10: CASE | The Long Island Lolita

Avery After Dark

Avery Ross

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime

4.8 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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EPISODE 10. On May 19th, 1992 - Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a housewife & mom of 2, opened her front door to be shot in the head and left on her front porch in Long Island, NY. Was it a home invasion? A robbery gone wrong? Neither - this shocking story inspired the 1999 film 'American Beauty' and has become one of the most infamous cases in American history

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Avery After Dark podcast. I'm your host, Avery Ross, and I hope you all had a really great Fourth of July
0:22.4	weekend. It's hard to believe it's already July, but here we are. I hope you spent some time with
0:29.2	friends and family, or maybe you just enjoyed the weekend to yourself, which is always really nice.
0:34.9	I myself love getting some alone time. I want to thank each and every one of
0:40.2	you for your kind reviews on the podcast. I read each and every one of them. And you all mean so much
0:47.0	to me. So thank you. Today's episode was one of the most highly talked about cases of the 90s. A housewife in Long Island
0:56.5	opened her front door one morning, only to be shot by an unknown assailant. Who did this? Why would
1:02.9	someone do this? This case was actually the inspiration for the 1999 film American Beauty.
1:09.8	And for good reason, it's a doozy. Today we are talking about
1:14.1	the infamous case of the Long Island Lolita. In 1992, Mary Jo Butterfuku, her husband, Joey, and their
1:22.0	two young children lived a very picturesque life in Long Island, New York. They had the home in the suburbs, the white
1:29.2	picket fence. Mary Jo and Joey met in high school. The two really took to each other. Joey was
1:35.8	the class clown, and Mary Jo was described as a sweet girl that came from a nice family.
1:42.5	The two dated and later got married, and Joey supported the family
1:46.8	by working at his family business, which was his father's auto body shop. Mary Jo was a stay-at-home mom
1:54.2	to their two children, a boy, and then a girl. And Mary Jo stuck with Joey through some drug addiction
2:00.8	problems and later rehab, and the family
2:04.7	really grew into a pretty strong unit. They lived a very comfortable and quiet life.
2:12.1	That was until the morning of May 19, 1992, when everything changed. Mary Jo woke up and got the kids ready for the day
2:20.4	as Joey left for work. The kids got on their bikes to head off to school when Mary Jo's son,
2:26.4	Paul turned around and walked back into the house to his mom. Mary Jo asked her son,
2:31.5	what's wrong? And he said, I don't know. I don't know. Something's not right.
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