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Gardai are still checking on information
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supplied by members of the public
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in response to Garda...
..the search has all
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the hallmarks of a murder inquiry.
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..the family say her disappearance
is totally out of character.
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This is a story in two parts.
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..to her family, she never arrived...
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Throughout the 1990s,
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a series of young women vanish
without a trace.
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..the American student Annie
McCarrick disappeared...
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..Someone knows...
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..Patricia McAuley...
..Mary Cummins...
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..found traces of blood in the
house.
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Now Gardai believe Deirdre Jacob
was killed....
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If there is no body, then you
have no crime scene.
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Leaving their families looking for
answers.
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It's as if she had disappeared into
thin air.
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In three of the cases,
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there were very good suspects.
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A false alibi hindered the case
greatly.
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Most of these cases remain
unsolved decades later.
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Raising fresh questions about how
they were investigated.
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What were they appealing for? She
was giving them the information,
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but nobody came to get it from
her.
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Is this a missing case,
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or is it a murder case?
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What else could they have missed?
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Today Gardai upgraded the Anna
McCarrick case to a murder
inquiry.
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Prompting fears that the same
killer may have abducted some of
these women.
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There could be a serial killer
roaming Kildare, Dublin, the
mountains.
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Dumping their bodies.
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Within an area that becomes known
as the Vanishing Triangle.
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It's 1995...
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...and 26-year-old American woman
Annie McCarrick has been missing for
two years.
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The student from Long
Island in New York went missing...
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Annie McCarrick's mother
had been due to visit her daughter
a few days after she went missing.
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Annie was my only child.
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Here we are, in merry old Ireland!
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ANNIE'S VOICE: I really don't wanna
leave but,
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can't wait to see ya at Christmas.
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My fondest wish would just be to
find out what happened to her.
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Bye, mom!
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Annie!
Let's go, Annie!
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Then in November, another young
woman vanishes.
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Jo Jo Dullard was
abducted while hitching a lift...
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Jo Jo Dullard disappears from Moone,
County Kildare in November 1995.
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She called a friend at
around 11.15pm,
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from the Kildare village of Moone.
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She was having problems hitching a
lift,
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but said she would call when she
arrived home.
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Fiona Pender from Tullamore, County
Offaly,
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vanishes in August 1996.
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At 6 o'clock that
morning,
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she was in her flat at Church
Street in the town,
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when her boyfriend left for work.
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Six months later in February 1997,
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17-year-old Ciara Breen disappears.
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Ciara Breen went missing
from her home in Bachelor's Walk in
Dundalk.
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Like Annie McCarrick, all of the
women seem to have vanished without
a trace.
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Then, two more women disappear
within months of each other.
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Fiona Sinnott disappeared
in 1998...
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A young mother, Fiona Sinnott from
Wexford, vanishes in February 1998.
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Fiona went out
socialising with friends in a pub
in Broadway in County Wexford.
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She then walked home and was last
reported, seen at her house the
next day,
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but hasn't been seen since.
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Five months later, 18-year-old
Deirdre Jacob is snatched outside
her home,
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near Newbridge in County
Kildare.
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After visiting a local
bank,
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she was walking towards her home on
the outskirts of the town.
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The Gardai now say they're
concerned about her whereabouts.
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The disappearances of these six
women,
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within a so-called 'Murder
Triangle',
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stretching from Dundalk in the
North, to Wexford in the South,
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and across to Tullamore in the
Midlands,
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provokes a public outcry.
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WOMAN: It actually scares you to
think that somebody can actually
go missing.
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Just like that.
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WOMAN: It's a mystery anyway.
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And how it's going to be
solved, I do not know.
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Between 1996 and 1998, there's a
noticeable change in peoples'
attitudes towards,
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walking the streets at night,
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thumbing lifts and things like
that.
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There's a certain fear and panic,
felt by the public at large.
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Because they thought...'was there a
serial killer out there targetting,
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'lone females?'
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This is quite extraordinary that,
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there could be, a serial killer
operating in Ireland,
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who is...killing women,
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and dumping their bodies.
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With no body and no crime scene,
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the disappearances of all six women,
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are officially classified as missing
person cases.
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At that stage, missing persons are
treated as a local investigation.
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It'd be then up to the local
Superintendent,
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to increase the manpower that's
involved in the investigation,
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or maybe to bring in outside
assistance to help with the
investigation.
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Amid mounting public concern the
Garda authorities decide to act.
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We must assume,
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as police investigators that
they're dead.
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And I'm sorry to have to say that,
but we have to face reality.
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In October 1998, Commissioner Pat
Byrne,
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announces the establishment of
Operation Trace.
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For the first time,
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local investigations into the
missing women,
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will be examined by a single
national team.
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We included six missing women,
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which were Annie McCarrick,
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Fiona Pender,
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Jo Jo Dullard,
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Fiona Sinnott,
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Ciara Breen,
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and Deirdre Jacob.
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The idea was to establish, was
there a common link.
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The team will also look
at the records of people
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who have shown serious sexual
violence against women.
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The investigation invariably puts
people like that under the
microscope.
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This man, Assistant Commissioner
Tony Hickey, is hand-picked to lead
the Operation Trace team.
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We tried to learn from what was
being done in other countries.
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And at a very early stage, I
selected half a dozen people.
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An inspector, couple of sergeants,
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couple of detectives.
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I had known them, they all had
pretty good track records.
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They were all conscientious
investigators.
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One of those experienced detectives,
is Alan Bailey.
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It was unique in that it was the
first operation within the state
that was set up specifically,
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to target six specific crimes,
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to see if we were dealing with a
serial killer.
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So you come in with a fresh pair of
eyes.
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We had an open mind when we
started.
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There was research done into the
whole background of the victims,
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and we looked at geographical
profiling.
