Cold Case Timeline

MOBILE, Ala. - Katherine Foster was a freshman at South Alabama, majoring in physical therapy before she was killed. Police said her killer was her best friend Jamie Kellam, now Jamie Letson. She was arrested last week in Jackson, Mississippi. Sources said Letson confessed to the murder.

Here are the sequence of events:

• It all started at 11:16 a.m. Thursday February 21, 1980.
• Mobile Police Former investigator Wilbur Williams said that is the time Katherine Foster called her parents in Pascagoula. "One of the big issues was that she had plans to go to the grocery store. So that is why she was calling to make sure the money had been put into her account. So that if she wrote a check for groceries, the check would be good," said Williams.
• Around noon, Williams said Katherine met her friend, Jamie Letson, to leave for the store. But according to witness statements--Foster goes back inside to get something from her dorm oom and doesn't return. Friends assume Foster just got sidetracked. Which investigators said is typical of any undergraduate. "It's not uncommon for college students to change their plans that quickly. So that never concerned me." Hours pass and Foster is finally reported missing.
• Friday, February 22, search crews gather. All the while Foster is still alive, but no one knows where.
• But between midnight and three o'clock Saturday morning, Katherine is shot and killed on campus. Williams said the strange thing is that someone reports hearing gun shots, but that is just assumed to be bad weather. "There was a bracket of time that would possible facilitate some action happening that we are not aware of."
• Saturday, February 23 around 9 a.m. Katherine's body is found. She is dressed in blue jeans, a sky-blue fleece sweat shirt, and brown shoes. Mobile Police, as well as ROTC students, make the gruesome discovery "Ultimately that is what lead to the discovery of Ms. Foster's body."
• Now in 2008, Foster's college friend is accused of murder. Williams said the only time that is documented down to the minute is the time Katherine called her parents. That is because the call was long distance from Alabama to Mississippi. It was easily traced through phone records.