[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 90 minutes with nothing
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
10, 15 minutes to see if Heidi 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 murdered 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 murder 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
murder 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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