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the crime. Now, back

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to the podcast. In

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the last episode of Inside the Crime,

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we heard how the search for Una

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Linsky intensified in the days after she

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went missing. We

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also met Martin Conmey, who told us

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he and one of his best friends,

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Marty Kerrigan, made false confessions after some

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heavy-handed, Garth interrogations. The fact that you're

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innocent and you know you didn't do

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it, well then Jesus, tell them for

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what they hear, because I wouldn't take

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any more. In this

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episode, we'll turn our attention to what

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happened after Martin and Marty made those

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false confessions. News

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of what they said soon crossed every

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doorstep on Porterstown Lane, setting

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in train a sequence of events that

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would change their lives forever. He

1:21

was very afraid to go anywhere or anything,

1:23

he was afraid. The fingers of

1:25

suspicion may have been aimed in the wrong

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direction, but those who found themselves being pointed

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at were right to feel scared. And

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an act of misplaced vengeance would soon

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bring more tragedy to the Lane. I

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remember being at the window looking out

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and praying, please, please God, don't let

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anything happen to me. As we learned

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in the last episode, Martin Conmey lied

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to the murder squad when he told

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them he met Oon on the night

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she disappeared. The truth is,

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he wasn't even on the Lane when she went

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missing, But he would have said anything

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to get out of trim, Garth, the Station. Marty

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Kerrigan also made a false confessions

2:03

by telling them he and Dig

2:05

Donley dumped in his body. Is

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why is also taking a beating and the

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Garda station. That nice dick stuck to his

2:13

guns and refuse to stray from his original

2:16

statement. He insisted he had nothing to do

2:18

with as. The

2:25

guards are very coast. Maybe.

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To house. And I didn't take long

2:29

for word to get back to Berlin skis about what

2:31

the boys had said. Soon.

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As cousin poor gotten didn't believe they

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had anything to do with as. But.

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His faith in their innocence wasn't shared by

2:41

the whole family. He. Was more

2:43

set the investigation going on in

2:45

list. He says that's where the

2:48

typed have some the guards were

2:50

there are men in their heads.

2:52

they will confess that Sam the

2:54

lads adonis take Marty unmarked they

2:57

were sponsor for illness disappearance and

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them and your beer parents They

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didn't believe us. Like

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their beliefs. My.

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Sister and myself okay we we meddle,

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stay plus we we told a guards

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what we had seen. And.

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My father like he believed us. Mother

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my father made it clear to us

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that Sam the lights were and sit

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like we were by can over to

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densities has and. I mean, what?

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I remember, What do a lot of anger. There

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was a lot of anger in the house. When

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you wouldn't have the pub the was

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seconds things said. He. Has

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lots where where where involves play where

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the you know how the were involved

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and on the he didn't make a

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difference to some people. Watch it again

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what you said. The

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or guilty. And that was.

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it was more because of Sam. The

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police said so and that detect to

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settle. With.

3:59

the lens He's so close to the investigation team

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it came as no surprise to Martin when

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word got out about what he said in

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Trimgar the station. The police

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I think were using their houses as a

4:10

headquarters up there. The Lynskey said, oh yeah,

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there's no question about it. That's

4:14

unusual in his house. Yeah, I think they were

4:16

told straight away, the brazier after a meeting to

4:18

which you know. And

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were there any repercussions then

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towards you and the lads on

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the street? Well, there would

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be when they'd been up and down, they'd attracted there, the vegetables

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used to be and used to be and up and down used

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to be crushed and roared and in. So

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there were shots fired over houses and everything. I

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don't know how many poor old parents went through, would

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you know? As

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Martin mentioned there, the lane he grew up

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on soon became a hostile environment. In

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a newspaper interview, five weeks after Una went

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missing, her father Patrick said he believed some

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people were holding back. To

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those who were convinced that Martin and the

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boys had something to do with Una's disappearance,

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they became the source of all their pain and

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suffering. And they

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let them know how they felt in

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no uncertain terms, as Martin's younger sister

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Mary now recalls. The

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morning after they came out from Trim

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and they came home from Trim that

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night, the next morning I was going

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to school, getting up on school. I

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was on a first stop

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I think. My

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parents were still in bed, I was getting up, I don't

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know, was it an eight o'clock bus or half eight? But

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when I went out to the road, there was a

5:36

big slogan painted on the road, it was white paint.

