VIDEO: 33 years after her death, man charged in killing of teen 
 
 Jose Ferreira, 50, confessed to police that when he was 17 he pushed Carrie Ann Jopek down a flight of stairs during a house party because she had second thoughts about making out with him. Monday, WISN 12 news shared details of a call to the newsroom from a man who said he'd lived across the street from Carrie Ann and went to a party with her the night she died. Ferreira was later arrested in the case , which had long been dormant. "It's been 33 years since she's been gone," the girl's mother, Carolyn Tousignant, said after Ferreira was taken into custody. Jopek was suspended from middle school one day in 1982, and spent the day at a house party. It's a decision she has come to live with. "Now he's gonna pay for what he did to her," said Carolyn Touisgnat, the victim's mother. A year later, a contractor was working on a porch across the street from her home when he discovered 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek's body in the dirt.  A man is behind bars after police said he confessed to a crime that was committed when he was just a teenager, breaking his decades-long denial. He's now 50 years old and once told her he and some friends were with Carrie Ann when she hit her head and died, but he wouldn't tell police. Joy Hammond, a Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, said there are many concerns with the case. “All these years, we would have known something,” Tousignant said. "Every time I watch 'Cold Case'" or some other detective show, I would hope and pray one of these days we get the person who did that to Carrie."
– In 1982, 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek went missing in Milwaukee after she got suspended from school. Her body was found 17 months after she vanished, buried under a neighbor's porch, but the search for her killer eventually went cold, the AP reports. Now her mom, Carolyn Touisgnant, may finally have answers after a man called a local news station and confessed. Jose Ferreira, 50, called WISN 12 on Oct. 11 and described exactly what had happened on that March day. "His story was very detailed—disturbingly so," the station's newsroom director told the AP; he says the station called cops because of "several red flags," leading to Ferreira's arrest on second-degree murder charges. Ferreira had also apparently called a crisis line and told an acquaintance about his crime, though it's still unclear why he came forward now. A more recent WISN 12 story says Ferreira confessed to cops that when he was 17, Carrie Ann changed her mind about making out with him at a house party, so he shoved her down a flight of stairs, breaking her neck. He said he buried her body under the porch and then denied knowing anything about it for the past three decades, even after her body had been found. "She spent two of her birthdays underneath that porch," Touisgnant says, per the AP, adding that she sometimes still blames herself because she let Carrie Ann walk home from school that day instead of picking her up. Still, there's some peace in the prospect of getting justice. "Everytime [I'd] watch Cold Case or some other detective show, I would hope and pray one of these days [we'd] get the person who did that to Carrie," she says, adding to WISN 12: "Now he's gonna pay for what he did to her." (Is this the 20th century's most baffling cold case?)