[eerie music playing]
[vocalizing]
There's always a clique
at church camp.
RACHEL: Either you fit
into the group...
or you didn't.
REBEKAH: She definitely
wanted to be part of
the "it" crowd, and she was
infatuated immediately.
He was her life.
KELLY: I'm not saying
he's a bad guy, but
she gave people chances
that they didn't deserve.
RACHEL: I wonder if
she's faking that pregnancy
just to keep that dude?
The search is intensifying
tonight for
a missing Austin mother
and her baby.
How can you vanish
with a baby?
CARESSA: But...
I was starting to put
these pieces together.
-My stomach turned.
-They loved each other.
Didn't make sense.
I just remember screaming.
I didn't see the evil.
[theme music playing]
My full name is
Jennifer Youngblood.
I go by Jay
on my true crime podcast.
I cover breaking news and
true crime and missing people.
And on that day, we started
the podcast talking about
a missing mother and newborn
and just getting the word out.
JAY: Caressa was a friend
who was willing to come
on my podcast and tell us
about her friend.
The podcast went for a good
happening, uneventful.
And then...
CARESSA: But...
JAY: Things were going on
in real time.
A raid was happening,
and it involves
a missing persons case.
[Jay gasps]
[girls laughing,
talking indistinctly]
One, two...
I'm a little bit older,
but my sister Rachel, Kelly,
and Heidi have been best
friends for as long as I know,
of course, as long as
I remember.
Ready? Yeah, go!
We met through church when
I was around eight years old.
We went to the same
children's church,
and they kind of took me in.
We were, I feel like
the Charlie's Angels,
the three of us.
Kelly was softer, I guess
you'd say, in my opinion,
more of the quieter one in
the group.
Even though
I'm not quiet today.
Uh, I was definitely
more of the quiet one,
but Heidi was the one who made
friends with everybody.
She was the spunky,
loving friend,
full of life,
full of energy.
I was the wild child,
let's just say that --
we really were
inseparable, and we made
such a tight bond.
NARRATOR:
It's the late 1990s,
and for Christian teens
across America,
purity is the name of
the game.
We wore purity rings, and it
was a big part of who we were.
I don't know if it
was Britney,
but it was something
that we did.
You hope that you'll remain
a virgin until you get married.
Yeah.
NARRATOR:
And if you're a preteen girl,
they tell you it's the purest
ones who are closest to God.
There were girls in our youth
group who would get engaged
and stand in front of
the entire youth group and say
they weren't gonna kiss till
the day they got married.
That was a little extreme.
There is a lot of pressure
to do things the right way.
There's a lot of pressure
to be married
before you have children,
to be married
before you have sex.
You wanna save that for
your husband or your wife.
KELLY: The only thing I was
allowed to listen to was
Christian music.
We were not allowed
to listen to secular music.
It wasn't a thing --
I didn't even have TV.
RACHEL: We go to church
every Sunday, we go to church
every Wednesday --
we pray, we believe God.
When the doors were open at
the church, we were there.
We feared God more than
we feared our parents,
not gonna lie.
NARRATOR: God probably
isn't keeping score,
but don't tell that to
the tween-age girls
at church camp.
RACHEL: There was
this amazing camp that
our church had gotten
involved in,
and it was called
Discovery Country Camp.
Was out on campus at Texas
Bible Institute in
Columbus, Texas.
There's always a clique
at camp.
We had
so much fun together.
It was us three.
RACHEL:
We were the "it" people.
We didn't really care
if we were popular,
didn't really care
if we were not popular.
It made people
want to be around us,
because we were loud
and fun -- with me,
Heidi, and Kelly, either
you fit into the group
or you didn't.
Heidi and Rachel and Kelly
would think
that it was the "it"
group, right?
It was their group.
NARRATOR:
As they say,
with great power
comes great responsibility.
Popular girls
get to choose who sits
in their pew,
and two other campers,
Magen Humphreys and Caressa
Nolte, want to be included.
RACHEL:
Caressa was very pretty.
She had the cutest haircut,
the cutest style, and she was
also loud and fun like us.
She was there every year,
because she lives in Columbus.
There was an immediate, like,
friend attraction there.
Magen...
I never liked.
KELLY:
I didn't like her.
She just rubbed me
the wrong way.
She was weird,
and Magen was definitely
a wannabe.
