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Deirdre Jacob missing twenty years Today.

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  • #32
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,506 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    I heard on the radio , The person of interest lives abroad and is know for other crimes,
    Is it Lawrence ?


  • #33
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    I heard on the radio , The person of interest lives abroad and is know for other crimes,
    Is it Lawrence ?
    That name has been mentioned before. Its no good without evidence


  • #34
    julyjane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭julyjane


    it might be but it's just too easy to assume. if the "somebody knows something" theory is true I can't imagine there being too many people who would withhold information for him. It could be anyone, Elaine O'Hara was missing over a year and her killer was living a quiet life with seemingly nothing to connect him.

    I previously heard a suggestion that another Kildare man should be questioned about other cases of missing women (maybe he was) he was convicted on DNA evidence in the early 2000s of the rape and murder of a young woman in the 70s. AFAIR she was waiting for a bus home and he offered her a lift. I think the book which mentioned him was Missing by Barry Cummins, I have it somewhere at home so I'll fact check tonight


  • #35
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Beach Fuzz wrote: »
    What's the point of a thread so?

    Threads like this will only thrive if people can talk and speculate about it.

    No wonder this site is a graveyard.

    Mainly because when people speculate people complain to the admins/etc and play the think of the family role and they also can threaten with legal action.


  • #36
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Mainly because when people speculate people complain to the admins/etc and play the think of the family role and they also can threaten with legal action.

    Maybe close the thread now so. Because that is what will happen very soon anyway IMV.

    I think it's ok to speculate as long as people are not named individually just generally without really identifying them as such.

    LM has already been mentioned whom we are all aware of. Another called Lawr****. Never heard of him.

    Look up Phyllis Murphy, and see where she disappeared from, and who was eventually convicted and when, due to advancement in DNA.


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  • #37
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    julyjane wrote: »
    it might be but it's just too easy to assume. if the "somebody knows something" theory is true I can't imagine there being too many people who would withhold information for him. It could be anyone, Elaine O'Hara was missing over a year and her killer was living a quiet life with seemingly nothing to connect him.

    I previously heard a suggestion that another Kildare man should be questioned about other cases of missing women (maybe he was) he was convicted on DNA evidence in the early 2000s of the rape and murder of a young woman in the 70s. AFAIR she was waiting for a bus home and he offered her a lift. I think the book which mentioned him was Missing by Barry Cummins, I have it somewhere at home so I'll fact check tonight

    John Crerar. He's from Kildare and was free in 1998 so it's possible.


  • #38
    Jeff Devoy
    Site Banned Posts: 37 ✭Jeff Devoy


    When they said that the chief suspect was responsible for violent crimes against women in Leinster and had been jailed for at least one of them, Larry Murphy came straight to mind.

    He allegedly did work in the shop of one of Deirdre's relatives which makes it all the more likely IMO.


  • #39
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Edgware wrote: »
    Chapelizard? Wheres that?
    Ireland is too small a country to keep any major search quiet

    West dublin


  • #40
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Who is Lawrence? If mods allow identification...


  • #41
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Who is Lawrence? If mods allow identification...

    Larry Murphy


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  • #42
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,506 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Who is Lawrence? If mods allow identification...
    Larry is short for Lawrence


  • #43
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    smelly sock wrote: »
    West dublin

    Is it near Puncherstown?


  • #44
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Jeff Devoy wrote: »
    When they said that the chief suspect was responsible for violent crimes against women in Leinster and had been jailed for at least one of them, Larry Murphy came straight to mind.

    He allegedly did work in the shop of one of Deirdre's relatives which makes it all the more likely IMO.

    Larry put up a sign in the grandmother's shop saying he made kids furniture.
    I'd say her family are tired of that rumour.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/www.thejournal.ie/deirdre-jacob-larry-murphy-2579822-Feb2016/%3famp=1


  • #45
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Mod note: By the way talk about other cases but don't overly speculate to much.
    Talk about similar cases etc bit don't say x did this etc.


  • #46
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Larry out up a sign in the grandmother's shop saying he made kids furniture.
    I'd say her family are tired of that rumour.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/www.thejournal.ie/deirdre-jacob-larry-murphy-2579822-Feb2016/%3famp=1

    Its a strong enough link considering his crime and a young girl going missing.


  • #47
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Its a strong enough link considering his crime and a young girl going missing.

    The original rumour was he was working in the shop.
    I just wanted to clear this up for people.


  • #48
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Thanks to those who pointed out the explanation of Lawrence! I just thought it was someone else I hadn't heard of before. Doh.

    I am sure the detectives are running checks on the other Newbridge abduction where the perpetrator was not found until many years later and DJ case happened before his arrest.


  • #49
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    It says in the press that this guy was in jail for violent crimes on "women".

    Larry only went to jail for 1 crime.

