A man who was convicted in connection with his wife's disappearance in South Carolina has been arrested over the murder of another woman in New Jersey more than two decades earlier. Robert 'Bob' McCaffrey Jr, 54, was apprehended in North Carolina on suspicion of killing Lisa Marie McBride in 1990.
DNA collected from the McBride crime scene matched a sample taken from McCaffrey after he was convicted in 2019 of obstructing justice following his wife Gayle's disappearance in Charleston. McBride's remains were found in the Delaware Water Gap national recreation area in October 1990, four months after she vanished from her home in Vernon Township, New Jersey.
McCaffrey was released from prison in May 2023 after serving time for lying about a handwritten note he claimed Gayle left. A grand jury previously declined to charge him with her murder, and she was declared presumed dead in 2018.
Authorities arrested McCaffrey on 10 April following a traffic stop in Manteo, North Carolina, after a warrant was issued linking him to McBride's killing. He faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and burglary and has agreed to be transferred to New Jersey.
Gayle's sister, Helen Banach, said the family was 'shocked to learn that he might have killed someone before in his lifetime' but were glad McBride's family would get justice.
