State Police announced Thursday morning Edward V. Holley, 42, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the decade-old, unsolved case. State Police plans to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Troop F headquarters in the town of Wallkill.
March 15 marked 10 years since McDonald was found dead in a field off Bowser Road in the town of Wallkill. Since then, law enforcement has been investigating what happened to the 20-year-old. The cause of her death was determined to be blunt force trauma, according to State Police.
This year, police announced that two law enforcement agencies put up a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
McDonald’s murder has been on the minds of locals for years. Drivers on Route 17 have seen the prominently placed electronic billboard lit up with her picture and request for information. Last year, police walked around town handing out fliers. Her case has been featured in true crime TV shows, like NBC’s “Dateline” and “Unsolved Mysteries.” The local newspaper, the Times Herald-Record, writes an annual story about her death.
Though the case was unsolved, it was not considered cold.
Police investigators have expressed they may be close to an arrest of a prime suspect in the murder. The FBI has created a profile of a suspect described as “a classic narcissist who craves control and attention, a man who suffered a blow to his psyche when Megan rejected him and lashed out with blows of his own, bludgeoning the 100-pound woman from behind as she sat in her car,” according to the Times Herald-Record.
At the time of her death, McDonald worked at the Galleria Mall in the town of Wallkill and was studying at SUNY Orange. Investigators believe she likely was killed in the early hours of March 14, 2003. She was last seen driving into the parking lot of…
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