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And it said, murderer,

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economy. It

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was big lettering, like

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it took up certainly half

5:52

the road, if not, I would

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say two-thirds of it. And

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there was a gallows painted

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on the road. you know, kind of stick man,

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like hanging the girls. Yeah, hangman. Yeah.

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And I remember looking at it and

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running back in to tell

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my parents. Did

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you ever find out who did it? No,

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I presumed it was. You had

6:16

your suspicions. And

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the following following day,

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I think a postcard came.

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We would have known the postman

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very well, Jack Brown, and

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he apologized to my

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mother or father, having

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to deliver this. But he had to deliver it.

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And because it was a postcard, he could read what

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was on it. And it was

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the same thing, the gallows

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thing again. And

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Kerrigan's gosh one. And I didn't release

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gosh one as well. As

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Mary says, her family wasn't the only

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one targeted. So too were

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the Kerrigan's and the Donnelly's. Like

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Martin, Marty had also made a false

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confession. And despite Dick maintaining

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his innocence throughout, he too faced a

7:07

nasty reception after he got home. Not

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for one second could any of them have

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imagined the nightmare that was about to unfold.

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Whatever about the guards, they figured their

7:18

neighbors would believe them. But

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here, Marty's sister, Casey, says

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that's not how things panned out. We

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were targeted, yes. They came

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every night, the Linskey lads

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and John Gaughan came every night to

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our house for a couple of hours, flying

7:36

up and down the road, jamming on

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and shouting and roaring. They

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fired shots over our house. We

7:42

were terrified. Absolutely terrified,

7:44

yeah. Was there

7:46

an incident of some graffiti on the street as well? Yes,

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they wrote outside with a narrow

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face into our house, Kerrigan Marringer.

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So they done the same

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at Dick's house and the same at Martin Connelly's. Despite

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everything, those wrongly blamed for what happened

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to Oona still held out hope that

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the truth would set them free. But

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with Oona having seemingly vanished without a

8:10

trace, that hope was slowly starting to

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fade away. And then, almost

8:15

two months after she went missing, the

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murder squad got word of a potential

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breakthrough. A

8:30

farm arrived on the scene after receiving a call

8:32

from a member of the public just before

8:34

noon. The area has since been cordoned

8:36

off and a search has now been carried out

8:38

in the vicinity of where the body was found.

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The office of the State Pathologist has

8:43

also been notified of the discovery. On

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Friday, the 10th of December, 1971, a

8:55

farmer called James Williams was cleaning a

8:57

drain on the side of a road

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near the pine forest on Glendew Mountain.

9:02

Over the bank, maybe seven or eight yards

9:04

from the road, his attention was drawn to

9:06

something that shouldn't have been there. It

9:09

was a metal fire grate resting on top

9:11

of a piece of black felt in the

9:14

middle of a clump of bog flowers. That

9:17

was odd, he thought. James

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lived nearby and had spotted

9:23

the fire grate in the area before, but

9:25

it had been moved since he saw it last. With

9:29

his curiosity now peaked, he grabbed his

9:31

shovel and removed some gorous bushes to

9:33

see what lurked beneath the black felt

9:35

under the grate. To

9:38

his horror, he realized it

9:41

was a human skull. Later,

9:46

when the black felt was carefully peeled

9:48

back, a badly decomposed

9:50

body was found lying on its

9:52

back in what appeared to be a hastily

9:54

dug, shallow grave. It

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was fully clothed in coat

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cardigan. dress, slip, pants,

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tights and bra. Her

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shoes and handbag were nowhere to be found. On

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the wrist of the left arm was

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a gold heart-shaped watch. On

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the ring finger of the right hand, a

10:18

signet ring with a red stone.

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It was Una. We

10:28

were all devastated. In

10:31

my mind I always thought that maybe there was a

10:33

chance that she was alive, that she was somewhere and

10:35

she'd come back. It was

10:38

just hard to take. A

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young girl, our next

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door neighbour, our cousin, first cousin,

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was found

10:46

like that. It

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was devastating.

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It was hard to take. Before

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Una's remains were released to her

11:00

family, the then-State pathologist Professor Morris

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Hickey carried out a post-mortem. It

11:05

was hoped he'd be able to figure out how she

11:07

died and perhaps unearth something that

11:09

would lead detectives to her killer's door.

