The Sussex County Prosecutor provided new details Sunday, after the arrest of a suspect in a nearly 36-year-old cold case murder mystery. Lisa McBride, 27, vanished from her small lake home in the Highland Lakes section of Vernon in June 1990. Her remains were found in woods near the Delaware Ri ver four months later. Robert William McCaffrey, 54, of Manteo, North Carolina was taken into custody Friday night by a task force in Dare County, North Carolina, Vernon Township police said in a statement Saturday. “This decades-old cold case was solved through significant advancements in DNA technology, combined with the relentless investigative efforts,” said Sussex Prosecutor Daniel Perez in a statement. “Robert McCaffrey Jr.’s arrest marks a major breakthrough, bringing long-awaited progress toward justice for the family of Lisa Marie McBride.” Perez did not specify how DNA led to a break in the case, but promised “Additional details will be released as they become available.” McCaffrey is charged with 1st degree murder, kidnapping and burglary. McCaffrey formerly resided in Charleston County, South Carolina and Sussex County according to Perez. At least two Charleston TV stations report McCaffrey was once the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Gayle McCaffrey. She vanished in 2012 and has not been seen since. McBride’s family desperately kept the case in the public eye for years after her death, according to NBC New York’s partners at the Bergen Record. McBride was an executive secretary at Lakeland State Bank in West Milford.She was a dancer through her school years, performing with a troupe in Romania at age 16, according to the Record. She was also an amateur competitive shooter and avid hiker. “We’re still handing the uncertainty,” McBride’s father George told the Record in 2003, 13 years after her killing. “We still go on living. But we think of her on holidays, on birthdays — every day really.” A 17-member task force investigated the disappearance, with help from the FBI. The case was featured on the national TV show: “Missing: Reward.” Police did not say in Saturday’s statement whether investigators believe McCaffrey knew McBride. Vernon Township Police, New Jersey State Police and the Sussex County Prosecutor’s Office coordinated with local authorities to arrest McCaffrey, who is being held in Dare County pending extradition. Police ask anyone with information about the case to call the Detective Bureau at 973-764-6155 or email [email protected] . The Bergen Record contributed to this report ...read more read less