because she s dead. there s only one person we thought it could be. just one. there s only one person that didn t want her to talk. and that was robert hicke. chris also told investigators at the scene that he had another reason to suspect his former friend. he said,, one of the footprints looks just like the shoes that he wears that he worse when he goes to the gym. and that scene had looked personal to investigators. like the killer was someone who was angry with mcgahn. they went right to her house to fine robert hicke. nobody was home. he wasn t responding to phone calls or knocks on the door. that was a bad sign for us. we staked out were his house for a while, we were there for a couple of hours. and, then robert hickey came up and the family van with the wife and the kid. we were taken, then at that point, because we had a severe brutal murder that occurred. we get them about the van. we handcuff robert hickey. we were in a state of panic. and the families in the van h
older was paying attention to her that wasn t her parents or her family. meghan told him that after she turned 15, the relationship became sexual. how the sea, at this time? he s in his 30s. after meghan told his story, sergeant mcdaniels came out to speak with chris. i said, all we could charge him with this a misdemeanor and he can get, maybe, 12 months in jail for it at the most. and i looked at him and i said, are you kidding me? he said, unfortunately not. that is because, in virginia, while sex between an adult and a child 14 and under is a felony, sexual contact with the 15 year old is only a misdemeanor. so, as a father, as a mother, you must be just infuriated by that. i was furious. and i was, like where do we go from here? sergeant mcdaniels had an idea. hicke was in the navy, and the military takes a harsher approach to adults that engage in sexual contact with minors.
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pot weren t the problem. they were symptoms of something far more serious. then she tells me that rob hickey had been touching her. robert hickey, a married father of four daughters. a navy health specialist, a close friend of the family. he picked up for officer. he was on his way to make captain. their families hung out together. birthday parties. summer cookouts. grown-ups and kids. this is your close friend. this is my best friend. and i trusted him more than i would trust just about anybody else. chris immediately called megan s mother and told her what he had just heard. and i m like, are you serious? are you sure? and she got on the phone with me and i told her i said, tell
me what happened. tell me what s going on. and then she told me and i said, are you sure? because this is someone s life you re going to ruin. and she goes, mom, i am absolutely 100% sure. how did you feel on the phone when you were told this news? i was hurt. i was mad. i was sad for his family because of what they re about to go through. and i was more hurt for chris. because that was chris s best friend. it was betrayal. plain and simple. but you don t expect it from a guy that you trust with your life. isn t that feeling but you ve got this news, you want to just like run over there and, you know, i don t to say it but, you know oh, trust me oh yeah. 100%. megan s parents decided she needed to talk to the police. and that s when she first met sergeant robert mcdaniels. i was a detective in the specials victims unit.