GREENBRIER COUNTY -
A big break in a murder case.A suspect in the slammer. The victim--betrayed by the one she trusted most.
The trooper who found her body speaks out!
It was a warm fall day back on September 26th 2002 when state police officer Vince Deeds took an urgent call.
"We were having our regular fire arms qualifier and they called us at the range and told me a person had found some humans remains," Lt. V.S. Deeds, WV State Police said.
That call took Lt. Deeds into the woods near Greenbrier State Forest where he found the body of a young woman laying lifeless and it would be ten years before the finally found out who this woman was.
"Literally the whole office all the members the whole detachment would spend hours and hours," Lt. Deeds said.
Lt. Deeds said at one point he thought this case would never be solved. But every year he cracked the file open hoping to bring a killer to justice.
"We always knew it had to be someone's mother, someone's daughter and there is no decency at all in a person that gets treated," Lt. Deed said.
The big break finally came over a hundred miles away in Waynesboro Virginia.
A man named Thomas Tait was arrested for possession of child porn and his wife was no where to be found.
After further investigation, police said dental records matched those of Karen Tait, Thomas's wife originally from the Philippines.
The two had a child together who is now in protective custody. After almost a decade of unanswered questions, a family now knows what happened to their daughter.
"We really took it personally that we had to find the killer. We knew we had to carry this out because we wanted to give some sort of closure to that family," Lt. Deed said.
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