True Crime with Kendall Rae - Who Killed Jody LeCornu? Feat. Twin Sister Jenny Carrieri

Episode Date: August 24, 2023

Early on the morning of March 2, 1996, Baltimore, MD police officers were called to a street following a reported shooting. They found 23-year-old Jody LeCornu dead inside her car. To this day, her murder remains unsolved. Tell the Baltimore PD you wanna see this case get solved! https://bit.ly/2vGyOjH Twitter: @BaltCoPoliice Billboard GoFundMe: https://bit.ly/2TjbvnL (No longer accepting donations.) Jenny’s tip line: [phone] ($100,000 reward being offered) https://www.justice4jody.com/ Follow Jenny: https://twitter.com/carrieri_jenny #Justice4Jody Donate to NCMEC through my campaign! https://give.missingkids.org/campaign/kendall-rae/c438796 This episode is sponsored by: Disappeared: The Bradley Sisters Check out Kendall's other podcasts: The Sesh & Mile Higher Follow Kendall! YouTube Twitter Instagram Facebook Mile Higher Zoo REQUESTS: General case suggestion form: https://bit.ly/32kwPly Form for people directly related/ close to the victim: https://bit.ly/3KqMZLj Discord: https://discord.com/invite/an4stY9BCN CONTACT: For Business Inquiries - [e-mail]

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. So today I have another family involved true crime video for you guys. And if you've not seen one of these, it's basically where I include interview clips of a victim's family member in the video because I truly think they can tell their story a lot better than I can. When I do have an opportunity to have a family member on this channel, I think it's really important because it makes it so much more real. I know a lot of you guys watch true crime videos for entertainment, but these stories are real people's lives.

You know, it just doesn't end after the video ends for them. When people lose a family member to a violent crime, it changes their life completely. My name is Jenny Carriere and I'm fighting for justice for my twin sister, my dental twin, Jody, LaCornia. Now if you are twin yourself, I'm sure you can understand the incredible bond that there is in a twin relationship. Jenny losing her twin sister has completely derailed her life, created so much anxiety and depression for her, and she struggles with it daily. To this day, even though it's been a long time since this happened,

a war before we even get into this though, that this case is frustrating, there's not a lot of answers, there's not a lot to work with. But I think it's still important to share these stories and that we don't forget about people who have been somewhat forgotten by the system. So Jenny and Jody were really closed from the day that they were born, really. Can you tell me what it was like growing up with a twin sister?

Really, it just fun. Always having your companion, your best friend there. We were always together. I feel like we were one person. She was definitely more the outgoing one. I was very shy. And I don't know if you've heard me say they call me Jenny the bit my family. Because I was just very just quiet.

And she was more out there. And definitely I felt more confident with her, my other half. So a lot of twins describe that bond, especially the identical twins seem to have this really inseparable bond where you feel like you really are the same person. Yes, definitely, and we knew what each other were thinking. What's going on here is technically older. She was two minutes older.

Okay. She was definitely the older one. Did she like it? Yeah, definitely. Now life was not easy for Jody and Jenny right out the gate pretty much because they were struggling with a father who they loved But who also was an alcoholic was a really good man. He's very smart. They grew up in a naveless So he was working in DC at the time and I remember you know that he would drink at his office before he would come home And I remember just Waiting out looking out the window every night,

thinking, oh my gosh, is he gonna make it home? Like just really sad, like worried. He ended up having an intervention with putting my dad in the treatment program. And it really affected their lives. They actually both started drinking themselves very young. We hope school one day and we got into it. He would keep it in his bathroom.

I mean, we were in eighth grade, I think. Eighth grade? Yeah. We drank vodka and got it, you know, smoked his camel non-filters. And just, we were like, this is the life. This is like, and that was it. I mean, that's from there on. We just started.

And then, but we got in trouble, like, you know, for hooking school. We put it in a Catholic school in our town. But, you know, once we started there, you know, we were 14 and hung out with the older crowd and we were drinking all the time and I think, yeah. So, yeah, as you went to Cal, oh my gosh. Yeah, it was crazy.

I mean, my sister was 14 and like I said, she was always the more outgoing one. I mean, she had a fake ID when that said she was 24. Yeah, I mean, it's sad. Our high school years was just about drinking and then, you know, we got involved in drugs. And my parents started taking us to a psychiatrist. Like, they were like trying everything.

We just went downhill really fast. Like, when I look back, I can like feel that sadness of just always like trying to feel better or something, you know? Eventually, Jenny and Jody were struggling so much with their addiction that they were put into rehab. My parents ended up putting us in a treatment program in Virginia, and they were about to kick us out of the high school because they were getting in trouble there. They put us in this place called Stray.

