Harvey was sentenced to death and later to life in prison in the 1985 rape and murder of a Plainsboro woman but maintained his innocence for three decades and was awaiting a third trial in the case. Macho's body was found in a wooded area by a farm where Harvey briefly worked around the time of her disappearance, and her vehicle was found abandoned by a nearby sewer plant, within walking distance of Harvey's home, authorities said.
Authorities said he was identified early on as a possible suspect in Macho's murder "but investigative leads dissipated and the case went cold." Donna MachoĪround the time she disappeared, Harvey was arrested in several sexual assaults as well as an unrelated murder. A Boy Scout troop leader found her skeletal remains in a wooded area in Cranbury on April 2, 1995, and her identity was confirmed by dental records. Macho, 19, went missing from the East Windsor home where she resided with her parents and sisters on or about Feb. Platkin and the Mercer County prosecutor's office last week announced what they called "the conclusive identification" of Nathaniel Harvey, formerly of East Windsor, as the person responsible for the sexual assault and murder of Donna Macho. The state's attorney general said the case was finally cracked when investigators took a "fresh look at this decades-old mystery." Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn't found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.
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