Has Ireland ever had any serial killers?

bb1234567 · 10-02-2012 10:07PM #1

I think Larry Murphy is the closest we have to one and he hasnt been proven guilty of the murders of those women yet. So other than him has there ever been any serial killers in Ireland?

phasers · 10-02-2012 10:08PM

Looking for tips?

MyKeyG · 10-02-2012 10:09PM

Do some of them IRA lads not count?

Eric Cartman · 10-02-2012 10:09PM

it doesnt have ones dumb enough to get caught

galwayrush · 10-02-2012 10:09PM

Are you going to try and break the record?

InkSlinger67 · 10-02-2012 10:09PM

Who could ever forget the bb1234567 massacre of '97

Lord Trollington · 10-02-2012 10:10PM

In fairness Larry hasn't been found guilty of any murder. How can you call him a serial Killer or equate him to one?

lividduck · 10-02-2012 10:12PM

John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans

Stinicker · 10-02-2012 10:12PM

You'll find the Roman Catholic clergy were pretty good at killing, however it wasn't a fair fight as they usually brutalised young children before then killing them. The Christian brothers killed around 150 young children in Letterfrack alone.

Sunnyisland · 10-02-2012 10:15PM

Johnny kellogg's is always lurking around especially in the mornings.

Kidchameleon · 10-02-2012 10:15PM

When they changed CocoPops to Choco Krispies, that killed the serial for me...

Chuck Stone · 10-02-2012 10:17PM

Suspected but not prosecuted in Cork City.

Seachmall · 10-02-2012 10:18PM

Probably, but it's difficult to identify serial killers in times of conflict.

The bodies either just get lost in the mess, different groups claim responsibility for the deaths or the serial killers join one of the groups.

In more recent history nothing has been proven afaik, but I'd find it hard to believe there haven't been a few hanging around.

Edit - No Pun intended re: Chuck Stone's link above.

theg81der · 10-02-2012 10:19PM

Lord Trollington wrote: »

In fairness Larry hasn't been found guilty of any murder. How can you call him a serial Killer or equate him to one?

And we have no evidence of you having a fap, but you did didn`t you!

John Doe1 · 10-02-2012 10:24PM

not wanting to be libelous but ray foley

EGAR · 10-02-2012 10:36PM

Brendan O'Donnell who killed a mother and her child as well as a priest, near Whitegate in County Clare.

M cebee · 10-02-2012 10:37PM

http://www.herald.ie/news/serial-killer-recovers-in-private-ward-1614945.html

there's a good few up the north if they count

Seachmall · 10-02-2012 10:39PM

EGAR wrote: »

Brendan O'Donnell who killed a mother and her child as well as a priest, near Whitegate in County Clare.

Think he's considered a spree killer as oppose to a serial killer.

Sunnyisland · 10-02-2012 10:46PM

There doesent seem to be any Irish serial killers, Burke & hare are the nearest we have but there muders were carried out in Scotland.

http://wzeu.ask.com/r?t=p&d=eu&s=uk&c=a&app=a16&dqi=&askid=&l=sem&o=41627709&sv=0a65290c&ip=562c807e&id=BCB1EB47876B4380275EB5558CA29244&q=american+Irish+serial+killers&p=1&qs=19&ac=107&g=32f5a%m2DRo+Qd&cu.wz=0&en=nwsa&io=0&ep=&eo=&b=a008&bc=&br=&tp=d&ec=1&pt=Burke%20and%20Hare%20murders%20-%20Wikipedia%20on%20Ask%20Jeeves&ex=tsrc%3DRFE&url=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.ask.com%2Fwiki%2FBurke_and_Hare_murders

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=irish%20serial%20killers&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_serial_killers_by_country&ei=Wo41T7SQEIHMhAePqIH4AQ&usg=AFQjCNFoU4o_nQLtHkI7n4NhuUbcGvMzWQ

EGAR · 10-02-2012 10:47PM

Seachmall wrote: »

Think he's considered a spree killer as oppose to a serial killer.

There are still question marks about his time in the UK and a few unsolved murders in that area.

However, he was certainly mentally disturbed and neither cunning nor did he hide his tracks very well and let's not forget he tried to kidnap another girl who luckily escaped from him.

stovelid · 10-02-2012 10:49PM

Shankill Butchers.

John Doe1 · 10-02-2012 10:51PM

stovelid wrote: »

Shankill Butchers.

damn good steak they do

stovelid · 10-02-2012 10:53PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

damn good steak they do

Not the most hygienic though. I heard the head butcher was riddled.

SafeSurfer · 10-02-2012 10:56PM

Depending on what criteria you use Malcolm Macarthur could be considered one.

tayto lover · 10-02-2012 10:59PM

Serial killer specialize and use a particular modus operandi to kill.
Murderers who just pick on someone willy nilly are not serial killers.

Sunnyisland · 10-02-2012 11:00PM

FTR.
A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification.

Where To · 10-02-2012 11:01PM

TV3

theg81der · 10-02-2012 11:05PM

I heard of a woman who is dead now who murdered 3 people over a period of 10 years to get her hands on the family she married into money. Of course then there was no tests etc so she was never caught.

stovelid · 10-02-2012 11:18PM

Actually, the shankill butchers did carry out highly ritualistic murders with a political pretext that was flimsy even by loyalist standards. The murders involved ritually patterned sadism and torture and other ritualistic touches such as trademark weapons and murder method (slit throats) not to mention the very small geographical area in which they preyed on solitary victims - most of whom were young to middle aged men.

Perhaps our reluctance to categorize them as serial killers stems from the fact that it would lead us to ask ourselves whether or not conflict often provides ideological cover under which born killers operate. Even some of the guerilla fighters that many of us seek to justify and valorise.

Super-Rush · 10-02-2012 11:24PM

Mary Harney.

Latchy · 10-02-2012 11:28PM

stovelid wrote: »

Perhaps our reluctance to categorize them as serial killers stems from the fact that it would lead us to ask ourselves whether or not conflict often provides ideological cover under which born killers operate. Even some of the guerilla fighters that many of us seek to justify and valorise.

Not just the Nazis but many ordinary frontline soldiers of the Wehrmacht took pleasure in killing civillians knowing full well that they had a free hand to do so .
Every army or military active organisation in the world , legal or otherwise has it share of sadists and phycopaths ...including the Mafia .

Has Ireland ever had any serial killers?

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