Megan McDonald: State Police never closer to an arrest than now Megan McDonald's final hours Holley, did knowingly and intentionally cause the death of Megan McDonald by striking her multiple times about the head with a blunt instrument," Corletta wrote, adding that murder in the second degree is a class A-1 felony. The news was accompanied by a 17-page felony complaint by State Police Investigator Michael Corletta, a narrative describing the night that cost Megan McDonald her life. When a friend of the McDonald family came forward to shout, "Justice for Megan," as the doors to the police vehicle closed, Holley replied: "Right. Two young women skirted to the edge of the media crush to say, "I love you, Dad," then bolted away as the handcuffed Holley was lifted into the back of a police vehicle. (He had been in the county jail on narcotics charges.) Asked what he had to say, he offered "I'm definitely not guilty." "They're parading me out here like some freaking monkey out here, but it's all good," he said, wearing a jail jumpsuit. Peppered with questions by the media, Holley was defiant. Moments before a mid-afternoon press conference to announce the major break in the case, Holley was wheeled out of the front of the barracks in a wheelchair, flanked by two troopers. The person arrested today will never be anything but a coward to our family." A defiant man in handcuffs The monster who violently and senselessly took Megan's life now has a name and a face. James Whalen, Karen's husband, said: "Today, the police gave us an answer that we have been searching for for over 20 years. "We have always stood with the police, and we will always stand with them," said Whalen, whose father, Dennis, was a retired NYPD detective. "For them, it was always a matter of when, not if, this day would come," she said. Karen Whalen thanked the police for never giving up. "McDonald was discovered deceased in the town of Wallkill, Orange County, on March 15, 2003, from blunt force trauma." Holley, age 42, of Wawayanda, N.Y., with Murder 2nd degree in connection with the March 2003 murder of Megan McDonald," the news release read. "On April 20, 2023, the New York State Police arrested Edward V. The killing became one of Orange County's stubbornest cold cases. They said it was Holley who bludgeoned Megan McDonald to death on March 14, 2003, and left her in a field in the town of Wallkill. It took 20 years, but State Police officials on Thursday arrested Edward V. The sister of Megan McDonald stood outside the State Police Troop F barracks beside her mother, Elizabeth, and her husband, James, and cried as she thanked the New York State Police for never stopping their search for her sister's killer. – They were tears 20 years in the making, and Karen McDonald Whalen let them flow.
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