- It wasn't just a missing woman.
It's a missing woman with a two-week-old baby.
- They were able to confirm her whereabouts that morning,
but anything past that was a huge mystery.
- My first thought was, what did he do to her?
What has he done?
- When people become obsessed, it can escalate to murder.
- Every one of her friends are possible suspects.
- Police have a very small window of opportunity
before something really bad could happen.
- The smell of decomposing flesh
is coming from the trunk of the car.
- No one would have expected this kind of an outcome.
- This is not a crime of passion.
There was something that was thought out deliberately.
- To lie for nine months is ruthless.
It's calculated. It's evil.
- To plan this-- it's disturbing.
It's insanity.
[dramatic music]
♪
[birds chirping]
[bird cawing]
- Austin is the capital of Texas.
It's a very safe city
compared to other major metropolitan cities.
And, really, the crime problem there is more of lesser crimes,
petty crimes, misdemeanors.
♪
But on December 12, 2019,
a patrol officer takes a missing-person report.
- Someone named Shane Carey calls
the Austin Police Department and let them know
that his fiancée and his baby,
who is 2 1/2 weeks old, are missing.
- That right away
is gonna send this to another level of concern.
So they immediately call for the on-duty detective
in the Missing Persons Unit.
- When investigators arrived on scene,
they meet Shane, who had called the police that night.
And he said his fiancée, Heidi Broussard,
was a 33-year-old beautiful mother of two.
They had a son, Silas-- he's six years old--
and a precious little baby girl
who was 2 1/2 weeks old named Margot.
Their son, Silas, was home with Shane.
Only Heidi and newborn Margot are missing.
- What's really important in missing-people cases is,
when's the last time the person was seen?
You always start the search there.
So Shane laid out the timeline.
- He told investigators that day
started out like most normal days.
Shane got up about 6:00 a.m., and he got ready for work,
and he left for work about 6:30.
Heidi ended up getting up with both kids
and was getting Silas ready to go to school that morning.
Heidi called him at 8:30 that morning
after leaving the school.
- She said she had dropped off their son.
That's the last time that Shane spoke to Heidi.
Shane gets back to his apartment
about 2:30 after he's done working for the day.
- Shane finds the apartment completely empty--
no Heidi, no baby.
- He initially thought maybe she had just taken the baby
and was visiting somebody in the apartment complex.
♪
- So he starts looking around,
and he notices her vehicle in the apartment complex.
Ends up going to her vehicle and finding it unlocked.
Inside is her purse, her wallet,
and a few other items that Heidi would never leave behind.
- One thing missing was her cell phone.
Shane told us he called Heidi.
Gets nothing.
But then he realizes, hey, I better get
to the elementary school to pick up my son.
Shane said he goes to the elementary school.
He picks up his son, goes back home.
Heidi does not show up.
- He started to be concerned on why was she not showing up.
This is unlike her.
What happened?
So he's calling her repeatedly,
and her phone is just going to voicemail.
Then he starts making phone calls
to her friends, her family.
He calls Rachel, one of Heidi's coworkers,
and Maygen, one of Heidi's best friends.
- Nobody has had any contact with her.
So he tries her cell phone.
Again, nothing.
So Shane said at that point in time,
at about 7:30, he was really getting concerned.
So he called the Austin Police Department
to report her as missing.
Heidi's case was different.
It wasn't just a missing woman.
It's a missing woman with a two-week-old baby.
- Police really stepped into action
because of the age of the baby,
the urgency of finding this newborn.
- As investigators search the apartment,
there's no forced entry in the apartment.
There's no signs of struggle in the apartment.
- There was nothing out of place.
There was nothing, you know, thrown around the room.
Everything was seemingly normal.
They didn't find any forensic evidence
that a crime had been committed there.
♪
- But one of the things that concerned the investigators
was that Shane said that the baby
was having some issues with taking food.
And it had to be a formula-- a mixture with breast milk.
The diaper bag, the special food
are still in the apartment.
- Baby Margot had health complications from birth.
She had jaundice.
So Heidi would have taken the special formula
that Margot needed.
She knows better than to leave all of that behind.
- What woman takes a two-week-old baby
without food, without diapers, without her purse?
