march 26th, 1995, when police discover a badly decomposed body near a highway overpass in rockland county, new york. the victim is identified as local transient, 39-year-old dana blaze demarco. dana was sort of a free spirit, described as an artist, a drifter, so it would be very likely that she would have come in contact with mcfadden. eventually, we would learn through the autopsy that she was also killed with blunt force trauma, a fractured skull was found. there s a couple of indicators from the crime scene that suggest that mcfadden is involved. one is the type of injury, the location of the injury, the severity of the injury. as i understand it, there was a piece of jewelry that was found with other jewelry possessed by mcfadden that belonged to dana. dana s body is found not far from where mcfadden left robert silk s body.
get away from them, i ran into something i thought was an animal. i thought it was a deer, right? okay. and i kept on going with the van. later on i come to find out that what i ran over was a girl by the name of dana blase demarco. you ran her over? i ran her over because i m getting away from the tail, the people that was tailing me. how did you know you hit her? because when i stopped my van, there was blood on the front of my van. i wiped the blood off my van. they found dana demarco s blood inside the van from the shirt i used to wipe off the front. i was thinking it s animal blood, but they found her blood. they had dna connecting me to dana demarco. according to investigator robert ventura and official
they re saying that i m responsible for her case. i m admitting i m responsible for the death. but you re saying it s an accident. you re saying you didn t see her and you re but, still, i could have stopped. i didn t do that. you know, i was and i ran away from the scene of the crime. so, that in itself is a crime. he still interestingly says, well, i should be prosecuted for it. but prosecuted really how? if you were to proceed with the demarco case, as he s presented it, at the most you might have voluntary manslaughter. so admitting being responsible for dana s death as a homicide serge would have helped her family and those people that knew her. it would have brought closure to the case, but we didn t really get that. so it was in a sense very anti-climactic for us. coming up
i dukd down i cut down a side road and as i was coming over the pass, i ran into something i thought was an animal. i thought it was a deer, right? okay. and i kept on going with the van. later on i come to find out that what i ran over was a girl by the name of dana blase demarco. you ran her over? i ran her over because i m getting away from the tail, the people that was tailing me. how did you know you hit her? because when i stopped my van, there was blood on the front of my van. i wiped the blood off my van. they found dana demarco s blood inside the van from the shirt i used to wipe off the door. i was thinking it s animal blood, but they found demarco s blood. they had dna connecting me to dana demarco. according to the detectives, blood was not among the many pieces of evidence collected
they re saying that i m responsible for her case. i m admitting i m responsible for the death. but you re saying it s an accident. you re saying you didn t see her and you re but, still, i could have stopped. i didn t do that. you know, i was and i ran away from the scene of the crime. so, that in itself is a crime. he still interestingly says, well, i should be prosecuted for it. but prosecuted really how? if you were to proceed with the demarco case, as he s presented it, at the most, you might have voluntary manslaughter. so admitting being responsible for dana s death as a homicide certainly would have helped her family and those people that knew her. it would have brought closure to the case, but we didn t really get that. so, it was, in a sense, very anti-climactic for us.