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Rachel Shannon

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True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

It seemed that this ex in particular was someone that Edward was not fond of and he had yelled at Megan for talking to him in the past.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Now, like I said, police had some DNA evidence that they sent off for testing.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

This testing was done in June of 2021 and it came back that Edward's DNA, as well as obviously Megan's, was found on Megan's cell phone.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Police believe, based on that, that it's likely that Edward went through her phone on the night that she was murdered and probably noticed the call that she made to her ex that same night.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Then they found that his DNA was in the backseat of the car behind the driver's seat.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Again, this could mean that he had been in her car before because they had dated in the past, but who knows if there's really a reason for him to have been in the backseat of her car.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

This could say that he hopped in her car in the backseat and then started beating her from behind, or it could mean that he had been in the car with her and another person and he was sitting in the backseat of her car at some time before the night of the murder.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Now, during the initial police interviews with Edward, he refused to give them his current address.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

But they did eventually figure out where he lived, I believe during his interview in 2019, and it turned out that Edward's residence was located only 500 feet away from the Kensington Manor apartment complex,

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

which is where her car was found.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

And as we know from before, it was stated that a dark colored Honda Civic hatchback was following closely behind her at that apartment complex.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Edward drove a purple Honda Civic hatchback, so his car matched the one that was following behind her on the night of her murder.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Police said that based on where Megan's distinct looking car was parked in that apartment complex, Edward would have easily been able to see it from his apartment, not just the complex, but from his specific unit.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Yet after finding out that she was missing and that police were searching for her car for three days, he didn't mention her car being there to the police.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Over the years, police have also found that multiple witnesses placed him with Megan that night.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

He provided numerous different alibis over the course of the investigation, but all of them using the help of this new cell phone technology have all been proven to be false.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Using this new cyber data, they found out that his cell phone was in the same location as Megan's around the same time of her murder.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Police also said that when speaking with Edward in 2019, he made statements that said to them that he knew she had been murdered on the morning after she was last seen,

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Whereas everyone in her life just thought that she was missing at that time.

True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Murder of NYPD Detective's Daughter SOLVED After 20 YEARS?! The Horrifying case of Megan McDonald

Somehow he said that he just assumed that she had been murdered, even though he had no prior information to state anything like that.