{"id":890723,"date":"2026-06-25T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:44:15","slug":"woman-sentenced-to-more-than-21-years-in-prison-in-murder-of-72-year-old-bucks-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890723\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced to more than 21 years in prison in murder of 72-year-old Bucks man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Philadelphia woman will spend at least 21 years in prison for killing a senior citizen in his Bucks County home, stealing his car and running to Tennessee where she pretended to be his wife.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Macklin, 48, was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 1\/2 to 50 years in state prison for the 2023 killing of 72-year-old Richard \u201cScott\u201d MacFarland.<\/p>\n<p>MacFarland was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/woman-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-of-bucks-county-man\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found on the floor<\/a> of his Wrightstown home on Apple Hill Road in October of 2023. Police discovered his body had not only been moved after he was stabbed to death, but he\u2019d been cleaned and dressed in different clothes.<\/p>\n<p>According to testimony from a former cellmate of Macklin\u2019s at her sentencing hearing, the defendant stabbed and killed MacFarland because he woke her up to ask for help finding his shoe. Macklin pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, theft and related charges for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said MacFarland gave her a place to live, yet their relationship was described as friendly but \u201cvolatile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macklin repeatedly stabbed MacFarland, then cleaned and dressed him before taking jewelry, blank checks, and his 2013 Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n<p>The same day MacFarland\u2019s body was found, Macklin was arrested in Tennessee, on her way to Mexico, for refusing to pay for food. She told police she was his late wife, showing law enforcement the woman\u2019s social security card and a blank check. However, investigators said she gave inconsistent statements and was eventually connected to the murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A Philadelphia woman will spend at least 21 years in prison for killing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":890724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,7984,4219,9620,1448,2830,1311,17024,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-890723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-bucks-county","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-sentencing","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116808218345282824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}