She was never one of
those people,
in my opinion,
that were magnetic,
and she definitely wanted to
be part of the "it" crowd.
But she was a nice girl.
NARRATOR: There's nothing
more obvious than
the girl
who's trying too hard.
She didn't fit in.
There was many times
where I definitely
walked a little faster
to get away from her and
exclude her from the crowd.
Sometimes I wanted to go,
hey, let's go early to
eat lunch, and then if Magen
catches up with us,
she does, if she doesn't,
oh, well.
NARRATOR: But there's
one member of the "it" group
who always follows
the golden rule.
REBEKAH:
Heidi loved everybody.
So she was really
good at kind of
bringing everybody in and
making them feel included.
RACHEL: Heidi would see
the best in everybody.
She was like,
"I'm gonna include everybody.
I'm gonna love everybody."
If Magen would be excluded
from anything,
I don't think she ever
would know it, because
Heidi would reinclude her
before she ever knew
so her feelings wouldn't
get hurt.
It was so annoying.
KELLY: Magen would do things
to try to pull Heidi away
from everybody,
where it would just be Magen
and Heidi.
I don't think Magen had
anybody, and I hate to say that
Heidi couldn't have
other friends,
but that's the way Magen
treated her, like she was just
selfish with her.
Magen would have loved
to have her all for herself.
Definitely.
NARRATOR: As the girls
get older, they outgrow
the camp drama
and start their adult lives.
We all grew up, and after
the camp in Columbus,
everybody kind of
went their own ways.
I got married, Rachel and
Kelly went back to Louisiana,
Magen moved to Houston,
and Caressa stayed in Columbus.
Heidi came back to
Lake Charles,
and she always stayed in touch
with everyone.
She was probably a better
friend than all of us.
She knew how to stay in touch
with every one of us,
keep a pulse on all of
our lives and how we
were doing, no matter where
she was or where we were.
NARRATOR: Now a young adult,
Heidi begins working at
a new casino in her hometown
of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
And there she meets
a blue-eyed charmer named Shane.
RACHEL: It was a fairly new
casino when they both started
working there, and she fell
pretty head over heels
pretty quick.
She was
infatuated immediately.
He was her life.
RACHEL: They hit it off,
then they started dating,
and then
she popped up pregnant.
So surprise baby.
REBEKAH: Heidi and Shane were
not married at the time,
and they were surprised with
the pregnancy of their son.
I don't think
he ever proposed to her.
We were always taught,
yeah, you abstain
from sex before you're married,
and she was nervous.
But she was also
very excited to tell
her mom that her mom
was having a grandbaby.
The baby was born,
and she was truly happy.
She was so happy to be a mom.
NARRATOR: Heidi, Shane,
and their new baby
make a picture perfect
young family
but not all is
well behind closed doors.
He was a great guy
from the outside,
but Shane had his moments,
which didn't cause him to be
the best dad,
even boyfriend,
that Heidi needed.
We learn different things
about people as we get to
know them --
we all have our flaws,
and she gave people chances
that they didn't deserve.
REBEKAH: After
the birth of the baby,
Shane and Heidi
moved to Austin.
There were
some rough patches.
Heidi moved out
a time or two with her son,
and they always just ended up
gravitating back to one another.
But it was just
very hard for Heidi.
Stay broken up for a little
bit, and then back together,
break -- they were that
on again, off again
constant relationship
that struggled.
They would be
really good for a long time,
and then they would
just break up.
Heidi called me crying,
and she said,
"I don't know if I can do this
relationship anymore.
"It's just hard.
"I don't know
what he wants,
and I don't know
what I want at this time."
It was a very toxic situation
between her and Shane.
And she would tell me
she did feel alone.
NARRATOR: Sometimes
it's impossible to know
what's happening
in a relationship
even if it's
your best friend.
At that point,
I think she had made up her
mind that she really was gonna
move back to Louisiana,
and then boom,
she was pregnant
with her second baby.
NARRATOR: The news is a blow
to Heidi's plans.
KELLY: Heidi's second pregnancy
was also very unexpected.
It was not something she was
even excited about at the time,
and not being married again,
not having her family.
RACHEL: She goes, "Oh my God,
what am I gonna do?"
And I said, "It's gonna be fine,
just like it's always
been fine."
We don't get to decide
when we're pregnant.
Like, God always knows
what's best
and timing is always perfect
when it's a baby.
