Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

WTF how can you not understand surely the last person to see jojo alive who changed his statements and who had viable scrape to his face is a bit of a giveaway and surely all his facts should have been combed instead the guards taught it more important to try track down randomer 100.miles away who took coins out of bar phone and other red herrings.

Lads this guy does this on all threads. Does the same on IPTV and Minimum unit pricing for alcohol. Goes against the general consensus all the time. Very sad that he is doing it in such a tragic case though. Best ignored.

This will join the Sophie du Plantier case as an armchair sleuths wet dream with more and more wild speculation and assumptions based on absolutely nothing.

The "scratch on face" was seen by a paid private investigator WEEKS after she went missing and AFTER he gave statements to the gardai. I got a fair old scratch on my face in the summer from a cat. It spurted out a decent bit of blood, yet fully healed in 2 weeks.

My guess is the gardai would have noticed that scratch fairly easily when talking to him in the light of a garda station with at lest 2 gardai in the room. So I reckon it was total BS from the PI or it was a minor scratch that happened the previous day in the course of farm work.

On the change of statements. Seen as a red herring and not seen as important by the gardai, but amateur sleuths and wild sensationalist tabloid story writers have elevated this to importance as it suits their agenda.

From what the gardai say (rather than the sensationist gutter media), it was not a red flag issue and was was more to do with his partner finding out where he had been. Remember, at that point it was a missing person investigation and the person was being interviewed as a witness as he was considered that last person she had been with.

He could very well be the person responsible, but the two thing the amateur sleuths and sensational gutter press are going on about, are of no significance.

What gardai will be checking now is if the recent statements are materially different to those given back then.

The dig in Wicklow will continue over the weekend and into next week.

Which I guess is a good thing, even though it may be a needle in a haystack at this stage

Not totally that they know too much about⁹ a particularly brutal killer/drug dealer called Cornelian Price. I think and it only from memory and I may be incorrect but Willie Maughan may either have witnessed a murder of Price's or being involved in getting someone to meet Price who he murdered. Particularly dandelion and horrid individual was Price. Died in prison in the UK, and had a rough enough death which he throughly deserved

True but the suspect in this case could have a powerful alibi even in the absence of physical corroboration like a time-stamp on a bus ticket.

In gangland cases, a fake alibi is often arranged in advance. Failing that, someone may be willing to swear that they were with the suspect at the time and far from the crime-scene. The Gardai are not fooled but it is difficult to get around this evidence if someone is prepared to perjure themselves (a badge of honour among gang members). Unless conflicting evidence is stronger e.g. their mobile phones give the game away.

The alibi is this case could not have been pre-arranged because Jo Jo's abduction was entirely opportunistic. More importantly, if his alibi was "I went straight home to Grangecon and went to bed for the night", that was probably true in every respect but one - the timing. If a family member corroborated his alibi - i.e. that he got home before midnight and was in bed all night - he has a powerful defence in the absence of any conflicting evidence.

All that would be true even if his family were poor and powerless.

Neither do I, and I remember the case very well from the beginning.

Neither do I and I was around her age and regularly thumbed up and down the country. I never remember anything suggesting she was anything other than a young woman victim.

Yea ok. I wont be like todd. If i dont find them ill hold me hands up.

He could have made honest errors in his initial statement to Gardai due to nerves. It may be quite stressful for somebody being questioned by the cops in cases like these if you haven't experienced it before. This guy could well be perfectly innocent but have given the impression of being dodgy at the time. It must be difficult for him being widely talked about and to have remained living in the same area for the past twenty-five years. I presume he's married with a family.

Hi Barry

Theres one link. I'll keep digging for more. No doubt the usual suspects here will say Mary Phelan was lying.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/family-missing-jo-jo-dullard-9984097#amp-readmore-target