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Stratford Man Charged With Murder After 911 Call Reporting Girlfriend’s Stabbing

Officers say they found him on top of Megan McShane with a bloodied knife nearby.

Overview

  • Dispatchers received a 7 p.m. call from Stanley Mulvey, 67, who said he had stabbed his girlfriend, identified as 62-year-old Megan McShane, and wanted to kill himself.
  • Responding officers found both individuals covered in blood on the kitchen floor of the Griffin Street home, with a large kitchen knife nearby, and Stratford EMS pronounced McShane dead at the scene.
  • Police report Mulvey refused to move off McShane, was physically removed from the home, handcuffed, and repeatedly admitted to killing her.
  • Mulvey was charged with murder and interfering with an officer, is being held on a $1 million bond, and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
  • Authorities say Mulvey is a convicted felon previously arrested in May in a domestic-violence case in which McShane was the named victim.