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We also did a system called
victimology,
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as in, did they share a boyfriend,
did they share a school and things
like that.
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All these things were pieced
together,
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if we're looking for a serial
killer.
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We have no bodies at this stage.
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We've no crime scene, which is
extraordinary, makes it
extraordinarily difficult.
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With Operation Trace, in many
respects,
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we didn't even have proof that a
crime had been committed.
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But Operation Trace has no powers to
critically examine how local Gardai
initially investigated the cases.
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With Operation Trace, we had to be
very careful,
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not to give the impression that we
were there to criticise the initial
investigation.
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Code named Operation
Trace,
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they will be Gardai who had not
worked on the investigations,
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so that they could take a fresh
look at them.
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We did find some pushback,
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to be told our role wasn't
investigative.
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We found that to be...rather
frustrating because,
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on the one hand, here we are with
an overview of all six cases.
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We felt best placed, to comment on
them,
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and maybe to highlight aspects of
the investigation.
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Operation Trace soon expands its
remit, to include more cases of
missing women.
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The aim is to help build a better
profile of a potential killer.
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Out of necessity, we have broadened
it.
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What we're trying to establish
is...is there something there
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that we haven't hit on?
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We were advised that maybe six
cases mightn't be enough.
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The search has all the
hallmarks of a murder enquiry,
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but all the Gardai will say
officially,
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is they are treating the
disappearance of Phyllis Murphy,
as that of a missing person.
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One of the cases Operation Trace
adds to its list,
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stretches back almost 20 years.
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Phyllis vanished after
leaving the home of her friend.
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Phyllis was one of eleven.
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She was very quiet.
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Very sensible girl.
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She loved life, she loved children.
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She always said she'd love to be a
children's nurse.
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Phyllis worked in the
Curragh Knitwear factory...
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She worked in the factory as a
cutter, and she loved the job.
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Very loyal person.
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She'd called here to see her work
mate Barbara,
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to arrange to go to a dance later
that night.
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She left the house,
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and walked up to the bus stop.
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In 1979, Phyllis Murphy was
standing at bus stop,
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outside the Keadeen Hotel in
Newbridge.
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She didn't get on the 7 o'clock
bus.
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She was waiting for a bus, and she
obviously got a lift.
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Everyone who knew her,
makes a point,
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she would never have taken a lift
from a stranger.
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So it follows, whoever gave her a
lift that night,
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was known to her.
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The body was found just
before 12 o'clock today,
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lying in woodland, about 15 feet
from the side of the main Hollywood
to Turlough Hill Road,
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about a mile from Wicklow Gap.
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A month after Phyllis goes missing,
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her family get the news they fear
most.
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She had 25 marks on her body,
bruises,
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where she'd been hit.
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One Guard said that the mark of his
boot was still in her head,
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where she had been kicked.
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To think that someone did that to
her,
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that was just...that was
heartbreaking.
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About 2,000 people from
throughout the county,
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attended the funeral.
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The heavy snow too had postponed
the search for clues to the girl's
killer.
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Despite the discovery of her body,
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by 1998 when Operation Trace was
established,
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Phyllis Murphy's murderer remains at
large.
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Could he be the serial killer Trace
is looking for?
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The Operation Trace team soon
becomes aware,
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that behind the scenes, this man,
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Detective Sergeant Brendan McArdle,
of the Technical Bureau,
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has been examining potential links
between the recent missing women
cases,
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and Phyllis Murphy's killing, 20
years earlier.
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In 1979, when Phyllis Murphy went
missing,
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I was a uniformed Guard attached to
Naas station.
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I was hopeful if I could get the
breakthrough in the Phyllis Murphy
case,
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that this may have led to
establishing the killer for some of
the other cases.
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I could see commonalities between
some of the other disappeared,
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and this case.
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Deirdre Jacob went missing in
Newbridge,
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Jo Jo Dullard went missing in
Moone.
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Phyllis Murphy went missing in
Newbridge.
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The three of those locations were
in Kildare,
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which is remarkable.
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As a forensic expert, McArdle is
also aware,
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that semen samples taken from
Phyllis Murphy's body 20 years
earlier,
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could in time yield vital clues.
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The body had been lying there we
believe, from shortly she was
abducted,
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and she was in a perfect state of
preservation.
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A body when it's found, can tell a
story of what happened to it,
prior to death,
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and maybe after death.
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And as a scientist it's our job to
help elaborate that story.
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This is Dr. Maureen Smith, an expert
in DNA profiling,
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and a colleague of Brendan
McArdle's.
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He always maintained his interest
in the Phyllis Murphy case.
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It would come up on fairly regular
intervals in our conversations,
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as to, 'is there anything can be
done in this case?'
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As DNA techniques improve, the two
forensic experts begin to wonder, if
they might have a trump card.
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There were over 50 preserved blood
samples, from males, that had been
taken in the early stages
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of the investigation.
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And the possibility now existed,
that for a DNA profile existed,
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that where a DNA profile from the
semen swabs of Phyllis Murphy,
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could be compared with the profile
from these blood samples.
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But to find a match between the
semen and blood samples,
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McArdle will have to have to deliver
them in person,
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to a specialist laboratory in
England for examination.
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#
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I'm travelling through the airport,
hopefully to solve a murder.
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#
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I hold onto this bag, my personal
luggage,
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at no stage did I allow that out of
my reach or out of my hands.
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But the first batch fails to produce
a successful match.
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He convinces his bosses to allow him
bring a second batch over to the UK.
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Then, he gets a call he'll never
forget.
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I was based in Carlingford area at
Templetown Beach.
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And I got a call from the forensic
laboratory in the UK,
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and they told me that they had
identified a suspect from the last
batch,
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that I had delivered.
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And they told me his name.
