Remember that post from earlier this week about a hit-and-run driver showing up on his dead victim’s family’s front step and confessing to his three-plus-year-old crime?
It turns out NASCAR driver Kevin Conway had a tangential role in the unapologetic scumbag coming clean.
About four years ago, a young woman named Melissa Lech was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in suburban Chicago. Since then, her family had sought in vain for any clues about the identity of the driver.
Kevin Conway heard of Melissa’s story, and agreed to put her picture and information on the rear deck lid (what, in street cars, would be the trunk) of his Nationwide car for last September’s Chicagoland race. Still no word, until Sunday night. …
He told Michelle Lech his conscience had been troubled after seeing “the NASCAR thing.” He then described how he struck her sister on that August night in 2008, stopped to check that she was still alive, then got scared and drove away.
Good on Conway, for proving that bringing widespread attention to these cases can help solve even the cold ones.