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 ...

Heather Tessman the half-sister of the Waterbury, Conn., man who was kept in a locked room for 20 years, poses for a photo Thursday, March 20, 2025, at her Vernon, Conn. home. Credit: AP/Jim Michaud ...

Step mother of man allegedly held captive 20 years in CT home due in court Tessman said she believes the abusive conditions got worse after the man’s father died in January 2024, and that the ...

Heather Tessman the half-sister of the Waterbury, Conn., man who was kept in a locked room for 20 years, poses for a photo Thursday, March 20, 2025, at her Vernon, Conn. home. (Jim Michuad/Hearst ...

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 he' ...

Tracy Vallerand, biological mother of the Waterbury man held captive by his step mother, Kimberly Sullivan, for more than two decades, addresses the media outside state Superior Court in Waterbury ...

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 ...

Heather Tessman the half-sister of the Waterbury, Conn., man who was kept in a locked room for 20 years, poses for a photo Thursday, March 20, 2025, at her Vernon, Conn. home. (Jim Michuad/Hearst ...