Jury Foreman
Appearances
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
It was a chilling moment for Diana later at trial when she realized before she married Clayton, this woman who was a fellow classmate of hers at the same high school had been raped by him. And this woman came forward and testified, you know, she hadn't spoken about this in almost 30 years as well. It was incredibly hard and painful for her to come forward.
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Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
But for Diana, realizing that this had actually happened and that Her future husband explained it away as it's just he said she said misunderstanding and she believed him because she had no reason not to. And just hearing that woman's testimony was very hard for Diana.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
And you have a husband-wife detective team, which is always fun. And then you throw a Texas Ranger in the mix, which, what could we love more than that?
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
I mean, they looked exactly alike to the point where they would play pranks and do a little parent trap switch and they would switch places with each other and no one would know. I mean, we discovered there was a yearbook photo that was mislabeled as Catherine and Allison. And it, in fact, was the reverse.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
Yeah, and I think these detectives, as we saw, you know, once they sink their teeth into something, they don't give up. So they're all pretty committed to making sure his DNA is loaded into all the systems.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
And I think, you know, this is one of those cases that everyone said, if not for technology advancements and this incredible genetic genealogy, this would never have been solved. And these guys are continuing to solve cases. Authram Labs, who we spoke to, who is very, you know, instrumental in this case, they're continuing to solve cold cases daily, which is incredible.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
I think Helenaia, I mean, she lost her favorite teacher who had been such an impactful part of her life when she was seven years old. And when we were talking to her, it was like it was yesterday. She was so moved by Miss Edwards, as she called her. And to the point where, like you said, Natalie, she attended trial every day except for one
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
She's getting her master's in criminal justice right now and plans to go to law school. She wants to be a part of the justice system that finally brought this to a close. She was very inspired by that. So it was incredible to talk to her.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
I mean, I think it's pretty incredible that back in 95, first of all, they preserved the evidence so well that they still had enough DNA years later to do all of this testing. Not to mention the fact that they had tested multiple people over the years. The detectives wouldn't give up. They kept going back to this case.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
So the fact that this genetic genealogy technology has come so far that they were able to put this DNA in the system and come up with almost 7,500 names. I love when Detective Aaron Llewellyn says, you know, by the time it got bigger than my computer screen, my wife had to jump in because he was like, my mind was blown basically.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
Yeah. And it was really cool, too, how far technology has advanced, but you still can't do it without good old-fashioned detective work.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
At that point, they felt like, okay, this has to be our guy. You know, the MO is the same. This is too close. And so they find Clayton Foreman. He's living in Ohio at the time. And they contact the police in Ohio and say, will you do us a favor, basically, and go grab his trash from the curb in front of his house. So they did.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
They brought back the trash to Beaumont, Texas, had it tested in the DPS lab, and it was a match. So then those guys are like, okay, let's go get him.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
It took a while. It was difficult. Her brother, Scooter, who is wonderful, and her sister were really trying to convince her that she had nothing to be embarrassed about, that she was a victim in this as well. And that, you know, People needed to hear that this guy was hiding in plain sight and that none of them knew it. I mean, they described him being at Christmases and Easters.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
Diana and Clayton Foreman had a child together. She had no idea. I mean, there were some signs of that maybe he wasn't the most truthful person, that he wasn't the greatest husband, but...
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
They were a very nice family. I mean, Natalie, your interview with Diana and the siblings was just incredible. It was great that she finally felt comfortable talking. And she told me after it was very cathartic for her.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
And then she had to testify at the trial. She was incredibly brave. So were all the women who came in and testified. You have to get up on the stand and look at him while you're up there testifying. And I think it was very emotional for Diana because... She hadn't had to face him since she found this out. It was still very surreal to her.
48 Hours
Post Mortem | Tracking the Killer of Mary Catherine Edwards
But she also found out so many other things that he had done. And he had had so many other victims who had lived to tell what he had done to them.
48 Hours
A Toxic Relationship
We, the jury, find the defendant, Mark D. Jensen, guilty of intentional homicide of the first degree.
48 Hours
A Day Care Worker Convicted of Murder
No. I was with him from the moment he came in the door to the moment he left.
48 Hours
The Black Widow
But you're not making a decision just by yourself. You're making the decision as a group.
48 Hours
The Black Widow
I really, really tried to pay attention and took notes. So I was really looking forward to deliberating.
Murder In America
EP. 185: TEXAS - Andrea Yates: The Mother Who Drowned Her 5 Children In A Bathtub (PT. 2)
We, the jury, find the defendant, Andrea Pia Yates, guilty of capital murder as charged in the indictment.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
We got to the point, actually, that we realized for Charge 2, at some point, I think it was Jody, I'm pretty sure it was Jody, said, wait a minute, does the... intended act of harm have to be the death of George Floyd, or can it be him not providing the life support? And it was like, all of a sudden, light bulbs just went on for those people, I think, that were undecided or on the not guilty side.