- Police would certainly consider the possibility
that since she had so recently given birth,
there could be a postpartum complication.
Is she depressed? Is she suicidal?
- A lot of moms do go through postpartum depression
right after having a child.
But Shane told investigators
that Heidi was in a really good place.
She didn't suffer from postpartum,
and she was doing really well after the birth of Margot.
- At this point, we think this is a legitimate kidnapping
of a woman and a baby.
So Austin Police and their detectives
immediately do a neighborhood canvass
of the apartment complex
to see if anyone had seen anything,
noticed anything strange.
- But people saw nothing.
The apartment complex didn't have cameras.
♪
- At that point in time,
we did what's called a reverse 911,
where the 911 system actually calls every telephone number
in a specific geographic area
to alert them that someone is missing,
a baby's missing.
- And there was a press conference.
And Heidi just having a baby,
it really grabbed our attention.
[dramatic news jingle]
- Heidi and Margot were last seen on Thursday December 12th
here in Austin, Texas.
Heidi is a 33-year-old white female.
She stands 5'3", 150 pounds.
If you see Heidi or Margot,
please contact the Austin Police Department
or your local law-enforcement agency.
- Young mother suddenly goes missing,
very young baby missing with her.
The police are concerned about foul play.
The reality is that Heidi Broussard
was an attractive young woman with a small child.
She would be a very vulnerable victim
if somebody were looking for one.
- An eyewitness saw Heidi and baby Margot
getting inside of a vehicle.
- The address was given out when the raid was announced.
And, oh, my God, that was when all hell broke loose.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
- Heidi Broussard and her little baby girl,
who is 2 1/2 weeks old named Margot are missing.
And the reverse 911 search
called out about 4,000 of the neighbors,
but no leads were found.
- The next day, on the 13th, the Austin Police detectives
started talking to immediate family and Heidi's friends.
[soft music]
- My friend Rachel-- she called me and told me
that Heidi was missing.
I was just like, what do you mean she's missing?
I don't think your brain processes
what's really going on.
But when I was told
that she never picked Silas up from the school,
I knew that something was wrong.
Your mind goes to the unanswered questions.
[voice breaking] Is she being taken care of?
Is the baby being taken care of?
Is she being fed? Are they cold?
You know, are they alone?
♪
You just--you don't know.
- Investigators want to know all the details about Heidi.
Who was she?
Did she have any mental illness?
Is there trouble at home that led them to leave?
- I told the police Heidi rocked being a mom.
She truly rocked it.
Her kids were everything to her.
She would absolutely...
never leave Silas.
And me knowing the turmoil that her and Shane
had been in previously,
my first thought was, what did he do to her?
What has he done?
- In my experience, the largest majority of the time
when things like this happen, it's going to be the spouse,
the fiancé, the boyfriend,
someone who is close to the victim.
So, of course, the police are going to look at Shane first.
[dramatic music]
- We grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
When Heidi was in her mid-20s,
she worked at a casino for a while, living her best life.
She was a cocktail waitress and had met Shane there
and fell in love.
♪
- They had one of those relationships.
It was a little tumultuous. It was back and forth.
But pretty early on, she found out she was pregnant.
- Of course, the way we were raised,
her getting pregnant out of "wedlock"
was definitely not the way you want to tell your family.
But she always wanted to be a mom.
They moved to Austin right before Silas was born.
And they had Silas, and nothing else mattered.
They were together eight years,
but, unfortunately, her and Shane had broke up a lot.
She told me about abuse,
whether it's financial, emotional, mental.
But we all thought, she knows when enough is enough.
And the last breakup, that was it.
That was going to be it.
But then early that year,
she found out she was pregnant with Margot.
And she told me she wanted to give it another shot
because she wanted her family.
She wanted the unit.
And she wanted her kids to have that.
Come hell or high water,
she was going to make her family work.
- It's not unreasonable to wonder
if something had reemerged
from the previous conflicts that they had had
that was now creating strife in their relationship again.
- Next, Shane was brought into Austin Police Department
to do a real formal in-depth interview.
Through the course of the interviews with Shane,
it was obvious there were some troubles in the relationship,
but it's natural to have troubles in relationship.
- Shane told the police that him and Heidi
were in a good place
and tells them there was never any physical abuse.
