A stunning arrest in "Hack and Drew" case
Say the names Hack and Drew, and my mind spins back to a haunting case three decades old. I'll never forget their names, their pictures or their story. Tim Hack and Kelly Drew were high school sweethearts, both 19, when they disappeared from a wedding reception at the Concord House in Jefferson County's Sullivan Township in August 1980. At the time, I was just a year out of college and working as sports editor for the Oconomowoc Enterprise. That section of Jefferson County, and Ixonia Township where hunters found their bodies months later, was part of our coverage area.
I later become the Enterprise's news editor, and we provided updates on the murders as the investigation slowly waned.
I thought "Cold Case" was just a fictional television series. That is, until news broke Thursday about the arrest of Edward D. Edwards in Louisville, Ky. If his name ever came up in earlier investigative reports, I don't recall it. I never imagined an arrest so many years later and actually thought the killer might already be dead. You can read more about the arrest here and, I'm sure, in Saturday's Gazette.
Greg Peck
Jul 31, 2009 at 6:47 p.m.
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I was working in that area when the kidnapping/murders happened. I remember how scared my friends and I were to go out. None of us ever left any where alone. It is a true Cold Case solved it would be a great episode for the TV show
Jul 31, 2009 at 4:31 p.m.
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I think this is just incredible that they did this. Thank goodness for d.n.a.. Thank you to everyone who did not give up. Peace to the families.
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