Another small task force was started in 1995.

It consisted of troopers Jim Bedell and John Schuller from Michigan State Police Post-Pa-2 and Detective Sergeant Robin Baker and Detective Brian Campbell from the St. John's Sheriff's Department.

They met with prosecutor Jeff Middleton, and it was decided to outsource the well-over-1,000 prints in evidence to Davis' investigations for elimination

purposes. Davis was a retired Michigan State Police Detective Sergeant latent print examiner.

It was felt that his expertise in print matching might advance the case. The prints that had been

collected to date were sent to him, and I don't know how long it took him, but he determined

there were no matches to any of them. The 1995 task force also submitted the Pink Telephone for testing.

A Michigan State Police Lab report dated November 30, 1995, determined no additional processing of the phone

would be beneficial. They didn't reprocess the phone because they

didn't think they'd get anything off it. The case went quiet. In observance of the 10th anniversary

of Kathy's murder in 1998, prosecutor Jeffrey Middleton held a press conference. It was attended by

Kathy's family, her father, David, and her mother, Audrey. Middleton said of

Kathy, quote, she was the kind of person you'd never expect to be involved in a homicide. This

doesn't happen to people like her. One thing about this terribly heinous crime is that there is

someone out there who would do it again, and that's very frightening, end quote. Middleton requested

tips, saying he believed someone somewhere knew something.

Later, lieutenant and then retired chief Ken Baker said, quote,

is someone who knew her, somebody real close, someone living close by.

With the evidence we have, we'll find him, end quote.

He was right, but it would take another two and a half decades.

In the 1998 to 1999 time period, retired St. John Sheriff's Department Detective Sergeant Larry Moyer worked on the Kathy Schwartz investigation, but, quote, results of his investigation are unknown because there are no documents relating to this time period in existence.

That was the last time any investigator was assigned to follow up on this incident, end quote.

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