And the last time he spoke with her
was the day she went missing.
She was just leaving Silas at school.
She told him what she did at the school,
that she ended up getting three books for Silas,
and she was really excited to be able to read
to him that night.
So, while they continue speaking with Shane,
investigators need to verify when Heidi had last been seen.
- Austin Police go through the surveillance
from her son's school,
and they find footage
of her dropping off her son for school.
- She ends up getting caught on the camera
at about 8:12 that morning.
- Heidi Broussard was last seen in this image
released by Austin Police,
smiling and wearing a purple sweatshirt.
- Our assumption is that they're alive.
And the sooner that we can find them, the better.
- So they were able to confirm her whereabouts that morning.
But anything past that was a huge mystery.
♪
- Now investigators need to find out from Shane
where he was-- does he have an alibi?
In this case, Shane said he was at work.
- His boss confirmed that he was at work all day,
as he was supposed to be.
So there was nothing atypical about his day.
- Shane was very helpful. He gave police his cell phone.
We could see when she called him,
that he, in fact, had talked to her on December 12th.
He had already let them search in the apartment.
He let them look at the car.
So there was nothing he was holding back.
His alibi is checking out.
Also, looking into Shane,
there was nothing that popped up
that said there was any domestic violence,
that there were any police calls for service
at the address.
As far as law enforcement was concerned,
he was not part of Heidi being missing.
- So, at this point, the police have very little to go on.
♪
Because this child is so young, just a few weeks old,
has some medical complications
and just needs basic needs taken care of,
investigators have a very small window of opportunity
before something really bad could happen.
- So I called the chief of the Austin Police Department
and said, hey, the FBI has a lot of resources
we can bring.
We have the CARD team, a group of investigators,
intelligence analysts, technicians,
that focus on child abductions.
One of the things we brought to bear in this particular case
is something called
the FBI'S Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team
that we deploy at the request of our state and local partners
whenever a child is abducted.
Our investigators move out very quickly
to start looking very aggressively--
Where could she be? Where could this baby be?
We need to find Heidi and her new baby soon as possible.
♪
[birds cawing]
- Heidi and her new baby have been missing
for a number of days.
The FBI CARD team start looking hard for Heidi.
- After they speak with him on December 13th,
investigators moved on from Shane.
- The next step, once you rule out a spouse or a partner,
is you start to look at every one of her acquaintances--
her family, neighbors, everyone she worked with,
and you really have to start digging in
on all of those people as possible suspects.
- Investigators learned that Heidi was very bubbly,
very social, and very outgoing.
She was someone who had a lot of friends,
and she was, like, the go-to of the group.
- I told the police, Heidi loves everybody.
She takes everybody in.
She didn't see the red flags in people.
- They said she was very loyal.
I mean, her friends date back from when she was a teen.
- Me, Rachel, and Heidi-- we were just best friends.
We go to church camp every year.
We met Maygen and Caressa at church camp in Columbus, Texas.
Heidi and them became good friends,
and they've always kept in touch.
[dramatic music]
It's kind of funny.
When Heidi got pregnant with Silas,
we were pregnant at the same time.
I was pregnant with my second one,
and she was pregnant with her first.
And, you know, she was so excited.
We were both having boys.
Then when Heidi had gotten pregnant with Margot,
her best friend, Maygen, was having a baby, too.
And they were excited to be pregnant together
and just to have the same due date.
Heidi was always the cheerleader.
When she loved you, she loved you,
and she'd never let you go.
No matter where anybody lived, you know,
she was always the lifeline that kept everybody together.
So, when Heidi went missing,
I thought it was either Shane or definitely a stranger,
'cause none of Heidi's friends would hurt Heidi.
I know it's Shane. I know he did it.
I know it's him.
It's got to be. Like, who else would it be?
♪
- Even though investigators
were able to confirm Shane's alibi,
Heidi's friends still were kind of side-eyeing Shane,
just because they knew
Heidi and Shane had a toxic relationship.
There was a lot of speculation around him.
- So I wanted to put together a search team.
I was like, we need to go find her.
♪
- I became involved in this case
when Heidi's loved ones called EquuSearch
because of her disappearance.
EquuSearch is involved in volunteer search efforts.
