‘prime Suspect’ In Wife’s 2012 Disappearance Is Arrested In Connection To Another Cold Case Homicide

A man who was reportedly nan premier fishy successful his wife’s 2012 disappearance has been arrested successful relationship pinch different cold lawsuit homicide.

The Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office successful New Jersey announced successful a press merchandise over nan play that Robert William McCaffrey Jr., a 54-year-old from Manteo, North Carolina, had been arrested successful relationship pinch nan decades-old execution of Lisa Marie McBride.

McBride would person been 27 years aged erstwhile her remains were discovered successful 1990. Officials judge nan execution occurred astir June 23 of that twelvemonth successful Vernon Township, New Jersey.

“This decades-old acold lawsuit was solved done important advancements successful DNA technology, mixed pinch nan relentless investigative efforts of detectives successful nan New Jersey State Police, nan Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office, and nan Vernon Township Police Department,” nan prosecutor’s agency said.

McCaffrey, who utilized to unrecorded successful Sussex County and Charleston County, South Carolina, was arrested Friday night. He is being held successful Dare County, North Carolina, awaiting extradition to Sussex County.

The North Carolina man is expected to look charges of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree burglary successful relationship pinch nan case.

Information connected McCaffrey's existent ineligible practice was not instantly clear. The Independent has reached retired to nan section prosecutor’s agency and nan jailhouse for much information.

McCaffrey has besides been tied to nan disappearance of his wife, Marjorie “Gayle” McCaffrey. Gayle, past 36 years old, and vanished from Charleston, South Carolina, connected March 17, 2012. At nan time, her hubby was named nan “prime suspect” successful his wife’s case, according to South Carolina outlet WCSC.

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office reshared accusation astir Gayle’s lawsuit past period connected Facebook, asking for nan public’s thief successful uncovering her aft 14 years.

Gayle and her hubby had a “verbal disagreement” nan nighttime earlier her disappearance, according to section authorities.

“Robert McCaffrey reported that nan statement had grown heated truthful he went for a locomotion to springiness his woman clip to calm down. When he came back, he said that his woman was still upset, truthful he near nan location and drove to nan Upstate.

“Upon his return nan adjacent morning, Robert McCaffrey reported that his woman was missing and that she had near nan family connected her ain accord — ne'er to beryllium heard from again,” nan sheriff’s agency said.

The mates had a 4-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl astatine nan time.

Gayle was legally declared dormant successful 2018, and that aforesaid year, McCaffrey was charged pinch her murder, according to NewsNation. But a expansive assemblage grounded to indict McCaffrey owed to a deficiency of evidence, WCSC reported astatine nan time, citing tribunal documents.

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said McCaffrey was convicted of obstructing justness successful nan lawsuit aft detectives recovered that he had lied to them during nan investigation, “including a farewell missive supposedly from Gayle McCaffrey that was wished to person been fabricated.”

He was later released from situation successful 2023.

While Gayle’s disappearance remains unsolved, nan Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office said McCaffrey’s latest apprehension brings “long-awaited advancement toward justice” for McBride’s family.

The Independent has reached retired to nan Charleston County Sheriff’s Office for comment.