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So, Captain, just where are we? What is this place? So, we're in the town of Kingsbury at the bridge that goes over
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the canal on New Swamp Road. July 24th, 2005. Investigators are called out here.
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What brought them out here? So, we had a report that a fisherman had been going by. He saw uh what he thought to be a
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toolbox that goes in the back of a pickup truck floating. What did investigators find inside that toolbox?
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Uh they found a woman's body that was uh duct taped and handcuffed and wrapped in
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a comforter. It was terrible. It was a terrible thing to see. In January of 1996, I just finished my
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first semester of college in upstate New York. My ex-boyfriend Shawn Doyle and I
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had been broken up for approximately 4 months. My name is Cece Opinowski. My mother was going away for the weekend.
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So, I had this whole big house to myself and my friend Shannon and I we were very
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close. I said, "Well, let's stay at my house cuz there's no one around." It was just a girl's night. We just wanted to
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chill out. You know, it's winter. It's cold. We built a fire. My parents had a great stereo system. So, you know, we
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put on some music and danced around and, you know, just did girl stuff. We both went to Sage Junior College Bal. I'm
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really introvert and she was very bubbly and happy and chipper and she just she brought me out of my shell. When you
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were first meeting her, was Shawn Doyle around at the time? Yes, he was obnoxious. She would argue with him a
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lot on the phone. And then in January is when this incident happens at her house.
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We were having a good time. It was just the two of us, but he keeps calling. Mhm. Wanting to know what we were doing,
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wanting to know if he can come over. She had a cell phone and I was like, "Just turn it off." Like, she's like, "No, cuz
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if I turn it off, he's going to come here." We finally wake up and all we wanted was coffee. I had the of the
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mindset. I'm like, "Oh, I can't go out in public looking like I'm a mess. let me go home and get dressed. So Shannon
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leaves and I get up and go around the house doing whatever, watching TV, you know, being a lazy teenager. And I get a
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knock at the door and I open it and it's him and he said, "I just want to talk to
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you." And once he was inside, things got much different. He pushed me onto the couch, started, you know, holding me
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down and restraining me and, you know, yelling at me. And he picked me up and pushed me against the French doors and
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kept banging me against the French doors. After I got done out of the shower and getting ready, I called.
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Nobody answered. My hair was in a ponytail and he picked me up, held me up, and cut my hair off.
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It was gone. just all of it. He had already been choking me and I thought he was going to stab me. I
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called her back a half an hour later. She still didn't answer. And that's when my eyebrows kind of went up. I'm in
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complete shock. I can't believe it's happening and I have to figure out how to get out of it. But during this time,
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the phone continues to ring. I waited a couple minutes and I called her back. I explained to him, "If I don't answer
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this phone, my mother will call the police." So, I do pick up the phone and it's Shannon. I said, "Hey, are you
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okay?" And I don't know why I did this, but I started unloading the dishwasher and I'm saying to her, "No, no, yeah,
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everything's fine. No, no." And no kept coming out of my mouth and he didn't pick up on it, but she sure did. And
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that's when she said, "Is he there?" And I said, "Yes." And I hung up the phone and I called the cops.
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Believe me, I do realize how lucky I am. Investigators are continuing to piece the case together now that they found
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Leonard gagged and bound with duct tape in a pickup body was found floating in a
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toolbox. I'm fortunate that it could have been much much worse.