this freak is out next year..

snowy2008

LARRY Murphy will be 45 when he is released from jail, still fit and healthy and, gardai believe, still the biggest single threat to the lives and safety of young women in Ireland.
In prison since his arrest the day after he kidnapped, repeatedly raped and attempted to murder a young Carlow woman, he has never shown any remorse or made any sttempt to seek counselling or any professional help.
He is an absolute and total loner. During his brief court appearance, when he pleaded guilty to rape and abduction charges, Murphy sat utterly impassive, never averting his gaze straight ahead at the court clerk's desk.
Some of those present in the courtroom who watched Murphy later said that he had never blinked during the two-hour hearing. When Judge Paul Carney sentenced him to 14 years, taking into account Murphy's guilty plea (which spared his victim a harrowing cross examination in the witness box), the rapist made no reaction.
His stare only broke when a prison officer took his arm to lead him down to the cells. He made no eye contact with any one in the court room.
His victim, an attractive Carlow woman in her mid-20s, was still quaking as Murphy was led away. Judge Carney asked twice if she was prepared to give evidence. Twice she said that she was unable to. A description of what happened the young woman was read out by prosecuting counsel.
She had closed her shop shortly after 8pm, with her takings of around €700, and had crossed to the secluded car park where she parked her car every day.
As she approached the car she noticed a man who appeared to be searching for something on the ground. As she opened the car door he pounced, shouting: "Give me the money." He then struck her on the face, fracturing her nose, and she fell backwards into the car.
He forced her into the footwell of the passenger side and told her to take off her bra. She was stunned and confused and did as he said. He tied her hands with the bra and ordered her to take off her shoes. As she was unable to, he tore them off her.
He drove her car to another darkened laneway where he had parked his Fiat Uno and forced her to crouch in the passenger footwell. He drove the car out of the town 13km to a spot between Moone and Beaconstown. There he stripped off her clothes and then his own and raped her.
Afterwards he put on his own clothes and told her to do likewise, again tying her hands with the bra. He spoke to her at this point, telling her he was married and even naming his two daughters. He told her he was taking her back to Carlow to set her free.
Murphy felt comfortable identifying himself in this way because he fully intended the young woman would not be alive to testify against him.
He then forced her into the boot and drove another 25km or so up into the Wicklow Mountains near Kilranelagh House, only a few miles from his home above Baltinglass.
There, in the darkness of a lane through the forest, he stripped her again and raped her another three times
Finally, he placed a plastic bag over her head and with her hands tied behind her back he began strangling her.
It was at this point in this most isolated spot that two local men, who had been out "lamping" deer, drove down the lane and caught Murphy and his victim in the headlights of their Land Rover. Murphy jumped into the Fiat and drove off.
The two men did their best to calm the woman, who was naked and had run into a barbed wire fence in her terror to escape. They covered her with a coat and brought her to Baltinglass Garda Station from where she was brought to Carlow Hospital.
Murphy drove out of the wood and dumped the car a short distance from his home where his wife and daughters were sleeping and climbed into bed. He knew that he was caught. The two hunters were from the area and they had immediately recognised him.
They told gardai who sent two squad cars to park outside Murphy's house until a warrant could be sworn for his arrest early next morning.
Murphy made no statement to gardai and appeared calm throughout his interrogation, processing and charging. He was placed in the high security wing of Cloverhill Prison and there communicated with neither prison officers nor other prisoners.
His wife visited him a number of times in Cloverhill where he told her he was innocent and would be pleading not guilty. He was lying. He knew that a guilty plea would mean a lighter sentence.
After he pleaded guilty, his wife never visited again. In fact the only people who have visited Murphy since he joined the other sex offenders in Arbour Hill are gardai investigating the unsolved murders of other young women in or around the Wicklow Mountains. Murphy remains the chief suspect in at least three murders: those of Deirdre Jacob, Jo Jo Dullard and Annie McCarrick.
From the moment the two hunters told gardai in Baltinglass they had recognised Murphy on the lane, Murphy was suspected of being a serial killer. At his initial interrogation he was asked if he had anything to say about the disappearances of these young women. He said nothing.
He was quizzed again in prison three years later by a cold case team, under the name Operation Trace, headed by the Garda's top detective, then Chief Supt Tony Hickey. Again he said nothing.
The Operation Trace detectives were able to ascertain from records kept by contractors who had employed Murphy as a self-employed joiner that he had been working in Newbridge, Co Kildare on July 28, 1998, the day that the 18-year-old student, Deirdre Jacob, disappeared. Deirdre was seen only minutes before she disappeared as she walked the short distance from the town's post office to her home.
As can be seen from the way Murphy abducted the woman in Carlow, he was a person capable of waylaying, knocking out and abducting a fit young woman in seconds.
He was a practiced predator. He had been spotted in and around Carlow town for a month before he had abducted his victim. He was stalking her, working out the safest place and time to pounce. He was working in Newbridge for at least a week before Deirdre disappeared.
Murphy fits every profile description of a serial killer. Most serial killers first kill within a short range of their homes, then move outwards.
His home turf was the Wicklow Mountains. He hunted there, mostly on his own, and knew the network of roads on the western flanks of the hills. His work took him around the east Leinster area from Waterford to Dublin.
In the 18 years before Murphy's arrest, nine women disappeared in the Leinster area and are believed murdered. Since his arrest none have disappeared. Gardai have no information to link Murphy to any of these killings but in two cases there is some circumstantial evidence.
As well as being in Newbridge on the day that Deirdre Jacob disappeared, there is a tenuous link between him and the last sighting of 21-year-old Jo Jo Dullard on the night of November 9, 1995.
Jo Jo had been hitchhiking from Naas to Callan in Kilkenny and the last known location for her was in Moone, where she had called a friend from a coin box. She cut the call off saying a car had pulled up. She was never seen again.
A strange aspect of the abduction and rape that Murphy was convicted of was the fact that he took her to the field outside Moone to commit the first rape.
There is no apparent logic to this. Gardai believe Murphy's decision to take the young Carlow woman to this spot, before taking her up the mountains to kill her, might be linked to Jo Jo.

