The only thing I found was this new one (from after her body was found), that says it is missing at the end...
http://www.examiner.com/article/murdered-bride-to-be-katelyn-markham-case-heats-up
What is examiner.com? Is it MSM? At any rate, no TV, radio, or print locally or nationally has reported info about whether the ring was found with Katelyn's remains.
Also interesting; there was a Nancy Grace interview with her fiance where he misheard "dream" as "ring".
Good catch, SUNchips. You're right, that was very interesting. Here is a link to that interview for anyone who wants to read the transcript:
http://kmdce.livejournal.com/2651.html
I thought a somewhat surprising amount of attention was placed on her ring in MSM, until I realized no one had a description of what she was wearing when last seen -- unusual for a missing persons case when the young woman had been seen just a few hours earlier. So I figured maybe the ring was the best external identifier they had.
But ... I thought I heard an odd emphasis on the ring during Cincinnati attorney/radio host Bill Cunningham's show (BC) when he interviewed Chief Dickey of the Fairfield police (CD). I noted this oddness in the transcription:
BC: Well, at this point, it is fair to say that you have no evidence of foul play, you have no evidence she voluntarily left, you have no evidence if she's alive, no evidence if she's dead, her home was not ransacked, in fact nothing was missing except her cell phone, and you would think if it was a burglary gone bad, it'd be something of value taken. I would - I would assume she was given an engagement ring from John Carter... uhh, has that been located? Do you have any knowledge of that?
CD: I - I can't answer that specifically. That, that, uh, that's a good question that I'll, I'll try to resolve, but I don't know that as I - as I'm standing here talking to you.
BC: Because many women that are engaged would uh, not give up their engagement ring for any purpose, and I would think there's something distinctive about that. [slight but noticeable emphasis on "distinctive"]
In that interview, BC doesn't seem to be saying the ring has a distinctive
appearance, per se -- just that something was distinctive about it, or about its possible location, or about how it related to Katelyn and John that night, or something. I did get the impression that he was asked off-air to bring up the ring and draw attention to it, for some reason. But why, I don't know.
It has made me wonder if something in John Carter's questioning by police, or maybe in any texts or emails the police were able to retrieve, involved the ring being mentioned by the fighting couple in such a way that learning more about it would be helpful to police. Or maybe something like a text to an accomplice to be sure and take the ring off her hand before leaving. I don't know. Just speculating, but something of that nature is what strikes me.
For whatever it's worth, I do know the ring was a family heirloom, passed down on the fiance's side of the family.