NARRATOR: And thankfully,
two of her old
camp friends are also
living in Texas.
RACHEL:
Magen was in Houston,
and she grew closer
and closer to Heidi,
and then Caressa
was living in Columbus,
Texas, and just a phone call
away for her.
REBEKAH: Heidi, Caressa,
and Magen got very close.
She was closer to them than
she was to Lake Charles,
and we still saw her,
but she started to spend
more time with them.
It was really
just very nice for
Heidi to have that support
that she needs
during that time.
Heidi definitely kept that
relationship alive.
Magen and Caressa also had
quite a bit of a connection.
KELLY:
Caressa was always around.
I don't remember Caressa
being possessive of anyone.
I do remember Caressa
wanting attention,
but it was more of
attention from everybody,
not just Heidi.
When I see Caressa,
I hug her.
I love on her, and I have
no problem with her.
We're just not close.
Magen's life --
I wasn't interested,
and I mean that in
the nicest way possible,
and every time Heidi would
call me and say, "Oh, I'm going
to see Magen," and every time
she would talk about Magen,
I'd be like, "You're still
friends with that girl?"
Like, why?
NARRATOR: With Magen
and Caressa's support,
Heidi gets excited about
the new addition to her family
and is even happier when she
learns she's not alone.
It was just a matter of weeks
between Heidi announcing that
she was pregnant
and then Magen announcing
that she was pregnant
with her on and off
boyfriend, Chris,
that she's living with.
It was very, very quick,
extremely quick.
KELLY: Magen had even told Heidi
that they had the same due date,
which was a shock
to everybody.
You ever heard the saying,
keep up with the Joneses?
It was almost like,
oh, Heidi's pregnant.
I gotta get pregnant now --
didn't shock me at all.
It's definitely like
a raining on your parade.
I mean, I'm sure I rolled my
eyes, because I was never a fan,
but Heidi never wanted to take
the glow away from anybody.
So she definitely
didn't talk about it
in a negative light
or even that it was weird.
I'll be honest,
I was happy for her,
because I've experienced that
and been able to walk through
a pregnancy with someone that
you're close to,
and it's a fun experience.
NARRATOR: The thought of
welcoming this blessing from God
appears to breathe new life
into Heidi and Shane's
troubled relationship.
After that point,
Shane did an around about face.
Shane really stepped up to
the plate and became who Heidi
needed him to be.
Heidi chose to fight for
her relationship with Shane.
She really loved him, and she
kind of set some ultimatums in
place, like we're gonna make
this work, and we're not gonna
fight, and we're,
you know, gonna do this
for our children.
NARRATOR: While things are
looking up for Heidi and Shane,
Magen's journey with her
boyfriend, Chris, isn't so rosy.
Magen and Chris were living in
Houston together.
Their relationship was on
the rocks, but she was pregnant
with his child.
I remember Heidi telling me
that Magen had a rocky
relationship also,
and she didn't know
how that was gonna happen,
how she was gonna do alone.
She was living in the same
house as him,
but they were living on
different ends of the house.
So they weren't spending time
in the same bedroom.
They were sleeping in
opposite rooms.
He traveled a lot,
as well.
He worked out in the oil field,
so he wasn't home all the time.
She was there by herself.
Magen leaned on Heidi for
support, and she was like,
"I can have you to help me
if I become a single mom."
KELLY:
Late in November,
Heidi gave birth to
a very healthy baby girl.
And Magen did make the trip
from Houston
to Austin to be at
the delivery for Heidi.
To my knowledge, she was given
a key to Shane and Heidi's
apartment to go spend the night
there that night, because Shane
did not want a pregnant girl
to drive two hours back home
that far along in
her pregnancy.
Shane was close with Magen,
because Heidi cared about Magen
so much --
Shane had sympathy
or empathy,
I guess you would say, for
Magen because of what
she was going through.
And the next morning,
Magen headed back to Houston.
NARRATOR: Just two weeks later,
on December 6th, 2019,
Magen shares the happy news
with friends that
she's given birth
to her own baby girl
she's named Luna.
It was awesome to see
two friends share
their lives together and
the babies grow up together.
So it was super exciting.
I got a phone call that
afternoon from Shane
asking if I had heard
from Heidi,
if Heidi had taken
a day trip to meet me.
I was like,
why would Heidi be with me?
And he's like, "She didn't pick
up our son from school,"
and that's not like her.
