Human remains found in Dublin Mountains

dark crystal · 09-01-2012 1:09pm #1

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0109/remains.html

A forensic examination will take place later on skeletal human remains found by hill walkers in the Dublin Mountains yesterday.
The discovery was made by two people out hill walking at around midday.
The skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave beside an uprooted tree in a forest near Military Road.
No clothes or any other recognisable items were found at the scene, but further searches will be carried out throughout the day.
Gardaí will not be sure of either the sex or the identity until DNA, bone structure, dental records and other tests have been carried out.
The State Pathologist and a forensic anthropologist are expected to begin their examinations later today.
The remains of victims of violence have previously been found in the Dublin Mountains.

A tense time for families with missing loved ones... I wonder could there finally be a breakthrough in the search for those women who mysteriously disappeared during the 90's?

Micky Dolenz · 09-01-2012 1:11pm

A shallow grave. How desperately sad.

im invisible · 09-01-2012 1:13pm

Great film tho

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-01-2012 1:15pm

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

A shallow grave. How desperately sad.

I was thinking the same thing.. And what a way for nature to give up its terrible secret's.

Please God it brings someone some closure.

SarahBeep! · 09-01-2012 1:20pm

Can only presume its one of 'the missing women'.
Hope they can eventually find out who the hell it was that took them all.

Caveman1 · 09-01-2012 1:29pm

*BREAKING NEWS*

Larry Murphy does a runner

Dotrel · 09-01-2012 1:31pm

Caveman1 wrote: »

Larry Murphy does a runner

Hope he washed it first.

drunkmonkey · 09-01-2012 1:31pm

Nidge might have got his comeuppance

StephenHendry · 09-01-2012 1:31pm

possibly one of the missing women from the mid ninteties, philip cairns remains ?

smash · 09-01-2012 1:34pm

Ah this thread is no fun

Ghandee · 09-01-2012 1:39pm

What the hell do hill Walkers be doing that they find skeletal remains in a shallow grave

I'd imagine a hill walker to be hill walking, not shallow grave digging!

ro_chez · 09-01-2012 1:45pm

Kristian Miniature Corner wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing.. And what a way for nature to give up its terrible secret's.

Please God it brings someone some closure.

Don't be sad Kristian Miniature Corner, it might be a foreigner!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 09-01-2012 1:48pm

ro_chez wrote: »

Don't be sad Makikomi, it might be a foreigner!

I'm guessing that's some kinda of joke or dig at me?.

If it is a dig at me there are other places to do it and not here.

mickydoomsux · 09-01-2012 1:52pm

Ghandee wrote: »

What the hell do hill Walkers be doing that they find skeletal remains in a shallow grave

I'd imagine a hill walker to be hill walking, not shallow grave digging!

Well, it's not hard to find them really.

They'd be tripping over them daily in both the Dublin and Wicklow mountains.

cyrusdvirus · 09-01-2012 1:53pm

Ghandee wrote: »

What the hell do hill Walkers be doing that they find skeletal remains in a shallow grave

I'd imagine a hill walker to be hill walking, not shallow grave digging!

According to RTE the grave was beside an uprooted tree... So it's possible a tree blew down during the recent storms and uncovered the remains.

drunkmonkey · 09-01-2012 1:54pm

Kristian Miniature Corner wrote: »

I'm guessing that's some kinda of joke or dig at me?.

If it is a dig at me there are other places to do it and not here.

I think you need to use some of this http://getwhoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/logo_whitebkd.png

claire983 · 09-01-2012 1:55pm

SarahBeep! wrote: »

Can only presume its one of 'the missing women'.
Hope they can eventually find out who the hell it was that took them all.

On the news it's stating that it's the remains of a woman, dead about 2-3 years

Archeron · 09-01-2012 2:01pm

This must be a tense time for those with missing loved ones. At least this person may finally get a decent burial. RIP.

TeddyTedson · 09-01-2012 2:20pm

I always thought they should put CCTV on all the roads heading towards the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Would this be totally unfeasible?
Surely if someone goes missing from around the Dublin area cars driving up to the mountains in the middle of the night are worth having the driver interviewed

SarahBeep! · 09-01-2012 2:22pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I always thought they should put CCTV on all the roads heading towards the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Would this be totally unfeasible?
Surely if someone goes missing from around the Dublin area cars driving up to the mountains in the middle of the night are worth having the driver interviewed

Definitely. There had to be a serial killer on the loose like, all those poor women. I dunno whether it's creepier that it may have been Larry Murphy and he can't be tied to the crimes or that there might be someone else out there walking the streets who may never get caught.

TheZohanS · 09-01-2012 2:22pm

R.I.P.

Run_to_da_hills · 09-01-2012 2:26pm

RIP and I hope forensics nail the culprit.

