New York woman learns ex-boyfriend who attacked her killed a young mother years later

January 27, 1996, CC Opanovsky Hudson, New York, was home alone from a waterfall college, while his ex -boyfriend, Shawn Doyle, was sitting in the door for his mother. Opanovsky grew up with Doyle and dated him at high school and his college new year.

Once inside, Opanovsky says Doyle became violent. “He pushed me to the couch, pressed me to control me, screaming at me. And he lifted me up and pushed me against the French doors,” he says. Then, he said, Doyle took the scissors and cut off his ponytail. “He picked me up, holding me and cutting my hair, all right” ”

“48 hours” correspondent Annie-Merry Green Opanovsky asked, “How was your hair close like this?” Opanovsky replies, “disrespectful.” Green continues to say, “Do you think he did it?” Opanovsky replied, “Possibly. He’s to make sure that he could get somewhere.”

Opanovsky says that Doyle was out of violent anger and at one point he caught his neck scissors. “I thought he would stab me,” she told Green.

For the first time, Opanovsky shared his powerful story with “48 hours”, talking about the attack, a long road to healing and the strength that his attacker took to the court. Green reports in a case that has been “in the face of a giant” for about three decades, now spread to paramount+streaming.

Opanovsky says he did not think he would make it alive until his college roommate and close friend Shannon McCoulif. Doyle allowed Opanovsky to answer the phone, but he said he was watching every step. “And by the grace of God Shawar, only a few words, he (Shannon) is based on the tone of my voice and how I answer him, he is there,” said Opanovsky.

McColif knew that Doyle had a history of harassing Opanovsky and was scared to protect his friend. He hung the phone and immediately called the police. Opanovsky initially found relief when the authorities came. However, he said that the Hudson Falls did not put him (Doyle) in the handcuffs … they had left us behind the same police vehicle. ” To make the matter worse, when they arrived at the police station, instead of separating them, he said the police had interviewed them together. Opanovsky says he felt that the police did not take the matter seriously. He told Green, “They looked like it was a bit of a fight between two young children, which turned out, somewhat dark,” she told Green.

“48 hours” when the Hudson Falls reached the police department, they acknowledged that law enforcement had developed to do better and support the victims over the past few decades. Police arrested Doyle and accused him of menking, harassment and crime. Finally he will be convicted of Menaking in the second degree and he was sentenced to three years. Opanovsky says he was terrified from Doyle. He has shifted colleges and has moved far from the Hudson Falls.

Opanovsky pushed his past until the summer of 20-nine years later in Hamla-when he learned that Doyle was arrested for killing a 33-year-old mother of two sons, Laurie Leonard. Opanovsky said, “I can’t believe what I was listening … I felt for his whole family and his two young children.”

Lorry Leonard met Doyle on the Dating website Kamid.com in 2003. He survived three hours from Doyle in Chitango, New York, a small town outside the Syracuse. Lorry Leonard’s elder sister Jennifer Leonard says they only dated for a short time because of Doyle’s violent mood. Jennifer Leonard said, “I called him one night, and he came there, and what I heard in the background was that he was screaming at him and and that was what was it?”

Despite the collapsing, Lori Leonard told Jennifer Leonard that they had agreed to be friends and Doyle was good with it. Jennifer Leonard says he was skeptical. “And I was, no, he’s not. Nah.

Just a few days before the disappearance of Lorry Leonard, Shaun Doyle helped him go to a new rental apartment on April 27, 28. Doyle offered to use his truck. Jennifer Leonard said, “He asked a few people before. So he was a last resort. He was still playing ‘I am your friend’. He said that his presence was rising in his sister’s nerve. But after five days, Lori Leonard was finally leaving his Doyle. In the afternoon, Loreyard’s phone was on his way to Albani, he said. It was never closed. ”

Twenty -four hours later, when Lorry Leonard never returned home, Jennifer Leonard called the Chitango Police Department. Detective Wade Irvin searched for his rental property. There was no sign of break-in or any crime committed at home. He said that when they had interviewed Laurie Leonard, Yankees was supposed to meet to get a ticket, his alibi checked out. When they interviewed Doyle, Ivin said, “He always said … he left him and he survived in the apartment.”

Irvin says when they examined his alibi, they could not clear him. Nevertheless, Doyle assisted and even allowed investigators to search his truck and take pictures. When they searched Doyle’s glove buggy, they got something curious: a key with a serial number in it. At that time it does not mean anything to the investigators. However, it will be important to the case later.

At July 24, 2005, Lori Leonard went three months after the disappearance, the case was a break. Lori Leonard’s body was discovered in a metal equipment found in the Champline Canal Lake. Ivin said, “He was given a handcuffs behind him. The tap was tied around the handcuffs. His legs were tied together, and the tube was tied to China’s tape. He had his face from China tape. Ervin said that the investigation was quickly combined and it was guided by all Shawn Doyle. When Doyle’s residence was searched, they said “Similar to handcuffs, nail tapes and other ways he used to match Laurrd’s body, and Doyle was arrested and the second degree was murdered.”

On January 23, 2006, Doyle’s trial began. Washington County District Attorney Kevin Corteite says Opanovsky, the center of his case, was getting testimony. He says that his testimony was important because “it shows what he (Doyle) is capable of … This is his modus operandi. This is a proof of the sight.” However, Opanovsky, the only former girlfriend who attacked Doyle. Five years after the attack on Doyle Opanovsky, he allegedly tried to kill another young woman. The judge ruled that both women could take the position. Corteite says he chose Opanovsky as his last witness. “You’ve always left the best for the end,” she said.

Opanovsky courageously confronted his attacker after so many years and chronic mental painful Doyle told Zuri about his cause. He said that he was determined by the scene. “I need to confirm that lorry has been thrown away for killing,” she says. On January 2, 21, 212, the jury returned with the verdict: Shaun Doyle was convicted of killing the second-degree.

Opanovsky says that after so many years, it is still difficult to process the fact that the person he once loved was convicted of killing. He hopes others can learn from his story. “Stay aware. Look at what’s going on in front of you and someone who knows what is happening in front of you. Don’t keep it silent. Pay attention and when you feel, that doesn’t go away, you know what you are trying to get down, this is what you have to hear the most.”