A woman whose twin sister was murdered 23 years ago has put up a billboard in a bid to find her killer after she was inspired by Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Jennifer Carrieri, 46, first put up a billboard last October in Baltimore County in hope it would reach people who don't watch news or television.
The red billboard has a photo of Jody LeCornu that reads 'find my killer' and offers a $100,000 reward.
An advert with a photo of Jody LeCornu reads 'find my killer' and offers $100,000 reward
Jennifer Carrieri, 46, urged the public to 'please come forward' with information about her twin sister's death and said: 'This is just ripping me apart'
'Please come forward, this is just ripping me apart,' Carrieri appealed during an interview with CBS News.
The idea was inspired by the November 2017 movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri for which Frances McDormand won a 2018 Academy Award for Best Actress.
In the film mother Mildred Hayes spends thousands of dollars to rent out a trio of billboards designed to goad local police when no arrests have been made seven months after her daughter was killed.
They respectively read '71 Dead', 'And Still No Arrests?', and 'How Come?' but are later destroyed by arson.
Last December, Carrieri was able to increase the reward displayed on the billboard ad - which cost $3,000 - from the $32,000 displayed last year to $100,000.
Three more billboards were erected on Pulaski Highway, South Hanover Street and Greenmount Avenue in February.
'Right now we're comfortable saying we don't have any leads,' Corporal Shawn Vinson of the Baltimore County Police Department told CBS News. 'I don't want to say exactly what evidence we have and what we don't have.
The twins were born two minutes apart and lived in different states at the time of the murder. Carrieri appears left
She was inspired by signs in November 2017 movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri which respectively read '71 Dead', 'And Still No Arrests?', and 'How Come?'
Frances McDormand won a 2018 Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Mildred Hayes who rents out a trio of billboards designed to goad local police after no arrests are made seven months after her daughter was killed
'We want to be held accountable … Any information that we do receive, though, we are going to follow up on.'
The motion picture came two decades after LeCornu died when she was 23 years old.
'It really inspired me,' Carrieri told NPR's Weekend Edition. 'Hopefully, something's going to come up, because I mean, it's definitely been like a lot of ups and downs.'
Carrieri said her family has sued authorities in order to get access to the autopsy and police report which police wouldn't release due to it being an active investigation.
The Justice for Jody founder said she spent $20,000 to get a lawyer to sue police in 2016 but had to settle in 2017 for an undisclosed amount and never saw the file.
But her obsession with solving the case has affected her time with her husband and children ages 17, 14, and nine.
Carrieri took over investigating from her father who was assistant prosecutor in Anne Arundel County and left behind notes when he died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2007
Carrieri tripled the reward from $32,000 in December but says her obsession with solving the case has affected her time with her husband and children ages 17, 14, and nine
Witnesses say a stocky black male wearing a green army coat followed her Civic in his white BMW. There was video footage of the suspect's car driving away but snow blurred the footage
She took over responsibility from her father who was assistant prosecutor in Anne Arundel County and left behind notes when he died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2007.
The victim was found fatally shot in her car March 2, 1996 in a shopping center parking lot.
LeCornu had been drinking at Mount Washington Tavern after an argument with her boyfriend, drove a bar employee home before 3.30am, bought alcohol then made phone calls from outside a store two minutes away from their apartment in Towson.
A witness at a gas station said they saw a man in a white BMW go up to LeCornu's car and speak to her. It's believed she was fatally injured when shot through the rear passenger side window as she drove away.
Investigators believe the Towson State University student, who was working part-time at a bank, was shot while seated inside her car at a shopping center and drove to Drum Castle shopping center on York Road.
Witnesses say a stocky black male wearing a green army coat followed the Civic vehicle and later removed an item inside. The victim's purse was not inside the car. There was video footage of the suspect's car driving away but snow that night blurred the footage.
Baltimore County Police Department said they don't have leads in the 1996 LeCornu case
LeCornu had been drinking at a bar after an argument with her boyfriend, drove a bar employee home before 3.30am, bought alcohol then made calls two minutes away from their apartment in Towson. He told her to stay at her parents' place a mile away from her murder
Twins at one point entered rehab after using drugs and alcohol from a young age and struggling with anxiety and eating disorders. Carrieri later moved to California
The twins at one point entered rehab after using drugs and alcohol from a young age and struggling with anxiety and eating disorders. Carrieri later moved to California.
But Carrieri said her sister's movements were 'very out of character' that night. Her boyfriend, Steve Dubin, had told her to go to her parents' house that night which was one mile from where she was found dead.
However law enforcement ruled out theories it was a drug deal or robbery gone wrong or retribution for a prosecution from her father, Baltimore Sun previously reported.
She admits she sometimes sleeps with her sibling's baby blanket to feel close to her.
'I still have this sadness and part of me is missing,' Carrieri – who was two minutes younger than her sister, told NPR. 'It's hard for me to be joyful. I just feel like a lot of times I'm going through the motions of my life.'
Call Baltimore County Police at 410-887-3943, Maryland's Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-756-2587 [866-7LOCKUP], or submit information through the website www.metrocrimestoppers.org.
Carrieri admits she sometimes sleeps with her sibling's baby blanket to feel close to her
Carrieri said she find it difficult to be joyful since the death of her twin sister 23 years ago
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Main photo article A woman whose twin sister was murdered 23 years ago has put up a billboard in a bid to find her killer after she was inspired by Oscar-winning film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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