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most memorable murder? and most interesting unsolved crimes?

  • 18-05-2016 1:19am
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    Not really a conspiracy theory but thought this was the best forum to put my thread into.

    just have an interest in unsolved mysteries/ murder cases (im not a creep btw) :)

    anyways just interested to hear what people think is the most memorable case in Ireland or elsewhere?(im talking 2000 onwards)

    Probably Michaela Hartes for me. or the 2 schoolgirls that were murdered by the school caretaker in the UK back in the early 2000s.

    and just wondering why do you think some cases get more coverage than others? for e.g Michaela Hartes,Jill Meaghers and Karen Buckleys got huge coverage, however I don't remember Nicola Furlongs getting as much even though her case was similar in some ways to theirs esp. Jill and Karens. (even though it was still a relatively high profile case)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,330 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Where's Amy Fitzpartick? Something is very suspicious with Amy's case.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    Who shot JR?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Clampdown


    The Original Night Stalker. There's a free book on Sribd called Night Terror about him. Really chilling.

    Also like th Zodia killer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I'm still stubbornly interested in the Leinster disappearances - Annie Mc Carrick, Jojo Dollard, Deirdre Jacob. (Eva Brennan?)

    There is one prime suspect, and maybe a second possible: but without some actual evidence there can be no convictions (and rightly so, of course)

    However, no trace of any of the missing was ever found: not a shoe nor a sock nor anything carried by any of them. That is actually quite unusual in crime investigation: there was nothing. No witnesses, no forensic, no scene of crime, no body.

    My brain scratches away at this mystery, I'd love to do some amateur sleuthing and solve the puzzles!
    But I'm not Sherlock Holmes and I don't know how to go about it. :-(

    What offers, eh?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    katemarch wrote: »
    I'm still stubbornly interested in the Leinster disappearances - Annie Mc Carrick, Jojo Dollard, Deirdre Jacob. (Eva Brennan?)

    There is one prime suspect, and maybe a second possible: but without some actual evidence there can be no convictions (and rightly so, of course)

    However, no trace of any of the missing was ever found: not a shoe nor a sock nor anything carried by any of them. That is actually quite unusual in crime investigation: there was nothing. No witnesses, no forensic, no scene of crime, no body.

    My brain scratches away at this mystery, I'd love to do some amateur sleuthing and solve the puzzles!
    But I'm not Sherlock Holmes and I don't know how to go about it. :-(

    What offers, eh?
    Have you heard the claim that Jojo is buried on a farm and the farmer will not allow gardai in to search.? I heard that but do not believe it as he could not stop them if they had a reasonable suspicion


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Have you heard the claim that Jojo is buried on a farm and the farmer will not allow gardai in to search.? I heard that but do not believe it as he could not stop them if they had a reasonable suspicion

    No, I never heard that one: and I'm pretty sure the police would investigate if even a whisper of a possibility reached their ears.

    What I have heard - about seventh-hand from source - is a rumour that the area in which the last kidnapping was found ("The one that got away") is also where several other previous victims may be buried: in deep graves prepared before the crime took place.

    I've had a quick glance at the area on Google Earth: very remote and dense forestry. It wouldn't be at all easy to sleuth for twenty-year-old burials in the middle of all that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    katemarch wrote: »
    No, I never heard that one: and I'm pretty sure the police would investigate if even a whisper of a possibility reached their ears.

    What I have heard - about seventh-hand from source - is a rumour that the area in which the last kidnapping was found ("The one that got away") is also where several other previous victims may be buried: in deep graves prepared before the crime took place.

    I've had a quick glance at the area on Google Earth: very remote and dense forestry. It wouldn't be at all easy to sleuth for twenty-year-old burials in the middle of all that!
    which one got away?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    which one got away?


    I think they mean Larry Murphy's victim who
    was saved by hunters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,686 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    I think they mean Larry Murphy's victim who
    was saved by hunters

    Yes, that's the one I meant. It's all been reported in the papers so there's no harm in mentioning it here, I think.
    It is a hill with forestry, northwest of Baltinglass and just on the edges of the Wicklow Mountains National Park.

