Heather Tessman, who claims she spent years searching for her brother, lashed out after her 32-year-old sibling’s dramatic rescue from a burning Waterbury home last month uncovered a pattern of ...

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 ...

Her arraignment was continued to Friday, published reports said. “I just know that she’s a monster,” Heather Tessman, who identified herself as the man’s sister, told reporters outside court.

Vallerand explained that she had lost custody of her daughter, Heather Tessman, years earlier after the Department of Children and Families alleged she had shaken baby syndrome. Tessman's father ...

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 ...

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 ...