We don't charge a nickel.
We'll be part of a search and helping families.
We're not part of an investigation,
but many times we've given them information
that's led to some pretty good results.
♪
I remember talking to Heidi's friends
and other family members.
I talked to a very close friend.
Her name was Maygen.
She was telling me the stories about Heidi and Shane.
They were having some problems,
and she says, knowing what I know about that relationship,
it wouldn't surprise me if Shane did something to her.
And I said, you really feel as though he's capable?
Maygen said, he's more than capable.
She pointed 100% to Shane.
♪
When we started that search in the Austin area,
I met with Shane, met with Shane's dad.
There was many, many volunteers that wanted to get involved.
So we put together some ATVs and some foot searchers.
- Here in Austin, there's a lot of different terrain
that you go looking through.
You have Zilker Park.
You have all the greenbelts. You have natural waterways.
- I actually marked spots on maps
that she possibly could have walked to
or she possibly could have taken a cab to.
Shane and I spent a lot of time together driving around,
kind of looking at different areas.
Everybody reacts different, you know?
But I never heard his voice
sound like he was gonna break down and cry.
His demeanor just wasn't
at all what I thought that it should have been.
It seemed strange, to say the least.
♪
- While we were looking for her,
we were all talking,
trying to keep up to date with everything.
But there was no trace.
I was just like, will this ever be solved?
Because it didn't feel like they were getting anywhere.
- There were some calls that came in
with possible sightings,
but none of them ended up being really credible.
After some of the search efforts that we did,
we haven't found anything.
We don't have anywhere else to go.
♪
- So, next, an emergency order was filed
with Heidi's cell phone company to see,
was the phone hitting?
We call it "pinging."
Was the cell phone active and hitting somewhere?
That request went through, and it came back that her phone was
either off or out of battery,
and it had not pinged anywhere
since pinging at the house on December 12th,
the day that Heidi disappears.
So we started canvassing
through the neighborhood again,
because a lot of times, what you find is,
people see things that they don't know are important
until you really jog their brain.
This time one witness
described a four-door sedan of a light color
that she saw go around towards the back,
where Heidi's apartment was.
- Then another neighbor actually remembered
seeing somebody with the description of Heidi and Margot
getting inside of a similar vehicle.
- So we're starting to get a little bit more of a picture
of the last time anyone had seen Heidi.
But when people are missing,
you're going down different investigative avenues
at the same time.
As we interviewed more of Heidi's friends,
a couple of people told us that one of Heidi's friends
acted odd during the delivery of Heidi's baby.
So investigators go to the hospital
and interview delivery staff.
- The nurse remembered
right after Heidi gave birth to Margot,
most of the family got to hold the baby.
Well, Shane's dad was ready to hold the baby,
and Heidi's friend stepped in and said, hold on,
and aggressively took the baby from him.
- She acts very possessive with the baby,
acts very strange in general,
and literally takes the baby from the grandfather
'cause she wants to hold the baby.
♪
Once we got that story
of what happened in the maternity room,
our behavioral-analysis people right away said,
hey, we really got to look at this.
This could possibly be
a maternal-desire-type situation.
Maternal desire is a mental state
where a woman has an unsatiable drive
to acquire a child.
That's why maternity rooms are so locked down,
because, unfortunately,
there's been a number of instances
where people have gotten in there and stolen a baby.
When we heard how Heidi's friend acted with the baby,
it made us very suspicious
about her mental state.
Now we have a suspicious person.
Our investigators from the CARD team said,
we got to go hard on this.
We need to figure out,
who is this woman, and where could she be?
♪
[dramatic music]
- The police had talked to the hospital staff
where Heidi gave birth to baby Margot.
- The nurses remember one of Heidi's good friends
was acting super possessive over Margot
right after she was born.
[baby crying]
- Police were concerned about the possibility
of maternal desire,
which can turn into something
that is not altogether different
from what I would call delusional.
This baby's mine. I need this baby.
I must have it.
When people get into that sort of delusional
or semi-delusional world,
reality doesn't matter anymore.
And when people become that obsessed
and that divorced from reality,
it can escalate to extreme violence.
It can escalate to murder.
So investigators decided to take this very seriously
right from the beginning.