    The rumour I heard was that when the hunters came upon the two people struggling, the woman had a black bag over her head already and they were standing near a deep pit.

    And Murphy was widely believed to have frequented that area and been in that woodland often.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Lord Lucan, not so much the murders, i think it's common knowledge now that he did it, but his whereabouts after fascinates me


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,558 ✭✭✭weisses


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Lord Lucan, not so much the murders, i think it's common knowledge now that he did it, but his whereabouts after fascinates me

    Rumor is he was a mod on some forum ...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    I find the disappearance of Madeleine McCann to be the most interesting case. (It's obviously terribly sad as well).

    Particularly interesting is the fact that the McCanns changed their story at the start. Having initially reported that the window had been "jemmied" and that Madeleine was taken through this window, they did a complete reversal on the story when it was discovered that there was no damage to the windows at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Colonel_McCoy


    Tupac Shakur


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    The Meredith Kercher case is fascinating. I don't think Amanda and her boyfriend did it, but the entire case was a bungle from start to finish, by the police.

    Great documentary on Netflix about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Stroke Politics


    The murder of Grace Livingstone in 1992 has always fascinated me.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/special-reports/unsolved-crimes-how-grace-livingstones-killer-got-away-with-murder-34944717.html

    No-one has ever been convicted, and it occurred at an interesting time in Ireland. The Troubles were ongoing in the North, with paramilitary elements on both sides of the conflict remaining active until 1994. It was also only a matter of days after an election which saw the retirement of CJ Haughey. Also during this period, planning corruption practices that formed the basis of a substantial part of the Mahon Tribunal on Planning Irregularities were taking place involving a number of well-placed and powerful individuals, following on from years of nefarious back-room deals. In the midst all of this was Grace's husband, James Livingstone, a special investigator with the Revenue Commissioners. he was arrested as part of the investigation, but I don't believe he had anything to do with it. But it has always bugged me, did his job or the work that he was involved in lead to the death of this woman? Did he get too close to people with something to hide?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭JimmyTClarke


    The disappearance of Phillip Cairns remains a chilling case, thirty years after he went missing. Gareth O'Callaghan's theories based on his research into Phillip's case are truly disturbing. I hope Gareth is wrong, as it's too horrible to comprehend that an innocent child was abused and disposed of in such a horrific manner, only to have the perpetrator/perpetrators protected by the very institutions who are supposed to protect the innocent, not the guilty. Either way, the fact that the Cairns family have no closure, regardless of how Phillip's eventual fate unfolded, is the most tragic part of the story.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭melon_collie


    Raonaid Murray


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    The murder of Grace Livingstone in 1992 has always fascinated me.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/special-reports/unsolved-crimes-how-grace-livingstones-killer-got-away-with-murder-34944717.html

    No-one has ever been convicted, and it occurred at an interesting time in Ireland. The Troubles were ongoing in the North, with paramilitary elements on both sides of the conflict remaining active until 1994. It was also only a matter of days after an election which saw the retirement of CJ Haughey. Also during this period, planning corruption practices that formed the basis of a substantial part of the Mahon Tribunal on Planning Irregularities were taking place involving a number of well-placed and powerful individuals, following on from years of nefarious back-room deals. In the midst all of this was Grace's husband, James Livingstone, a special investigator with the Revenue Commissioners. he was arrested as part of the investigation, but I don't believe he had anything to do with it. But it has always bugged me, did his job or the work that he was involved in lead to the death of this woman? Did he get too close to people with something to hide?
    is there a book about that case?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    I've recently been looking into the Robin Hood Hills Murders from the 90s (West Memphis 3), where three 8 year old boys were found hog tied, murdered in a ditch.

    The 3 accused (West Memphis 3) are out of prison now, and were never responsible for the murders to begin with.

    West of Memphis on Netflix is a great watch. Be warned however, there are pictures of the murdered boys featured. Really chilling stuff


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    gerrybbadd wrote: »
    I've recently been looking into the Robin Hood Hills Murders from the 90s (West Memphis 3), where three 8 year old boys were found hog tied, murdered in a ditch.

