Heather Tessman, the half-sister of the 69-pound man known as “Male Victim One,” joined NewsNation to discuss his case.

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 ...

Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12.

WATERBURY, Conn. (WFSB) - Heather Tessman says she has been looking for her half brother for more than a decade. She says she found out with the rest of the world that her half brother was held ...

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US For 14 years, Heather Tessman had looked for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday seeking to put Kimberly Sullivan under electronic or GPS monitoring while she is out on bond for charges alleging that she held her 32-year-old stepson ...