- So investigators ask Shane, who, in fact,
was in the hospital room when Heidi was delivering Margot,
and he mentioned Maygen,
Maygen Humphrey, which was one of her closest friends.
- Once we identify Maygen as the woman in the maternity ward
with the strange behavior, we start going back
and re-interviewing people
to say, what can you tell us about her?
What's her timeline?
And any of these other pieces we have,
could it fit back to her?
[indistinct chatter]
- So Heidi's friends told investigators
that Maygen lived in Houston, but they still kept in touch.
Maygen was one of Heidi's best friends
since their early teens.
But while Heidi and Maygen were really close friends,
most of Heidi's friends didn't really love Maygen.
- When Heidi introduced us,
unfortunately, I got a bad vibe from Maygen.
I didn't like her right away.
But Heidi's heart was so pure.
She loved everybody.
So, I mean, she's been friends with her for many, many years.
- According to her friends,
they just thought Maygen was a little weird.
Didn't really click with her, could give or take her.
But Heidi was, you know, the embracer.
♪
- Through the course of reinterviews,
asking about Maygen,
we find out Maygen announced she's pregnant
not long after Heidi announced she was pregnant.
- When she was told about the pregnancy,
Maygen was like, we're going to be pregnant together.
November 26th, the day that Margot was born,
Maygen came down to Austin.
- Maygen was about 37 weeks pregnant at this time.
Heidi's friends told police
it was remarkable that she had driven
about three hours from Houston to Austin
to be present for the birth of baby Margot.
And just a few weeks later, on December the 8th or the 9th,
she tells everyone she gave birth to her own baby
named Luna.
- Investigators ask her friends,
did you see a picture of the baby?
Have you seen this baby?
And all of them said, I haven't seen a picture of her.
Wow.
You're a new mom, you're proud of this baby,
and you haven't showed a picture?
- So that was very quickly looked at.
But there's no evidence that she had a baby at all.
And she really starts rising on the list of suspects.
You start doing research, and now things start to click.
She actually has a four-door, light-colored sedan,
like the car that somebody saw Heidi and the baby
get into in the parking lot when they went missing.
- Investigators start looking
into all the red-light cameras in the area,
as well as license-plate readers.
- And there are license-plate readers showing her
in the area the day that Heidi disappears.
- Also, after her cell-phone records were retrieved,
her phone had been pinged that day
on different cell-phone towers
that were located near Heidi's apartment.
So now at this point, investigators
put together a lineup of multiple people
and Maygen Humphrey and take this lineup
back to the neighbor for an eyewitness account.
When they showed her Maygen Humphrey,
the neighbor actually said this person is the person
that she saw Heidi and Margot getting in the vehicle with
on the morning of their disappearance.
♪
- Obviously, she is now suspect number one.
- In this case, is she gonna harm the baby?
Is she gonna run? Is she gonna do something?
- You don't always want to do an interview right away,
because, obviously, the minute you do an interview,
they know that they're a suspect.
And we are very concerned for the safety of the child.
So the decision was, let's put a surveillance team
around the house in Houston to see,
is there any sign of Heidi, a baby,
anything strange?
- The Texas Rangers were called in
to assist them with the surveillance
on Maygen's house in Houston, Texas.
- We see her car in the backyard.
It fits the four-door, light-colored sedan
that one witness described to us.
At a point during the surveillance,
a man leaves the house.
Let's follow him, see who he is, where's he going.
He goes to Target...
where he is observed buying baby supplies.
The Texas Rangers make the decision,
hey, this is a life-safety issue.
We're concerned about the health of the baby.
We're gonna intervene right now.
So the Texas Rangers grab him in the parking lot.
They start asking him questions.
- He identified himself as Christopher Green.
They find out this is Maygen's ex-boyfriend,
whom she lives with.
They asked him if he had a newborn child,
and he said he did.
And they tell him, we're looking into why Heidi,
as well as her child, are missing.
And they show him a picture of baby Margot,
and he said, that's my baby.
That's my baby at home.
♪
[dramatic music]
- Investigators stop Christopher Green,
Maygen's ex-boyfriend, whom she lives with,
after he leaves Target.
He had a bunch of baby items.
- He says, I'm buying this stuff
because my girlfriend had a baby.