    The 3 accused (West Memphis 3) are out of prison now, and were never responsible for the murders to begin with.

    West of Memphis on Netflix is a great watch. Be warned however, there are pictures of the murdered boys featured. Really chilling stuff
    Did you see the HBO Paradise Lost series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost:_The_Child_Murders_at_Robin_Hood_Hills
    and the book Devil's Knot

    I saw all four documentaries, read Devil's Knot and saw a fictional film on it and still do not know what happened. Some sleazy folk in that part of the world. Echols is one major egotistic pain. I have his book too but did not read it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    gerrybbadd wrote: »
    The Meredith Kercher case is fascinating. I don't think Amanda and her boyfriend did it, but the entire case was a bungle from start to finish, by the police.

    This case is off the wall.. Guede says somebody broke in after he'd had consensual sex with Kercher, and killed her while he was on the jacks listening to his iPod. He took a look in the mirror and bailed for Germany. After the murder, Amanda Knox goes out buying lingerie and starts doing cartwheels down the police station, before pointing the finger at the local barkeep. And Sollecito's DNA is found at the scene but he claims not to have been there.... tbh, I don't trust any of them but I couldn't even give a reasonable guess as to how that one played out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭LynnGrace


    The murder of Grace Livingstone in 1992 has always fascinated me.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/special-reports/unsolved-crimes-how-grace-livingstones-killer-got-away-with-murder-34944717.html

    No-one has ever been convicted, and it occurred at an interesting time in Ireland. The Troubles were ongoing in the North, with paramilitary elements on both sides of the conflict remaining active until 1994. It was also only a matter of days after an election which saw the retirement of CJ Haughey. Also during this period, planning corruption practices that formed the basis of a substantial part of the Mahon Tribunal on Planning Irregularities were taking place involving a number of well-placed and powerful individuals, following on from years of nefarious back-room deals. In the midst all of this was Grace's husband, James Livingstone, a special investigator with the Revenue Commissioners. he was arrested as part of the investigation, but I don't believe he had anything to do with it. But it has always bugged me, did his job or the work that he was involved in lead to the death of this woman? Did he get too close to people with something to hide?

    Very very sad case. I have always thought it was probably something to do with his work that caused that innocent woman to be targeted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    JFK all the way, best murder mystery ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 714 ✭✭✭PlainP


    I watched a documentary on the Jonbenet Ramsey case there the other day. Little girl who was found dead in the basement of her home. It was back in the 1990's.

    The investigators went in with a fine tooth comb and what they uncovered was amazing. 20 years later no-one has been arrested for this but it is crystal clear who did it.

    Won't spoil anything if people want to watch it. You can get both parts on YouTube. Just search for Jonbenet Ramsey documentary it's there in 2 parts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    PlainP wrote: »
    I watched a documentary on the Jonbenet Ramsey case there the other day. Little girl who was found dead in the basement of her home. It was back in the 1990's.

    Hey There PlainP. Was that this one?



    I was just gonna post about that one here.. I'm not sure if you've seen it but the brother came out since that documentary and gave an interview with Dr. Phil... All the repetition and re-iteration is painful on Dr Phil though, the whole show could have been done in an hour, but they split it across three shows.



    saying that he had nothing to do with it. He's a very odd boy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 714 ✭✭✭PlainP


    Hey There PlainP. Was that this one?



    I was just gonna post about that one here.. I'm not sure if you've seen it but the brother came out since that documentary and gave an interview with Dr. Phil... All the repetition and re-iteration is painful on Dr Phil though, the whole show could have been done in an hour, but they split it across three shows.



    saying that he had nothing to do with it. He's a very odd boy.

