COLUMBUS, Ohio – A northeast Ohio man is behind bars, accused of murdering his wife and teenage daughter in New York nearly 20 years ago and dumping their bodies in two other states, according to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office.
Robert Honsch, 70, was found living under an alias in Dalton, about seven miles east of Massillon, and arrested on Tuesday, DeWine said.
between state and local authorities and investigators from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York has resulted in the arrest of an Ohio man on allegations that he murdered his wife and daughter in 1995.
Authorities say Honsch murdered his wife, Marcia Honsch, then 53, and 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and hid their bodies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. The bodies were found a few days apart in September and October of that year but DeWine says they were only recently identified.
Authorities from the New Britain, Conn., Police Department, and state police from Massachusetts and New York asked for help from the Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office in locating Honsch, DeWine said.
After a Honsch was questioned and his home searched, forensics experts at the BCI lab in Richfield returned evidence in about an hour that led to Honsch’s arrest, DeWine said.
He is being held without bail.