Mary Ann Jones now knows what happened to her husband's killer 37 years later.

Jones said she now has some closure after authorities discovered Donald Eugene Webb's remains buried in the yard of his wife's Dartmouth, Mass., home.

“It's over,” Jones said. “We know what happened.”

For Jones, it was a bittersweet resolution for the murder of her late husband, Saxonburg Police Chief Gregory Adams.

“I don't think my husband got any justice,” she said.

However, Jones said there was some consolation that while Webb eluded capture, he apparently lived in pain following the December 1980 incident resulting from a traffic stop.

Saxonburg Police Chief Joe Beachem was in Dartmouth last week observing state police and the FBI unearth Webb's body.

“It looked like full skeletal remains,” Beachem said.

After an examination of Webb's remains and interviews with his wife, Lillian Webb, authorities now believe Adams broke Webb's ankle and bit part of his lip off during the altercation.

“He fought hard,” Jones said about her husband. “I'm relieved to know that.”

She still harbors anger toward Webb's wife, who eventually admitted where her husband's body was located to avoid criminal prosecution and a pending lawsuit.

“I'm still trying to come to grips with my anger for that woman,” Jones said, “She knew what was going on.”

Jones credited the FBI and state police in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts for seeing the case to its conclusion.

“I'm amazed they never gave up,” she said.

Jones also expressed gratitude for the support of Saxonburg police through the years.

Beachem agreed the case's conclusion was bittersweet.

“It would have been preferable for Webb to face justice for what he did,” Beachem said.

Saxonburg District Judge Sue Haggerty, who worked as a clerk in that office at the time of Adams' murder, vividly remembers learning about it.

Haggerty also would have liked Webb to have been apprehended alive.

“It's upsetting to know he lived as long as he did,” she said.

Haggerty kept the original complaint against Webb in her office all these years.

“We kept it in case something came to light,” she said.

Haggerty recently spoke to authorities investigating Webb's whereabouts, relaying what she recalled from that time.

“I'm just glad they finally got resolution to it,” she said.

Haggerty expressed sympathy for Jones.

“I feel for Mary Ann,” she said.

Haggerty has no pity for Lillian Webb.

“I don't care (that) she's 80,” she said.

Attorney Tom King, who represents Jones and her sons, Benjamin Adams and Gregory Adams Jr., has withdrawn a more than $1 million lawsuit filed against Lillian Webb and her son, Stanley Webb.

“The lawsuit was filed for the purpose of getting to the truth,” King said. “That was accomplished by finding the body. It serves no useful purpose at this point.”