RELATIVES OF TWO MURDERED NY WOMEN WAITED 19 YEARS TO REPORT THEM MISSING

The 70-year-old husband and father of the missing women is arrested in Ohio for their murder

Last month, family members filed missing person reports on a mother and daughter with the New York State Police. There was just one little problem. The two, Marcia and Elizabeth Honsch from the village of Brewster, had been missing for 19 years. Brewster is about 60 miles north of NYC.

The cops would not comment on why it took the family members 19 years to report the two women missing. I suppose you could say, better 19 years late than never.

Through an internet search, the NY state police were able to connect the missing women to two unidentified bodies found 19 years ago. Elizabeth, 17 at the time, had been found September 28, 1995 with a gunshot wound to the head behind a shopping plaza in New Britain, Conn. She had been found wrapped in trash bags and a sleeping bag. Her mother Marcia, 53 at the time, was discovered October 6, 1995 by a hiker in some woods in Tolland, Mass., about 40 miles from New Britain. Marcia also had a gunshot wound to the head. The NY State Police forensics lab was able to establish a positive identification of the bodies.

On Wednesday, police made an arrest in the murders of Marcia and Elizabeth Honsch. Robert Tyree, 70, formerly Robert Honsch, was arrested in Dalton, Ohio where he had been living for the past 19 years. Honsch had assumed his new name and settled down in the Ohio town. He married again and had children with his new wife. During his 19 years in Dalton, Honsch remained arrest free until Wednesday.

Honsch is being held for extradition. He is expected to be extradited to Massachusetts first.