A person needed in an almost 36-year-old chilly case homicide has been arrested in North Carolina, police in Vernon Township, NJ confirmed Saturday.
Lisa McBride, 27, vanished from her small lake residence within the Highland Lakes part of Vernon in June 1990. Her stays have been present in woods close to the Delaware River 4 months later.
Robert William McCaffrey, 54, of Manteo, North Carolina was taken into custody Friday evening by a process pressure in Dare County, North Carolina, police stated in an announcement.
McCaffrey is charged with 1st diploma homicide, kidnapping and housebreaking.
McBride’s household desperately saved the case within the public eye for years after her dying, in response to NBC New York’s companions on the Bergen Report. McBride was an govt secretary at Lakeland State Financial institution in West Milford.
She was a dancer by her faculty years, performing with a troupe in Romania at age 16, in response to the Report. She was additionally an beginner aggressive shooter and avid hiker.
“We’re nonetheless handing the uncertainty,” McBride’s father George advised the Report in 2003, 13 years after her killing. “We nonetheless go on residing. However we consider her on holidays, on birthdays — on daily basis actually.”
A 17-member process pressure investigated the disappearance, with assist from the FBI. The case was featured on the nationwide TV present: “Lacking: Reward.”
Police didn’t say in Saturday’s assertion whether or not investigators consider McCaffrey knew McBride. Vernon Township Police, New Jersey State Police and the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Workplace coordinated with native authorities to arrest McCaffrey, who’s being held in Dare County pending extradition.
Police ask anybody with details about the case to name the Detective Bureau at 973-764-6155 or e-mail coldcase@vernonpolice.com .
The Bergen Report contributed to this report
