ADRIAN — Within a few weeks of the hit-and-run crash last summer that seriously injured local teenager Dakota Courington, Felisha Racine Madison had already emerged as a possible suspect.
But police encountered numerous obstacles in the investigation, including secondhand statements that could not be traced back to the original source and a witness who died before police learned that Madison had allegedly confessed to him.
Documents filed in Lenawee County District Court detail numerous interviews conducted by police over the course of a year as they worked to build a strong enough case to bring charges against Madison. The court filings also contain accounts of her trying to redirect suspicion onto others and making threats against a person she had allegedly confessed to.
Madison was arraigned on Aug. 20 on a charge of failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in significant impairment…