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I asked him to spell his name and I
wrote it down there and then.
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John Crerar.
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I was in shock.
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This was the killer of Phyllis
Murphy, after 20 years.
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McArdle immediately contacts
Operation Trace.
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Brendan McArdle rang me,
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and he said 'there's a hit on the
Phyllis Murphy case.
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Down here, he was one of about 40
or 50 people from whom blood
samples were taken.
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He lived in the locality.
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Naturally we put his whole
movements and everything that we
could find out about him,
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under a microscope, and examined
his work records at the time.
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But there's a problem.
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Crerar has a cast iron alibi for
the night Phyllis disappeared.
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If the science contradicts alibi
evidence,
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when the alibi warrants further
investigation by the Gardai.
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During the initial investigation in
1980, a work colleague told Gardai,
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that Crerar was at work with him on
the evening Phyllis Murphy
disappeared.
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Armed with the new DNA evidence,
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detectives revisit this alibi
witness.
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Alibis, they're as good as the
weakest link.
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It was a workmate, not knowing what
he had done and not suspecting,
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they probably thought maybe he had
slipped off maybe for a few pints
coming up to Christmas.
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The man gave the alibi on the
basis, he thought John would have
lost the job.
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And unfortunately for 20 years,
that alibi stood firm.
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With Crerar's alibi broken, the
Operation Trace team,
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moves quickly.
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After he left his place of work,
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he was stopped in his car and was
arrested.
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The one thing he did take with him,
was a religious statuette,
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and I saw John Crerar bless
himself, and pray.
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And I said to myself, 'that's a
most unusual reaction for a man
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'who's just been arrested for
murder.'
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After nearly a quarter of
a century after he raped and
strangled Phyllis Murphy,
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John Crerar is tonight beginning a
life sentence for her murder.
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After a four week trial, and with
his alibi broken,
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in October 2002, John Crerar is
found guilty.
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Convicted by unanimous
jury verdict,
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he always denied the charge,
302
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and called the compelling DNA
evidence,
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'absolutely impossible'.
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For Phyllis Murphy's family,
305
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the realisation she had been killed
by someone known to her,
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is shocking.
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He was a local man,
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lived in the town here.
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We knew him, he knew the family.
310
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Two of my sisters babysat for him.
311
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John Crerar contradicts
evidence...
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Only for that man retracted his
alibi,
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that was the reason John was Crerar
got.
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He did the right thing.
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Even after 20 years, it's important
because, then the family can rest,
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that they're not looking at
everyone,
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that they're not worrying, is it
the person that's walking behind
them going up to town.
318
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Was it that person that killed
their family?
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After Crerar's arrest in 1999,
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the disappearances stop.
321
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Might he be the missing link
Operation Trace is looking for?
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On the face of it, Crerar would
have to be a serious suspect.
323
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He wasn't 100 miles away from what
we had thought happened to our
missing women.
324
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Having said that, despite all the
investigations that were done,
325
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and all the background checks, and
everything else,
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we didn't acquire any evidence to
connect Crerar.
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While Crerar is in custody, two men
out hunting,
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stumble upon a terrifying scene.
329
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What happens next raises even more
questions for Tony Hickey and the
Operation Trace team.
330
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If Larry Murphy hadn't been caught
attempting to kill that woman,
331
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the Gardai would never know about
him.
333
00:20:20,638 --> 00:20:23,480
It's February 2000, and Operation Trace
334
00:20:23,519 --> 00:20:26,680
has been up and running for
almost 18 months.
335
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John Crerar is tonight beginning a
life sentence for murder.
336
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,119
Despite some early success
assisting in the capture
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00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,160
of killer John Crerar, the team is
unable to prove
338
00:20:37,199 --> 00:20:38,400
any link between him
339
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and the other missing women
they're investigating.
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Then, on a Friday evening in
February 2000,
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a woman leaving work in Carlow
makes her way towards her car.
342
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She heard somebody behind her,
turned around, and it was a man...
343
00:20:58,919 --> 00:21:02,599
..who punched her in the face, she
fell backwards into her own car,
344
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he pushed her into the foot well,
345
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,599
he got her out of the car, and
into his boot.
347
00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:15,760
He drove through Carlow Town with
the radio blaring in his car,
348
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to drown out any possible sound,
or thoughts, or help.
349
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She saw a child seat in the back
of the car.
350
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She saw, like this guy is a father
probably. This guy has kids.
351
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He told her, the circumstances of
his own background,
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married with children.
353
00:21:29,919 --> 00:21:32,559
Why would he tell me those things
if he's going to let me go?
355
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,440
He drove to a wooded area.
356
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And then, having repeatedly raped
her, he then took a plastic bag.
357
00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,760
He tried to strangle her, he tried
to kill her.
358
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He tried to murder her.
360
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At was at that stage then, when
she was
361
00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:13,839
half in and half out of
the boot of his car,
362
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that he was disturbed.
364
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Two men out hunting in the woods
365
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,599
just happened upon this horrific scene.
367
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,080
The woman, terrified, actually
tried to get away
368
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,400
from the people who were actually
her rescuers.
369
00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,080
They recognised the man who had
done this to her.
370
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,599
They gave the Gardai the name
Larry Murphy.
371
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,879
Larry of course, because of the
modus operandi he used
372
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in the abduction and assault,
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became a person of interest to the
Operation Trace investigation.
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00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,599
He ticked a lot of boxes for us,
and we went back to school,
375
00:23:18,638 --> 00:23:22,040
to work and all that, just to
establish a picture of him
376
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and see could we connect him to
any of our missing persons.
377
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,440
Larry Murphy - he was a jobbing
carpenter,
378
00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:33,839
he lived in Baltinglass, he came
from a local family there.
379
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Was well known.
