Overview
- Police took 30‑year‑old Melanie Morat into custody at her East Frankford home and say she is expected to be charged with murder, robbery, arson and related counts in the decade‑old case.
- Authorities say Maglio was robbed of a gold ring, a phone and a small amount of cash, shot, his GMC Yukon was burned with a bullet casing and blood inside, and his remains were later recovered from the Schuylkill River and identified by a pacemaker.
- Detectives Joseph Cremen and Robert Daly reopened the file this summer, reviewed more than a dozen prior interviews and applied modern cellphone location analysis that investigators say tied Morat to the crime scene and produced a chargeable case.
- Police are continuing the probe to determine whether at least two other people were involved and the District Attorney’s Office has declined to comment on the investigation.
- Maglio’s family said the arrest brought relief after years of uncertainty, and detectives say the case shows how growing expertise with digital and circumstantial evidence is helping police clear older unsolved homicides.