December 21, 2019 | 1:41pm
The woman accused of kidnapping Texas mom Heidi Broussard and stealing her infant pretended to be “sick” over the disappearance — and even offered to help search for the missing mom, friends said.
Magen Fieramusca, 33, who was arrested and charged Friday with kidnapping and tampering with Broussard’s corpse, pretended to have no idea where Broussard was and told several people she wanted to assist in the search, according to reports.
“I talked to Magen every day,” a stunned friend of Broussard’s, Caressa Nolte, according to KHOU. “She’s been like sick over this.”
Fieramusca claimed she had just given birth herself, duping folks like Nolte, who appeared on a podcast called Jay 4 Justice, recalling that Fieramusca had gone to a birth center two weeks before and was breastfeeding an infant girl named Luna.
“I even told her she sounded sweet,” Nolte said of Fieramusca’s baby.
Another friend, Rachel West, also said she spoke to Fieramusca in the days after she vanished on Dec. 12 and heard a baby in the background — but thought nothing of it because of Fieramusca’s tall tale of having had a baby herself, KHOU reported.
Fieramusca had been friends with Broussard for 20 years, and acted like a worried loved one, said Tim Miller, who owns a Texas search party operation which organized efforts to find Broussard.
“There was not a single indication she had anything to do with it,” Miller, of Texas Equusearch, told Houston CBS affiliate KHOU 11. “She said ‘Mr. Miller thank you for what you’re doing.’ She says ‘I’m going to keep talking to people and everything and if I come up with anything, is it OK if I call you?'”
Fieramusca told Miller she last spoke with Broussard, also 33, the morning she went missing, and the Austin mom told her pal she was having trouble breast-feeding, Miller said.
Police now say Fieramusca faked a pregnancy and that Broussard’s baby was discovered safe inside Fieramusca’s home near Houston — where Broussard’s body was found in the trunk of a car.