Hello
@othram I found an article mentioning you and the only reference I find is a couple of posts back in May 2021 you posted this:
New article on our work with the Texas Rangers to help solve the
Mary Catherine Edwards case:
Genealogy, DNA testing lead Beaumont police to Ohio in effort to solve woman's brutal 1995 murder
*This came out yesterday:
Brandon Bess with the Texas Rangers speaks during a press conference at Beaumont Police headquarters to provide an update on the indictment of Clayton Bernard Foreman, who is being charged with capital murder in the 1995 assault and killing of Mary Catherine Edwards. The case was finally solved using DNA genealogy technology with the aid of "The Gene Hunter" Shera LaPoint
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The women used a list of names generated by Othram Laboratories to start building family trees, which included more than 7,400 people at the end of the investigation. The trees led them to two brothers that could be a DNA match to DNA collected at the scene of Edwards' murder. In fact, so much work went into the process that Lewallen said she and her husband would have made some $50,000 in overtime for their work on the case, had they filed for it.
She worked on it "in my spare time, on weekends and there were nights I didn't sleep," she told the court. "I'd work through the night."
Once the Foreman brothers were identified as likely DNA matches, Lewallen looked closer at them using her skills as a police detective. Clayton Foreman was then determined to be the final person of interest.
In coordination with members of law enforcement in Ohio, where Foreman was living at the time, investigators organized a "trash pull" to take abandoned trash from outside Foreman's home to be used for DNA testing, according to witness testimony.
Shortly after, Foreman was brought in for the taped interview and ultimately arrested for murder.
The trial is expected to reconvene at 9 a.m. Monday.
dnasolves.com
