David H. McCarthy (left) has confessed to killing Melissa Lech (right) in a hit-and-run accident on Aug. 7, 2008.
Police say a man's guilty conscience led him to admit he was the driver who fatally struck a 20-year-old college student 3-1/2 years ago. Joliet police Cmdr. Brian Benton said David H. McCarthy, 27, knocked on the door of Melissa Lech's sister's house around 9:30 a.m. Sunday and admitted being the driver. | Will Couny Sheriff's Police photo
Melissa Lech, right.
Melissa Lech
Michelle Lech
Michelle Lech and her mother, Maria Lech, visit the roadside memorial where her sister and Maria's daughter, Melissa Lech, was struck and killed three years ago by a 20-year-old college student. David H. McCarthy knocked on Michelle Lech's door Sunday morning and admitted he was the driver. February 27, 2012 | Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
David McCarthy IV, Naperville, leaves the Will County Courthouse after his pre-trial hearing in Joliet, IL on Tuesday July 3, 2012. He is accused of running over Melissa Lech in Joliet in 2008, and then fled the scene. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
David McCarthy IV, Naperville, leaves the Will County Courthouse after his pre-trial hearing in Joliet, IL on Tuesday July 3, 2012. He is accused of running over Melissa Lech in Joliet in 2008, and then fled the scene. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media .
A Will County judge may close the book later this month on a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a Naperville man who in 2008 allegedly struck and killed a Joliet woman with his car and fled before resurfacing at her sister’s home 31/2 years later. …
