Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568063#Comment_123568063

"And why would Annie persuade him to drive her over to her new boyfriend, rather than tell him to **** off?"

Because, 1993, plus what NoeldeBournaix above.

padraig1963

If nothing shows up at Monastery Walk I would like to see every property ever associated with this suspect between 1993 and 2011 systematically searched with the cadaver dog. With his old alibi now undermined by his own brother combined with credible accounts of his violence to Annie, he is now without doubt suspect number 1. And his then girlfriend (maybe his wife now) that he was cheating on with Annie, would be a potential suspect number 2.

And the value in the extensive search at his old family home, even if no remains are found, is that his world is now upturned. What are the bets that the current detectives after his arrest only got 24 hours solid of "no comment". They will have got a lot from this face to face with him even if it was silence.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

Spot on. The purposes of the search may be multifold.

mazdamiatamx5

Strange. If I feared I was being fitted up by the cops for a murder I had nothing to do with, one thing I wouldn't do would be to delete my rental properties from all websites they were advertised on.

padraig1963

Thats very true. Or slam down the phone to a reporter when asked his side of the story.

There was also a golf venue on the wife's side. That could be a long 18 holes for wee Fern.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568482#Comment_123568482

Sounds like wee Fern may have to cancel her holiday plans, but at least PSNI pay good overtime.

cap.in.hand.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568418#Comment_123568418

The suspected violence against Annie by the suspect back then rings very hollow when she was with him in town in pubs the week after st Patrick's day…he may still have a temper but most of us do too

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568413#Comment_123568413

Not that it matters but it was 1989 before she went back to the states in 1991.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123568511#Comment_123568511

Ah ok. But general point I'd stand by, different era, young people, ie people in their twenties, didn't have cars in general, and would grab a lift of someone who did if it saved time. Young people took risks back then that the modern generation probably wouldn't, and vast majority lived to tell the tale. Annie sadly didn't.

I'm not proud of this, but in the mid 1990s, was drink driving home from the pub/night-club regularly, and because I was one of the few in my group that had a car, was often the designated driver.

And before that, would have accepted lifts from the few others in the group that had cars and even that I didn't know that well, some of whom were also drink drivers. One of whom now a Senator and another a barrister, but I'll leave that for the memoirs, lol.

If the fella lost the plot because he found himself voluntarily giving a lift to his ex-girlfriend to her new boyfriend's gaf, then he's a wrong un. Allegedly.

The whole culture has changed massively since 1989-1993.

meat eating green

ridiculous amount of innuendo and posturing on this thread

Given the constraints of proof for the guards, I am surprised that there are not more vigilante activities against suspects …