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Mary Catherine   Edwards

REFERENCE NUMBER: 268 - Solved
COMPANY: A
RACE: White
SEX: Female
CITY: Beaumont
COUNTY: Jefferson
RELATED YEAR: 1995
SUSPECTS: Clayton Foreman


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DETAILS:

Mary Catherine Edwards was a vibrant and loved, school teacher in Beaumont, Texas. On January 14, 1995, she would not respond to phone calls. Her parents went to her house on Park Meadow Street in Beaumont. At her home, they discovered her body in a bathroom. Mary Catherine had been sexually assaulted and murdered. She was 31 years old at the time of her death. Beaumont police detectives and Texas Rangers conducted an exhaustive investigation, but the case remains unsolved.

Clayton Bernard Foreman, 61 years of age, was arrested for the murder of Mary Catherine Edwards. On April 29, 2021, after an investigation of 26 years, by the Texas Rangers and Beaumont Police Department, Edwards was taken into custody in Franklin County, Ohio. He has since been extradited to Jefferson County, Texas, where he awaits trial. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department also assisted in this case.

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