Early Sunday morning, a man called WISN 12 news with gruesome details about a decades-old cold case. 
 
 As Colleen Henry investigates, the victim's family has waited decades for this day. 
 
 “He said he did it. He admit it finally after how long? Thirty-three years,” Carolyn Tousignant said. 
 
 
 
 It was March 1982 when Tousignant got a call from school saying it was suspending her seventh-grade daughter for skipping class. 
 
 
 
 “I figured she'll be home, but she never showed up,” Tousignant said. 
 
 
 
 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. 
 
 
 
 Tousignant stood by as police unearthed her daughter. 
 
 
 
 “She's in God's hands right now. No more worrying where she is,” Tousignant said in 1983. 
 
 
 
 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. He said she fell and broke her neck. He said he had sex with her because he thought she was unconscious. When he realized she was dead, he buried her. 
 
 
 
 “Oh, my God,” Tousignant said. “He always said that she was haunting him.” 
 
 
 
 Tousignant knows the man as Junior. 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. 
 
 
 
 “They were drinking, they were all drinking Yukon Jack and smoking weed,” Tousignant said. ”They got scared, so they grabbed a dry cleaning bag, wrapped her up in that and dug a hole under the porch and buried her.” 
 
 
 
 WISN 12 News contacted police after the man's call but aren't naming him because he hasn't been charged. Police confirmed he is in custody on the preliminary charge of homicide. 
 
 
 
 
 
 ||||| 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. 
 
 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. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jopek hit her head and died. 
 
 Ferreira made his first court appearance this week and is charged with second-degree murder for a crime committed in 1982. 
 
 Jopek was suspended from middle school one day in 1982, and spent the day at a house party. 
 
 According to the complaint, Ferreira told police he remembers she agreed to go into the basement 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. 
 
 "She told me she wasn't going to have sex until she got married," Touisgnat said. "She was 13 when she told me that. And I believed her. Such a pretty girl though, oh, my baby." 
 
 Ferreira told police he gave her a shove, and she broke her neck falling down the stairs. 
 
 
 
 
 
 He told police he buried her under the porch, where she was found a year and a half later. Ferreira denied knowing anything about it until now. 
 
 "Now he's gonna pay for what he did to her," said Carolyn Touisgnat, the victim's mother. 
 
 Frank Sheehan, the victim's uncle, said he was relieved over the development. "I'm happy. I can rest now. Now I'll be able to sleep at night." 
 
 When the body was found in 1983, about a year or so after she'd disappeared, police began to suspect Ferreira. Police said a neighbor saw him a couple of days later standing over what was then an open grave. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joy Hammond, a Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, said there are many concerns with the case. "He could flee and not come back for court at this point, we ask for a high-cash bail given the severity of the offense," Hammond said. 
 
 So why did he come forward now? 
 
 Last Sunday he called 12 News and described what he'd done. Read the original story here 
 
 Ferreira also called a crisis line and told another acquaintance. That person reported it to police. 
 
 “Carrie was haunting him. She kept on until it worked. She was persistent, a very persistent child she was,” Carrie’s mother, Carolyn Tousignant said. 
 
 The family is thankful he confessed but just wish he had done it sooner. 
 
 “All these years, we would have known something,” Tousignant said. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ||||| MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities have charged a man with second-degree murder after he called a Milwaukee television news station and discussed details of a cold case involving a Milwaukee seventh-grade girl whose body was found more than 30 years ago. 
 
 In a Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 photo, Carolyn Tousignant speaks while going through clippings about the 1982 disappearance of her daughter, Carrie Ann Jopek, in her Milwaukee, Wis., home. Authorities have... (Associated Press) 
 
 In a Friday, Oct. 16, 2015 photo, Carolyn Tousignant speaks while going through clippings about the 1982 disappearance of her daughter, Carrie Ann Jopek, in her Milwaukee, Wis., home. Authorities have... (Associated Press) 
 
 Prosecutors say Jose Ferreira is responsible for the death of 13-year-old Carrie Ann Jopek, who went missing in 1982. 
 
 The case resurfaced last week when WISN 12 News reported that Ferreira called its newsroom and discussed the case. 
 
 "His story was very detailed — disturbingly so," Chris Gegg, the station's news director, said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press on Sunday. 
 
 Gegg didn't elaborate about those details, but said the station called police because of "several red flags." 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. "I've been praying for this day." 
 
 Jopek disappeared after she was suspended from school for roaming the halls. Tousignant said her daughter got kicked out on purpose so she could go to a house party. 
 
 Tousignant said the school called and gave her the option of picking the girl up from the office, but she chose not to because they lived only a block away. It's a decision she has come to live with. 
 
 "I blame myself sometimes," the girl's mother said. "She would've snuck over there anyway." 
 
 Tousignant started searching the neighborhood when she realized her daughter was missing, and even went to the home where her body was later found. 
 
 The case went quiet until someone repairing an old deck came across the girl's body 17 months after her disappearance. 
 
 "She spent two of her birthdays underneath that porch," Tousignant said. 
 
 Ferreira was a teenager when Jopek died. He is now 50 years old, and it's not clear why he chose to call the TV station. 
 
 He appeared in court Saturday, Milwaukee police spokesman Tim Gauerke confirmed via email. Ferreira's attorney, Melissa Nepomiachi, didn't return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment Sunday. 
 
 Ferreira remains in custody in Milwaukee County Jail. 
 
 "I never put it out of my mind," said Tousignant. "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." 
 
 "I miss her," she added, "so much."
– 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?)