Megan Leah Tilman.Photo: Facebook
Just as agonizing was the wait for answers in Megan Tilman’s death. A relative had reported Megan, of Annapolis, Maryland, missing on Nov. 1, 2017, according toAnne Arundel County Police. She hadn’t been heard from since Sept. 26 of that year.
At the time, Megan, 42, had been sharing a rented townhome with her mother, her boyfriend, William Rice, and a roommate, Christina Stalling, WBALreported in 2018. But the mother had moved out, and frictions between Megan and her family led to an apparent estrangement.
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Meanwhile, two weeks before the missing persons report was filed with Annapolis police, authorities were called on Oct. 18, 2017, to the scene of human remains found on the Maryland shore in Shady Side, police said.
The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, Anne Arundel County Police said in anews release.
After pairing the discovery with the missing persons report, police collected DNA samples from Megan’s relatives and were able to identify Megan as the victim.
William Rice and Christina Gail Harnish.Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Both are being held in Arizona for extradition to Maryland, where they will be formally charged and have the opportunity to enter pleas. Attorneys for the pair were not immediately identified.
“There’s no way to describe my emotions,” Megan’s fathersaid after the arrests, reports WMAR. “It was just like a huge brick had been lifted off me.”
“No one deserves what Megan went through,” he said.
Anne Arundel County Police Lt. Jacklyn Davis said that “The two that have been arrested for this offense had been on detective’s radar from the beginning, and like I said, sometimes it’s that old movie line, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove,'” according to WMAR.
source: people.com
