A Connecticut man with a prior domestic violence arrest called 911 to report that he had fatally stabbed his girlfriend at his Stratford home, police said Tuesday.
Stanley Mulvey, 67, called Stratford Police around 7 p.m. Monday to say he had “just stabbed” his girlfriend, 62-year-old Megan McShane, and that he “wanted to kill himself,” Capt. Jerry Pinto said in a statement released early Tuesday.
Police responded to the Griffin Street residence and found Mulvey lying on top of McShane, who was unresponsive, on the kitchen floor, officials said. Both were covered in blood.
Officers also found a large kitchen knife covered in blood near the two.
Mulvey — a convicted felon previously arrested in a domestic violence incident involving McShane in May 2025 — refused to get off the victim and had to be forcibly removed, Pinto said.
He was then handcuffed, put into a police vehicle and taken to police headquarters, where he was charged with murder and interfering with a police officer.
McShane was pronounced dead at the scene from “obvious homicidal injuries,” Pinto said.
According to police, Mulvey admitted several times to investigators that he had killed McShane
He is currently being held on a $1 million bond and is due in court later on Tuesday, officials said.
The town of Stratford, in Fairfield County, sits along the Long Island Sound and is about an hour’s drive from New York City.