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But despite a thorough forensic examination,

11:15

he didn't find anything of significance

11:17

and was unable to establish a

11:19

cause of death. If

11:22

she'd been killed in a car accident,

11:24

and perhaps dumped in the mountains by

11:26

a panic-stricken driver, you'd expect to find

11:28

some broken bones. But all

11:30

of Una's were intact, including her

11:33

hyoid bone, a small U-shaped

11:35

bone found in the front of the neck.

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If that had been damaged, it could have led

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Professor Hickey to conclude that she had been strangled

11:42

to death, but there was nothing to suggest

11:44

that that was the case. With

11:47

the autopsy now complete, Una's

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remains were prepared for a proper burial.

11:52

There was a dilemma when it came

11:54

to her funeral with my

11:56

parents. Like this was

11:58

our neighbour's daughter. they wanted, in

12:01

their heart they wanted to go to the funeral.

12:04

But I think they also knew

12:06

that something

12:10

could happen. You

12:13

know, they

12:15

didn't want anything to happen. They would

12:17

upset Stilensky's at the funeral. And...

12:20

Did they feel they would be welcome? Yeah,

12:24

they felt they were definitely

12:26

torn between, should

12:28

we go? And

12:31

if we go, will

12:33

it cause some problems? So

12:36

they made the decision not to go. And...

12:43

she... Her

12:45

body, I think, was... It

12:48

was some funeral home in Dublin. And

12:52

then she was brought to

12:54

the church one evening

12:56

and the cartage came up the lane.

13:00

And that is something that I have

13:02

a very clear memory of. I

13:08

think my parents might have been, you

13:10

know, looking out the

13:12

window, because the window on our kitchen

13:14

faced the front, faced the road.

13:18

So when we knew the

13:21

cartage is passing,

13:23

it's there now, I went outside

13:26

and I stood, it was

13:28

one of the sheds, I stood at the

13:31

wall and

13:33

watched the whole thing. And...

13:38

That is a memory like this. It

13:40

was all of the red taillights of the

13:42

cars watching

13:45

them and... knowing

13:49

that all the people

13:51

in there were probably, in

13:53

those cars, were probably talking about us, about

13:56

our house, as they passed their house. And

14:01

how awful it was that these people thought that

14:05

my brother and I had something to do with illness

14:09

murder. And I

14:12

watched the Cartagias who went around and

14:14

turned at the bend and then it

14:16

stopped over at near

14:18

the ESP pilot. The

14:21

whole thing stood still there. I

14:25

can even remember the weather. That

14:27

night I remember it was windy. And

14:30

just leaning against the

14:32

wall and I'd like, tard

14:35

again or whatever, just pulled around me to keep

14:37

warm. And just

14:41

the sadness, the sadness of it all.

14:49

Hundreds of mourners gathered at the church

14:51

of the Holy Trinity in Rototh for

14:53

Una's funeral mass. Many

14:56

of them had to stand outside because the church was

14:58

full. Afterwards,

15:00

her six brothers carried her coffin

15:02

to the local cemetery with

15:05

her beloved boyfriend Paddy Kelly lending a

15:07

hand along the way. At

15:11

the cemetery, her parents and 11

15:13

siblings lined the graveside to pay

15:15

their final respects. She

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was just 19 years old, taken

15:21

just a stone's throw from home. It

15:24

was too much to bear. By

15:28

now, the investigation into Una's disappearance

15:30

was upgraded to a murder investigation.

15:34

At her funeral, plainclothes detectives

15:36

mingled with mourners, journalists

15:38

too. Like

15:40

everyone else, Martin, Dick and

15:42

Marty had hoped Una would return

15:45

home alive and well. When

15:48

she didn't, they hoped the discovery of her

15:50

body would reveal something that would clear their

15:52

names. It didn't.