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-01-2012 2:29pm

Sounds suspicious

Yakult · 09-01-2012 2:29pm

Probably alot more bodies hidden there. Seems to be a dumping ground for em.

StephenHendry · 09-01-2012 2:44pm

if it is one of the 'missing women' then hopefully forensics might lead them to larry murphy or whoever else the gardai suspect

TeddyTedson · 09-01-2012 2:59pm

claire983 wrote: »

On the news it's stating that it's the remains of a woman, dead about 2-3 years

StephenHendry wrote: »

if it is one of the 'missing women' then hopefully forensics might lead them to larry murphy or whoever else the gardai suspect

Doesn't look to be anything to do with him.

RichieC · 09-01-2012 3:00pm

I hope it isnt me...

Nothingbetter2d · 09-01-2012 3:07pm

RichieC wrote: »

I hope it isnt me...

nah richie you'll be hacked up and fed to the pigs. Burying you in a shallow grave is too good for ya

Deus Ex Machina · 09-01-2012 3:18pm

I wonder if anything will ever come of the suspicions that a serial killer(s) was operating in the area. People don't disappear. I strongly suspect that a lot of them end up in shallow graves like this tragic case.

SarahBeep! · 09-01-2012 3:25pm

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

I wonder if anything will ever come of the suspicions that a serial killer(s) was operating in the area.

I think there's definitely truth to the rumours. I mean, somewhere as small as Ireland there's no way all these missing people were taken by different nutjobs.

kirving · 09-01-2012 3:50pm

I'd like to know where it was found exactly. I cycle up that direction a bit, off the beaten track sometimes, you never know at you might come across.

dsmythy · 09-01-2012 3:56pm

Could be 200 years old for all we know. I think it's more likely to be a guy who got on the wrong side of someone. Hopefully "closure" for someone anyway.

Wattle · 09-01-2012 4:13pm

They usually find victims of gangland murders more often than other long term missing people. I would say gangland victims are buried more haphazardly and in a hurry. Everybody knows bodies are dumped up there. There's no shortage of candidates for who it might be.

brandon_flowers · 09-01-2012 4:34pm

Don't want to over-speculate but the way the body was found was rumoured to be Larry Murphy's disposal method. (I heard this years back from his neighbour) Trees that have fallen down are usually cut somewhere along the trunk and then turned back over. With the amount of trees in Wicklow/Dublin Mountains region it would be impossible to find any body with out a stroke of luck. i.e. the tree stump being uprooted again.

44leto · 09-01-2012 4:34pm

It will mean a bit of closure for her family.

Shryke · 09-01-2012 4:48pm

The things people do to other people.

RIP. I hope there can be some identification for closures sake.

HellFireClub · 09-01-2012 6:41pm

Just saw this on the TV3 news, where about's is this Sheehan's Woods where the remains were found? Is it up just behind the viewing point here on the road from Kilakee to Glencree?

Sunnyisland · 09-01-2012 7:17pm

Seems according to rte 1 news that the remains are of a male.

Bullseye1 · 09-01-2012 7:21pm

I would imagine there is alot of bodies buried up there in the turf bogs. Hopefully this will bring closure to some family.

tayto lover · 09-01-2012 7:30pm

Its the remains of a MALE according to the news.

alexonhisown · 09-01-2012 8:36pm

Indo now says it might be a female.

'Sources close to the investigation said that early forensic indications were that it was a female body.'

AudreyHepburn · 09-01-2012 8:57pm

Is it horrible to hope that it might be Annie or JoJo or one of the other missing?

Tragic of course but at least the families would have closure.

JONJO THE MISER · 09-01-2012 9:39pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Nidge might have got his comeuppance

I said it on the night that Darren didn't dig the grave deep enough.

JONJO THE MISER · 09-01-2012 9:51pm

If it is a female it is in no way a gangland murder.

JuliusCaesar · 09-01-2012 10:10pm

brandon_flowers wrote: »

Trees that have fallen down are usually cut somewhere along the trunk and then turned back over.

What?

alexonhisown · 09-01-2012 10:11pm

They say the body has only been there for about 1-2 years. R.I.P.

Very sad that a lot of families are waiting on news to see if it is their missing family member.

dsmythy · 10-01-2012 1:06am

RTÉ repeats that it is a male body and will be identified tomorrow.

pebbles21 · 10-01-2012 1:14am

Apparently it may be a man or it may be a woman....

smash · 10-01-2012 9:42am

Said on the radio this morning that it's a male.

TerryTibbs! · 10-01-2012 10:18am

RTE now reporting if it isn't Male it is Female.

smash · 10-01-2012 10:27am

Good old reliable Irish media.

Human remains found in Dublin Mountains

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