Family Seeks Reunion With Man Who Says He Was Held Captive for 2 Decades For 14 years, Heather Tessman had looked for her half-brother, whom she'd last seen as a young child in the 1990s ...

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WATERBURY — Heather Tessman always knew she had a younger brother. She remembers meeting him once when she was just 3 years old. But in the years that followed, her brother became little more ...

Heather Tessman discovered her long-lost half-brother, who endured horrific abuse in a Connecticut home for over 20 years. His stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, and her daughters kept him locked up ...

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 the fact ...

Just weeks ago, she — and the world — finally learned his story: He was the 32-year-old emaciated man rescued from a Connecticut house fire in February who told police he had been held held captive in ...

Tessman, who turns 35 on Thursday, was stunned but excited he was found. But she said police have not allowed her or her mother, who gave up custody of her son when he was an infant, to visit him ...