It's absolutely not like her.
And then after that,
Heidi's mother,
Tammy, called me to ask me
the same question.
Then maybe 45 minutes to
an hour later,
we're all just calling
each other.
I've called Rachel, Kelly.
I've called my mom.
I've talked to Tammy --
at that point,
it was very frantic,
like, somebody
has to know
where she is, right?
Nobody could get in touch
with her.
And I remember
the pit in my stomach,
but I didn't freak out.
Felt like she was okay.
She's okay.
Everything is gonna be okay.
KELLY: I tried calling Heidi,
texting Heidi.
I was just hoping,
you know, you don't --
you don't even know what
you're hoping for.
It was definitely like
Heidi vanished.
But how can you vanish
with a baby?
[phone number dialing,
phone ringing]
Shane called the Austin Police
Department to report that his
wife and his newborn infant
had been missing that
whole day.
And then what's often common
the next day, he comes into
the police station,
where he has
a much more in-depth interview
with the detectives to try to
figure out what
could have happened.
Where could she be?
Where could the infant be?
Shane told police
he woke up for work.
About 6:30, he leaves
the apartment.
He said Heidi,
like she does every
other day, takes her son
to elementary school.
He claimed that
he spoke with Heidi at 8:30
in the morning when she got
back from the school,
and everything was fine.
When Shane got off work
that day,
he tried to call Heidi on
the cell phone, wasn't able to
reach her, and then he went
back to their apartment,
and he noticed when he pulled in
that her car was there.
He went up to the apartment,
which was unlocked.
JAY:
And no one's home.
However, the apartment
wasn't in disarray.
All the necessities they needed
for their baby,
whether that be car seats
or carriers, baby food,
were all still in
the apartment.
The only things that he could
not find of Heidi's was
her cell phone
and the keys to the car,
but initially was not alarmed
and felt she was just in
the neighborhood with the baby
talking to a neighbor.
And then he gets a call
that their son
hasn't been picked up
from school.
He said he went to pick up
the son and waited about
would show up to get him.
And when she didn't show up,
that was his first cue that
something was wrong.
When Shane got back from
the school,
not meeting Heidi there,
that was when I think
the panic set in.
He said there's no way
Heidi took off
without her other child.
So clearly, she had been
abducted by somebody.
CHRIS: In most of these cases
where someone goes missing,
it is a spouse or someone very
close who commits the crime.
REBEKAH: Even though Shane
and Heidi were happy,
Everybody thought that he may
have been involved.
Watch a movie, watch TV.
That's always the first
suspect, right?
Heidi struggled with
her relationship with Shane,
and that wasn't a secret
to anybody.
Their relationship was
definitely off and on,
hot and cold,
almost by the day.
CHRIS: So we needed
to figure out
if Shane is telling the truth.
Shane had told us that Heidi
went to the elementary school.
So detectives went there
to pull that video.
There was surveillance footage
at 8:12 showing her
with the newborn dropping off
her son at school.
So everything
that Shane said
about that morning
was corroborated.
NARRATOR: Although Shane
appears to be cooperating,
the clock is ticking.
They put out an emergency ping
for 48 hours.
An emergency ping is when
the police ask a phone company
to ping a cell phone
to find its location.
In Heidi's case, they didn't
get a response from the phone.
So either the phone had died
or it was shut off.
From looking at Heidi's social
media, from looking at her
records from phones,
it was very obvious that
everything was normal.
Heidi seemed happy, there
was no talk of running away.
Everything that we saw led us
to believe that, you know,
that day, all of a sudden,
everything changed.
NARRATOR: Investigators also
do a door-to-door canvass
of the apartment complex,
hoping to drum up leads.
The most concerning
thing is that
she didn't have
any baby bottles,
no diapers, no wipes.
That would cause
anyone to panic,
that someone took a newborn
out of the home with nothing to
take care of that newborn.
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, news of
Heidi's disappearance
hits those close
to her hard.
I was in Louisiana
when I found out.
Caressa was in
Columbus, and Magen
was in Houston, because she'd
just given birth to her baby.
But everybody really came
together pretty
quickly to try to find her.
We were all helping
from our own home hub.
I remember making a Facebook
post and saying, "My best friend
is missing, and we need all
the prayer warriors to pray."
How does somebody just --
how -- how did they
just disappear?