    Yes that's the one. It's fairly obvious to me that he did it. He was only 9 at the time though so I don't know how culpable he was then. When they interviewed him afterwards he seemed quite "normal" and matter of fact about the whole thing. The family dynamics weren't great, it's a shame poor Jonbenet has not had justice. Will defo check out the Dr Phil interviews.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The Long Island Serial Killer is a fascinating case, especially considering what led to the bodies being found.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,127 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    If you like this thread, then I recommend the books of John Douglas (inspiration for FBI profiler in Silence of the Lambs)... not convinced about his theories on the Ramsey case, but thought provoking and concerning stuff.
    He says he will not visit Italy as a result of the Knox case.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Jimmy Hoffa


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    Tony Soprano


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Jimmy Hoffa

    No mystery really.
    While he was useful to the mob they kept him alive.
    When he became a liability, they disposed of him.
    The exact button man, date, time, place, method of execution might all be up be for speculation. Because those people don't talk about those things. But that it was a mafia execution and the reason for it are both very obvious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Day Lewin wrote: »
    I'm still stubbornly interested in the Leinster disappearances - Annie Mc Carrick, Jojo Dollard, Deirdre Jacob. (Eva Brennan?)

    There's one of these, and I'm not going to say which one, that you could look close to home for an explanation. The others, who knows, have been attributed to Larry and maybe so. Probably we'll never know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    Just watching through that NetFlix documentary about Amanda Knox. My god, such a cast of absolute lying, despicable, self serving b*stards. And I put The Daily Mirror's Nick Pisa right at the top of that list. And the worst thing about him, is that he is completely oblivious to what a complete scumbag he actually is.

    He's closely followed by the head of the Italian prosecution, who comes across like a completely arrogant buffoon and fantasist. Guede, who says initially that Amanda was not at the scene, completely changes his story when in custody (possibly bought off by the police to change his story). So he's lying for one reason or another. And with Amanda, it feels like she's acting. Like she's had a million takes to make sure that she looks as innocent as possible.

    The only person I find believable is Sollecito.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Have you heard the claim that Jojo is buried on a farm and the farmer will not allow gardai in to search.? I heard that but do not believe it as he could not stop them if they had a reasonable suspicion

    There was a series on a few years ago where 3 English psychics investigate mysteries likeJojo's disappearance. The mediums were Colin Fry (rip) Tony Stockwell and some woman. They said Jojo was buried on private land and there were probs wirh access. Jojo's sister said she knew who they were on about. They also said she was buried wrapped in a tartan travel blanket. They said on the journey her abductor changed and made moves on her which led to her rape and murder. They said he had a dysinctive mark of some kind around his mouth. I thought at the time it waa Larry Murphy because of his chin dimple but they seemed to conclude that it was a particular man and Jojo's sister knew who it was.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    Ann22 wrote: »
    There was a series on a few years ago where 3 English psychics investigate mysteries likeJojo's disappearance. The mediums were Colin Fry (rip) Tony Stockwell and some woman. They said Jojo was buried on private land and there were probs wirh access. Jojo's sister said she knew who they were on about. They also said she was buried wrapped in a tartan travel blanket. They said on the journey her abductor changed and made moves on her which led to her rape and murder. They said he had a dysinctive mark of some kind around his mouth. I thought at the time it waa Larry Murphy because of his chin dimple but they seemed to conclude that it was a particular man and Jojo's sister knew who it was.
    very convenient for the 'psychics' Try burying someone on your land and stopping the garda search.If there is a suspicion of a body the gardai can enter anywhere. At least one of those 'psychics was caught cheating
    They said on the journey her abductor changed and made moves on her which led to her rape and murder.
    that is obvious and impossible to disprove
    They said he had a dysinctive mark of some kind around his mouth.
    which fits half the population
    I thought at the time it waa Larry Murphy because of his chin dimple but they seemed to conclude that it was a particular man and Jojo's sister knew who it was
    so they were 'right' either way


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    very convenient for the 'psychics' Try burying someone on your land and stopping the garda search.If there is a suspicion of a body the gardai can enter anywhere. At least one of those 'psychics was caught cheating