He had a wife, two children,
380
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:44,879
and earned his living driving
around Kildare, North Wicklow.
381
00:23:47,638 --> 00:23:50,879
Larry would have known I'd say an
awful lot of the area.
382
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,599
Spent a lot of time alone in the
woods hunting, and...
383
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,680
a funny individual, to say the
least.
384
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He would have been considered to
be totally antisocial.
385
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,800
If he went into a pub, he drank
alone, and nobody mixed with him.
386
00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:07,000
Nobody wanted to be party to him.
388
00:24:08,519 --> 00:24:11,319
Larry attempted to remove himself
from the suggestion
389
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,239
that he was somebody who stalked
and targeted women.
390
00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:15,720
He said it was a random act,
391
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,760
that he just happened to be in
the car park at the time,
392
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,638
and just happened to see a lone
female.
393
00:24:20,879 --> 00:24:22,559
Now we would say that that's
394
00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:24,519
totally at variance with the
facts.
395
00:24:26,638 --> 00:24:30,400
And we've no doubt that he had
selected the victim with care.
396
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,400
He never had any criminal
convictions.
397
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,279
If Larry Murphy hadn't been caught
attempting to kill that woman,
398
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,480
the Gardai would never know about
him.
399
00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:43,760
Laurence Murphy aged 36 of
Woodfield,
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00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:46,638
Baltinglass County Wicklow
pleaded guilty
401
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,680
at the Central Criminal Court
today to four charges
402
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,160
of raping a woman, and one charge
403
00:24:51,279 --> 00:24:53,879
of attempted murder on February
the 11th 2000.
404
00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:55,800
Mr. Murphy collapsed in court
405
00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:58,519
after he had pleaded guilty to the
first four charges.
406
00:25:00,638 --> 00:25:02,800
By the time Larry Murphy is
jailed,
407
00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:05,638
the Operation Trace team
is unable to uncover
408
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,119
any connection between him and the
other missing women.
409
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,879
But he remains a person of
interest.
410
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,319
Well from our point of view, and
again, it was quite close
411
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,680
to where we were operating
from and it was in the
region concerned.
412
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More or less the centre of what
had been called the triangle.
413
00:25:24,239 --> 00:25:26,480
And Larry Murphy on the face of
it,
414
00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:28,839
no more than John Crerar at
the time,
415
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and Larry Murphy from our point of
view,
416
00:25:31,199 --> 00:25:36,319
you had to look at both of them
seriously because of what they had
done.
417
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And what they were capable of.
418
00:25:38,199 --> 00:25:40,279
And their modus operandi.
419
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,800
There's no obvious link and
you're saying to yourself,
420
00:25:46,839 --> 00:25:50,760
he ticks a lot of boxes. So he was
a person of interest.
421
00:25:57,519 --> 00:26:00,879
By this time, Operation Trace has
added the disappearance
422
00:26:00,919 --> 00:26:04,599
of another young woman - 22 year
old Imelda Keenan - to its list.
423
00:26:08,638 --> 00:26:11,400
Waterford City Centre, 1994.
424
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:14,760
The last time Imelda Keenan was
seen was on Lombard Street,
425
00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:16,760
close to her William Street flat.
426
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,519
Usually I'm out walking,
427
00:26:22,559 --> 00:26:25,040
and I meet a terrible lot of
people coming at me.
428
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,279
Looking at me. And I do be
thinking deep down,
429
00:26:27,319 --> 00:26:29,519
"That's someone that knows
something.
430
00:26:29,519 --> 00:26:30,919
Is that the person I'm looking
for?"
431
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,839
Detectives hope the can establish
potential links between the
disappearance,
432
00:26:35,879 --> 00:26:38,638
and the other cases
they are investigating.
433
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:44,559
Reviewing the file, Alan Bailey is
surprised to learn how her case has
been categorised.
434
00:26:45,919 --> 00:26:48,720
It was categorised as a possible
suicide.
435
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,239
That left the door open
that it may not have been,
436
00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:54,839
but I'd be afraid a category
like that
437
00:26:54,879 --> 00:26:57,080
could colour the approach to it.
438
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,680
But this comes as news to
the Keenan family.
439
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,599
They say they were not aware of
this approach to the case
440
00:27:04,638 --> 00:27:05,720
until now.
441
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,359
It leaves them wondering if vital
clues may have been missed
442
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,359
because the case was not
immediately investigated as a
possible murder.
443
00:27:15,919 --> 00:27:19,919
Imelda would never ever think of
suicide.
444
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,400
I don't think Imelda would ever
consider that.
446
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:32,239
It is only now after 29 years that
Gerry is able to acknowledge
publicly for the first time
447
00:27:32,279 --> 00:27:35,519
that he believes his sister met a
violent death.
448
00:27:37,519 --> 00:27:39,239
Deep down,
449
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:43,160
in me own heart, I think that
Imelda was murdered in Waterford.
450
00:27:47,879 --> 00:27:49,919
I think Imelda...
451
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,119
knew her murderer.
452
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,040
The Keenan family are now looking
for answers from the Gardai.
453
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,599
They are also requesting that
Imelda's case
454
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,199
be upgraded to a full murder
inquiry.
455
00:28:05,199 --> 00:28:09,319
Is this a missing case, or is it a
murder case?
456
00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:13,839
After 29 years, this has to be a
murder case.
457
00:28:13,879 --> 00:28:16,400
We want the Gardai to look into it
more for us.
458
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,638
Give us peace.
459
00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:23,440
I always believed that there is
two or three people here
460
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,400
in Waterford City holding back
vital information.
461
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,279
We want someone to come forward.
462
00:28:30,319 --> 00:28:32,359
Please, and just take us out of
this pain.
463
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,519
By 2001, the Operation Trace
team can find no links between
464
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:40,639
Imelda Keenan's
disappearance,
465
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,080
and the other missing women
cases.