You know, people would say
things like, "Oh, she ran away,
"she took the baby,
maybe it was postpartum, and
she ran away," and I'd always go
back to, she'd never leave
her little boy, ever.
I remember crying,
like Lord help us
find her,
like she's gonna be okay.
It's gonna be fine, like,
she's somewhere out there.
Keep her safe.
I honestly thought that
she was taken for her baby,
for the baby to be sold.
That was my feeling in
my heart.
We've been working
this case continually.
We have...
asked for the help of the FBI.
The FBI is sending in
the CARD team.
That's the Child Abduction
Response Deployment team
here to Austin to assist
with this investigation
and with this search.
CHRIS: Austin police was doing
everything that they needed
to do, but one of
the real benefits that
the FBI can bring to bear is
massive manpower,
a lot of specialty things, to
aid those police departments.
And that's really why
the FBI got so involved.
One of the most important
parts of a missing person case
is getting the name out there,
getting in the media so that
everybody sees.
You add a two-week-old infant
into that,
you're really gonna gain
media attention.
The search is intensifying
tonight for a missing Austin
mother and her baby.
A desperate search for
a missing mother
and her two-week-old daughter.
She took their son to school
one morning
and then just vanished.
We always tell families,
share the story, because
you never know who might
have seen something.
Heidi's parents,
David and Tammy, say all they
want is their daughter
and granddaughter to come home.
All we need right now is for
Heidi to come home.
We miss
all of them very much.
NARRATOR:
But one interview
strikes Heidi's friends
as very off.
I just want her home safe.
It doesn't have to be here.
Just drop her off
somewhere safe.
Feed the baby.
She's only three weeks old.
No, it's a good question.
This is just a weird situation
right here.
So...
[laughs]
He was nervous.
He was kind of, you know,
laughing a little bit but not
in a funny way,
but in a nervous way.
We had just covered the Chris
Watts case, and he initially
reported his wife
and children missing.
Turned out it was
Chris Watts that
had m*rder*d them
and disposed of their bodies.
Uh, like I left the house...
uh, I left the house
at 6:40.
Uh...
And, uh, that's
the last time I spoke to,
uh, my, uh...
Listen...
yeah, I can't.
This is -- this is weird.
I thought his interviews were
fake and just not genuine.
It just felt like
he wasn't really there.
So, uh...
she called me around 8,
and, uh, she told me that
she went to
the book fair, and, uh, I told
her, "I love you. Goodbye."
And, uh...
-This is hard.
-Take your time.
It brought back the Gone Girl
feeling for everyone,
the movie, the Gone Girl,
where you got
the boyfriend in
the media, the news.
So it made everybody
look at him.
[voice breaking]
I just want her home safe.
We miss all of them very much.
All we need right now
is for Heidi to come home.
NARRATOR:
For one heartbreaking week,
Heidi Broussard's best friends
have been doing everything
they can to find her
and her newborn daughter.
REBEKAH:
I wanted her face everywhere.
I wanted everybody to see,
this is Heidi.
If you see her anywhere,
please let us know.
Please let the authority know,
this is the baby,
this is what she looks like.
NARRATOR: And while
all eyes are on Shane,
there is still no evidence to
prove he's involved with Heidi
and his daughter's
disappearance.
There were a lot of comments
online about Shane, about
how he was acting, about
the interview that he did.
Was he genuine?
Was he not?
You know, we don't
run investigations
by posts made by anonymous
people on the internet.
You can't let it drive you,
because that'll drive you
to a bad place, and you'll
waste a lot of energy.
There was really nothing that
we could do except for pray
and spread the news
on social media
and spread the news on
the news and hope and pray that
the cops were doing their job.
CHRIS:
As time goes by,
we certainly started to think
that unfortunately,
the longer we go,
the worse this is gonna get.
And we did have a belief
that hey, we may not find
Heidi alive,
but we really did feel like
we were gonna find that baby.
Caressa was wanting
to come on and spread the word
about her friend Heidi
and getting the information
out there.
Caressa wanted
to talk about Shane.
Heidi and Shane
had some struggles.
They had
a rocky relationship.
We talked a lot about their
past relationship issues,
some minor breakups, get back
together type things.
I felt like Caressa was
overstepping her bounds.
Hearing her go on and act
like she knew everything,
"Oh, I lost my best friend."
Listen, we've all lost her,
we've all lost her.
