After 33 Years, Jose Ferreira Confesses That He Killed and Buried 13-year-old Carrie Jopek
After 33 years, Jose Ferreira from Milwaukee submitted himself to the police, confessing that he killed a teenage girl and buried her body under a porch in 1982. Only recently, he called a local television network and a crisis hotline, said the police records.
Currently, he is in police custody.
The 50-year-old Jose Ferreira has been charged with second-degree murder of the 13-year-old girl, Carrie Ann Jopek, based on a criminal complaint filed at the Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Saturday, according to Reuters.
On the day she died---March 16, 1982, Carrie Jopek had been suspended from school as she walked around the halls without a pass. She had gone to a nearby house party, was accosted, and pushed down the stairs by Jose, breaking her neck.
Her mother, Carolyn Tousignant, reported to the authorities that Carrie was missing, when she did not come back home. The mother regrets not picking up her daughter when the school called to say that Carrie had been suspended. The school had been just a block away, so Tousignant did not go to escort her, yet Carrie never came home. The mother feels that she had made the biggest mistake of her life.
She still blames herself. "I didn't want to know, yet somehow I knew it would be best if the whole thing would just end," she said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Ferreira admitted that he had pushed her down the stairs, knocking her out, which he viewed as "an opportunity." He agreed to a morning show producer that he "had his way with her" but became aware that her head was broken when he lifted her.
He then buried her under a porch, where she was discovered in September 1983 by a carpenter. However, no one was charged after she had been found, according to the Associated Press.
Just a week ago, Ferreira confessed to his wife, which made her call the police. Jose admitted his crime to the police, and was charged with Jopek's death.
Ferreira will be imprisoned for 20 years.