Elliemental

Nice bloke!
Unfortunately however, there are probably many more out there exactly like him, that haven`t been caught (yet). One more won`t make much difference, so don`t be worrying yourself too much.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Firstly, OP, this reads like something out of the Sunday World. How much of what you read/posted is speculation, how much of it is "journalism" and how much of it were you a witness to yourself? How can someone tell he "never blinked" during a court case?

That said, I agree with you - fair enough, he might have served his time, but I beleive that there should be a provision for judges to say that, upon completion of a sentence, if an offender is deemed not safe to return to society, they should be detained somewhere like the Central Mental Hospital upon such time as they are.

Kiera

Finally! I might actually get some now.

Mr.Lizard

He is an absolute and total loner.

his wife and daughters

How did that work then?

snowy2008

it was actually from the independant, strange the way when he got caught, girls stopped vanishing.....

Elliemental

Also, why are random words in that article linked? Just in case I don`t know what a Fiat is, or where the Wicklow Mountains are?:rolleyes:

TwoShedsJackson

Elliemental wrote: »

Also, why are random words in that article linked? Just in case I don`t know what a Fiat is, or where the Wicklow Mountains are?:rolleyes:

He cut and pasted it from the Independent website, all their articles look like that i.e. $hite.

Sean Quagmire

The independent has gotten particularly bad in the last few months. The writing has been terrible, I'm actualy swaying toward the times for an unbiased view on the news.. must be getting old..

markesmith

teresa2008 wrote: »

he had never blinked.

They used to say that about Rasputin.

Mr.Lizard

markesmith wrote: »

They used to say that about Rasputin.

I wonder if Murphy has a 12 inch cock too?

delllat

he sounds like a real evil basterd ,he should be never be released after doing that and if he has to be released he should be tagged for life electronically so the gardai can track his movements 24/7

he should also be banned from owning or driving any vehicle and have to report once or even twice daily to sign in his local copshop

gurramok

He should be monitored as a known sex offender for the rest of his life, use an electronic tag or something.

It is a coincidence that no more women disappeared in the general area after he was jailed.

boardinwork

What a loser - A FIAT UNO!?!?!?:mad:

Volvoboy

Kiera wrote: »

Finally! I might actually get some now.

Fap

WillieCocker

Wow that's a lot of "speculative" reading.
Either way, that scumbag deserves castration followed by stoning, and no not the green type.:)

humanji

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

How did that work then?

Don't question it, it means there's hope for us all.

Kiera wrote: »

Finally! I might actually get some now.

See?

Kiera

humanji wrote: »

Don't question it, it means there's hope for us all.



See?

Fingers crossed

teresa2008

teresa2008 wrote: »

His victim, an attractive Carlow woman in her mid-20s.

I love the way they mention this:D

WillieCocker

Kiera wrote: »

Fingers crossed

And something else uncrossed.

Mr.Lizard

Deleted User wrote: »

I love the way they mention this:D

Well she attracted one fella anyway.

Mr.Lizard

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

Well she attracted one fella anyway.

It's like they're trying to make their story more appealing, as if no one would read if she was unattractive and got raped:rolleyes:

Rabies

Deleted User wrote: »

I love the way they mention this:D

Where is the fun if she is a munter?

Aidric

Deleted User wrote: »

It's like they're trying to make their story more appealing, as if no one would read if she was unattractive and got raped:rolleyes:

I wouldn't.

Mr.Lizard

Serial killers do seem to go after attractive women! It must be a fetish or something? Certainly explains why there are so few of them in Ireland anyway.

Rabies

Rabies wrote: »

Where is the fun if she is a munter?

Ah we're all God's children in the dark;)

Rabies

That is what he said too.

AckwelFoley

Hes the biggest threat to women in ireland?

i didnt get that company memo.

My name is URL

He served his sentence, not an issue unless he rapes/kills again...etc

Zadkiel

Deleted User wrote: »

I love the way they mention this:D

"attractive Carlow woman" ....I've been to Carlow, that statement is a lie.

javaboy

His victim, an attractive Carlow woman in her mid-20s.

I love the way they mention this

In fairness that's probably so that ugly woman won't get themselves worried. There's no point starting a panic.
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