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Trevor Deely case - new witness

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    #692
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    political analyst wrote: »
    No gangland criminal would have known who Trevor was. So why murder him?

    Chance run in


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    #693
    dubstarr
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    I just hope who this new witness is,brings closure.


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    #694
    [Deleted User]
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    political analyst wrote: »
    If he had come across something wrong with a customer's account at work then he would have told colleagues or the authorities about it quickly and so his murder would not have prevented the truth of whatever he found from emerging.

    He was a junior IT worker though. He wouldn’t have even been accessing accounts.


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    #695
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    political analyst wrote: »
    If he had come across something wrong with a customer's account at work then he would have told colleagues or the authorities about it quickly and so his murder would not have prevented the truth of whatever he found from emerging.

    What is it about these threads (and the gangland ones) that eventually boil down to a handful of people with a Columbo hard on, bickering with each other about their mad theories.


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    #696
    tomwaits48
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    What is it about these threads (and the gangland ones) that eventually boil down to a handful of people with a Columbo hard on, bickering about their mad theories.

    the general true crime podcast explosion probably to blame for me


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    #697
    Field east
    Registered Users Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Field east


    tdf7187 wrote: »
    Oh yes, absolutely. I worked in an office on Waterloo Road in the 1990s and it was by no means unusual to see prostitutes on the street, not even particularly late, sometimes as early as six or seven in the evening. Waterloo Road/Burlington Road/Fitzwilliam Square was a red light district at night back then. I know it seems odd given it is as you say a posh area but that's what it was like.

    Even as recently as 2014 still was if this article is correct:

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/midnight-on-baggot-street-every-girl-in-the-sex-trade-has-a-story-but-men-never-ask-30567428.html

    Fitzwilliam Place also - at least during the early seventies


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    #698
    John_Rambo
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    Trevor's sister, Michelle will be on Newstalk this morning to talk about the ridiculous speculation regarding her brothers disappearance.

    If it wasn't such a tragic subject some of the theories on this thread would be hilarious. They're just moronic.


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    #699
    [Deleted User]
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    The Garda must have a lot more info than we do. They must have some reason to believe this chance encounter actually took place.


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    #700
    Omackeral
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The Garda must have a lot more info than we do.

    That would be the situation 99.9% of the time in any given case.


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    #701
    mistersifter
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Trevor's sister, Michelle will be on Newstalk this morning to talk about the ridiculous speculation regarding her brothers disappearance.

    If it wasn't such a tragic subject some of the theories on this thread would be hilarious. They're just moronic.

    thanks.

    She'll be on now after this break.


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    #702
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Trevor's sister, Michelle will be on Newstalk this morning to talk about the ridiculous speculation regarding her brothers disappearance.

    If it wasn't such a tragic subject some of the theories on this thread would be hilarious. They're just moronic.

    Some of them are off the wall stuff to be fair.

    I reckon mods should shut this down altogether and ban any future threads on Trevor.

    It's unfortunate that due to the circumstances of TD's disappearance there will always be an element of what happened and speculation. Nothing else can be expected.


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    #703
    zapper55
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    Mods can this thread be closed? If the interview with his sister does anything it shows the distress that these highly speculative threads have on the Deely family.


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    #704
    EmmetSpiceland
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    zapper55 wrote: »
    Mods can this thread be closed? If the interview with his sister does anything it shows the distress that these highly speculative threads have on the Deely family.

    It doesn’t even have to be closed, just end all the speculation.

    The tide is turning…



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    #705
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    It doesn’t even have to be closed, just end all the speculation.

    I think it should be closed. There really is no thread without speculation.


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    #706
    [Deleted User]
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Trevor's sister, Michelle will be on Newstalk this morning to talk about the ridiculous speculation regarding her brothers disappearance. ......

    I didn't get the opportunity to tune in. Was it in reference to the media speculation or the speculation on forums etc?


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    #707
    TwoMonthsOff
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    Augeo wrote: »
    I didn't get the opportunity to tune in. Was it in reference to the media speculation or the speculation on forums etc?

