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Missing Park Slope Woman Was Fighting With Boyfriend
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Jen Carlson
Published Feb 19, 2010
Modified Feb 19, 2010
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Unsurprisingly, there is more to the story of the missing Park Slope woman. The NY Post delves deeper into the disappearance of 40-year-old Marion McCleneghan, coming out with a noteworthy bit of information: she has a boyfriend, and she was seen having a loud fight with him the night she allegedly went missing.
Richard Eric Sosa has been dating the recently separated McCleneghan, whom he lives just 8 doors from. He had hosted the party she attended on the night she was last seen, and allegedly fought with him there, before leaving at 2 a.m. Sosa has a scratch on his face; and while the paper reports he had been cooperating with the investigation, when asked to take a polygraph test, he got a lawyer. Currently, however, he's not being treated as a suspect.
Ben Soto, the man she recently separated from, says her wallet was found in her home, as well as her cell phone—he says it was turned off, which is unusual. But some things were missing, like her two laptop computers and a stack of handwritten journals. But Soto says, "I just don't think she went crazy and went off the deep end."
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