At first, they assumed that her story was just teenage delusion.

Ah Fong called the police and reported the crime. The girl, known only as “Ah Fong,” suffered from nightmares. One of the men had a 13-year-old girlfriend who had helped with the torture. They sawed up her body, boiled the parts, and threw the pieces into the trash.

The men spent a month horrifically torturing Fan before she died of her injuries. In Hong Kong in 1999, three members of a secret triad gang society captured Fan Man-yee. He said that Jopek’s spirit had haunted him since she died. Ferreira finally confessed to the murder after three decades. Police had no leads, and the case remained unsolved. The body wasn’t discovered for 17 months. Ferreira snuck her body out of the house and buried it under a neighbor’s porch. He “had his way with her” before he realized that her neck was broken. She turned toward Ferreira and said, “I don’t know if this is a good idea.” Ferreira responded, “You are going downstairs,” and he pushed the girl down the steps.įerreira looked at Jopek’s limp body, and he saw an opportunity. As they were walking down the steps, Jopek began having second thoughts. He shared a joint with the girl, and she asked him to join her in the basement. Jose Ferreira, then 17, met Carrie Ann Jopek, 13, at a party in 1982. He told a fellow inmate that he is tortured by visions of Jones, who appears in his jail cell at night. Bridger was found guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison.

They believe that he sexually assaulted the child before he killed her and scattered her body parts. Alcohol had blurred his memory, and he did not know what happened to her body.Īfter a forensic expert found fragments of bone and blood matching Jones’s DNA in Bridger’s house, police rejected his story. He remembered placing her body in his car before he went for help. Bridger said that he had accidentally hit Jones with his car. However, he claimed that it was an accident.

Jones went into Bridger’s car, and she was never seen again.īridger was arrested the next day. He stumbled upon five-year-old April Jones. After he had spent a typical evening drinking in 2012, he drove around to find a young girl. Mark Bridger spent his days drinking, watching pornographic videos, and looking at indecent images of children.

The Blacksmith by Barbara Howe