It was a two-year program. That was when we first got separated. We weren't allowed to talk to each other. They said we were drug use sisters, and that was it. Many of you probably remembered when I covered the Bradley Sisters case, the disappearance of Diamond and Tiana. In 2001, Tracy Bradley comes home from her morning shift

and discovers two of her daughters, Diamond and Tiana, are nowhere to be found. The girls are just 10 and three years old. Disappeared the Bradley Sisters, the podcast from ID, covers the case that sparked the largest missing person's investigation in Chicago's history. Post-Pam Childs was a detective in Chicago

at the time of the girl's disappearance. On Disappeared, Childs is joining up with other retired detectives and investigators to revisit the case and it certainly needs as much attention and eyes on it as possible. They try to answer the question that is bothering everyone for 22 years.

Who had the most to gain by these girls disappearing? I'd highly recommend checking out disappeared. You can listen to disappeared, the Bradley Sisters, wherever you get your podcasts. When they were put into rehab, they were separated. And Jenny said this was just really hard for them. We did a podcast with Jenny and talked about this. Many people brought up the fact that this is normally what they do. Because oftentimes twins can be, I guess, codependent on each other. And if

they're both suffering with an addiction, they can make it worse for each other by being around each other. So I think that was their thoughts when separating. But anyway, it really was emotionally hard for them. And I think not having that time with her sister really hurts Jenny to this day because they didn't realize how limited their time together was.

Like I said, we didn't talk for months. And then it was horrible. Horrible. And I ended up running away because it was just, it was horrible, horrible. Then I got brought back because I mean, I just had nowhere to go. So I ended up going back to my parents and they brought me back. And then Jody ran away in October, which was our birthday. The program really, at the end, like it helped me to turn my life around.

But it's crazy because when I ran away, I ended up, there's this place in Maryland called Ocean City. So I ended up there. She ended up in Baltimore and she was 18, so my parents didn't bring her back. And that's when she met her boyfriend, who she was with when she died. Her boyfriend was named Steve.

She was a college student and she was attending Townsend University and she was studying geriatrics. She started drinking again when she got out. Tell me about Steve because you still talked to Steve today. Yeah! I mean, we didn't talk for years and years and years and years. Jody met him and they both drank a lot and that was a huge part of their relationship. So the timeline really starts on February 29th, 1996.

That evening, Jody and her boyfriend Steve got in a pretty big fight. The next morning, March 1st, she went to work. She was working as a receptionist at the Eastern Savings Bank in Hunt Valley, Maryland. But when she got off of work, she didn't go home. Instead, she went to this tavern that she used to like to hang out at all the time with a couple of friends. This tavern was called the Mount Washington Tavern. She liked to go to this one bar that she used to like to hang out at all the time with a couple of friends. This tavern was called the Mount Washington Tavern. She liked to go to this one bar that Mount Washington Tavern and he didn't like her being there.

He liked them to be at home and have their drinks and she had gone to the bar that night and I think she had just come off a time of being sober. He got really angry hearing that she was at the bar, Friday morning, which would have been more at first. He said they got into a fight and told her not to come home. You need to go to your parents' house, which is 45 minutes away from Baltimore. Now, we cannot confirm this, but Jenny told me that she believes that Jody had somewhat of a crush

on the bar's manager. Jody, I believe, went to the bar because she had a crush on the owner of the bar. And it seems to Jenny that Steve didn't really like when Jody would go to this bar. So Jody was there a really long time, actually till closing time, like 2am. And I'm sure a lot of you are wondering, she was drinking while she was there.

Instead of just going home after this, Jody actually decided to give this guy a red home from the bar. He was like a janitor type person that worked there. And apparently the bar manager, the one that she may have had a crush on, told her to take him home. Not that she wouldn't do anything for anybody, but just late at night, that was odd, I thought. I'm not sure who asked her to take him home.

So she took him home and it was snowing that night. And that was another thing, like she wouldn't have driven in the snow. She was just afraid of everything. I mean, just everything that night was out of character for her. Then after this, Jody went to an ATM. She got out some cash and then took that cash

to the liquor store and bought a six pack of beer. She then went to this parking lot in front of the Drumcastle government center. It was around 3 a.m. and she started just making phone calls and hanging out drinking beer in her car. Do you think it's possible she was looking for drugs? I mean I think anything's possible but I don't feel that she was doing drug. I mean alcohol was definitely her drug of choice. Now while she was sitting in her car

an unknown male walked up to the car and the reason we know this is there were a lot of witnesses actually but he approaches the car. The reason we know this is there were a lot of witnesses actually, but he approaches the car at the driver's side window and she rolls it down to talk to him. According to witnesses, they chatted for a few minutes and then the man walked away. And then he walked back to his car, which was parked a little ways away from her car.