15:56

In fact, it only added fuel to the

15:58

fire, as Marty's sister Casey

16:00

and Anne now recall. Despite

16:30

having done no wrong, Marty was right to

16:32

feel nervous and afraid. The day after Una's

16:51

body was found, his older sister Eileen

16:53

drove him into a tote. She

16:56

parked outside Ryan's pub, leaving Marty in

16:58

the car while she went inside. Upon

17:01

realising that Marty was outside, she claimed

17:03

Una's brother, James Lynskey, ran out of

17:05

the pub to try and drag Marty

17:07

out of the car. She

17:10

said she somehow managed to pull him away

17:12

and that Marty then shuffled into the driver's

17:14

seat and sped off. A

17:17

lucky escape. Just

17:21

over a week later, Marty went

17:23

for a few pints of Guinness in

17:25

Marr's pub in Ritoth. It

17:27

was the Sunday before Christmas Day, 1971. At

17:32

the same time, Una's brothers, James

17:34

and Sean Lynskey and their cousin,

17:37

John Gaughan, were drinking in the

17:39

county club in Dunshoklin, just

17:41

a few miles away. When

17:44

the bell for last orders rang out in

17:46

Marr's, Marty decided to have one for

17:48

the road. He left the

17:50

pub just after 10 o'clock. John

17:53

Harty, a local guard up, noticed him on

17:56

the street with his friends. He

17:58

also noticed Paddy Kelly's car. car nearby with

18:00

three others in it. Marty

18:03

and his friends had decided to go to a

18:05

dance so Gar the Hearty offered them a lift

18:07

and they set off in his car. Horik

18:12

Gahan was also about that night and he

18:14

too was making his way to the dance

18:16

with his brother Danny. It's

18:18

a night he'll never forget. We

18:21

were heading to Kilmoone to a

18:23

dance that was down on the

18:25

Ashport and Slane Road and

18:28

there was just a minor

18:30

accident, a minor motorbike accident

18:33

with a couple of

18:35

local ads and that happened around,

18:37

would have been around

18:39

the crossroad there at the graveyard in

18:41

Rithaud. The old barracks crossroad is that?

18:44

Exactly it yeah and John

18:48

Beanegard as far as

18:50

I know just was trying to start things

18:52

out of the accident. We're very close to

18:54

that crossroad there. When

18:57

I don't know whose car

18:59

it was, was it Paddy Kelly's car? But

19:02

this car pulled up. There was probably about ten

19:04

of them and ten eleven in total and

19:08

that's when I think Johnny, John Hardy

19:10

had gone into the house to

19:14

make a phone call and when

19:17

they started, I suppose they called it

19:19

a row, as far as I know Danny went into

19:21

the house because I don't

19:24

know did we realize at the time that Marty

19:26

was being taken but

19:29

Danny must have realized that and

19:31

he ran into the house to get

19:33

John Hardy to come out. I

19:35

don't know what he said to John but it was

19:38

probably just saying John look they're trying to take Marty

19:41

here. We

19:43

did our best and Parsley. After

19:58

Gar the Harsley went into the house. near the

20:00

scene of the motorbike accident, two cars

20:02

pulled up, Paddy Kelly's

20:05

Austin A40 and John

20:07

Guhan's Green Mini. Again,

20:11

Paddy Kelly was Oona's boyfriend.

20:13

John Guhan was her cousin.

20:16

He was a brother of Anne Guhan who got

20:18

the bus home with Oona on that fateful

20:20

night. As

20:22

Porwick said a moment ago, he remembers about

20:25

10 or 11 lads getting out of the

20:27

cars. He and his

20:29

pals were outnumbered. Marty didn't

20:32

stand a chance. It

20:35

was terribly we couldn't stop it, you know. You

20:40

know, there was just too many. Iron

20:43

bars involved and we had nothing. You

20:46

know, I often doubt if I only had Hori

20:49

Stick or something to... You

20:52

know, when you think back, you know, he

20:55

was only a child. Pulled

20:58

a child into a car like that. Like

21:02

he left his shoes were on the ground there. You

21:06

know, Danny found his shoes. To

21:12

this day, it's not clear how the boys knew

21:14

where to find Marty that night. But

21:16

when they arrived on the scene, all hell

21:18

broke loose. John Guhan stayed in

21:21

his car while he had spilled out onto the street.