    I do think they need a good reason for a search warrant.. not some 'mumbo jumbo' psychic's claims.The sister said she knew who the man is. I only posted to let you know others had heard about the land search permission thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I do think they need a good reason for a search warrant.. not some 'mumbo jumbo' psychic's claims.The sister said she knew who the man is. I only posted to let you know others had heard about the land search permission thing.
    I only posted to let you know others had heard about the land search permission thing
    thanks. I heard it but find it very hard to believe. nothwithstanding psychics if the sister made a statement it would probably give them enough reason. And since it would be a crime scene I am not sure if a warant is needed if they had reasonable grounds to believe an arrestable offence was, is or may have been committed ortat they may be evidence relating to an arrestable offence crime committed else where

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2006/act/26/section/5/enacted/en/html


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    thanks. I heard it but find it very hard to believe. nothwithstanding psychics if the sister made a statement it would probably give them enough reason. And since it would be a crime scene I am not sure if a warant is needed if they had reasonable grounds to believe an arrestable offence was, is or may have been committed ortat they may be evidence relating to an arrestable offence crime committed else where

    I just don't know what the full story was just that the sister was clearly angry and upset that they couldn't or wouldn't proceed. She couldn't say on camera her reasons for suspecting the man. If she told the guards she just felt he was a weirdo who had an eye for Jojo the guards might have asked him where ne waa and what he was doing on the day in question but to actually send in diggers and a search team...they might not. Maybe the man has friends in important jobs...or is a member of a clannish group like the freemasons maybe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I just don't know what the full story was just that the sister was clearly angry and upset that they couldn't or wouldn't proceed. She couldn't say on camera her reasons for suspecting the man. If she told the guards she just felt he was a weirdo who had an eye for Jojo the guards might have asked him where ne waa and what he was doing on the day in question but to actually send in diggers and a search team...they might not. Maybe the man has friends in important jobs...or is a member of a clannish group like the freemasons maybe.
    That was what i heard but i do not believe it and i certainly pay no attention to what a 'psychic' says


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22 suziki832


    Karen Buckleys murder still sends shivers down my spine!! Probably the worst I ever heard if I'm being honest, and I think everyone was affected by it. Still wonder why she left with him?...although it'll probably never be known...
    I often think of her and her parents


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    That was what i heard but i do not believe it and i certainly pay no attention to what a 'psychic' says

    Oh yeah absolutely but the sister was onscreen and she had heard something about this man whether or not she had her facts right is another matter. Perhaps before the show, she put the idea into the psychics' heads, unwittingly but she heard it herself from somewhere. Poor woman prob clinging on to everything she hears for some kind of clue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    Ann22 wrote: »
    Oh yeah absolutely but the sister was onscreen and she had heard something about this man whether or not she had her facts right is another matter. Perhaps before the show, she put the idea into the psychics' heads, unwittingly but she heard it herself from somewhere. Poor woman prob clinging on to everything she hears for some kind of clue.
    probably https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBUTo3AjX0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,201 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rachel O'Reilly's murder case and Joe appearing on the Late Late Show with her mother. Was fascinated with that case at the time and the great police-work that convicted him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭jenny smith


    Rachel O'Reilly's murder case and Joe appearing on the Late Late Show with her mother. Was fascinated with that case at the time and the great police-work that convicted him.
    is the late late piece online anywhere?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,201 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    is the late late piece online anywhere?

    I'm sure it is somewhere. I'm not able to find it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    I'm sure it is somewhere. I'm not able to find it though.

    I searched for it as I very nearly ended up organising going to a viewing of the house- not realising the history of it. I can't find it online anywhere.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭jonon9


    Elizabeth Short 'The Black Dahlia' is an interesting case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    I remember vividly the two Polish guys who were stabbed to death on Benbulbin Road in Drimnagh. The perpetrator, David Curran, was an animal and had lost the head and repeatedly stabbed them with a screwdriver. I was working near the area at the time and remember the decent members of the community holding a vigil for the two.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Ann22 wrote:
    Maybe the man has friends in important jobs...or is a member of a clannish group like the freemasons maybe.

    Freemasons wouldn't be into murdering people though?


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