    Seems to be this guy committed more and spent time i jail for the..


  • #50
    Jeff Devoy
    Site Banned Posts: 37 ✭Jeff Devoy


    As much as I'm suspicious of Larry Murphy's involvement in Deirdre's case, I'd strongly doubt he is involved in all the cases, as some people have suggested. For example, the two women below were believed to be killed by men they knew well:

    Fiona Pender - she was seven months pregnant when she disappeared from her home in the town centre of Tullamore. Her then-boyfriend, John Thompson, is believed to have killed and buried her. He lives in Canada now, and recently made the news when his latest partner told police that he admitted killing Fiona and threatened to do the same to her. A makeshift cross in the Slieve Bloom mountains with her name on it was deemed to be a hoax.

    Fiona Sinnott - young single mother who went missing after an argument with her ex-partner one night. Though he has never been named as a suspect, it is widely known that he is the only suspect in this case, and he is believed to have killed the mother of his child after a fight. Certain members of his family also believe this, according to newspaper interviews.


  • #51
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Now from the best of my knowledge the woman Larry Murphy attacked in Carlow.
    He watched/stalked her and knew her movements before pouncing on her in a quiet car park on a dark February night.


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  • #52
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Jeff Devoy wrote: »
    As much as I'm suspicious of Larry Murphy's involvement in Deirdre's case, I'd strongly doubt he is involved in all the cases, as some people have suggested. For example, the two women below were believed to be killed by men they knew well:

    Fiona Pender - she was seven months pregnant when she disappeared from her home in the town centre of Tullamore. Her then-boyfriend, John Thompson, is believed to have killed and buried her. He lives in Canada now, and recently made the news when his latest partner told police that he admitted killing Fiona and threatened to do the same to her. A makeshift cross in the Slieve Bloom mountains with her name on it was deemed to be a hoax.

    Fiona Sinnott - young single mother who went missing after an argument with her ex-partner one night. Though he has never been named as a suspect, it is widely known that he is the only suspect in this case, and he is believed to have killed the mother of his child after a fight. Certain members of his family also believe this, according to newspaper interviews.

    Yep i agree with the above. If Larry is suspected of more attacks, which i believe is probable amd likey its more likely Annie McCarrick and Jo Jo Dollard.


  • #53
    Jeff Devoy
    Site Banned Posts: 37 ✭Jeff Devoy


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Yep i agree with the above. If Larry is suspected of more attacks, which i believe is probable amd likey its more likely Annie McCarrick and Jo Jo Dollard.

    Wasn't there some sort of Provo connection to Annie McCarrick's disappearance?


  • #54
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    smelly sock wrote: »
    Yep i agree with the above. If Larry is suspected of more attacks, which i believe is probable amd likey its more likely Annie McCarrick and Jo Jo Dollard.

    Considering Jojo Dollard was last seen less than 9-miles from where LM lived, he's an obvious suspect

    Mark Hennessy is probably more of a suspect in the Annie McCarrick case than LM is


  • #55
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Jeff Devoy wrote: »
    Wasn't there some sort of Provo connection to Annie McCarrick's disappearance?

    I heard that on one of those TV3 programs alright.


  • #56
    Strazdas
    Registered Users Posts: 17,959 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Considering Jojo Dollard was last seen less than 9-miles from where LM lived, he's an obvious suspect

    Mark Hennessy is probably more of a suspect in the Annie McCarrick case than LM is

    I was reading a few weeks ago that they could find no evidence to link Hennessy to any crimes bar the murder of Jastine Valdez. It seems he underwent some sort of breakdown or spiralling out of control this year.


  • #57
    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Laois_Man wrote: »

    Mark Hennessy is probably more of a suspect in the Annie McCarrick case than LM is

    That’s rubbish! Hennessy would only have been 15 at the time.


  • #58
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Considering Jojo Dollard was last seen less than 9-miles from where LM lived, he's an obvious suspect

    Mark Hennessy is probably more of a suspect in the Annie McCarrick case than LM is

    Wouldn't Mark Hennessy have being in his mid teens then?


  • #59
    Jeff Devoy
    Site Banned Posts: 37 ✭Jeff Devoy


    Laois_Man wrote: »
    Considering Jojo Dollard was last seen less than 9-miles from where LM lived, he's an obvious suspect

    Mark Hennessy is probably more of a suspect in the Annie McCarrick case than LM is

    JoJo's sister said she thinks she knew who her killer was, and it wasn't Murphy. The sister has since passed away.


  • #60
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Jeff Devoy wrote: »
    JoJo's sister said she thinks she knew who her killer was, and it wasn't Murphy. The sister has since passed away.

    Massive speculation in the area about who it was!


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  • #61
    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    This gir has been living abroad, knew how to take care and be vigilant, my thinking is, it was someone she knew.


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