But the Texas Rangers show him a picture of the missing baby,
and he says, that's the baby that's at my house.
- Then they ask him if he was present at the birth.
- Christopher Green told investigators
that he's an oil-field worker.
When he arrived home from a work trip on December 13th,
his ex-girlfriend Maygen had given birth
a few days before that while he was gone.
He said, well, why didn't you call me?
She's like, please don't be angry,
but I ended up having the baby at a birthing center.
- Obviously, if you're the father of a baby,
it's very surprising
that you were not present when the baby was born.
The whole story doesn't hold water.
It doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up at all.
- So based on all the information
that Christopher Green gave authorities at that point,
they had enough probable cause to go back
and enter the property where Maygen was with the baby.
♪
- I had been doing podcasting for roughly a year
before the Heidi case came about.
It was December 19th.
I interviewed her friend Caressa
to raise awareness about Heidi and the baby's disappearance.
After a week of Heidi being missing,
I think her friends and family were getting really desperate.
We were live on YouTube,
so everybody is participating in real time.
As the interview went on, someone in the chat had said,
breaking news--they're raiding a home in Houston.
And that changed everything.
The address was given out when the raid was announced.
And someone in the chat started searching
the address of that house, and someone found a baby registry.
[person gasps]
Oh, my God, that's Maygen's house.
And that was when all hell broke loose.
[groans]
Oh.
- [sighs]
- Authorities enter the property
where Maygen was with the baby and rescue the baby.
- Some of the agents take this baby to a hospital
to make sure that the baby is okay.
Then they begin to interview Maygen at the house.
- Maygen tells the investigators
the baby was her baby girl named Luna.
- Okay, when did you have the baby?
Where did you have the baby?
She couldn't tell them where she had the baby.
How could you not remember?
[handcuffs click]
Since we were pretty sure this is Heidi's baby,
now where is Heidi?
- Investigators expanded their search,
and they start looking for Heidi.
- They were searching everywhere
to see if there's any evidence of her being alive.
Walking through the backyard,
immediately one of the Texas Rangers is struck
with this smell that's coming out of the car.
- As investigators, you know that smell.
They pop the trunk,
and inside of the trunk, they find a black duffel bag.
And upon opening the black duffel bag,
they find a female deceased.
Pretty quickly they realize, based on photos they had,
this is, in fact, Heidi.
- Although we were very happy
to retrieve the baby alive and healthy,
it's hard to celebrate that when you know that Heidi died.
- We have a Fox News alert for you--
a dead body and a baby found alive
in that search connected
to the missing mother down in Texas.
- Heidi Broussard and her newborn daughter, Margot...
- I'm watching live coverage.
And then...
[somber music]
You see the stretcher with a body bag.
♪
And you know that your friend's in that--
your friend's in there.
♪
I just remember screaming.
♪
And I'm just screaming, like, she's gone.
She's dead.
♪
- I got a call from a detective, says,
hey, I just want to make you aware that we're
at one of Heidi's friend's houses.
I can't give a lot of information right now,
but are taking Maygen in custody.
But we do have the baby. Heidi is deceased.
♪
And...
I'm just thinking, man, if could just see Shane right now
and just hug him and say, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry.
- Once the baby was released from the hospital
and DNA testing proved that it was Heidi's baby,
she was returned to the family.
[dramatic music]
♪
Based on evidence--
license-plate readers showing her in the area
the day that Heidi disappears,
cell-phone records,
Heidi's baby at her house in Houston,
her car with Heidi in the trunk--
when you add all that together,
we know Maygen is responsible for this crime.
♪
- I'm angry.
We're all angry.
Why Heidi?
Your best friend is supposed to be the person you trust...
[voice breaking] More than anybody.
- The Houston coroner did an autopsy
and declared that Heidi was killed by strangulation.
- Authorities charged Maygen with capital murder
and two counts of kidnapping
and a count of tampering with evidence--
a human corpse--
for putting Heidi in the trunk of the vehicle.
But Maygen would never speak with investigators
about the details.
- I'm not sure we're ever gonna know the full story
behind what happened between Heidi and Maygen.
But it was pretty obvious,
it was a plan that was thought out deliberately
over the course of months.