466
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,519
Despite the Keenan family's
questions and concerns,
467
00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:57,080
An Garda Siochana's response is
that the case remains listed as a
missing person investigation.
469
00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:12,040
The formal Operation Trace lasted
for almost three years.
470
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,440
And then t'was wound down because
471
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,680
we felt we couldn't go any
further than we had gone.
472
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,040
We didn't establish any link
between all the cases.
473
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,760
We believe that certainly three,
474
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,599
there are what would consider
good suspects.
475
00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:33,760
The three cases that we are
satisfied
476
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,519
that the perpetrator was known to
the victim,
477
00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:39,080
were the disappearance of Fiona
Sinnott...
478
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,319
News report: Fiona went out
socialising with friends
479
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,480
in a pub in County Wexford.
480
00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:45,080
Anyone that knows anything, please
come forward.
481
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,319
It's a long time now.
482
00:29:51,239 --> 00:29:52,800
Do you think there are people out
there that do know?
483
00:29:52,839 --> 00:29:54,000
Both: Yep.
484
00:29:54,519 --> 00:29:55,839
..Ciara Breen...
485
00:29:55,879 --> 00:30:00,160
17 year old Ciara Breen went
missing from her home in Dundalk.
486
00:30:00,199 --> 00:30:03,040
I feel in my heart you will come
forward.
487
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,360
..and Fiona Pender.
488
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,000
Fiona Pender was last seen in her
home in Tullamore on the 23rd of
August.
489
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,919
Fiona was my baby.
490
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,519
And I need to find her.
491
00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:17,599
And... she was going to have her
own baby as well.
492
00:30:17,639 --> 00:30:21,680
And just, no one needs to find
her more than I do.
494
00:30:23,559 --> 00:30:28,480
Operation Trace identifies chief
suspects in these three missing cases.
495
00:30:29,319 --> 00:30:32,239
But when the team disbands in 2001,
496
00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:37,599
nobody is charged. In part because
the suspects have strong alibis.
497
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,919
There's insufficient evidence to
bring it to successful
prosecution.
498
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,760
And simple things like, we had no
body, so we had no proof of death.
499
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,040
The persons whom had been suspected
of involvement had cast iron alibis.
501
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,639
News report: A serious crime review team,
502
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,400
or a so-called cold case
unit has been set up.
503
00:30:58,839 --> 00:31:01,519
After Operation Trace winds down,
504
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:05,199
a new serious crime review team, or
cold case unit,
505
00:31:05,239 --> 00:31:08,480
is established to investigate
unsolved crimes.
506
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:15,040
The cases of Fiona Sinnott and
Fiona Pender are upgraded to
murder,
507
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,720
and suspects arrested.
508
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,319
19 years old, Fiona Sinnott...
..five people were arrested
under...
509
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,519
But no charges are brought.
510
00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:26,040
Their alibis stand firm.
511
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,559
..two men were released.
512
00:31:27,599 --> 00:31:29,080
..Ciara Breen, who was just 17
years...
513
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,639
..the man was arrested around
eight o'clock
514
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,000
this morning in the Dundalk
area...
515
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:36,800
The chief suspect in the case of
Ciara Breen died in 2017.
516
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,680
But three other cases remain where
Gardai can't rule out possible
links.
517
00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:47,519
The three cases are that of Annie
McCarrick,
518
00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:49,199
Jo Jo Dullard,
519
00:31:49,239 --> 00:31:50,519
and Deirdre Jacob.
520
00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:52,599
Today Larry Murphy walked free
after...
521
00:31:52,639 --> 00:31:56,120
Larry Murphy was released from
prison in 2010,
522
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,440
having served two thirds of a 15
year sentence.
523
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,599
..but Murphy did not participate
in any of the treatment
524
00:32:03,639 --> 00:32:05,680
provided for sex offenders in
prison.
525
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,720
In the years that follow, Gardai
continue to treat him
526
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,319
as a person of interest in these
three cases.
527
00:32:12,279 --> 00:32:15,720
One of the few people who spoke
directly to Larry Murphy
528
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,440
about the missing cases is his
brother Tom.
529
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,319
I asked him had anything to do
with the missing women.
530
00:32:24,199 --> 00:32:26,400
I wasn't happy with his answers.
532
00:32:31,559 --> 00:32:33,319
The American
student Annie McCarrick
533
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:34,800
disappeared...
JoJo Dullard...
534
00:32:34,839 --> 00:32:36,160
She may have got to
Enniskerry, and today
535
00:32:36,199 --> 00:32:37,559
they carried out...
The disappearance remains
536
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:39,919
a mystery...Now Gardai
believe Deirdre Jacob was killed
537
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,800
the day of her disappearance...
539
00:32:43,559 --> 00:32:46,760
Gardai cannot rule out links
between the disappearances
540
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,519
of three young women, Deirdre Jacob,
Jo Jo Dullard,
541
00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:51,800
and Annie McCarrick.
543
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,400
In 2016, the Garda cold case unit
completes a review
544
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,120
of the Deirdre Jacob case,
545
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,680
and makes recommendations
to Kildare Gardai.
546
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,120
The family of Deirdre Jacob
547
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,080
have welcomed today's development
in which Gardai have...
548
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,440
In August 2018,
549
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,120
Gardai reclassified the missing
case of Deirdre Jacob
550
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,559
to a full murder inquiry.
551
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,400
Well, it does change everything.
552
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,559
Because we've always had hope that
553
00:33:23,639 --> 00:33:27,000
Deirdre would come back, and that
we would see her again,
554
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,559
and all that, and... it has changed
all that.
555
00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:33,559
And it's very difficult
to hear that.
