A schoolteacher is murdered in her own home. Years later investigators discover she was a bridesmaid at the killer's wedding. Natalie Morales reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Mary Catherine Edwards?
Detective Aaron Llewellyn.
Maybe it was somebody in law enforcement or somebody in security. Could it have been somebody that we knew?
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.
They focused on him early on because there was no forced entry.
But Perry was out of town that night. He gave a DNA sample, and it was not a match.
I wasn't there. It's not me.
The crime scene DNA stayed well preserved and the years dragged on and on until forensic science changed.
Genetic genealogy technology. Genetic genealogy.
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.
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Chapter 2: What evidence led to the investigation?
Did he immediately go, uh-oh? No, he didn't.
So the crime that we're looking at is the murder of Mary Catherine Edwards, and she was murdered in 1995. Yeah.
I guess he pretty quickly realized he wasn't there to give up a purse. He did.
And we found a picture of a wedding picture that she and her sister, Allison, were actually in your wedding in 1982. Do you ever remember anyone ever coming to you about that crime? Were you aware of the crime even? No. You didn't know the crime occurred? No, sir. Okay.
We backed him into a bunch of hard corners. He claimed that he didn't even know that she was dead.
You didn't know that Captain Edwards was murdered? No, sir, did not. Do you remember them from school? Do you remember the girls from school? Not really. They were freshmen. When you were a senior? Yes, sir. Okay. So on Mary Edwards, Mary Craft, Catherine Edwards, didn't know her well? Did you ever visit with her at all? No. Did you ever go in her house at all? Any house that she ever lived in?
No. Okay.
You know, did you know where she lived? No, I had no idea.
So, and he's denying, denying.
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