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[Music] now one what your Mur say my daughter's been murdered she's been murdered we absolutely were obsessed
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with this case January 13th 1995 was the last known contct with Catherine she's handcuffed she's been
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tortured it was always a big case within the department because it was the biggest case
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unsolved nobody felt safe anywhere nobody knew if it was a neighbor nobody knew if it was a police officer because
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of the handcuffs being used my name is Tina lellan aarin lellan I'm a detective I a detective at bont Police Department
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my sister's dead my parents over who's your sister Catherine Edwards I had no no idea who Catherine
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Edwards was but after I read Decades of her journals 1986 1989 9194 I feel like I know her things are looking up in my
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life I'm going to teach second grade next year I know I meant to do this there were so many of her students that
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came forward to share the impact she had on their lives 25 years later they were always close to me in my
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heart I'm d Diana Co and I was friends with Catherine and her twin sister Allison since middle school they were so
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sweet and so funny they had a cute laugh and everybody just loved them this was not an easy case to crack
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every free moment I would try to work this case while still maintaining my case load staying up till midnight every
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night it just was not going to happen without the DNA if there was no DNA in this case if that evidence had not been
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properly maintained Noe we' have never got there my name is Brandon Beth Sergeant
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Texas Rangers company a Cold Case team the technology has changed so much since 1995 by the time we got to Catherine
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Edwards there were a lot more of these resources that were available we felt that genetic genealogy
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was going to be the answer to this case so you would do the police work you would do the genealogy work yes along
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with another genealogist my name is Sher Bruce AR La Point Tina had started a tree and we really think alike and work
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together to build this tree with 7,49 people in it oh my gosh I would call her no less than five times a day
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we were on the phone constantly tell her what I found just back and forth I blew
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her phone up trying to get to the bottom we had to narrow down the different family members to find the direct
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lineage of our suspect is this someone that knew her is this someone that was a stranger she had
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some you know ex-boyfriends there was always the worry that it was a police officer some criminal is not going to
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have a pair of Smith and Wesson handcuffs there was no sign of forced entry at the time right
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right did we believe it was someone she knew yeah [Music] [Music] the thing that really got me about the
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case was you don't expect to have the this beautiful young single school teacher be murdered in her own
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home she was such a great person came from such a great family for Texas Ranger Brandon
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Bess almost everything about the Mary Katherine Edwards case was different it was an unusual crime scene she's over
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the bathtub and she's obviously been sexually assaulted and handcuffed behind her back were they police grade
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handcuffs handcuffs have always been a key piece of this January 14th 1995 it was a Saturday Catherine as most
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people called her didn't show up for a family lunch and she wasn't answering her phone when her mother and father
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went to check on her they had to see what no parent ever should what happened ma'am we came over here and found her
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please send some okay we're sending someone ma'am and she but she shot or what uh we can't
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tell Catherine was 31 my mom is the one that told me Diana Co remembers hearing the news and so she
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said have you not heard about Catherine and I go my Catherine she had been friends with Catherine and her twin
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sister Allison since middle school I was new to the area so I knew no one and they just started talking talking to me
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asked me my name and we were friends from that point forward the sisters both School teachers look so much alike
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everyone had trouble telling them apart especially their young students Miss Edwards who was my second grade teacher
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helah Adams remembers being in her classroom most of us grew up in a pretty tough environment and being around Miss
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Edwards was a joy originally they believed that she might have been drowned but there wasn't
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enough fluid in her lungs so then it kind of became a Suffocation by compression I just remember being told
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that our teacher wouldn't make it to class that day everyone just crying early investigators could not
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piece together what happened but those police grade handcuffs were a big clue I was almost talked about like a ghost
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story around a camp fire detective Aaron Luellen maybe it was somebody in law enforcement or somebody in security
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could it have been somebody that we knew in the weeks after the murder police focused on tracing the serial numbers of
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the handcuffs but came up empty they also zeroed in on an old boyfriend David Perry they focused on
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him early on because there was no forc inury but Perry was out of town that night he gave a DNA sample and it was
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not not a match I wasn't there it's not me the crime scene DNA stayed well preserved and the years dragged on and