21:24

James Lynskey made a beeline for Marty, knocking

21:26

him straight to the ground. The

21:29

sound of Marty's head cracking off

21:31

the tarmac still haunts Porwick. He

21:34

rushed to help him, trying his best to pull

21:36

his cousin off him. While

21:39

he grappled with James, Sean Lynskey grabbed

21:41

Marty by his long hair and dragged

21:43

him along the ground to John Guhan's

21:45

mini. He then

21:48

bundled him head first into the back. Sean

21:51

ran alongside the slowly moving car before

21:53

pushing Marty the rest of the way

21:55

in and jumping in. James

21:57

Lynskey also jumped in and they sped on. off

22:00

with Marty lying on the floor. With

22:04

the mini-nav out of sight, it didn't take

22:06

long for word of Marty's abduction to reach

22:08

the Kerrigan household, as Anne

22:10

now recalls. I heard

22:12

it on Sunday night about half

22:14

ten, eleven o'clock. I was

22:17

out in Dunchakklin socialising and

22:19

when I came home, Casey came

22:21

out of the house and she

22:23

said, they've taken Marty. I thought

22:26

she meant the guards, that

22:28

they had to take him in to drink. And

22:32

she says, the Lynskes have taken him. I

22:35

said, how do you know? And my

22:37

father had been walking up the road

22:39

from the local pub and

22:42

somebody pulled up and gave him

22:44

Marty's shoe, where he lost his shoe when

22:46

he was being dragged into the car. So

22:48

that's how we knew that he was gone.

22:51

So we drove up to John Gaughan's

22:53

house and

22:55

we waited there. By

23:01

now John Gaughan's green mini was

23:03

scrambling up the Dublin Mountains towards

23:05

the shallow grave where Una's body

23:07

was found just ten days beforehand.

23:10

The Lynske brothers had a hold of Marty in

23:13

the back as they grilled him about what happened

23:15

to their sister. And just

23:17

like he did at Trimgar the station, Marty

23:19

insisted he had nothing to do with it.

23:23

Clearly unhappy with his answers, his head

23:25

was bashed off a bar under the

23:27

front passenger seat. Sean

23:29

Lynske told him he had a shotgun, prompting

23:31

John Gaughan to plead with them not to

23:33

kill him in his car. Instead,

23:36

he suggested they push him off a

23:38

cliff. No

23:41

doubt fearing for his life, Marty

23:43

once again lied about what happened to Una.

23:46

Without going into any detail whatsoever,

23:48

he blamed Martin and Dick. top

24:01

of his

24:03

voice. Sean

24:06

Lynskey put his hand over his mouth to silence

24:08

him. Marty stopped

24:10

shouting. In fact, he

24:12

became very quiet after that and

24:15

didn't open his mouth again. When

24:19

they reached the spot where Una's remains

24:21

were found, the Lynskey brothers opened the

24:23

passenger door and shoved him out onto

24:25

the grass. They then

24:28

drove back to John Gaughan's house where

24:30

an angry crowd awaited them. After

24:35

a while, I can't remember how

24:37

long after, but we were sitting

24:40

there in the car waiting for them

24:42

to come back and the mini

24:44

came flying back in the gate and

24:46

they jumped out and ran for the house. John

24:49

Gaughan and the two Lynskey. But

24:53

there was no sign of Marty and

24:56

the guards told us to go home and

25:00

the words he said, we'll have Marty

25:02

home as soon as we go home.

25:06

So we did that. It

25:09

was after 1am when the green

25:11

mini returned without Marty. The

25:13

Kerrigins, having gone home to await news,

25:16

faced an anxious wait. The

25:19

TikTok of the kitchen clock seemed

25:21

to get slower and slower with

25:24

every passing minute. Over

25:27

at the economies, Mary was also

25:29

praying for Marty's safe return. Before

25:34

I went to bed, I knew

25:36

Marty had been taken home. I

25:39

remember being in my bedroom and

25:41

again, there was windows facing the front

25:44

out to the road. I

25:46

remember being at the window looking out and

25:50

praying. I always remember

25:52

that. It was like, please, please

25:54

God, don't let anything happen to him.

25:57

Pleading. Cars,

26:01

I know, were going up and down the

26:03

road, probably from the Hans.

26:08

At that time, we could kind of see

26:10

the Hans house. Trees

26:12

and hedges weren't like they are now. But

26:15

at some stage I must have went to bed and...

26:20

I don't know whether I slept or not. But

26:23

I know I was awake when I had

26:27

a radio. RT

26:31

opened at half seven. And

26:34

coming up to half seven there would be this

26:36

music kind of thing that

26:38

would go on for a while. And

26:41

then you'd have the bleep just

26:44

before. And they opened with

26:46

the news. And

26:50

the first thing

26:52

on the news, it said the body of a

26:55

young man has been found in the Dublin mountains.

26:58

That's how I found it. We

27:19

wasted and wasted. And

27:21

about five o'clock in the morning, a

27:24

guard, two guards came to the door and

27:26

said, How soon would you

27:28

be able to identify Marty's body? And

27:31

Eileen spoke to them and she said,

27:33

Well, we will have to

27:35

contact my brother and sister

27:38

in England. Can you wait

27:40

until he comes home? And

27:42

my brother will do it. And they said

27:44

no. So she took, she

27:46

got her friends the next day

27:48

and the two of them went and identified him.

