Half-sister of Connecticut house of horrors victim wants those responsible to pay: I want to see them all fried

The half-sister of a man who was held captive and starved in a Connecticut house of horrors for decades now wants those responsible for his tragic living conditions to be punished, insisting: “I want to see them all fried.”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 alleged abuse that authorities likened to “a horror movie.” The victim’s stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, 56, has since been charged with cruelty and kidnapping after he alleged she kept him in padlocked in a tiny room, starved him and deprived him of water so severely he was forced to drink from the toilet bowl.“They deserve solitary confinement for the rest of their lives,” Tessman raged in an interview with WFSB about the stepmom and two stepsisters who, at one point, all lived in the house together.“I want to see them all fried.”Tessman, who shares a biological mom with the victim, said she only met her sibling once when she was just three years old — and had been searching for him nonstop since he turned 18.During the hunt, Tessman claims those living inside the house of horrors — including the victim’s stepmom, stepsisters and his biological father — lied about his whereabouts.“I think, personally, that she didn’t like that he was not her son, and she took it out on him,” Tessman alleged.“Her daughters, they got to go to school, have friends, jobs, have a life.What did he get? A jail cell.

For what? Locks on the outside of the door? Are you kidding me? You don’t treat people like that.”Tessman said she was sickened when she finally learned the truth.“Our [biological] mom had texted me when she found out to get a hold of her ASAP.

We don’t talk very often so I knew something was up and she said ‘we found your brother, it was that man in Waterbury’,” Tessman recalled in an interview with CT Insider. “I ...