An arrest was made in the 15-year-old cold case murder of 19-year-old Brittany Danielle McGlone May 4, 2007. McGlone was found dead at her boyfriend’s home in the Lake Winnsboro area and until last Thursday, no arrests had been made. 

Chad Earl Carr of Winnsboro was arrested by Wood County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Chilson and Texas Ranger John Vance, who traveled to Dallas and located Carr on Stemmons Freeway just north of downtown.

On Wednesday, a warrant for his arrest had been obtained by the sheriff’s office. 

Carr was booked into the Wood County Jail on capital murder charges. His bond was set at $1 million, and he remained jailed as of Tuesday.

McGlone was beaten, sexually assaulted and murdered by massive trauma to the head. She was found at the residence located in the 200 block of Wood County Road 4837.

Her case remained without a suspect being named all these years.

Responding to a 911 call, Wood County deputies found her unresponsive and covered with blood from head wounds.

McGlone had been working at Alco in Winnsboro and had started working at Lowe’s in Mt. Vernon. She had gone to her boyfriend Jeff Stogner’s home after a night shift at Lowe’s.

Sheriff Kelly Cole and the Wood County Sheriff’s Office have worked on the cold case over the past year and a half since Cole was elected sheriff.

McGlone’s mother and family never gave up hope the case could be solved. They established a Facebook page, ‘Who killed Brittany McGlone’ seeking any help that could be offered in the case.

The suspect, Carr, wrote on the page Feb. 25, “Also, I wanted to send a big (an extended middle finger emoji was placed here) to anyone and everyone not minding their own damn business.” 

In an interview on KTYX Channel 19 in Tyler, Brittany’s sister, Hope McGlone, thanked Sheriff Cole.  “He’s the first sheriff, the first administration, that actually has made an effort to actually do it again (investigate),” Hope said. “It was a little unexpected. I just never kind of thought I would see this day honestly. It’s a good thing, but at the same time it’s just a beginning. It’s another chapter, a chapter we have been waiting on for 15 years.”

Sheriff Cole is unable to divulge specifics on the case.

“We went and obtained the warrants and Capt. Chilson and Texas Ranger Vance went to Dallas where they had located him,” Cole said. “We have worked hard to try and start to bring closure to the family. It’s still a long way off, but this is for the family and their loved ones. We will still take any information if anyone has anything else they want to add to it. This is just the first step.”