Cumberland County Sheriff’s Homicide Detectives have solved a 24-year old double murder in Bonnie Doone, just outside of Fayetteville.

The suspect, 48-year old Sean Patrick McDuffy, has been serving time in the Georgia Department of Corrections in Hardwick, Georgia, after trying to kill his girlfriend by decapitation.  McDuffy is being extradited to North Carolina today.

On February 21, 1985, 24-year-old Kelly McDuffy and his wife, 20-year-old Bobbie Michelle McDuffy were found dead in their home at 437 Squirrel Street, Fayetteville.  Both suffered sharp force trauma to the upper body, which contributed to their deaths.  Kelly McDuffy and Sean McDuffy were brothers.

Homicide Detectives, as part of an effort to work cold case files, reopened the McDuffy case in September, 2007.  They sifted through boxes of evidence, crime scene photos and notes to help solve the crime.  Investigators say McDuffie, who lived with the victims at the time of their deaths, began a trek across the Midwest.  Eventually the trail led them to Georgia where McDuffy was serving a sentence for attempted first degree murder.  He apparently tried to decapitate his girlfriend following an argument between the pair.