It's a final resting place for Gretchen Perham. Family and friends gathered at the Calvary Cemetery in Glenmont Saturday, remembering the 14-year-old Albany teenager as a talker with a big smile. It has been nearly a year since her body was found in a ravine off Mount Hope Drive.
"We are not going to go there anymore, because here is so much more beautiful," said her mother Kim Perham.
"The one thing is for my family is a place for remembrance. The Mount Hope area, I don't really go over there myself, " said her brother Robert Linen.
Kim Perham said, "It gives us a place to come and sit if I want to come and talk to Gretchen."
Gretchen's mother and friends cried and sang songs around her headstone. Gretchen was stabbed several times and police still don't have any suspects. In February, the Times Union reported convicted rapist Darius Ashley confessed to killing Perham. But Ashley later told Capital News 9 in an exclusive interview that's not true.
Now there is a new place to remember Gretchen Perham. But even though she has her final resting place, her family said they won't rest until they find out who killed her.
"We are laying her to rest today, but she won't rest until someone is brought to justice," said Linen.
"I want to know why. It will always be in the back of my mind, how, could you do it," said Perham.
"Whoever did this to her, their conscience will get to them sooner or later, " said Linen.
Kim Perham has hired a lawyer to investigate the crime and is suing Ashley's former place of work -- Parsons Child and Family Center.