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on until forensic science changed genetic genealogy technolog genetic genealogy by 2018 there was a way to
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take the DNA left at a crime scene and search for biological relatives a program Jed match scarfs up all the DNA
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from people who agreed to share it with law enforcement and upload it when they use sites like ancestry.com in 23 and me
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Ranger best approached me and he asked if I thought we had a case that would fit the bill for that type of
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investigation I said absolutely I know the perfect case for this and it was the Katherine Edwards case so in April 2020
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the DNA from Katherine Edwards crime scene went to aam a lab outside of Houston for testing there they would
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give us familial matches and from there we would start trying to build a family tree to get us closer to our suspect
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yeah but the number of names to pursue was overwhelming when the family tree began to grow beyond my computer screen
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I started to get a little bit confused and that's when Tina jumped on board aon's wife Tina an auto crimes detective
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began using her off hours to help sort through it the matches were all cinjun cinjun ancestry coming from the
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Louisiana area yes particularly Kaplan lisiana so Tina went back to Catherine's journals looking for Clues to see if I
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could see a Cajun name that jumped out to me I did find a few French names and they were quickly eliminated and nowhere
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in our tree and as she was building out the branches one of the names on the family tree kept coming
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up Le Point as I'm researching the matches and building my trees and you're researching other people's trees I kept
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noticing Sher La Point had built that tree and then I'm working some more I do some more research well Sher Le Point
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built this tree I'm like is she related to our suspect I had no idea who she was
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this is actually my great-grandmother Claudia and when they called her they found out Shar had been building her
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family tree it was my family's DNA kits that I had uploaded to Jed match and then they found out something that
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changed the course of the investigation sherah was known professionally as the Gene Hunter and already skilled at
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working these cases she'd identified one of the women buried along Interstate Highway 45 in the Texas Killing Fields
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case and she agreed to lend her expertise I told him that I was willing to help even if it meant taking a hard
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look at her own relatives it was kind of scary because I'm putting my own second
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cousins in this tree and I'm thinking oh my gosh you know could one of my grandfather's sisters grandchildren have
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have done this they lived here in Texas it was a complicated multi-layered process using publicly available DNA
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birth and death records finding parents siblings and cousins as you build those trees you look for information that is
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pertinent to the case that you're working on we had a tag for people who were in bont she was a teacher as you
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build tree you look at people who are in education every one of these lines are built out the tree grew up and down and
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sideways there were almost 7500 names that's a lot of hours a lot of work and a lot of people in a family
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tree all the while Tina hardly slept working through most nights knowing there was a killer still out there every
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day counted every day mattered I need did to get it [Music] solved hunker down at their computers
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day after day constantly back and forth on the phone Tina lellan and genealogist
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Cheryl Point are quickly becoming great Partners she was a team player from jump
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never had met me we talk so often that we became friends best buds best buds I don't know what else to say and when
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they needed DNA they turned to Tina's husband Aaron and Texas Ranger Brandon Bess so from that point me Brandon Bess
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would drive around Texas and go talk to these people convincing someone to give their DNA up to give a piece of
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themselves up to you in a homicide and investigation can be very difficult when we would sense um anxiety in
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someone Aaron would immediately tell them hey who do you want to play you in the
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movie they would look at Aaron like he was crazy and say um what are you talking about well this guy's a Texas
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Ranger everything they do turns into a movie who do you want to play your role in this movie that calmed him down every
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time and I of course do out there hey I've already got Brad Pit so you know you can't you can't be Brad cuz Brad's
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playing me was there ever a time though that somebody actually thought my uncle may actually be a killer who knows and
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every one of these cases that I've worked using DNA and genetic genealogy you have at least one person usually two
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or three that says you know what I had that weird Uncle Joe once the uploads were compared to the Killer's DNA if the
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amount of shared genetic material was low they knew it was a dead end there were times when we would come across a
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name and I'm like you get that the the butterflies in your stomach like hey maybe this is our guy then it turns out
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it's not our guy after almost 3 months of ups and downs and nearly nonstop work sharah hit Pay Dirt it was about 10:30
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at night she was working a family line very distantly related to her own it was a very common Cajun name Tibido I got to
