Boyfriend murders girlfriend and her dog

Pictured here is: Dana Clair Edwards with her parents Deborah and Darrell A parent should never outlive their child That was the main thought going through the mind of Deborah Edwards, mother of murder victim Dana Clair Edwards, as she prepared to testify in a San Antonio, Texas ourtroom during the murder trial of Thomas Ford. After an emotional introduction of who exactly Dana Clair was - meticulously neat, animal lover, supportive daughter who moved home to help her father Darrell Edwards through prostate cancer - the prosecution began to ask Deborah about the worst day of her life, January 2nd, 2009. Deborah described discovering Dana Clair's bloody and battered body on the floor of her condo in the ritzy San Antonio neighborhood of Alamo Heights. Deborah told the court how she found her daughter's face covered in a bloody towel, the same towel which would become a pivotal piece of evidence later in the case and removing it to see Dana Clair's beautiful green eyes one last time. A teary eyed Deborah then went on to describe how, as the murder investigation progressed and Thomas became the main suspect, she became frustrated that police had not yet made an arrest. Her reaction was unique, to say the least. She began a letter writing campaign on Valentine's Day 2009 with a card sent to Thomas Ford that read: ÒValentine's Day, never the same." For the rest of 2009, Deborah bombarded Thomas Ford with dozens of notes, cards and even letters written from Dana Clair's own email account. On a lengthy cross-examination, famed Texas defense attorney Dick DeGuerin painstakingly went over each and every message with Deborah, characterizing them as a Ôcampaign of harassmentÕ. Card after card was entered into evidence as Deborah admitted, without shame, that she was the person who sent these messages to the man she instinctively believed was responsible for the murder of her only daughter. If DeGuerin's hope was to show the jury that the Edwards family was out A *** Local Caption *** 05159845