    Both, media reports and online speculation. She also said the dig in Chapelizod had nothing at all to do with Trevor.


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    #708
    Fr Tod Umptious
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    smelly sock wrote: »
    I think it should be closed. There really is no thread without speculation.

    I agree
    This thread is a constant rehash of theories about his work, criminals, people asking why did so and so not notice such and such, etc etc.


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    #709
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Augeo wrote: »
    I didn't get the opportunity to tune in. Was it in reference to the media speculation or the speculation on forums etc?

    Mainly online amateur detective speculation like this thread.


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    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Garda must have a lot more info than we do. They must have some reason to believe this chance encounter actually took place.
    :eek: i would hope so


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    #711
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    TwoMonthsOff wrote: »
    Both, media reports and online speculation. She also said the dig in Chapelizod had nothing at all to do with Trevor.

    From what I remember AGS said differently at the time.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/deely-missing-not-found-3609845-Sep2017/


    "Detective Inspector Paul Costello said that gardaí had begun the search as a result of new information they obtained. He said that this information was not related to the appeal in April.

    “We’re at the very early stages of the search,” he said at the time. “As it develops we’ll keep an open mind about what we find and don’t find.

    “We believe there are still people out there who have information that we need and we’d appreciate contact,” he said."

    Lots of the speculation stems from comments from AGS, are AGS spoofing so?


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    #712
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Mainly online amateur detective speculation like this thread.

    But it seems the family perhaps have an issue with the Chapilizod events also .......... "She also said the dig in Chapelizod had nothing at all to do with Trevor"


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    #713
    odyssey06
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    If a theory\line of enquiry has been floated in national news - e.g. the chapelizod dig, the chance run-in with criminal, then it seems reasonable enough to me to discuss it here.

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



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    #714
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

    To the best of my knowledge the Deely family have no submitted DNA to the investigation, for the obvious reason that they believe that Trevor is still alive.

    There is a possibility that Trevor's body is in the grave of an unknown in Wales, but that cannot be clarified without DNA.

    His sister stated that they have provided DNA and there hasn’t been any matches in the system.

    The tide is turning…



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    #715
    Fiftyfilthy
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    A thread like this has a small chance of jogging someone’s memory that they might have thought was irrelevant at the time

    The chances are small but after 20 years and no progress (that we know off) anything is worth a shot

    A man went missing in Dublin city centre under strange circumstances, annual appeals are made , why wouldn’t people discuss it ?


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    #716
    tuxy
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    TwoMonthsOff wrote: »
    Both, media reports and online speculation. She also said the dig in Chapelizod had nothing at all to do with Trevor.

    It had nothing to do with him once it was complete because they don't believe the info it was based on was factual?
    Or the dig was for some other missing person?

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/trevor-deely-s-siblings-describe-horrendous-dig-in-chapelizod-1.3314000


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    #717
    TwoMonthsOff
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    tuxy wrote: »
    It had nothing to do with him once it was complete because they don't believe the info it was based on was factual?

    Yeah I'd imagine this is what she meant.


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    #718
    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
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    Is TD's sister interview available as a podcast?


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    #719
    TwoMonthsOff
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    Lina Limited Workaholic wrote: »
    Is TD's sister interview available as a podcast?

    In a few days it will.


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    #720
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    tuxy wrote: »
    It had nothing to do with him once it was complete because they don't believe the info it was based on was factual?
    Or the dig was for some other missing person?....

    There's no doubt now after the search it had noting to do with him as nothing was found that connected TD to the site.

    But pre search AGS reckoned the info was credible enough to commit to the significant endeavour that followed.

    Folk are bound to speculate....... human nature dictates some folk are moronic and inconsiderate, that's unfortunate.


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    #721
    Fr Tod Umptious
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    His sister stated that they have provided DNA and there hasn’t been any matches in the system.


    That's interesting.
    I personally believed that his body could be lying in the UK unidentified this last 19 years.
    Welsh authorities are going through DNA matching for such bodies, but if the Deely family have been through such process without any match then he is unlikely to be there.


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