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a couple who were in Bowmont I was able to see from uh Records that they had two sons this was
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a major lead a family in Catherine's town with two sons who went to Forest Park High the same school Catherine did
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at around the same time I put the names in the tree and I messaged Tina and I said there's a
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couple in Bowmont I'm tired I'm going to bed and I turned my cell phone off and I
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fell asleep on the sofa and when I woke up the next morning my phone had just blown up and it was you on the other end
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yes what were you saying this is them we found them just didn't know which one okay it's either Michael Foreman or
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Clayton Foreman what did you do to to figure that out the first name I ran was Clayton and then when I came across his
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prior conviction for the sexual assault the hair on the back of my neck stood up
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I'm like this is our guy in 1981 a 19-year-old woman told police that Clayton foran bounded her
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hands and raped her she had also gone to Forest Park High School where Clayton was the manager of the football team
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Foreman was convicted but was given probation and paid a fine but he did not have to give a DNA
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sample at that time this was back in the early 80s we didn't have sex offender registry uh no DNA database and then
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they found another connection it went all the way back to Diana Co Catherine's friend from middle school in high school
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Diana fell madly in love her boyfriend had graduated three years ahead of her and they got engaged he was so kind he
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had the most wonderful personality and when she started planning her wedding she immediately
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turned to her old friends Catherine and Allison and they were one of the first ones I thought of as a bridesmaid and
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and I asked them and they said yes and the groom the man Diana Co married back in
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1982 now he was their number one suspect Clayton foran she in fact did know him yes in
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hindsight there were signs when Diana found out about Clayton's legal troubles the wedding was less than 3 months
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away and the wedding invitations had already been mailed out mhm and I said right
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I said oh there's no way but she never got any details and her fiance explained it away he kept telling me it it was a
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big misunderstanding and so in my mind I thought well he must be telling the truth because if he got arrested he's
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not in jail but you didn't really believe it was rap right Diana's sister an and her brother scooter were not so
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sure and neither were their parents parents who wanted her to call it off and I said well di why don't you just
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wait and she didn't want to wait she wanted to marry clay she was in love with him she's believing him and she's
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wanting to get married then then we have to support as a family he was like I'm so so sorry and I love you I want us to
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be married I want us to have a family and so I was like okay you know so I went I went through with it
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Diana and Clayton stayed married for a little more than 11 years they had a son the relationship began to fray over
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forem and lying about their finances and it ended after he had an affair and looking back Diana can see that he had
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an unhealthy fascination with police officers and the tools of their trade like handcuffs I remember that he
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had ordered those handcuffs well he had them hung over the rear viiew mirror and I I
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didn't think anything of it when Catherine was killed they were divorced but Diana remembers calling her
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ex-husband to talk about it I think I was you know crying and I said oh my God I said somebody has murdered
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Catherine and and he goes oh really just like no emotion when we hung the phone up I can remember because I was like
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kind of squinting and kind of like going that's kind of odd with all the mounting evidence Foreman needed to be
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found he was 60 and no longer living in Bowmont they quickly tracked him to Reynoldsburg Ohio what was he doing
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there he was an Uber driver at the time sir I was able to send a lead uh to a field office up there and basically did
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what we call a trash run you need to collect a piece of DNA so that you can ensure that it's the the right guy
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correct uh so that's what they did they surveilled his house and then when snatched a bag of trash and sent it to
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me uh so I brought that stuff to Houston to the DPS crime lab and from there they tested it the
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likelihood that the DNA belonged to Clayton Foreman was a big number 461 septian it doesn't get better than that
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says Cheryl a point I mean you can't fight those odds you cannot fight those odds and that was all they needed I got
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a text from a a DPS lab technician and she said go get his ass Aon Luellen and Brandon Bess were
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about to hop a plane to Ohio ready to face the man they felt sure had killed Catherine Mr for
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right and while they're doing that Tina pays a visit to Diana Co did they tell you we had they had DNA
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though Tina told you that oh yeah yeah and I just went oh my God please don't tell me it
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was Clay I almost fell to the ground I was just like oh my God I oh God I can't believe he's done
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this what do you think of sharing your DNA with law enforcement to help solve a murder chat now with the 48 Hours team
