Missing Fredonia Graduate Found Dead In Hungary
A woman with ties to Fredonia has been found murdered in Hungary.
According to police in Budapest, Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse practitioner who was living in Portland Ore., was murdered in Budapest while on vacation. The suspect in her death, a 37-year-old man from Ireland, confessed to the police and showed the place where he hid her body.
He was seen together with the her in several places in Budapest’s downtown before her disappearance. They arrested him in front of his 7th district apartment, the Daily News Hungary reported.
Michalski is a 2010 Fredonia High School graduate who previously worked at Kaleida Health in Buffalo.
Bors, a Hungarian tabloid, reported Michalski’s friend traveled home and realized that she was missing after the owner of the Airbnb called because she left her belongings in the apartment Monday.
A GoFundMe set up to search for Michalski had raised more than $33,000 through Friday afternoon.
According to a Facebook post shared by her friends, Michalski was last seen at Barack & Szilva restaurant in the Jewish Quarter of Budapest at 10 p.m. Monday, the Daily News Hungary reported. Her friends said they received some photos from her shortly after that. The pictures were taken at Szimpla Kert, a Budapest ruin pub.