556
00:33:33,639 --> 00:33:37,040
We will always have, eh, a lot of
questions to ask,
557
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,720
you know, eh, what happened to
Deirdre, why did it happen,
558
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,480
you know, and all that.
559
00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:44,559
So we're never going to get closure
on that,
560
00:33:44,559 --> 00:33:48,360
but we will know...
eh, somewhat more,
561
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,040
of... of what happened, and
that's... that's what we're...
562
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:52,199
we're striving for.
563
00:33:53,639 --> 00:33:55,879
The upgrade is on foot
of what officers call
564
00:33:55,919 --> 00:34:00,319
"substantial and significant new
information."
565
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,519
The upgrade meant that a team of
detectives
566
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:06,559
just pored over the whole file,
567
00:34:06,639 --> 00:34:08,319
everything that was in it,
568
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,239
you know, reappraising witness
statement, the evidence,
569
00:34:11,279 --> 00:34:13,919
all of the CCTV footage that was
taken...
570
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:19,080
Larry Murphy was the subject of
an investigation
571
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,120
into Deirdre Jacob's murder.
572
00:34:24,559 --> 00:34:27,279
In 2011, shortly before I was due
to retire
573
00:34:27,319 --> 00:34:30,440
from the Garda Siochana, at a stage
when I was in the cold case unit,
574
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,360
I was directed to go to
Midlands Prison
575
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,760
to speak to a prisoner there,
who wanted to talk to the Gardai.
576
00:34:36,919 --> 00:34:40,559
Myself and another
Guard went to the prison,
577
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,239
where we met a prisoner
who told us that, in his cell,
578
00:34:44,279 --> 00:34:48,279
Larry Murphy admitted to him that
he had abducted and killed...
579
00:34:48,319 --> 00:34:50,080
eh, Deirdre Jacob.
580
00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:53,760
He said that she was standing on
the side of the road,
581
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,160
he struck her,
dragged her into his car,
582
00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:58,279
drove away, and then killed her
583
00:34:58,319 --> 00:35:00,000
after that.
584
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,639
He actually made a written
statement
585
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,639
containing that allegation.
586
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,480
Whilst I can never say for definite
that
587
00:35:05,518 --> 00:35:07,279
he's telling the truth, I can say
588
00:35:07,319 --> 00:35:08,839
that he presented it all to us
589
00:35:08,879 --> 00:35:11,080
as genuine and believable,
what he's telling us.
590
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,518
If you look at it, everyone says
that he'd quite a lot to lose,
591
00:35:14,559 --> 00:35:17,919
because if the word got out in the
prison that he was an informer,
592
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,160
and he's wearing an informer's
jacket,
593
00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,800
he's going to have a hard time
of it in the prison.
594
00:35:22,839 --> 00:35:25,839
But this prisoner's
statement on its own
595
00:35:25,879 --> 00:35:30,160
is unlikely to be enough to convince
the Director of Public Prosecutions
596
00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:32,040
to charge Larry Murphy.
597
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,080
Detectives believe they need more.
598
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,719
The Jacob family have spent 20 years
599
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,518
hoping for a breakthrough.
600
00:35:40,559 --> 00:35:44,719
Using new techniques, they enhanced
CCTV footage
601
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,639
which identifies a man resembling
Larry Murphy
602
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:52,239
in Newbridge Post Office around the
time that Deirdre Jacob was there.
603
00:35:52,279 --> 00:35:54,919
Gardai now intend to revisit
each witness
604
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,319
and aspect of the investigation.
605
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,760
Then, in 2019,
a witness comes forward
606
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,319
with significant new information.
607
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,000
This witness was driving a Jeep on
the day that Deirdre disappeared,
608
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,160
around 2.30, 3-ish,
that sort of time,
609
00:36:13,199 --> 00:36:16,800
and this witness told Gardai that
he was driving along,
610
00:36:16,839 --> 00:36:19,760
towards Newbridge, a car was coming
towards him,
611
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,559
and from his position in the Jeep,
slightly higher up,
612
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:27,919
he saw a person, eh, in the
footwell of the passenger...
613
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,719
eh, seat... eh, kind of half in the
footwell,
614
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,760
em, and this person was either
laughing or crying.
615
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,279
So Gardai now have three key pieces
of evidence,
616
00:36:38,319 --> 00:36:40,400
they have the CCTV footage,
617
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,639
they have the prisoner,
and they have the Jeep driver.
618
00:36:44,839 --> 00:36:48,120
Investigators are confident that
they now have enough evidence
619
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,719
for a prosecution.
620
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,839
The file that went to the DPP was
the first file to go to the DPP
621
00:36:53,879 --> 00:36:57,360
on Larry Murphy, in relation to any
of the missing women.
622
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,879
But after reviewing the evidence,
623
00:37:00,919 --> 00:37:04,559
in July 2022, the Director of
Public Prosecutions
624
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:08,319
decides not to charge Larry Murphy.
625
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,040
I'm disappointed with...
626
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,480
that the DPP decided not to
prosecute Larry
627
00:37:13,518 --> 00:37:16,919
for the abduction and murder
of Deirdre Jacob.
628
00:37:17,319 --> 00:37:19,360
But at a... at a level,
as an investigator,
629
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,199
knowing what's required
in a court of law,
630
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,680
I'm... I suppose I wasn't that
surprised.
631
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:31,360
Gardai still regard Larry Murphy
as a strong suspect
632
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,440
and they're continuing to
investigate him.
633
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,839
Larry Murphy's estranged brother
Tom
634
00:37:37,879 --> 00:37:42,480
is not surprised that Larry is a
person of interest to the Gardai.
635
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,639
He is shocked by his brother's
previous conviction
636
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,559
for abduction, rape
and attempted murder.
637
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:51,719
It seems like something
638
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,160
that was well practised.