But then the man got out of his car, walked over to Jogi's car and shot at her vehicle. And it was only one shot. And this bullet went through the back passenger window, broke that. It went through the driver's side seat and into Jody's spine. And it actually severed her spinal cord, which we all know is a fatal injury.

But miraculously, she actually was alive and conscious for a few minutes. She frantically drove her car across the street, entered another shopping center parking lot. Even though she had these injuries, she still drove clearly trying to get away from this person. And eventually her car came to a stop and she passed away. And witnesses are watching this whole thing.

They reported seeing this man in a white BMW follow Jody from the parking lot where he had shot her over to the other parking lot where she had tried to escape to. He parked over near where her car stopped, got out of his car, walked over to the driver's side window, reached in and put the car in park, and then took something out of the car

and we still don't know what it was to this day. At 3.41 am, an employee from the local giant grocery store which was open 24 a seven called 911. The police came and took witness statements. Witnesses described the suspect as an African-American man who was between five foot 10 inches tall and six foot one, weighing somewhere between 200 and 220 pounds. He was described as wearing a green fatigue style coat

and this person would now be in his 50s. Now I'd love to show you a composite sketch, but the Baltimore police never put one together. Imagine how frustrating this would be as a family member to have a description, to have multiple witnesses describe this person and they just decided to not make a composite sketch. Just unbelievable to me.

And I asked them, like, why would you not do that? I mean, they had, they said they had six witnesses. Jenny actually thinks that Jody must have known this guy because she said that there's no way she would roll down her window for a stranger. Jenny describes her sister as being a very anxious person, very worried about everything, always taking precautions. And she just doesn't think that she would roll it down for anyone. Now, as far as evidence goes, there were two sets of fingerprints on the car that were lifted and saved, but it has not been matched to anyone. Because this was a crowded space, and, you know,

there were 24-hour businesses around, there were multiple security videos taken by multiple businesses, however, this has never been released to the public You know, we do have multiple witnesses, which is huge especially for a crime that happens in the middle of the night Often times no one is around to see something like this happen as far as we know Jody had no concrete plans to meet anyone Specific that night. I'm sure a lot of you are thinking maybe Jody was getting into drugs She did have history with drugs and alcohol in the past. Is it possible that this man was a drug dealer? That's exactly what police were thinking from the beginning. That this was a drug deal or a robbery, something

like that gone wrong. But when they did a toxicology report on Jody, there were no narcotics in her system. It was purely alcohol. But Jenny has thrown out the idea that maybe she was getting them for someone else. Obviously, her boyfriend Steve carries a lot of guilt in the fact that he told her not to come home that night. Maybe she wouldn't have been in the parking lot at 3.40 in the morning. Baltimore County police have told Jenny that they do have two suspects that they're kind of looking into and have given polygraph tests but really won't give Jenny any information. Now when all of this happened, Jenny was, I mean, beside herself. The amount of pain that this has caused her losing her

sister and not knowing who did it is just insurmountable. I was just in shock. I mean everything is such a blur. It's like my body, everything shut down. I couldn't deal with it. For years, it was like anytime I try to think about it, I feel like my whole body would just like freak out. Like I was like, I can't, I can't deal with it. I can't process this, I can't understand this, I can't feel this. And I could not be alone, like not even for a second. I do as my twin sister and, um,

I best friend and, um, I loved her more than anything in this world. For a long time, Jenny did not have anything to do with the investigation. She wasn't working with the police. She tried to stay out of all of that because it was so upsetting. And her father was really the one who was kind of spearheading the investigation as far as keeping the police on track. He became a prosecutor, the state's attorney, so he prosecuted drug and violent crime, so and locally in Annapolis. I was not involved whatsoever in the investigation. I just assumed, you know, my dad was this prosecutor

and was the one dealing with the police. You think the police are doing their job and everything that's supposed to be done, you know? You don't question anything and I don't think that my dad did. But then Jenny's father passed away in 2007 and she felt like she needed to kind of take over. And at that point, she said she realized that a lot of things weren't being done and she started having a lot of issues with the Baltimore County police.

