A woman who grew up in Fredonia and went missing in Hungary has been found dead.
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.
A vigil will take place at Barker Common at the Gazebo at 6 p.m. Saturday in the village. Pastor Jim LaBarr of the Harvest Chapel Free Methodist Church will help lead the service.