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Edgar Lewis, Deborah Bass, and correspondent Erin Van Sant.
But for Edgar’s defense attorney Rob Hughes, it was not an open-and-shut case.”We got all the DNA results back and… there were some holes in the case,” Hughes tells Van Sant. “There were no fingerprints taken or DNA lifted off the gun.”
Shaun Dunn, who calls himself a close friend of Edgar’s, tells “48 Hours” that he believes Edgar when he says he can’t recall how he ended up at the crime scene. Dunn thinks that, like Lewis, Edgar was a victim and that someone else pulled the trigger. “I believe it was someone that was … close to Matthew,” he says. “Someone that was involved in events of that evening.”
But where dunn sees a victim, MacDonough saw a suspect and arrested Edgar while he was lying in that hospital bed. Then, months later, Bass says that while she was praying for justice, Edgar was released. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down the courts and with no grand juries being convened, Texas law required that a still-unindicted Edgar be allowed out on bail.
It was months after Edgar’s release when he walked into that convenience store in Bass’ neighborhood. “And I just remember saying, ‘You killed my daughter … you killed my daughter.'” According to MacDonough, Bass chased Edgar into the parking lot, where she grabbed a chain in the bed of his truck and started slinging it across his windshield. Bass says she just wanted some answers: “She loved you and she was good to you and your kids and to your family. What made you think that this was the answer to anything that was going on?”
Edgar called the sheriff’s office and filed a complaint against Bass, who was then charged with assault caused by bodily injury, retaliation and criminal mischief. An arrest warrant was issued and Bass turned herself in. [UPDATE: the charges against Deborah bass were dropped in June 2020.]
On March 16,2021,four-and-a-half months after his arrest,a grand jury heard the evidence against Edgar and indicted him for the murder of Lewis. [UPDATE: Lewis’s name was Matthew Lewis.] But Edgar,who was still out on bail during his trial,was not done breaking the law. On the fourth day of trial, Edgar let the battery on his ankle monitor die and went on the run.His trial went on without him,and the jury found him guilty. [UPDATE: Edgar was found guilty of the murder of Matthew Lewis on April 26, 2021.] But it took authorities 11 months to capture Edgar, so he could be sentenced to 99 years, with the possibility of parole after 30 years. [UPDATE: Edgar was sentenced on March 21, 2022.]