NASCAR Driver Helps Solve Fatal Hit And Run Mystery
March 1 2012, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
The family of a deadly hit and run victim has been searching for answers for more than three years and they never expected to find the key to her death on the trunk of a NASCAR driver’s racecar.
When Kevin Conway heard the story of Melissa Lech, who was fatally struck in suburban Chicago in August 2008, he agreed to put her picture and information on the rear deck lid of his Nationwide car for last September's Chicagoland race, reported Yahoo! Sports.
Melissa’s loved ones thought the efforts had been in vain until last Sunday night when her sister, Michelle, got a knock on her front door and found a man who called himself Dave standing there. He came inside and remarkably confessed to the accidental killing.
"He said ‘I was the one who struck your sister,’” revealed Michelle, according to KSDK. “I said... ok. I said, you hit my sister? He said, ‘Yes, my car struck your sister and I ran over her.’"
"He said he was lost... it was a dark road. He was trying to look for I-55 and it was like a split second and I said, so you hit her? And he said, ‘Yes and she rolled underneath my car.’”
The stranger was David McCarthy, 27, of Naperville, Illinois and he revealed he had found Michelle on the Internet. After his shocking confession, McCarthy said he needed to think about whether he was going to hand himself in, and vanished into the night, but not before the gr