A 30-year old Cold Case- Max Gaddis 9th period

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-charged-decades-cold-case-death-young-teen-34562687

Jose Ferreira has been charged with the second degree murder of 13-year old Carrie Ann Jopek, who went missing 30 years ago in 1982 and whose body was found almost 2 years after she went missing, after he made a call to a Milwuakee TV station with eerily specific details on the murder. Her mother recalled her being suspended from school because she was roaming the halls and says she got herself suspended on purpose so she could go to a party. The school gave her the option of picking Carrie up from school or letting her walk home and her mother, Carolyn Tousignant, says that letting her walk the one block from the school to the house was something she has come to regret even though Carrie would've most likely snuck off to the party anyways. 17 months later, someone repairing the old deck of a house in the neighborhood pulled off the old boards to discover Carrie's body lying there. Tousignant says Carrie celebrated two birthdays under that deck. Ferreira was just a teenager when Carrie was killed and is now 50 years old.

I think this is a strange case because it's so old and the trail is cold. Ferreira was just a few years older than Carrie so the motive is also strange. This honestly reminds me of every kidnapping and murder that has basically ever happened, but most recently reminds me of Zoe Hastings. These two cases both had an instance of someone being recorded as walking from point A to point B and disappearing between those two locations and being murdered for no apparent reason, with the obvious exception that Zoe was going to church and Carrie had just gotten suspended from school and was sneaking off to a party. The timing is also interesting because this guy could've turned himself in at anytime during the last 30 years or never at all and he does it right after another girl is killed in a similiar manner as Carrie. Maybe he heard about Zoe's death and it affected him, maybe it was the recent shootings, maybe he has kids or grandkids now, maybe the President's address to the shootings got to him, or maybe this is just pure coincidence.

Both Zoe's and Carrie's deaths remind me of a movie I once watched where a little black girl was killed after being raped and the court system would do nothing about it (because it was the late 1890's and no one cared about blacks) until the defending lawyer described in detail the things that were done to the girl and at the end added, "Now imagine this little girl was white," and only then did people care.

I am glad that someone cared for both of these girls enough to do something and I am glad that we are not sitting on our fingers anymore after someone dies.