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on Facebook and X when Texas Ranger Brandon Bess and detective Aaron Luellen arrive at the
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Franklin County Sheriff's Office to confront Clayton foran they have a cover story it's about a lost item from one of
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Foreman's Uber rides we go in under the uh under the ruse of someone had left uh a purse in his car
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so he came in voluntarily to talk about a purse that was in the car it was April
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29th 2021 26 years after Katherine Edwards was murdered and they are sure they are
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sitting in front of the man who murdered her and we're asking you to visit with us about a crime that we're
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investigating okay did he immediately go uhoh no he didn't so the crime that we're looking at is the murder of Mary
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Katherine Edwards and she was murdered in 1995 I guess he pretty quickly realized
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he wasn't there to give up a purse he did and we found a picture of a wedding picture that she and her sister uh
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Allison were actually in your wedding right and 1982 82 right do you ever remember anyone ever coming to you or
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about that crime were you aware of the crime even no you didn't know the crime occurred no sir okay we backed him into
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a bunch of hard Corners he claim that he didn't even know that she was dead you didn't know that um Catherine Edwards
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was murdered no did not do you remember them from school do you remember the girls from
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school not really cuz they were freshman when you were a senior yes sir okay so on Mary Edwards Mary craft cther Edwards
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um didn't know her well did you have her visit with with her at all um did you ever go in her house at all any house
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that she ever lived in no okay you know did you know where she Liv no had no idea so and he's denying denying he is
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denying you know in these DNA cases when you whether you're going to get a confession or not you want to build up
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that background of hey did you know them number one did y'all have much acquaintance with them or was it just
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like a high school friend thing how did you know him bridesmaides from my Mike's
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life that's right did you ever go on a date never dated all the way up to did you ever
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have sex with this person never obviously had sex with her no never never did you go to college together did
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you do all everything was a no and we had those denials several times and then so towards the end of the interview we
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asked him well if all those things are true can you explain how your DNA ended up on her and on her her bed
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do you understand DNA mhm and do you understand how DNA works you understand you're made of DNA right he's made a DNA
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I made a DNA and I think that foreman knew enough about DNA that he thought he would have been
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caught already he knew that he had never submitted his DNA he had no clue that he
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was going to be arrested that day play a level with you right here and now and I
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want you to hear me real close all right that crime scene was process really well
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and your DNA was on Catherine's bed and was inside Catherine okay I mean I don't know how
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it got there but PR say it was there there's only one way for it to get there okay um and that's by you putting it
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there okay do you understand that do you understand the implications of that the
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day that she died the night that she died your DNA is in and her and your DNA is on her
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bedspread now I don't want you to say anything right this second I want you to think about the next words that come out
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of your mouth I want you to think very hard about that okay there's two people that know that
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story you're one of them and she's the other and she can't talk MH what I asked you is now to be honest with us
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completely and tell us how did that happen I'm not going to say anything if I need an attorney
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now you probably need one or you do need one if you're saying I did that then I find you an attorney to talk to well at
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all we got then we're going to let you walk out of the door just like we told you it's a grainy video but you can
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probably see us grinning at each other you have all your stuff that he thinks he's walking out of here
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he thinks he's fixing to leave here so as he got out down the hallway headed towards the elevator we stopped
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him and arrested him for the murder of cathine Edwards and after all those years and
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all that work Aaron lellan and Brandon Bess had one thing left they needed to do uh if you remember back when we were
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talking about the crime scene she was handcuffed so we had talked to the DA's office beforehand and got permission to
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use those handcuffs the very handcuffs that bound Catherine the night she died how did it feel to put those handcuffs
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on him very good there a moment I'll never forget you feel like you got to do something for
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Catherine you know like physically got to do for her is take those cuffs that bound her when she was murdered and put
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them back on the guy that murdered her it's you know it may seem small to some but it was a really big deal to us and
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it felt good even though they had their suspicions about him the news that Clayton Foreman was arrested for the
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murder of Catherine Edwards was still a shock for his ex-wife Diana Co and her siblings an and scooter and she calls me
