Surprisingly, they found Mayrand hiding in a closet, and swiftly arrested him, as he had violated his parole by leaving the halfway house back at Massachusetts. When questioned about Judith, Edward gave conflicting statements, claiming to have last seen her in the motel, when she got upset and left because Mayrand was seen dancing and talking to other women. He admitted to giving away Whitney's necklace and watch to Gladu and Taylor, as well as being in possession of Judith's gun and the Ford Mustang for about a week, before he abandoned it in Fitzwilliam. Despite this, authorities determined there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with murder, and instead jailed him for violating his parole. On November 8, a hunter discovered Whitney's skeletal remains buried in a shallow grave off Route 119, in Winchester, New Hampshire. Like Daneault, it appeared that she was strangled with pieces of her own clothing, but in Judith's case, the killer also tied a drawstring from her raincoat around her neck. Mayrand was released yet again in October 1988, but the following year was arrested for possessing a weapon, which felons are prohibited from doing. He was jailed for two-and-a-half years in the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord, where he hinted at his two murders to other inmates, but it wasn't enough to charge him. After his release, he moved out of state to a house in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1994, he met 46-year-old Patricia Paquette at a drinking lounge, and the couple were last seen together. On December 21, Paquette's dismembered remains were found stuffed in several plastic garbage bags, in an abandoned building just around the corner where Mayrand was residing. She had been strangled to death prior to the dismemberment. Edward Mayrand remained on the run until February 1995, when he was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut. He was extradited back to Rhode Island, where he was convicted of the second-degree murder of Paquette and sentenced to 35–60 years' imprisonment. Daneault's and Whitney's murders remained cold cases until 2010, when the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit, assisted by the Massachusetts State Police and the Worcester District Attorney's Office, announced that they were officially reinvestigating both of them. In June 2011, as they were preparing search warrants to obtain a DNA sample from Mayrand, they learned that he was gravely ill. Seizing the opportunity, they obtained a sample, and in September 2014, they finally managed to link him to the killings.