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| After 33 years Milwaukee man confesses to murder of Carrie Ann Jopek. Photo: Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel |
On March 16, 1982, Carrie Ann
Jopek was suspended from school for wandering the halls without a pass and,
instead of going home the 13 year old went to a house party.
When she didn’t return home
that night her mother reported her missing. In September 1983 a
carpenter building a new porch on a nearby house uncovered Carrie Ann Jopek’s
body.
Although police had some
suspects, the case remained unsolved until they received their first real break
on October 11, 2015 when one of those suspects, Milwaukee resident Jose Ferreira,
admitted to killing and burying her.
According to the official
complaint, he’s been charged with second-degree murder, which could carry a
sentence of 20 years, and is currently being held with a $200,000 bail.
Apparently, while at the party,
Ferreira pushed Jopek down a flight of stairs, which broke her neck and killed
her. He then buried the body under a nearby porch.
After her body was found and
identified over a year later, a neighbor told the police that he saw Ferreira
standing by the hole where she was found, crying. Police questioned him then,
but they couldn’t connect him to the death.
On October 11, Ferreira
finally broke down, and called a crisis hotline to confess what he had done.
That same day, he called WISN,
a local ABC affiliate, and admitted to the murder. They reported on it after
notifying the authorities, and his wife later said that he admitted it to her
as well, presumably around the same time as his confession to WISN.
The counselor told authorities
that Ferreira wanted the incident to be publicized, but it is still unsure
exactly why. He claimed that he either wanted to “go out in a blaze of glory or
in silence.”
Thankfully he decided to
confess and turn himself in, allowing Jopek’s family some closure, and
hopefully justice for Carrie Ann.
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