had most likely been raped then she was strangled and suffocated to death unfortunately the police didn't have any suspects and it wasn't long before the case went cold over NUMBER_TOKEN years went by and the world changed drastically luckily during those three decades forensic science had advanced as well also the mvac was invented in september NUMBER_TOKEN the police used the mvac on the halter top that was stuffed into sharon's mouth having nearly NUMBER_TOKEN years since sharon was murdered amazingly using the mvac they were able to get enough dna to create male dna profile he was then entered into codis initially a match was not found then just over three years later in december NUMBER_TOKEN the police learned that a match had been found it was the dna of a NUMBER_TOKEN year old man named patrick mccabe mccabe's dna was in codis because he had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor in NUMBER_TOKEN in gilchrist florida the investigators in salt lake city were aware of mccabe but not because he was a criminal instead he was the building manager of sharon's building he allowed sharon's mother into her apartment he waited in the living room while her mother looked around he was also the person who had called NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN-NUMBER_TOKEN when the police learned of the dna match mccabe was living in belle florida in early NUMBER_TOKEN the investigators traveled about and interviewed him they confronted him with the dna evidence and he confessed at the time of the murder he was NUMBER_TOKEN years old he explained that when sharon's apartment got broken into he changed her logs and he kept an extra key for himself he said that he came home on december NUMBER_TOKENth and he was in the mood for sex but his girlfriend was asleep so he went to sharon's apartment and picked up a knife he then went into her bedroom tied her up and raped her mccabe said that afterward he realized what he had done he felt like he had to kill her he brought her into the bathroom where he strangled her and drowned her patrick mccabe ended up accepting a plea deal in april NUMBER_TOKEN nearly NUMBER_TOKEN years after sharon schulmeyer's murder patrick mccabe pled guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated burglary the prosecution ended up dropping the charges of aggravated sexual assault in june NUMBER_TOKEN mccabe was given two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison family said that they were satisfied with the sentence they said that ever since the murder their lives have been shrouded with dark clouds but mccabe's arrest has allowed some sunlight to shine through they are just happy he won't be able to hurt another young person they also thought he was a complete psychopath for standing in the living room of the woman he had killed while letting her mother find the body at the time of this recording NUMBER_TOKEN year old patrick mccabe is incarcerated at the same prison where joseph simpson is serving his sentence the central utah correctional facility and gundamsen no parole date
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