most memorable murder case?

JonBenet Ramsey in the States. Everything about the case was creepy - starting with her involvement in child beauty pageants. Never been solved either.

Deleted User wrote: »

As a few have mentioned disappearances, the Tara Calico case is a weird one...the photograph that turned up later...

Again, warning, the photo is disturbing...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Calico

I had saw that photo before. Very disturbing. Was it ever confirmed though?

For me the one that sticks out the most is the murder of Gerry McCabe, think it was probably one of the most cold blooded cases I have heard of.

Also Graham Dwyer has to be one of the most twisted individuals, hope he stays in prison for a very very long time.

One case I don't think has been mentioned was the death of Fr. Niall Molloy. He was killed at a house party following a wedding in Offaly hosted by a well-to-do family of the horsey set. This was in the 1980s and there appeared to be a huge cover up around the case. I remember there was a huge scandal at the time when murders were relatively few and the media got a lot of mileage out of murder cases in those days. There were allegations of an affair involving the priest and the alleged perpetrator's wife. The whole country was gripped by it at the time.

Michaela Harte/McAreavey is another one that springs to mind. Imagine that happening on your honeymoon, a time that suppose to be full of happiness of excitement. I don't know where her husband and family get their strength from. It's pretty sickening to think that there is someone out there living their lives after killing that lovely girl, doubt they'll ever get justice for her now, especially as the Mauritian police were so incompetent in their investigation.

For me it was Ursula Sunshine Assaid. She lived in the town next to mine. When she was 5 years old, she was tortured and beaten for months, then left to drown in a pond near her house by her mother's boyfriend. Her mother witnessed the abuse and did nothing to stop it. Many other people knew of the abuse too, including neighbors and teachers at her school, but no one came forward. She even ran to a neighbor's house begging for help at one point, but the neighbor returned Ursula to her home.

People were outraged by the light sentences the boyfriend and mother received (34 years for him, 15 for her). As a direct result of the case, Florida passed a law making death by child abuse a capital punishment crime. They also passed a law requiring teachers to report any suspected child abuse.

The mother was out in 5 years, the boyfriend was beaten to death with a steel rod in prison days before he was to be paroled.

RyanDrive wrote: »

JonBenet Ramsey in the States. Everything about the case was creepy - starting with her involvement in child beauty pageants. Never been solved either.

Saw a documentary on it a few years back. Since JonBenet's murder no less than three sherrifs of the town where it happened (Boulder, Colorado) have resigned over the case. People in Boulder refused to talk about it. Many in the US believe it was her parents who killed her and the father has a lot of political clout, hence no charges have even been forthcoming.


Not a murder as such but a planned one- the case of 'Lying Eyes' Sharon Collins in Limerick who hired an Egyptian national based in Las Vegas and working as a poker dealer to assassinate her wealthy farmer partner in an attempt to get his land & assets. It was such amatuer hour by Collins, she used a website called hitmenforhire.com and the FBI picked up her conversations with the would be assassin (who had never killed anyone before but needed the spare cash). Sharon used the avatar 'Lyin' Eyes' on the site, which is a song by the Eagles whose lyrics are about a younger woman unhappy in love with an older rich man which was exactly what was happening in her personal life with the farmer she was seeing. Eventually when the poker dealer gets to Ireland he tracks down the would be victims sons, tells them the whole story and asks them for something like $100k not to kill their father. They call the Gardai and the game is up. AFAIK Sharon is out of prison now but the Egyptian poker dealer is still locked up.

Michaela Harte's murder was horrific, especially the circumstances- it didn't seem to be premeditated and was likely someone in her hotel room who was robbing some cash and then panicked when she arrived into the room. Its sad that they never got justice. Though what I found even more bizarre was her dad Mickey a couple of years later standing up in a Tyrone court and giving a character reference to a man who was pleading guilty to kidnapping a girl into the back of his van, raping her and then literally dumped her out on the side of the road. I know Mickey is very religious and probably believes in forgiving sinners but that seemed bizarre given what happened his own daughter.

The Graham Dwyer case though has to be the most memorable just simply because every single day of evidence brought about a new shock. I think back to that American girl Darcy who gave evidence by video link that Dwyer was chatting to her about stabbing her whist having sex, offering to kill her anytime she wanted. It really was a case of fact being stranger than fiction, you just couldn't make it up.

sassychick91 wrote: »

It's kind of weird to think Sarah Payne, Holly and Jessica, and Karen Buckley should be the same age now being born around the same time and coming from the same generation (early 90s), they should be doing things that most girls our age do and enjoy. So unfair.

True that. James Bulger too, and Jonbenet Ramsey. All born around the same year(s) (1990 - 1991)

Actually is weird when you think about it, especially the child murders, they'll always be forever children. Their lives and futures stolen from them.

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It's Gerry. With a 'G'.
FFS what? You don't think it's strange that the murderers of a member of the police force get collected from prison by a sitting member of the parliament? In what western country is that not a scandal?

idiots guide to ranting 101: his name is Jerry, short for Jeremiah not Gerry which is short for Gerard ... and yes his murder was one of thousands in the war.

the only scandal imho is the double standards of some posters who place a higher value on his life over an identical RUC mans murder .

rosebell1238 wrote: »

Also one that sticks out in my mind and surprising no one has mentioned is Jill Meaghers, and the Oscar Pistorius case.

Sophie Tuscan de Plantier aswell.

Actually there is loads now that I think of it.

The Sophia Tuscan du Plantier case actually spooks me to the core because it happened close to my house in Cork. Absolutely awful.

anonymous00000 wrote: »

Who Nicola Furlong or Karen Buckley?pretty sure I read that Nicola was drugged and raped or at least sexually assaulted, maybe I am wrong though?it has been a few years now. Karen - not so sure she was raped. Police said she wasn't, but given Pacteaus history (stood trial for attempted rape) it would be hard to dismiss the possibility that he at least tried or there was some sexual motive.

Nicola Furlong, per the evidence provided at trial was neither raped nor sexually assaulted.

Shergar6 wrote: »

Probably Rachel O'Reilly. I remember watching The Late Late when her mother and husband were on it and thinking how icy the mother's body language was towards him. Most people would be holding hands and comforting one another.

Joe O'Reilly is without a doubt a sociopath, and i still have questions as to how much his mistress knew about the murder. They were ringing and texting each other all that morning. He stayed at hers the night of the Late Late - i mean, you're having an affair with a guy and you know he can't stand his wife and wants to leave her but doesn't want to lose his sons, next thing she's brutally murdered in her home --- wouldn't you have SOME suspicions? She's still visiting him now knowing what the evidence is.

Then leaving her poor mother to find her in that state and very possibly her sons. I don't get how you could do that to the mother of your kids. The pain he inflicted on them alone was so callous.

This one for me too, for some reason it always stuck with me.