Jenny Carrieri said she has lost confidence in how the police are handling the case and wants to give the file to a private investigator in the hopes of solving the death or at least turning up some new leads.”We feel that the case should have been solved by now. We feel that it’s not getting the attention it needs,” Carrieri said.

Carrieri lost a piece of her heart and soul when someone shot and killed her twin sister, Jody Lecornu. Lecornu, a Towson University student, was killed 20 years ago in what is now the Drumcastle Government Center parking lot in Towson. The motive and the killer remain a mystery.

Carrieri said she lost confidence in detectives and filed a lawsuit to wrestle the case file away from police and give it to a fresh pair of eyes. She wants a private eye to conduct its own investigation.

“Over the last several years, more information is coming out. (I’ve) seen that leads aren’t being followed up on. I’m hearing new information. I’m passing it to them, and that doesn’t seem to be followed up on,” Carrieri said. “I don’t feel that they are doing justice for Jody. I, for some reason, I feel like our case is being ignored.”

As Lecornu sat in the parking lot 20 years ago, someone approached her. Police don’t know what kind of interaction took place. The man fired a bullet that traveled through the driver’s seat, striking Lecornu in the back. Police said Lecornu drove across York Road to a parking lot of a Giant Food store.

Investigators said the gunman, in a white BMW, followed her. He reached into the vehicle, put it in park, took something out of the car, then drove south on York Road and turned left onto Walker Avenue.

The gunman is described as a black man who is 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 200 to 220 pounds. He was seen wearing a green fatigue-style coat. He would now be in his mid-40s to early-50s.

“I think that the lack of activity over the last how many years it is constitutes, at the very least, a constructive closure, if I can draw an analogy. The case has been constructively closed, i.e. no activity what so ever,” attorney Mike May said.

“I’ve just learned there are four videos from the crime scene. Some, I didn’t realize, are directly facing the scene (and) can’t be digitally enhanced. There’s fingerprints, the witness no one ever talked to again,” Carrieri said.

The Lecornu family, friends, neighbors and colleagues teamed up with Metro Crime Stoppers to boost the cash reward to $32,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Baltimore County police said the department does not comment on pending litigation.