my baby in her room supposedly. So it had to be her … She had to be involved.”
Fieramusca, who remains in custody in lieu of $600,000 bond, is set to return to court Feb. 3.
Carey, meanwhile, said he’s having a difficult time coming to grips with how Broussard died.
“She deserves more,” he told ABC News. “She deserves way more. I’m waiting for that text message, like, ‘Hey sweetie, how we doing?’ Just waiting to hear her voice. I still don’t believe it. I just don’t believe it. It’s really not real.”
With Post wires