639
00:37:54,199 --> 00:37:56,319
And he had done it before.
640
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,839
He was working in Swift's pub in
Newbridge
641
00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:03,680
when Deirdre Jacob went missing.
642
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,440
He lived about two mile from Moone,
643
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,160
where Jo Jo Dullard went missing,
644
00:38:11,319 --> 00:38:13,319
and I'm suspicious of it.
645
00:38:14,639 --> 00:38:16,680
25 years after Jo Jo Dullard
646
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,680
disappeared without a trace,
647
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,919
the Gardai today announced they had
officially upgraded the case
648
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,440
to a murder investigation.
649
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,760
We have known in our hearts
and have accepted
650
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,680
that Jo Jo is not alive.
651
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,879
And... we are hopeful
652
00:38:30,919 --> 00:38:33,839
that the team will be able to move
this case along further,
653
00:38:33,879 --> 00:38:35,919
and maybe, please God,
654
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,480
find answers to our questions.
655
00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:42,719
Josephine Dullard is now six days
missing.
656
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,760
From early morning, Gardai were
active throughout three counties.
657
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,879
Jo Jo Dullard, she was last seen in Moone,
658
00:38:48,919 --> 00:38:51,120
in a phone box,
she was ringing her friend
659
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,760
and she cut short the phone call,
telling her friend
660
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,680
"Oh, I've just got a lift,"
661
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,400
so... the assumption was that she
got into a car with somebody...
662
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,040
The massive search got underway...
663
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,239
The person who gave her a lift
has never been traced,
664
00:39:04,279 --> 00:39:06,040
and Jo Jo was never seen again.
666
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,400
What changed then, though,
667
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,680
was that Larry Murphy was now a
suspect for the murder
668
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,680
of Deirdre Jacob, which was a few
kilometres down the road
669
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,800
from where JoJo Dullard
was last seen as well.
670
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,559
Today, Larry Murphy's name remains
on the Garda file
671
00:39:29,639 --> 00:39:31,680
as one of a number of
persons of interest
672
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,480
in the Jo Jo Dullard case.
673
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,879
He... is now a free man.
674
00:39:37,919 --> 00:39:40,319
Larry Murphy has never been
charged, so
675
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,279
he can never be compelled
to talk to Gardai.
676
00:39:44,319 --> 00:39:46,839
The evidence against him
is circumstantial,
677
00:39:46,879 --> 00:39:51,080
it's not hard evidence
enough to get a prosecution.
678
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,680
Last time I saw Larry
was in 2005, in Arbour Hill prison.
679
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:02,760
I asked him...
had he anything to do with
680
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,440
the missing women.
681
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,518
I wasn't happy with his answers...
682
00:40:09,559 --> 00:40:10,680
I wasn't at all happy with them.
683
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,879
I didn't get any answers.
684
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,480
I NEVER want to see him again.
685
00:40:17,518 --> 00:40:21,040
I can't begin to comprehend
the suffering
686
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,080
these families are going through.
687
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,160
They get up in the morning
688
00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:27,559
to a house...
689
00:40:27,639 --> 00:40:29,199
their daughter's not there.
690
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,319
They're sitting watching the front
door to open for her to walk in.
691
00:40:34,639 --> 00:40:36,440
I have a daughter meself.
692
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:42,319
I can't begin...
to imagine what it's like.
693
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,360
I just can't.
694
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,639
To date, Gardai have no evidence to
link Larry Murphy
695
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,760
with the disappearance and murder
of Jo Jo Dullard.
697
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:01,839
The new lines of enquiry
698
00:41:01,879 --> 00:41:04,760
prompted by the upgrade of the
Dullard and Jacob cases
699
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,719
to full murder investigations
700
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,360
leave Annie McCarrick's family
hopeful.
701
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,120
This morning I'm making a public
appeal for information.
702
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,360
I want to speak to any person who
had any interaction
703
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,719
with Annie McCarrick
on the 26th of March 1993...
704
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,040
In March of this year,
705
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:22,919
two days before the 30th
anniversary
706
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,639
of Annie's disappearance,
707
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,319
the Garda Commissioner agrees to
Nancy McCarrick's written request
708
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,480
for an upgrade to the case.
709
00:41:31,518 --> 00:41:34,518
There is a person, or persons,
who have information,
710
00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:36,719
who haven't yet spoken to Gardai.
711
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:42,279
It now has all the resources and
powers of a full murder inquiry.
712
00:41:42,319 --> 00:41:45,440
Our great hope
at this point in time
713
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,040
that it...
it might shine a new light,
714
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,480
you never know,
it might prompt someone
715
00:41:50,518 --> 00:41:53,120
to come forward after all these
years.
717
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,319
Gardai cannot rule out a possible
link
718
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,319
between the cases of
Annie McCarrick, Jo Jo Dullard
719
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,199
and Deirdre Jacob.
720
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,000
But they need evidence
to connect them.
721
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,080
An international group of
scientists,
722
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,879
working on their own initiative,
723
00:42:11,919 --> 00:42:16,080
believe they may be able to help.
724
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,839
It has all the hallmarks,
725
00:42:17,879 --> 00:42:20,400
all the earmarks
of a serial killer.
726
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,559
I mean, whoever did this
727
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:24,919
planned it well, organised it well,
728
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,319
executed it well...
729
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,199
If there's no evidence left behind,
730
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,680
this person took great pains to,
uh,
731
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,319
to... to set this whole thing up.
732
00:42:35,518 --> 00:42:38,400
Ken Strange is a former FBI agent
733
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,360
and friend of the McCarrick family.
734
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,719
Uh, Nancy, I wanna introduce you to
some of the...
735
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,639
uh, most wonderful people
in the world,
736
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,800
they've come out today
from far and wide...
