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Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12.
Heather Tessman, the half-sister of the 69-pound man known as “Male Victim One,” joined NewsNation to discuss his case.
Heather Tessman, half-sister of the 69-pound man known as "Male Victim One," joined NewsNation to discuss his case. She last ...
WATERBURY, Connecticut -- The woman accused of holding her stepson captive for decades pleaded not guilty in court Friday.
Kimberly Sullivan is facing several charges in the case of her stepson, who was reportedly held captive in their home for 20 ...
During an exclusive sit-down interview with NBC Connecticut, Vallerand said she gave up custody of her son shortly after his ...
A SUV struck an Amish buggy Wednesday in southwestern Michigan, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring a 12-year-old boy, the only people in the horse-drawn vehicle, police said. The boy’s condition ...
The young chief executive of a startup that claimed to have helped millions of college students apply for financial aid deployed a “brazen fraud” to sell the company to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $175 ...
Listen to Story For 14 years, Heather Tessman had looked for her half-brother, whom she’d last seen as a young child in the 1990s, yet nothing turned up in internet and public records searches beyond ...
WATERBURY, Conn. -- The biological family of a Connecticut man who said he was held captive for 20 years spoke out on Wednesday as his stepmother appeared in court. Kimberly Sullivan said nothing as ...
you know, allowed to be a human and living his life and you just can't imagine anything like this happening because this doesn't happen," the man's sister, Heather Tessman, said.