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Caldor (Drumcastle Government Center)

Mt. Tavern Employee's Home (Roland Park Area)

Eastern Savings Bank

Where Jody's Car Stopped

Mt. Washington Tavern

Giant Foods

Boston Market

Jody's Home

A college student is shot execution-style in the early morning hours.

Jody was a 23-year old college student when she was murdered in Baltimore in the early morning hours of March 2nd, 1996.

Jody LeCornu

Knew Jody from the Mt. Washington Tavern. Asked her to drive an employee home after last call the night she was killed. Jody also called this manager as she sat in the parking lot before she was murdered.

Manager of Mt. Washington Tavern

Jody was asked by the manager at Mt. Washington Tavern to drive this employee home to the Roland Park area. The last person to see Jody alive besides the killer.


Employee of Mt. Washington Tavern

Interacted with Jody in the Baltimore parking lot before firing into her car and killing her.He is described, by multiple eyewitnesses, as a black male, in his mid-20’s to early 30’s with a stocky build—between 5’10” - 6’1” tall weighing between 200-220 pounds. He was wearing an army green, fatigue-style jacket.

Man in the white BMW

Workers at the Giant Foods and Boston market heard gunshots at 3:40 am and called police.

Eyewitnesses to the crime

Jody's live-in boyfriend. They had an argument the night before she was killed.

Steve Durbin

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Jody Lecornu

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Before they left for work the next morning, he asked her not to return home. He assumed she would go stay with her parents in Annapolis.


Jody and her boyfriend Steve Durbin get into a fight. 

She her normal shift at Eastern Savings Bank in Hunt Valley where she was employed as a receptionist. 


She enjoyed the evening with friends at Mt. Washington Tavern—a bar she frequented. 


After work, Jody goes to Mr. Washington tavern. 

At about 2:00 a.m. Jody drove the bar employee home to the Roland Park area.


After last call, the manager of Mt. Washington Tavern asked Jody to drive an employee of the tavern home. 

After dropping off the employee, Jody drove to an ATM to withdraw money and then stopped to buy beer.

Around 3:00 a.m. she parked in the Caldor parking lot which was around the corner from her home and three miles from the Mt. Washington Tavern. 

As she sat in her car, parked in the dark, snowy lot, she made a couple of phone calls—including one to the Mt. Washington Tavern to speak to the manager who said he was too busy to talk. She then called and spoke with the boyfriend of a woman who had been a roommate of Jody’s. The content of her conversation is not known.


Jody sat in the parking lot and made some phone calls. 

The man got out of his car and approached Jody. She rolled down her window. It is unclear whether or not Jody knew the man. After a brief exchange, the man returned to his vehicle. 


While sitting there, a white BMW pulled close to Jody’s white Honda Civic. 

The bullet tore through Jody’s back and severed her spine. Eyewitnesses working at the Giant supermarket across York Road and another person making a delivery to the Boston Market heard the gunshot. They looked out into the dark, snowy night to see Jody driving across York Road and into the Giant parking lot before her car circled and coasted to a stop after hitting a curb between the Boston Market and the Firestone Tire and Service Center.


At 3:40 a.m. the man in the white BMW fired a .38 caliber handgun through the back, left passenger window of Jody’s car. 

 The eyewitnesses noticed Jody was closely followed across York Road by her murderer. He stayed back in the shadows waiting for Jody to die alone in her car. 


The man in the white BMW followed Jody's car as it coasted across the street.

In an unhurried fashion—he reached across her body and took her purse and her mobile car phone.


Then murderer then approached Jody’s car, reached in, and put it in park.

The killer then pulled out of the lot and turned south on York Road then east onto Walker Avenue. 

 By the time police arrive on the scene, Jody is already dead.

Jody LeCornu

What's Left to be Uncovered

Important People

Timeline of Events

February 29, 1996

March 1, 1996

March 1, 1996

March 2, 1996

March 2, 1996

Caldor (Drumcastle Government Center)

Case Sources