{"id":2353,"date":"2023-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/new-york-man-charged-decades-old-murder-cops-daughter-proclaims-love-slain-woman-arrest\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:00:00","slug":"new-york-man-charged-decades-old-murder-cops-daughter-proclaims-love-slain-woman-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/new-york-man-charged-decades-old-murder-cops-daughter-proclaims-love-slain-woman-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"New York man charged in decades-old murder of cop's daughter proclaims love for slain woman after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"
A New York man charged Thursday in the 2003 murder<\/a> of an NYPD detective’s 20-year-old daughter proclaimed his love for the victim outside a New York State Police station after his arrest, according to local news.<\/p>\n Edward V. Holley, 42, is accused of beating Megan McDonald to death in the back seat of her white Mercury Sable and dumping her on the side of a road in Orange County, New York<\/a>, March 14, 2003.<\/p>\n “I’m definitely not guilty. I love Megan with all my heart,” a wheelchair-bound Holley, who had a romantic relationship with McDonald before her murder, said Thursday while being escorted into a police vehicle, video from WCBS shows.<\/p>\n Two young women standing by another woman who identified herself as Holley’s wife shouted, “We love you, Daddy,” PIX11 reported.<\/p>\n NEW YORK POLICE MAKE ARREST IN DECADES-OLD MURDER OF COP’S DAUGHTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “I’m definitely not guilty. I love Megan with all my heart,” Holley said.<\/span> (Patrick Oehler\/Times Herald-Record\/USA Today Network)<\/span><\/p>\n Holley was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2007 car accident, the outlet reported. He has been in prison since 2021 for an unrelated drug charge<\/a>, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n NEW YORK POLICE CLOSE TO CRACKING DECADES-OLD MURDER OF COP’S DAUGHTER: \u2018WE\u2019RE COMING FOR YOU’<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “We used modern-day technology and applied it to 2003, and we were able to come up with good results to assist the case \u2026 within the past year,” New York State Police<\/u><\/a> Lt. Brad Natalizio, who helped lead the investigation, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n Two young women standing by another woman who identified herself as Holley’s wife shouted, “We love you, Daddy,” as Holley was escorted away, PIX11 reported.<\/span> (Patrick Oehler\/Times Herald-Record\/USA Today Network)<\/span><\/p>\n Natalizio added that McDonald’s family “never gave up,” and authorities are “very grateful” for their help with solving the case.<\/p>\n A felony complaint filed in Orange County alleges Holley “did knowingly and intentionally cause the death of Megan McDonald by striking her multiple times in the head with a blunt instrument.”<\/p>\n McDonald and Holley had been in a “romantic relationship” that McDonald apparently tried to end just days prior to her murder. They got into an argument March 10, 2003, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n Megan McDonald was murdered in Orange County, N.Y., in March 2003.<\/span> (Justice for Megan McDonald)<\/span><\/p>\n Holley also “owed the victim a substantial amount of money that was causing hostility between the two leading up to the homicide,” the document states.<\/p>\n OKLAHOMA COLD CASE GETS RENEWED ATTENTION AFTER TIKTOK USER’S SEARCH FOR HER PARENTS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Additionally, witnesses saw Holley’s purple Honda Civic, described as “the loudest car in town,” following McDonald in her white Mercury March 14, the morning of her murder.<\/p>\n Megan McDonald<\/span> (Justice for Megan McDonald)<\/span><\/p>\n Authorities found McDonald’s vehicle at the Kensington Manor apartment complex parking lot in Wallkill, New York, two days after they discovered her body. <\/p>\n A medical examiner determined her cause of death to be repeated blunt-force trauma to the head.<\/p>\n TEXAS MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH 1981 COLD-CASE MURDER OF TEEN GIRL FREED ON BOND<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n McDonald had been a student at SUNY Orange Community College<\/u><\/a> and was working as a waitress to pay for her tuition.<\/p>\n A medical examiner concluded that Megan McDonald’s cause of death was repeated blunt force trauma to the head.<\/span> (Justice for Megan McDonald)<\/span><\/p>\n Natalizio previously described her murder as a “crime of passion” and “intimate partner violence” in an interview with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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