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and she says clay murdered Catherine and I said do what your brain doesn't because it it knows
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him as a person as a as as somebody that you you know your brother-in-law or your
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brother that was that was that was hard yeah I thought of Allison and I just I I just couldn't believe
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it my my thought immediately went to Allison and I just said Allison oh my God she's going to
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hate me [Music] [Music] opening arguments began this morning hormon is charged with capital murder
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guilty or not guilty not guilty March 12th 2024 this is not going to be easy uh for
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a lot of people cuz it's been a long time coming nearly 30 years after Catherine Edwards was found dead her
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townhouse you got to remember this happened in 1995 bont prosecutor Patrick canal and
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his colleagues Mike lar and sunny aart are ready for trial you're going to get to learn a lot about DNA and they're
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extremely confident about their case against Clayton Foreman Mr Burbank you want to make an
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opening statement at this time your honor Tom Burbank is defending foran he didn't really have anything and he knew
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it next witness the prosecution calls Catherine's twin sister Alison we wanted to remind everyone this is about
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Catherine and and her family and that's the way we wanted to start off with here
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at 60 sitting before them was the spitting image of what could have been that is a picture of my sister Catherine
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reliving the day she lost Catherine and then the next thing we know you know my mom and dad drove
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up and told us what I mean they they were nowhere she was dead that was all that mattered I didn't know how what or
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anything I didn't know what happened to her it was just that she was gone was all I knew the pain and the loss still
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so palpable four years later I had a daughter and her name is Catherine Catherine after my
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sister and she never got to know her that's the hardest part it was a lot helenah Adams Katherine Edward's student
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when she was seven and now 37 sat in the courtroom nearly every day it was times
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when they would show photos or when they showed the videos of her on the floor it
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was as if your heart was breaking all over again you measure the proximity of matching DNA detective Tina Luellen and
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genealogist chery point along with other crime lab technicians walk the jury through the process of the
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genealogy and the DNA match Texas Ranger B and detective Aaron Luellen go through the final stages of
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the investigation all carefully coordinated to make the chain of evidence airtight and on the last day the
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prosecution calls all the women who had been scarred by foremen and were alive to say so he was your supervisor that's
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correct an old coworker and when I ever I opened up the drawer there was a pair of handcuffs a former fiance who found
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pictures of young girls he said to me that he had them so that he could fantasize about taking their virginity
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his ex-wife Diana Co who agreed to testify did you think at the time you were in love with the defend yes when
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you saw him at trial how hard was that for you that was very hard and uh it was very embarrassing to me and and I do
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feel ashamed and it was during the trial that Diana learned about what really happened to that 19-year-old woman in
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the months before she and foran married it was the most terrific thing that I could have ever heard I couldn't
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imagine what she went through and was so brave to get up and say what she said she was the Final
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witness returning to the night her car got stuck and Foreman falsely claiming he was a policeman offered to help
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firsty he tied my hands back he tied your hands behind your back yes did he threaten to cut your throat if you
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didn't yes this whole thing took a while didn't it yes sir I'm sorry what happened
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then he he took me home did he say something that that you felt was odd yes he said three things he
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said stop crying I'm sorry I hope I didn't hurt you and there was another woman who did
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not testify but went on the record an alleged victim of Foreman's violence also a high school friend of Diana who
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did not press charges she told investigators Foreman attacked her from behind and put a gun to her head she had
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indicated back in ' 85 or ' 86 that he had uh come to her apartment and knocked on the door and told her
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that he was having financial and marital problems with Diana and he needed somebody to talk to and so she let him
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in prosecutors suspect Foreman used a similar ruse the night he appeared at Katherine Edward's door that's the way
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we thought he got to Catherine Katherine was very very Christian very given very
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naive and it's a wonderful thing to be except when you're faced with Clayton Foreman I've always wondered did he say
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something about me hey it's Clay and you know I need to talk to you something about Diana it's
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always I've always wondered but I thought I'll never know after 7 Days of prosecution
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testimony the defense calls no Witnesses and attorney Burbank closes you heard different things in reference
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to sex things and stuff like that okay still doesn't make him a murder you may not like him because of what people
