Ohio man is charged with cold case murder of teacher who had been bridesmaid at his wedding after detectives find DNA match 26 years later on genealogy database
Clayton Bernard Foreman, 61, was arrested in Ohio on April 29 and charged with capital murder in the brutal slaying of Mary Catherine Edwards
Cold case detectives linked Foreman to the case in April last year when DNA from the murder scene was matched to a genealogy database
The suspect wasn’t even on detective’s radar during their investigation during the late 90s. Author: Almiya White (KBMT), Scott Eslinger (12NewsNow) Published: 11:13 PM CDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 12:19 AM CDT May 5, 2021
BEAUMONT, Texas Police and the district attorney say a Beaumont teacher murdered in 1995 was not only a high school classmate of her killer but had been in the wedding party of his first marriage 13 years earlier.
Clayton Bernard Foreman, 61, is currently in an Ohio jail cell after being arrested and charged last week in the rape and murder of Mary Catherine Edwards 26 years ago and more than 1,200 miles away.
Trash and DNA evidence lead to arrest in 1995 murder of Beaumont teacher
According to a probable cause affidavit, detectives connected Clayton Foreman to the brutal murder using a family tree they constructed from a Genealogy website Author: Scott Eslinger (12NewsNow), Daniel Brown Published: 10:01 AM CDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 12:51 PM CDT May 4, 2021
BEAUMONT, Texas The man police say murdered a Beaumont teacher in 1995 knew her so well that she was in his wedding.
DNA evidence along with a genealogy database led police to arrest Clayton Bernard Foreman, 61, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, on a capital murder charge.
Mary Catherine Edwards, who was found dead in her home, was a bridesmaid in the wedding of Foreman and his first wife, Jefferson County District Attorney Bob Wortham told 12News.