Loudoun Police Question N.C. Man on Disappearance of Ashburn Woman: Media Report

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A man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of a 21-year-old Ashburn woman may have said things to his girlfriend that implicate him in the 2011 incident, a Washington TV station reported Monday.

Detectives from the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office have interviewed Ronald Roldan in North Carolina about the case of Bethany Decker, who vanished four years ago from her Ashburn apartment, according to WJLA Channel 7. The young mother and wife of a soldier in Afghanistan was five months pregnant when she disappeared.

Decker and her husband were having problems; while he was overseas, she became involved with Roldan, a waiter at the time. Roldan was never charged in her disappearnace, and he later moved to North Carolina.

His girlfriend in North Carolina recently told the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, that during a violent argument, Roldan told her he could “make people disappear,” according to WJLA.

Roldan is in jail and awaiting trial for attempted murder. The charges stem from an incident in November, when he allegedly beat and then shot the woman during a violent argument at their home in Pinehurst, N.C.

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