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say but I submit to you they have not proven murder beond a reason doubt the prosecution wraps up its case and it's
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so easy to believe that evil doesn't exist it is here in this courtroom here today these are things I wish I didn't
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know exist and I'm sorry I had to talk to you about it but I didn't bring this here he did now it would be up to a jury
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to decide Clayton forman's future Patrick Canal wants them to remember Katherine Edwards didn't have
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one and I do pray that Mike and I have done a good job for G and you I hope we've done our job
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[Music] is this verdict a unanimous one yes sir it takes less than an hour for the jury
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to come back with the verdict we the jury find the defendant guilty Clayton Foreman guilty and
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sentenced to life for the murder of Catherine Edwards it didn't take long cuz all the
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evidence was there once it got into the DNA more or less sealed it for him Larry
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delcom juror number two says he and his fellow jurors had very little to talk about he had no defense that it wasn't
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him there's no denial there it felt like hey this thing does work for helenah Adams finally some
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justice for a favorite teacher after all I wanted to close that door finally she meant so much to
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me and when you heard those words guilty what was that like for you we did it was it was it emotional we did it
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this whole case was emotional for detectives Tina and Aaron Luellen genealogist Cheryl a point and
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Ranger Brandon Bez it was the ending they had all worked for but it left lots of room for
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reflection and I think the justice system has worked and he's where he needs to be but to say that that's
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honestly Justice for Mary Katherine it's frustrating to know that he lived a life
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and she should have been able to to live a life and have children and go on that
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is frustrating I never use the word closure I never use the word justice there's no
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justice he got to live 26 years he got to get married he got to have kids she did not there's no justice I don't
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believe there is such a thing as closure not on this Earth Beth always wanted a confession they all wanted to know why
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70% of the time you're not going to get that and and 100% of the time you're not
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going to get the whole story anyway we all wanted those answers and because he was spineless and
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didn't talk to us or give us any information we'll never know the details behind it and everyone was still reeling
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asking themselves how it was that Clayton foran walked among them and no one saw his monstrous core all those
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years hiding in plain sight so when we identified him I actually have mutual friends with him that were in shock they
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could could not believe it was him because they knew he was such a nice guy he had fooled so many people for so
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long I personally believe that there are more victims out there we just hadn't found them yet I find it hard to believe
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that he has not assaulted other people I I really feel with all my with all of my
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being I feel that there are others and how do you think he was able to conceal this darker so that's the part I cannot
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I can't I don't understand it I don't know how he could like I always say it's like Dr
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Jackal and Mr Hyde I have my own speculations I think somebody I think some people demon possessed or or demon
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influenced because that's pure evil there's nothing else you can explain that's just evil I was married to a
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monster is what I was married to and didn't know it didn't know it I think if if he wouldn't have married me
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she'd still be alive but in the wake of the trial it was time to turn away from foreman and
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remember Catherine Edwards as she was and in her own words wow I didn't realize the timing on this
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one December the 11th 1994 she was murdered a month later I have given my life to God and I will
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follow his path for me that gives me a feeling of great relief and peace the human spirit is
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stronger than anything that can happen to it the vibrant Beloved School teacher in her prime gone far too soon if you
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could talk directly with Mary Katherine Edwards what would you wish to tell her my gosh
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um I think I would say I love her and I'm sorry I'm so sorry this happened to her and um I was honored to be given the
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privilege to help give answers very honored very honored she was a very special person she really
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was unfortunately it introduced me to real loss to trauma to fear to grief to heartbreak
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[Music] to all the feelings a podcast I watch they they would always ask aspiring
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lawyers when did you fall in love with law and I think that's when I feel in love with law in the second grade when
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Clayton foran took my light from me helenah is a student once again she's studying for
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her Masters in criminal justice and plans to apply to law school a tribute to her
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[Music] [Music] teacher CBS next Saturday a young mother is murdered she got shot in the car at
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first this seemed like an open and shut case but finding the killer Charon Police Department come out your hands up
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