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U.S. NEWS Saturday 21 december 2019

Police say Texas mother found

dead was strangled, baby safe

By PAUL J. WEBER tin Police Chief Brian Man- the Houston area. He said
Associated Press ley told reporters at a news investigators zeroed in on
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — conference. a residence and detained
More than a week after a Manley said the person a person outside the resi-
33-year-old Texas mother arrested in connection dence Thursday, and then
and her infant daughter with the case had been obtained a search warrant
vanished, authorities said charged with two counts of to search the cars and resi-
Friday they found the wom- kidnapping and one count dence.
an dead more than 100 of tampering with a corpse. Manley said there may be In this Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019 photo, FBI agents canvas the
miles (160.93 kilometers) But he refused to disclose additional charges in the neighborhood searching for information on Heidi Broussard, a
away but the baby safe, the person's identity, citing case as the investigation missing Austin, Texas, woman and her infant daughter in South
Austin, Texas.
and have charged a sus- the ongoing investigation, continues.q Associated Press
pect with kidnapping and even while acknowledging
tampering with a corpse. that a name and picture
Heidi Broussard and her was already being widely
1-month-old daughter, distributed by multiple me-
Margo Carey, were last dia outlets.
seen Dec. 12 in their home- Bond for the suspect was
town of Austin, Texas, after set at $600,000.
Broussard dropped off an Authorities said the baby
older child at an elementa- found at the house looked
ry school. Their abrupt dis- like Broussard's child but
appearance drew national were still awaiting DNA
attention, and authorities tests. The baby was de-
now say the search ap- scribed as being found
pears to have ended with "healthy" and placed in the
the baby being found alive custody of Texas Child Pro-
but her mother dead at a tective Services.
home near Houston. Tammy Broussard, Heidi's
Broussard's body was posi- mother, earlier told NBC
tively identified by the Har- News that police told her
ris County Institute of Foren- the body was likely that of
sic Science, which called her daughter and that the
her death a homicide by body was found in the trunk
strangulation. Although po- of a car at the home in the
lice had a person in custo- Houston suburb of Jersey
dy, by Friday evening they Village, about 130 miles
had not announced any (209 kilometers) southeast
murder charges. of Austin.
"Although we are grateful Austin police Detective
that it appears as though Brad Herries said that af-
we have safely recovered ter receiving numerous
baby Margo, again we do tips, a lead was gener-
believe Miss Broussard lost ated this week that led to
her life in this incident," Aus- a "location of interest" in