He had raped the dying woman as well.
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“His story was very detailed – disturbingly so”, said news director Chris Gegg, and the station called police because of “several red flags”.
Ferreira didn’t take Jopek’s rejection well. A 50-year-old man is now being charged in her death.
The girl disappeared after being suspended for roaming the halls at school. “I know she got suspended on objective so she could go to the party”.
For 17 months, there wasn’t a sign of Jopek.
“She told me she wasn’t going to have sex until she got married”, Carolyn Touisgnat, Jopek’s mother, said.
“She spent two of her birthdays underneath that porch”, Ms Tousignant said. She said she went to the front door and believes that if she had gone to the back she could have found her daughter.
But Tousignant had her suspicions.
Anchors also said that Ferreira told the station he had called a suicide hotline before the news team. “I knew she didn’t run away, but that’s what they said to me”. “He talked about he then buried her”.
On the morning of Sunday, October 11, he called the WISN news room and confessed to killing Jopek. The man who killed the then 13-year-old girl back in 1982 showed remorse when he called a news station last week to confess.
At the time, Ferreira denied involvement in Jopek’s death. He claimed that she had fallen down a few stairs and broke her neck – and that he had sex with her thinking she was unconscious. “When he realized she was dead, he buried her”. “Now he’s gonna pay for what he did to her”, Carolyn Touisgnat told WISN.
The police document says he realized her neck was broken when he picked her up from the floor and saw her head was turned unnaturally.
Ferreira, who now faces a second-degree murder charge, appeared in court this week and will nearly assuredly remain in jail until trial. As the teens stepped onto the stairway, Jopek had second thoughts and told him, “I don’t know if this is a good idea”, the criminal complaint alleges.
“I wanted her to be found alive”, said Touisgnant.
Although painful, the new details of the decades-old death are a relief for Jopek’s family. The confession marked the end of a long investigation into what happened to Carrie. A Milwaukee County assistant district attorney said prosecutors will request a high cash bail amount due to concerns that Ferreira may flee.
Touisgnant said her daughter lived “kind of on the wild side”.
Randy Q. Baines admitted to killing Leila Dempsey as she held her two-year-old son in her arms.
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An associate medical examiner told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the 1980s that “scuffle” likely occurred before the death.
