Arrest in Tina Satchwell disappearance case

I was looking at it from the view what kind of obvious lack of mental capabilities that Richard had to sustain this situation in his home

Awful news.

How did he hide the smell & avoid flies (if the poor woman was interred in the house).

WHat a joke, a one legged cadaver dog with half a nose, and no ears could have found her on day one

Watching his cork red fm interview on YT He doesn't come across well.

God, but this really is Keystone Cops stuff. Some choice quotes from today’s papers:

Irish Times:

The remains were found at about 9pm on Wednesday night by Garda scenes of crime examiners. They used kango hammers, pickaxes and shovels to break up and remove a concrete floor in a stairwell on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Grattan Street after a cadaver dog got a scent through the concrete. The homeowner is understood to have had a brick wall built beside the stairs to close off a side view to the stairwell. Gardaí believe the works were carried out shortly after Ms Satchwell’s disappearance as it was noted when they searched the house in June 2017 as part of the investigation. The construction of the sidewall after Ms Satchwell’s disappearance in March 2017 was picked up by detectives carrying out a review of the investigation file in recent months. It was one of the first areas a search team examined after entering the property on Tuesday. They found the decomposed body buried in earth almost a metre down…

Similar story in the Irish Independent:

The remains, understood to involve an almost complete skeleton, were found in an area underneath the stairwell. Gardaí had to carefully excavate the space, which appeared to have been walled-in.

And the cherry of incompetence on top, after previously confirming to the press they were searching Tina Satchwell’s home, the following quote is in today’s Irish Independent also:

Gardaí said it was too early to speculate over the identity of the individual. However, DNA cross-reference samples were on standby, and detectives hope to know by early today who the remains are.

Too early to speculate 🤨

Can a cadaver smell a body that is buried and decomposing for , say , only Two weeks. And how long does it take for the required smell to permeate through one metre of soil and maybe also the body wrapped in plastic?

If the body has been there all along then the Gardai have a lot to answer for.

If you had never been in his house before (which they hadn’t) they wouldn’t know it was freshly done. The search was 3 months after her disappearance so it wouldn’t look fresh. And he may have covered it over with wallboard and wallpaper. It could have been completed during the 4 days before he reported her missing.

The house was searched 3 months after her disappearance, why would they search the house at all in a missing persons case if that's the logic.

Cadaver dog

I genuinely think that the Guards were suspicious all along; the whole story was suspicious, and the lady vanished without trace, not a whisp ever seen again, no activity, nothing.

And the husband acted strangely all along too.

Officially, only a "Missing Persons" but in the background, the possibility of murder was always present. We may not presuppose the verdict of a court case, but ~~~ any reasonable citizen could see how the wind was blowing, right from the start.

Still can't understand how they missed the concreting-in; you don't have to be a cadaver dog to smell new cement, fresh plaster, paint.