13, 1995, rape and murder of elementary school teacher Mary Catherine Edwards, 31, in her Beaumont, Texas, home.
The pair had graduated from the same school, Forest Park High School in Beaumont, Texas.
“If you see another one of me walking around somewhere and she doesn’t speak to you, don’t get your feelings hurt.
Foreman, 61, is charged with capital murder in Edwards’ killing.
Former classmates were stunned by the allegations against Foreman, who they said was active in planning high school reunions, KFDM 6 News in Beaumont reported.
Floyd Broussard, Edwards’ principal at Price Elementary, told the Beaumont Enterprise that Edwards was a diligent teacher.
Catherine Edwards’ hands had been handcuffed behind her back and she had been sexually assaulted.
Though DNA evidence had been found on the teacher’s body and on other items in her home, she was killed in the early days of DNA technology.
By the mid-2000s, the genetic profile of Edwards’ killer had been entered into DNA databases, including the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS.
“We just haven’t found the right person,” then-police Chief Lt.
Advances in DNA technology, including the advent of genetic genealogy, gave investigators that opportunity.
In the Edwards case, several of the killer’s second cousins and other distant relatives showed up in the database.
The same was not true for Foreman, who had pleaded guilty to assaulting a fellow Forest Park High School classmate in 1981, the year before he married his first wife, the Enterprise reported.
Foreman, who told her he was a police officer, offered the woman a ride home.