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Police arrested a man on murder charges this month, 14 years after he allegedly killed a man in Virginia, but the victim’s body was never found.
Shane Ryan Donahue, a Virginia man, is presumed dead, the Prince William County Police Department said Tuesday. He was last seen leaving his parents’ home in Nokesville, Virginia, on March 22, 2010. Donahue, 23, was headed to his home in Nokesville, but never made it there.
Donahue was added to the National System of Missing and Unidentified Persons after he disappeared. According to records, Donahue did not own a car and regularly received rides from friends. He frequented Washington, DC, Baltimore, Fauquier County, Virginia and Northern Virginia.
The case has stumped investigators, who have followed a number of leads over the years. This spring, detectives reactivated the investigation and began looking at every detail of the case from scratch, officials said. They revisited people who had been interviewed during the initial investigation and reviewed “digital evidence in greater detail due to advances in analytical technology and modern police investigative practices,” according to a news release.
Officials said Donahue was last seen leaving his parents’ home with Timothy Sean Hickerson, now a 43-year-old Florida resident. Investigators connected Hickerson to a burglary at Donahue’s home that occurred just days before the Virginia man disappeared.
Detectives obtained an arrest warrant this month and, with the help of Florida’s Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, Hickerson was arrested in Palm Coast, Florida. Hickerson has been charged with murder and robbery, and is now to be extradited to Virginia.