A neighbor has been arrested in the abduction and killings of two high school cheerleaders who disappeared last week while house-sitting for one of the girls' parents.
John Andrews, 31, of McLean was arrested in connection with the case of Jennifer L. Bolduc of Dryden and Sarah A. Hajney of McLean, Trooper Chris Cody said Tuesday. Andrews had not been arraigned as of this morning, Cody said. He declined to provide further details.Although no bodies have been found, there is "sufficient physical evidence" to prove the girls are dead, Maj. Arthur Hawker said Monday.
That evidence includes crushed bone fragments that were found at a campsite belonging to a relative of the suspect, sources told WICB radio at Ithaca College. The bodies apparently had been crushed with some sort of instrument; bloody rags also were found at the camp, the sources said.
The girls, cheerleaders at Dryden High School, were last seen Friday morning by a 17-year-old male friend who was house-sitting with the girls for Hajney's parents Thursday night. The friend is not a suspect in their disappearance, Hawker said.
Students were told of the deaths Monday morning in small groups in their classes, Superintendent Donald Trombley said.
"Within moments we had mass hysteria," he said. "We have an extremely torn-up high school right now. The students are very frightened."
"Everyone's in shock," student Brian Wade said. "People started bawling, crying. They had to go home. They couldn't take it."