Affidavit: Woman Charged with Kidnapping Austin Mother and Baby Tried to “Pass the Child Off as Her Own”

TRAVIS COUNTY (WBAP/KLIF News) – New details are being revealed about the bizarre murder-for-baby plot against an Austin mother.

According to a recently released arrest affidavit, 33-year-old Magen Fieramusca allegedly kidnapped Heidi Broussard and her infant daughter Margo Carey in an effort to pass the child off as her own.

The two were last seen December 12th, after Broussard dropped her son off at his elementary school.

Her boyfriend Shane Carey told investigators he came home to find Broussard’s car in the driveway and the door wide open.

After a week-long search, investigators discovered Broussard’s body in the trunk of Fiergamusca’s car at a Houston-area home.

The baby was found safe inside the home.

The affidvait said Fieramusca, a friend of Broussard’s who was in the delivery room when Margo was born, allegedly faked a pregnancy to her former boyfriend.

It also said Fieramusca “presented Heidi Broussard’s newborn child as her own to her boyfriend.”

According to investigators, when the Texas Rangers found Fieramusca’s ex-boy friend buying baby formula days after the disappearance, he said “that’s the baby in my house” when they showed him a flyer with Margo’s picture on it.

Fieramusca was eventually arrested.

She is facing two felony kidnapping charges and a tampering with a corpse charge. No one has been charged with Broussard’s murder yet.

Police said they’re still investigating the case.

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