737
00:42:51,839 --> 00:42:54,800
I've hitched my wagon to this group
of scientists,
738
00:42:54,839 --> 00:42:57,839
we had, um, two college professors,
739
00:42:57,879 --> 00:43:03,120
one was a geophysicist, the other
was an expert in taphonomy,
740
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,199
and then, uh, we had a...
a world famous
741
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,120
cadaver dog handler,
as part of the group.
742
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,239
Based on years of independent
research
743
00:43:13,279 --> 00:43:15,000
into the vanishing triangle,
744
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,120
this group has identified a site in
County Wicklow
745
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,680
which they say has a hidden
underground chamber.
746
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,919
They believe this could be the
burial place
747
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,839
for the missing women.
748
00:43:26,879 --> 00:43:30,440
They are seeking the help of the
Gardai to search the site.
750
00:43:33,639 --> 00:43:35,400
An Garda Siochana says
751
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,239
it does not comment in advance on
specific sites
752
00:43:38,279 --> 00:43:41,680
that may or may not be the subject
of forensic search
753
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,400
as part of ongoing investigations.
755
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,680
The Gardai, they're not turning
over stones
756
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:52,919
when they don't need to...
to do that,
757
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,239
and that's... that's fine.
758
00:43:55,279 --> 00:43:58,559
But the other thing, and this
worries me a little bit, is...
759
00:43:58,559 --> 00:44:02,680
are they employing other tools,
forensic tools,
760
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,919
scientific tools,
without direct evidence?
761
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,518
Such as a ground radar,
762
00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:11,559
to search for bodies, drones...
763
00:44:11,559 --> 00:44:15,160
Are they enlisting subject matter
experts from other countries?
764
00:44:15,199 --> 00:44:18,400
Other police forces,
such as the FBI?
766
00:44:33,639 --> 00:44:35,879
There isn't a real
thing called a vanishing triangle
767
00:44:35,919 --> 00:44:38,518
into which women step,
and some of them will disappear
768
00:44:38,559 --> 00:44:39,919
and vanish without trace.
769
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,319
But what is very real is that women
vanished without trace
770
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,518
and their bodies have never been
found.
771
00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:47,879
This is quite extraordinary.
772
00:44:47,919 --> 00:44:53,120
I've two words, that I've been
using over and over again,
773
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,680
and that's "someone knows".
774
00:44:56,879 --> 00:44:59,239
Someone knows something.
Mm.
775
00:44:59,279 --> 00:45:00,639
I don't really want justice,
776
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,080
I want to put her into a grave,
777
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:03,518
into a final place.
778
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:05,239
For three decades now,
779
00:45:05,279 --> 00:45:08,559
families of the missing women
lost within a murder triangle
780
00:45:08,639 --> 00:45:11,639
have tirelessly appealed for
information.
781
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,639
Jo Jo was 21 when she was...
We are very concerned about JoJo.
782
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,719
Please let her go!
784
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Fiona Pender was last seen...
Fiona was my baby.
785
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,839
And I need to find her.
786
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:31,919
They believe that someone out there
is hiding the truth,
787
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,680
allowing a killer to walk free.
788
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:40,040
Fiona Sinnott disappeared...
Somebody knows where Fiona is.
789
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,000
But we don't.
790
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,400
And 17-year-old Ciara Breen...
But if she is lying out there,
791
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,080
please don't leave her lying
out there on her own!
792
00:45:49,879 --> 00:45:53,319
Deirdre Jacob was last seen...
There is at least one person
793
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,919
who knows what happened to Deirdre
and where she is,
794
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,239
and we're begging and asking people
out there to help us.
795
00:45:59,279 --> 00:46:02,360
The families have
fought tooth and nail
796
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,319
to have it highlighted,
to have it investigated,
797
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,120
and I'd say "Don't stop."
798
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,480
Alibis given through loyalty,
friendship, fear...
799
00:46:10,518 --> 00:46:13,919
that over the period,
over the passage of time,
800
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,559
that all those things change,
801
00:46:15,559 --> 00:46:18,360
and appear... I might be afraid of
you today, maybe...
802
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,919
a few year's time, you're not
the threat I thought you were,
803
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,120
or maybe you're not the lover
I thought you were.
804
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,480
And these loyalties do change.
807
00:46:38,639 --> 00:46:41,879
She happened to
have a copy of "The Desiderata"
808
00:46:41,919 --> 00:46:45,559
in her Filofax.
809
00:46:45,639 --> 00:46:49,000
It was something that meant
a great deal to her...
810
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,518
certainly for her
to carry it with her,
811
00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:55,360
along with her passport,
and a few pounds...
813
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,919
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste
814
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,559
"and remember what peace
there may be in silence.
815
00:47:11,559 --> 00:47:14,480
"As far as possible,
without surrender,
816
00:47:14,518 --> 00:47:17,559
"be on good terms with all persons.
817
00:47:17,559 --> 00:47:22,518
"Speak your truth quietly and
clearly; and listen to others,
818
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:26,040
"even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
819
00:47:27,559 --> 00:47:32,480
"Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
820
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,680
"You are a child of the universe
821
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,680
"no less than the trees
and the stars;
822
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,680
"you have a right to be here.
823
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,879
"And whether or not it is clear
to you,
824
00:47:46,919 --> 00:47:51,000
"no doubt the universe is
unfolding as it should.
825
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:57,080
"Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
826
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,639
"And whatever your labours and
aspirations,
827
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:05,680
"in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
828
00:48:07,839 --> 00:48:11,639
"With all its sham, drudgery and
broken dreams,
829
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,800
"it is still a beautiful world.
830
00:48:14,839 --> 00:48:18,760
"Be careful.
Strive to be happy."
832
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,719
That's it.
833
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,719
Mm.
834
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:36,040
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