PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia woman will spend at least 21 years in prison for killing a senior citizen in his Bucks County home, stealing his car and running to Tennessee where she pretended to be his wife.
Meghan Macklin, 48, was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 1/2 to 50 years in state prison for the 2023 killing of 72-year-old Richard “Scott” MacFarland.
MacFarland was found on the floor of his Wrightstown home on Apple Hill Road in October of 2023. Police discovered his body had not only been moved after he was stabbed to death, but he’d been cleaned and dressed in different clothes.
According to testimony from a former cellmate of Macklin’s at her sentencing hearing, the defendant stabbed and killed MacFarland because he woke her up to ask for help finding his shoe. Macklin pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, theft and related charges for the killing.
Prosecutors said MacFarland gave her a place to live, yet their relationship was described as friendly but “volatile.”
Macklin repeatedly stabbed MacFarland, then cleaned and dressed him before taking jewelry, blank checks, and his 2013 Mercedes-Benz.
The same day MacFarland’s body was found, Macklin was arrested in Tennessee, on her way to Mexico, for refusing to pay for food. She told police she was his late wife, showing law enforcement the woman’s social security card and a blank check. However, investigators said she gave inconsistent statements and was eventually connected to the murder.
A former cellmate says Meghan Macklin killed Richard “Scott” McFarland after he woke her up to ask for help finding his shoe
A former cellmate says Meghan Macklin killed Richard “Scott” McFarland after he woke her up to ask for help finding his shoe