It's not just you --
it was very hard to
kind of process that with
her being the spokesperson.
She didn't ask permission
to the family
or anything like that
to go out and do it.
NARRATOR: Heidi's friends
can't help but wonder
why Caressa is acting
this way.
The podcast was not Caressa's
finest hour.
You know, if she wanted
her 15 minutes of fame,
she got it.
CARESSA: But...
Suddenly in chat,
someone says there's a raid
going on in Houston,
and it involves
a missing persons case,
and they sent an article,
this one with a video
of the police and the FBI
at this home in Houston.
So I click on the link,
and I go to
the video, and they're showing
this house on Bo Jack Drive.
Caressa said
she wouldn't be in Houston.
That's not Heidi.
So someone
in the chat searches
up the real estate
on that house.
They find
a Christopher Green.
Then they search
Christopher Green.
They find a baby registry.
Looking at every piece of
this case,
we were more looking at
the angle as was Heidi taken
because of the baby?
So one of the interviews
that occurred was
going to the hospital
and interviewing the nurses.
And it was during one of those
interviews where a really
important piece of information
came out, where one of
the nurses described how
Heidi's friend Magen was
present during the delivery,
and she seemed
almost possessive
about the baby.
REBEKAH: Tammy, Heidi's mom,
said that Magen was acting
very, very odd,
but Magen also kind was
putting herself in between
Tammy and David
to get to the baby.
It was very strange behavior.
RACHEL: Tammy said to me
she should have
never even been here in
the first place.
And I thought to myself for
a split second,
I wonder if she's faking that
pregnancy just to keep
that dude, like I wonder
if she's just saying
she's pregnant so that way
she doesn't lose her boyfriend.
And I just kind of
left it at that.
With Magen's behavior
and strange
reaction in the delivery room,
we started to look into her,
and we had learned one of
the people
that lives at Heidi's
apartment building
said they saw a four-door,
light-colored car parked where
Heidi's apartment was, and she
saw a woman walk out of
the apartment building holding
a newborn, and another woman get
out of the car and greet them.
And then the witness said
the woman got into
the back seat of this car,
and then the car drove away.
Now we have
a description of a vehicle
that we can start
doing some research on.
Then we find out Magen has
a four-door, light-colored car.
NARRATOR: With Magen
as their primary suspect,
investigators quickly get
boots on the ground in Houston.
CHRIS: The FBI
and the Texas Rangers
put surveillance around
Magen's house in Houston.
Part of that surveillance
included the Texas Department
of Public Safety aerial
surveillance asset, and they
could clearly see,
in the back of her house,
her car that was registered
to her, which also fit
the description
of the car that
was seen in front of Heidi's
apartment when she went missing.
While surveilling
Magen's house,
Chris, Magen's
boyfriend, leaves,
gets in his car,
and drives away.
So surveillance assets
followed him all
the way to a Target store,
where he went inside.
When Magen's boyfriend
leaves the Target,
and it's obvious that
he bought baby supplies,
the Texas Rangers that were
there on the surveillance
go up and stop him
and start to question him.
He admitted that yes,
there's a baby at my house.
My girlfriend
had a baby recently.
He said Magen had the baby,
she had it while he was
not there,
she brought it home,
and then they showed him
the picture
of the missing
two-week-old infant.
He said,
"That's the baby at my house."
He believed
that she was pregnant.
He saw that
through the course of
the summer, that she was
getting bigger.
They were no longer
romantically involved.
So he said,
"I didn't see
her naked, but I think
she was pregnant."
He came home,
and there it was,
and we believe the boyfriend
had nothing to do with this.
Based on the interview that
the Texas Rangers did
with Magen's boyfriend,
they determined that there was
a life safety risk and that
they had to immediately enter
that home
and search for that baby.
When the Texas Rangers went
into the house,
they found Magen,
and they immediately found
a baby, as well.
NARRATOR: The newborn is quickly
removed from the home.
When the Texas Rangers
interviewed Magen,
and she gave 'em
a story that she had
had the baby
at a birthing center.
She couldn't remember the name
of the birthing center.
She didn't know
where it was.
The only people present were
the doctors
and the nurses from
the birthing center.
So obviously that story
immediately did not hold water.
NARRATOR:
A DNA test confirms the baby
is Heidi's daughter.
But there's still
no sign of Heidi.
