Here's How Catherine Edwards' Killer Was Finally Caught

When Jefferson County District Attorney Bob Wortham entered office in 2014, one of his main goals was to solve Catherine Edwards' cold case. As reported by Beaumont Enterprise, the suspect's DNA profile was entered on a genealogy website, and the results showed distant family members of the suspect. Through that information, the detectives gathered 30 profiles from the identified family members, which they provided willingly. Through extensive research, the outcome provided two names — Clayton Bernard Foreman and his brother.

Detectives looked into the brothers, and although Clayton's brother's record turned out clean, his weren't. Clayton was involved in a 1981 rape case that had strikingly similar details as those found at the Catherine Edwards crime scene, as Oxygen reported. The victim in that case also attended that same high school as Edwards and Foreman.

According to the New York Post, the police obtained Clayton Foreman's DNA on a piece of trash that he disposed of outside his home. Upon testing, his DNA profile reportedly matched the samples from the semen tested at the crime scene.

Clayton Foreman is facing charges for the sexual assault and murder of Catherine Edwards.

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