- The timing of Maygen's announcement
that she was pregnant
doesn't seem accidental or coincidental.
She was probably planning right from the outset
to take Heidi's baby from her.
And the only way that that timeline would work
is if she, too, became pregnant right around the same time.
- The idea that somebody could lie for nine months
to everybody they love is ruthless.
It's calculated. It's evil.
♪
So now at this point, investigators must ask,
how in the world did Maygen's ex-boyfriend
not know this whole time?
- It sounds very suspicious.
So you really start to think about,
was this person part of this?
- Was Christopher Green planning this with Maygen?
♪
[dramatic music]
- When Maygen was arrested,
once they had found Heidi and the baby,
a lot of people questioned
how Maygen's boyfriend could not know.
- But when the investigators talked
to Maygen's ex-boyfriend,
the story that he told them was plausible.
- He had broken up with Maygen months earlier,
right before Maygen announced she was pregnant.
- Within days of the now-ex-boyfriend
kicking her out of the house,
she comes back and says, hey, I'm pregnant.
And he allows her to move back in.
- They were sleeping in separate rooms.
They weren't being intimate with one another,
so he was clueless.
- He had not seen her naked
and could not confirm that she was pregnant.
So he took it on her word.
Obviously, Maygen's boyfriend was investigated thoroughly.
And although it looks very strange,
it was determined that he was truthful,
and he was proven to have nothing to do with this crime.
♪
This is a textbook case of maternal desire,
where Maygen was envious of her friend for having a baby,
getting pregnant, everything that went with it.
She consciously made the decision,
I'm going to kill my best friend
to take her baby, 'cause that's what I want.
- Looking back,
this is where I think the story started.
♪
Maygen's boyfriend, Chris-- he was breaking up with her.
She's got to figure out how to make him stay.
What's the easiest way to keep somebody?
Is to tell him you're pregnant.
- When Heidi first announced her pregnancy with the baby,
Maygen told everybody that she was pregnant, too.
- Then, over the course of the subsequent months,
she faked a pregnancy.
- She gained a lot of weight.
She stuffed her belly to show
that she was getting bigger and bigger every single month.
- She created a baby registry
and then later had a baby shower.
- On November 26th, Heidi gives birth,
and Maygen is there with her.
- And then a little over a week later,
Maygen tells all of her friends that she gave birth
to a baby girl named Luna.
- On December 12th, early in the afternoon,
Maygen comes to visit Heidi
at her apartment complex.
- We don't know exactly
how Maygen got Heidi down to the car,
but, somehow, using that friendship,
Maygen got Heidi to bring the baby down and see her.
- Investigators think
that after Maygen got Heidi in the car,
she strangled her and drove back to Houston
with Heidi's body and the baby.
- The next day,
when Maygen's ex-boyfriend came back home,
she introduced baby Margot to him as his child.
♪
- To think that this was planned out
over a nine-month period,
that she was gonna do away with her friend
just to get her baby and never have one thought
that this might not be a good idea,
is crazy to me.
- We did lay Heidi to rest right before Christmas.
And she had the absolute most beautiful funeral.
I saw Shane at the funeral, and I said,
I want to let you know that I blamed you.
[voice breaking] I had to admit this to him, and it sucked.
He was just like, it's okay, it's okay.
And he was like, everybody thought it, you know?
You're not the only one. You aren't alone.
- Maygen never went to trial for this case.
She actually accepted a plea deal.
Maygen was sentenced to 55 years in prison,
no chance of parole
and no chance to appeal her case.
♪
- What is justice?
Justice is only a word.
Families never get over it.
It's just a word to hopefully comfort us.
- There's a lot of evil in this world,
and it just makes you take a step back
and look around.
I mean, she thought that this person
was her best friend for 20 years.
I can't even imagine.
- She took the mother of two children.
Those children will never have a mother now.
She destroyed an entire family.
And it really breaks my heart to think about that.
♪
- Heidi was...
a light in everybody's life.
She was a good person, a good friend.
- [laughing]
- She had a laugh that was unmistakable.
And she wanted to make everybody's day...
a little brighter.
We all want to keep her memory alive,
because Heidi never missed the opportunity
to take somebody in and make them feel special.
And that's just-- but that's who she was.
♪