Juror Aaron Ellis

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48 Hours · Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards · 11 Nov 2024 podcast

There was no sign of forced entry at the time, right? Right.

For Texas Ranger Brandon Bess, almost everything about the Mary Catherine Edwards case was different.

Were they police grade handcuffs?

January 14th, 1995. It was a Saturday. Catherine, as most people called her, didn't show up for a family lunch and she wasn't answering her phone. When her mother and father went to check on her, they had to see what no parent ever should.

Catherine was 31. My mom is the one that told me.

She had been friends with Catherine and her twin sister, Allison, since middle school.

The sisters, both schoolteachers, looked so much alike, everyone had trouble telling them apart, especially their young students.

Helenaia Adams remembers being in her classroom.

Early investigators could not piece together what happened, but those police-grade handcuffs were a big clue.

Detective Aaron Llewellyn.

In the weeks after the murder, police focused on tracing the serial numbers of the handcuffs, but came up empty. They also zeroed in on an old boyfriend, David Perry.

But Perry was out of town that night. He gave a DNA sample, and it was not a match.

The crime scene DNA stayed well preserved and the years dragged on and on until forensic science changed.

By 2018, there was a way to take the DNA left at a crime scene and search for biological relatives. A program, GEDmatch, scarfs up all the DNA from people who agree to share it with law enforcement and upload it when they use sites like Ancestry.com and 23andMe.

So in April 2020, the DNA from Catherine Edwards' crime scene went to Othram, a lab outside of Houston for testing.

But the number of names to pursue was overwhelming.

Aaron's wife, Tina, an auto crimes detective, began using her off hours to help sort through it. The matches were all Cajun.

So Tina went back to Katherine's journals looking for clues.

And as she was building out the branches, one of the names on the family tree kept coming up.

And when they called her, they found out Shara had been building her family tree.

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