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Going West: True Crime

Megan McDonald: Someone in the Backseat // 592

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.610.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In March of 2003, a 20-year-old woman, who happened to be the daughter of an NYPD detective, was found brutally beaten to death in Hudson Valley, discarded on a rural dirt path. It was quickly determined that she had been killed in her car, by someone sitting in the backseat behind her. But despite having multiple persons of interest in her case, an arrest wasn’t made for YEARS, and even then - many were on the fence about his involvement. This is the murder of Megan McDonald.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.7

And you're listening to Going West.

0:21.0

Hello, everybody. Hope you're doing well today. Big shout out to Emily, who recommended today's

0:26.6

case. This one has a very, very recent update. I'm talking today is the latest update in this case.

0:34.2

And not in the way that there's going to be more updates necessarily, but like,

0:38.6

we reached a final verdict today and a trial is what I will say.

0:42.5

Which is kind of crazy considering the fact that this case took place in 2003.

0:47.0

I know. It's wild. So that was a big reason why we wanted to cover it now after Emily

0:51.0

recommended it. It's like, oh my God, there's like things happening right now

0:54.8

with it. So yeah, thank you everybody for tuning in. Actually, before we dive in, I just wanted to say

1:01.0

some of you guys don't know that I'm also an author. Shameless plug. I mean, you know, you got to do

1:07.3

what you got to do. But I wanted to say my first thriller novel it's called night watcher it came

1:12.0

out last year but i have another book coming out it's called the season of sinking it is not a sequel

1:17.0

it's just a really fun spooky lakeside thriller about sisterhood and obsession i i really learn so

1:26.2

much from doing going west that helped me write this book.

1:29.9

If anybody wants to pre-order it, it is out July 7th everywhere that you get your books.

1:35.3

So if you want to do that, I would really appreciate it.

1:38.4

Yeah, go check out the season of sinking. I can't wait to read it. I still haven't read it yet.

1:42.5

You will, you will. I don't like you to read it until it's like the final copy. But yeah, that is by me, Daphne Wollstonecroft, which I feel like I've never said my full name. Daphne. Have you ever said your full name on the show? No, I don't think so. Hit us. Heath Merriman. Crazy. Anyway, thanks guys. All right, let's talk about Megan.

2:02.5

All right, guys.

2:03.3

This is episode 592 of Going West.

2:07.2

So let's get into it.

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