Beaumont, TX — The murder of a young Beaumont school teacher shook the Southeast Texas community.

A killer walked free for a quarter of a century before new technology and relentless police work finally brought justice to Mary Catherine Edwards' family.

"Judge Wortham asked us to look into the unsolved homicide of Mary Catherine Edwards," retired Texas Ranger, Brandon Bess said. Again, probably 2014, 2015 timeframe."

"He had been in contact with a new lab called Othram that was doing phenomenal things with DNA testing, and on the heels of the Golden State Killer, where they used genetic genealogy to solve that case," Beaumont detective, Aaron Lewallen said.


"That is when we started looking, and just took a long time for both of us to be able to get the time," Bess said. "And then myself being moved into the cold case team allowed me more time to work on that on a full-time basis."

Now retired Texas Ranger, Brandon Bess, will tell you this case was an example of a very thorough investigation by the Beaumont Police Department.

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