When I started reaching out to the detective and talking to him and right away, like things aren't. Things haven't moved along here. Her case hasn't been properly investigated. I mean, for years, I would just find out everything I could and getting contradictions and he was inappropriate with me and the detective and yeah yeah. Called like their customer service was horrible and and just finding out people that they said they'd interviewed, that they hadn't, and people that they should have interviewed, that they hadn't, you know, just finding out, I mean, I was spending every minute I could had to ask the detective, I'd say,

you know, they tell me they have these two suspects. And so talking about suspect number two, I'm like, did you talk to him? And he's like, I don't recall if I talk to you so and so. And I'm like, recall what? They didn't even interview people as she was talking to at the bar. I'm like, like, what else have they

missed? For years I've been fighting to put a new detective on the case to get a fresh set of eyes. They won't do it. I mean it's just, it's maddening. I feel a lot that I'm the criminal. Really? They've made you out. Yeah. You're getting something. Oh, yeah. In August of 2016, Jenny actually put in a formal request to get some of Jody's records and she was denied. I mean we couldn't even see still the original police report which is public record. They won't even give my family the crime scene photos which they gave to people magazine. Like they won't give us anything. They would tell us they said there's nothing else we can do. Like her case is sitting in a closet. So but then when I filed the Maryland Public Information Act

They said it's under and but like her case is it's it's an open investigation So Jenny ended up pushing a lawsuit against them to fight back, but eventually she dropped the suit Are they hiding something protecting somebody? There's never been one person in all this time that said oh, yeah This this case sounds legit, you know, I mean it it's, it's, so that's my theory, is that there's, there's something not right. There's, there's something. Are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys, are you guys executive and they said they're and look me in the eye and they're like yeah yeah yeah we're gonna help you. Then nothing nothing nothing. Altimer County police to this day refuses to give Jenny or the family any information regarding Jody's case. They have been very secretive about what they have or what they don't have or what's

being done and they say the reason that they're doing this is because they're worried it could jeopardize the case and one thing that's really bothered Jenny is that the police actually decided to give them the vehicle back that she was shot in. Essentially, this is the crime scene and they just gave it back to the family. Now we have a lot better technology when it comes to evidence and DNA processing. So Jenny thinks they should have held onto that car

until this was solved, because now they can't even use it as evidence as it's been discharged from the police. Jenny told me she just does not get along with the current detective that she's constantly being blocked or shut down or told that she's contacting them too much. She's made several requests for a new detective and has not been able to get one. So at some point, Jenny just took everything into her own hands and she's been doing tons of interviews trying to spread awareness about her sister's case after all these years. Now she's reaching out to

crime watch daily to help catch her sister's killer. It doesn't make sense. The whole night was very out of character for her. She's the identical twin sister of Jody L'Courno. Welcome today, Jenny. Thanks for joining me, Ted. Thank you. I mean, she was terrified of everything. She was actually afraid to live in Baltimore. We were together our whole lives. I mean, we was terrified of everything. She was actually afraid to live in Baltimore. We were together our whole lives. I mean, we were inseparable. Shared everything.

Shared the same room, the same classes, the same friends. Why are you ignoring me, Scott? She has also created her own tip line so that people can send tips directly to her and they're not going to be hidden from her by police. Her tip line is 410-262-84. They're also offering a $100,000 reward, but obviously Jenny needs help.

She's fighting an uphill battle here to find out what happened to her sister, and I just really empathize with her. That pain has got to be so difficult to carry every single day. One thing that she has been trying to do that's been incredibly important to her is putting up billboards in the area to remind the local people of her sister's case and put pressure on the police to continue investigating.

Happening today, a billboard is going up along York Road in North Baltimore in an effort by a woman to find the person who killed her twin sister 22 years ago. You can see that the crew just arrived here maybe 10 minutes ago and they took down the old planet fitness sign. Now they're putting up the sign that

Jody Lukorno is looking for her murder. This is put up by her sister Jenny Carriere. More than 20 years after Jody's murder.

This story has been well publicized. Jenny Carriere is determined to find her sister's killer after 22 years. Her twin sister was shot and killed along York Road. Now she's putting up a the car. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's

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a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She's been in the car for a while. She was able to drive across the street, but she died there. I just feel that there's people that know something, but these billboards are expensive. So she does have a go fund, and each strictly for the billboards. I will link it below if you guys can spare even a dollar, $5, it would mean the world to her. I know this case is frustrating, and there's not a lot to work with,

but it doesn't make it any less important than anyone else's unsolved case. We did a very casual interview with Jenny on our podcast. I will link it below if you have not seen it. It's like they gave the car back to my parents early on, but my parents didn't want the car because it was just too upsetting, so they just gave it back to the dealership, but they gave it back to my parents really early on

with the fingerprinting kit in the car. I will also link Jenny's social media below as having support from people online has been a huge help for her. I would love to see this case be solved one day. I know it would just be life changing for Jenny. I can't even wrap my head around losing my sister but a twin, someone who you've done everything

way that she had closed with and just you're basically one person. Losing that person is so devastating and that's why my heart just truly, truly goes out to Jenny. That is gonna be it for me today, guys. Thank you for joining me for another episode and make sure you follow the show

on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. It really does help me out. If you wanna watch the video version of this show, you can find it on my YouTube channel, which will be linked, or you can just search Kendall Ray. I will be back with another episode soon, but until then, stay safe out there.