BAY SHORE, N.Y. (1010 WINS) – An arrest has been made in the cold case murder of an 88-year-old widow and retiree who was found brutally killed in her Long Island home more than 20 years ago.
The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said the alleged killer, who has not yet been named, would be arraigned in Riverhead on Friday afternoon in connection with the murder of Edna Schubert in 2003.
Suffolk D.A. Raymond Tierney, who formally launched a new Cold Case Unit last year, will hold a press conference after the 2 p.m. arraignment.
Prosecutors said the person was caught in another state thanks to modern forensic technology and a detective who would not give up on the 21-year-old case.
Schubert was living alone at her home on Fredrick Avenue in North Bay Shore when she was “severely beaten” to death on Dec. 12, 2003, authorities said.
Neighbors saw Schubert’s door ajar and went inside her home to find “her dead from a violent assault” in the bedroom, police said at the time.
Schubert, who was a retiree from the Department of Motor Vehicles, was beloved by friends and neighbors, who affectionately referred to her as “the grandma of Frederick Avenue.”
She had lived alone since the death of her husband, Charles, several years earlier. The home has since been razed.