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New York Police Make Arrest in 2003 Murder of Detective’s Daughter
Just after the 20-year anniversary of Megan McDonald’s killing, there seems to have been a breakthrough.
New York State Police have announced they have made an arrest in a cold case murder, just weeks after the 20th anniversary of the killing was marked by the victim’s friends and family.
Megan McDonald, a 20-year-old student at Orange County Community College, was found dead on a narrow dirt path in Wallkill, New York on March 15th 2003.
She had been murdered in the driver’s seat of her own car by blunt force trauma, although the car was subsequently taken to the parking lot of the Kensington Manor Complex where it would not be found for a further two days.
Who was Megan with?
Investigators tried to piece together Megan’s final movements and discovered that she had been at a friend’s house until around midnight on the night she was murdered before leaving because she had to get up early for work the next morning, Dateline reported.
However, she went to a party instead of going home and stayed there a short while until she told two friends she had to go and meet with somebody whose name she did not disclose.
