Man charged after calling TV news on girl missing since 1982

The caller, 50-year-old Jose Ferreira, told the TV station that he was responsible for the 1982 death of 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek. Television station WISN Milwaukee also has said Ferreira called the newsroom and described the case in disturbing detail, which prompted them to call authorities.

Mr Gegg has not elaborated no the nature of those details, but said the station called police because of “several red flags”.

The girl’s mother, Carolyn Tousignant, told Fox 6 News the suspect was known to her, and had previously said her daughter “was haunting him” the year she went missing.

MORE than 33 years after a 13-year-old girl mysteriously went missing and was later found dead, her suspected killer has made a freaky phone call to a news station confessing to his alleged crime.

On March 16, 1982, Tousignant received a call from Kosciuszko Middle School to say that Jopek had been suspended from school.

Carolyn Tousignant holds a photo of her daughter Carrie Ann Jopek at her home on Monday in Milwaukee.

Tousignant said she had the option of picking her daughter up from the school’s office, but she chose not to since they lived only a block away.

According to a report from the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, the teen’s body was found in her own neighborhood by a carpenter remodeling a porch, about 17 months after she disappeared.

Ferreira told the station that he had “lived across the street from Carrie Ann and went to a party with her the night she died”, the TV station reported the next day.

“I blame myself sometimes”, the girl’s mother said.

“She was a strong-willed child”. Those prayers, she said, were answered last week, when police said Jose Ferreira, 50, confessed to pushing her down a stairway because she wouldn’t have sex with him. But she tried to turn around on the steps telling him “I don’t know if this is a good idea”, officials recount in court documents.

Ferreira appeared in court on Saturday on a charge of second-degree murder. In doing so, she fell down a few stairs and broke her neck.

“You could tell her not to do something, but if she wanted to do it she would anyway”, Touisgnant said. A Milwaukee County assistant district attorney said prosecutors will request a high cash bail amount due to concerns that Ferreira may flee. “She was 13 when she told me that”.

‘She spent two of her birthdays underneath that porch, ‘ Tousignant said. When Jopek had second thoughts, however, Ferreira pushed her down a flight of stairs, breaking her neck. Ferreira’s lawyer, Melissa Nepomiachi, didn’t return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment Sunday.

“I never put it out of my mind”, said Ms Tousignant.