CHRIS: One of the Texas rangers
walked by Magen's car,
and smell the very
distinct odor
of a dead body
and decaying flesh.
If you've been around
dead bodies, unfortunately,
it's not an odor that
you can easily forget.
The search was stopped,
and then a warrant was
requested so that they could
search that vehicle.
Once they search
the vehicle,
unfortunately,
they found Heidi in
the trunk of the car in a bag.
NARRATOR: The police
quickly determined that
Heidi has been strangled
to death.
Magen was arrested
that night at her house.
This is where she was taken,
the Harris County jail,
on two charges of kidnapping
and a charge of
tampering with a corpse.
When I found out
that it was Magen,
I was in disbelief.
I knew she was
expecting a baby.
It didn't make sense to me.
I tried to connect the dots
in my head, like why --
why would she do that
to Heidi?
She was her friend,
claimed to be her best friend
at the time.
Like, why would she wanna
hurt Heidi?
KELLY:
I just remember screaming.
I was by myself,
and, um,
we didn't know Magen was gonna
hurt anybody.
That's not even --
that's not
a thought that crosses
your mind ever.
Even -- even --
I feel like even if
somebody warns you that there --
it's gonna happen,
you don't believe it's really
gonna happen.
It's -- but you -- I didn't see
the evil in Magen then.
NARRATOR: Although Magen has
never spoken about the case,
investigators have
their theories.
From the evidence,
our speculation and hypothesis
was that Heidi came downstairs,
got in the car,
and then Magen strangled
her in the car.
It's called maternal desire,
and what that is, is
unfortunately, some people,
who are obviously having
some mental distress,
maybe they can't have babies.
Maybe they've lost a baby.
They have this burning desire
in them to have a child.
Magen wanted a baby,
and she couldn't have
a baby,
for whatever reason.
And when she went through her
friendship with Heidi
and saw her pregnant,
I think at the delivery of
that child is when she decided
I have to have a baby,
I want this baby.
And then she used
her friendship
to m*rder Heidi
and to steal her child.
Magen had a plan
to steal her baby girl
in the beginning of
Heidi's pregnancy.
REBEKAH: I could see Magen
being jealous of Heidi.
I could.
Heidi didn't have everything
in the world, but Heidi was
so happy and so infectious
and had
these two beautiful children.
Why wouldn't Magen want to
have that type of life?
Why wouldn't she want to be
happy or have an ounce
of happiness?
Heidi and Magen were friends
for years, and Heidi never ever
had any hint that Magen could
have done something like this.
KELLY: She had
this obsessiveness over Heidi.
Do I think she wanted to
be Heidi?
Maybe the answer is yes.
Because what other --
what else could it be?
But she'll never be Heidi.
NARRATOR: Two days
before Christmas, the baby girl
is reunited
with her father.
You are so beautiful.
Yes, you are.
Yes, you are.
I had to admit it to Shane,
that I thought he did it,
that I thought he had
something to do with it.
There was a lot I had to admit
to him, and it was hard.
And the baby is now thriving.
She is beautiful.
She is healthy.
She is smart as a whip.
NARRATOR:
Three days after Christmas,
Heidi is laid to rest
in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
KELLY: As beautiful as
it could be for a funeral,
it was hard for me to
deal with.
You don't think this could
happen to somebody that
you know.
It's not supposed to happen
to somebody
you know --
I shouldn't be here.
I should not be here doing
this interview.
NARRATOR: On February 2, 2023,
Magen pleads guilty to
m*rder and is sentenced
to 55 years in prison.
RACHEL: I will always
remember Heidi as
the girl who always
had my back.
She never let me down.
She was always there for me,
and she taught me how to see
the good in people,
even when I didn't want to.
REBEKAH: I miss her laugh,
and I miss her smile.
If I close my eyes
and think about Heidi,
I envision her with her arms
wide out, twirling in circles,
with a big smile on her face,
and her bright blue eyes.
That was, like, the definition
of Heidi's spirit.
It's her freedom,
it's her beauty, it's her life.
She is amazing.
And today, I know today, she's
still touching people's lives.
On the next
Mean Girl Murders...
The hoodlum girls had
a lot of attitude.
They all smoked, had sex,
and they fought.
As the queen bee she wanted
people to fear her.
They did it with full joy
in their heart.
They wanted that girl
to suffer.
There is no hell big enough
for these girls.
♪♪♪
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