27:53

Marty's body was found lying on a

27:55

small patch of grass near where Oona's

27:57

body had been dumped. trousers

28:00

were ripped at the seams and his shirt

28:02

was torn open. He

28:05

was covered in bruises and the skin

28:07

had been torn from his nose

28:09

but the most gruesome injury had

28:11

been inflicted after he died. Having

28:16

examined a three-inch jagged cut

28:18

the pathologist concluded that someone

28:20

had tried to castrate him.

28:25

Not long after Marty's body was discovered,

28:28

Martin Connery reported for duty on a

28:30

building site in Dublin. He

28:34

hadn't heard that his friend was dead but

28:37

it wasn't long before he found out in

28:39

the most shocking and cruelest of ways. Yeah

28:43

I remember I was walking in a site

28:45

in Clandarac and Robin Hood industrial estate was

28:47

just a place and it

28:50

was actually on the monda these guards

28:52

arrived in and Gildee was

28:54

one of them in the car it was about three or four of

28:56

them in it and

28:58

then a 14th said to me did you hear your friend

29:01

I didn't know at this stage Carrigan is dead I said

29:05

no well you're going to be you'll be

29:07

next to be up there that's what I said to me

29:10

more or less up there where he was put up

29:13

in the mountain yeah you'll be next so

29:16

we'll knock it out with you today he says bring

29:18

in this red fernum but

29:21

I was different in there I was stronger I

29:24

was different completely and I said to wrap me

29:26

in anyone was late at night when I got

29:28

out of line early in the morning about half

29:31

nine or something I was there till about could

29:33

be ten o'clock maybe that night I was

29:38

going on and on and and um just

29:41

kept saying come on tell us now and I

29:43

said I told you the truth and trim and

29:45

you wouldn't believe me and I

29:48

said you can bet that s I

29:50

would be today if you want I was different I said I'm

29:52

not I said I never seen that

29:54

girl and next time I got a slap across the

29:56

back of the craft the face from I think was

29:58

Gildee And

30:01

did you believe them that Maraty was dead? I

30:04

don't know. I swear I couldn't. I couldn't let myself

30:07

believe that. I just couldn't believe that Maraty's

30:09

life was taken, you know. I

30:11

couldn't believe and then they showed me a photograph in

30:14

Radfernum. It was about

30:16

that size of a photograph of Maraty. Quite

30:18

a large photograph. A large photograph with a

30:21

black jacket and a short and a torn

30:23

and blood on them here. They

30:25

showed me that and then I think they turned

30:27

on the radio. How

30:31

were you convinced Jesus that you'd

30:33

be next to be up there? Because on the photograph

30:35

of Maraty laying the ditch I could actually see him

30:38

clear, you know. Taken at the site where he was

30:40

found? I swear he was laying the ditch. It

30:43

was like a bad dream. You were trying to wake

30:45

up from it. But no, it was... Oh.

30:52

Sadly, what happened to Maraty wasn't a

30:54

bad dream. The nightmare

30:56

on Portis Town Lane had started two

30:58

months earlier when Una Linsky stepped off

31:00

that bus. And with Maraty

31:02

now dead, there was no end in sight.

31:05

Una was buried five days before Maraty was killed.

31:09

And now it was the Kerrigan's turn to bury

31:11

a loved one. Both

31:13

of them just 19 years of

31:15

age. Both taken far too

31:17

soon. Here,

31:20

Mary Connery shares her memories of Maraty's

31:22

wake. I will

31:24

never, ever forget

31:27

the scene that I saw.

31:30

It was just unimaginable

31:33

grief. Everybody was crying,

31:35

but in particular, I saw

31:39

Katie. She

31:42

was two or three steps up to

31:44

where the coffin was. It was just

31:47

a rectangular room. The

31:49

coffin was just in the middle of it on a stand.

31:52

There was nobody really around the coffin. It

31:54

was like if everybody was back from it.

31:57

And Katie was sitting on the distance.

32:00

depth. And she had been

32:02

crying so hard that she

32:04

was gone into, I don't know

32:06

what you call it, convulsions. She

32:08

was just heaving like this.

32:12

And in Nashville, Katie was my best friend.

32:15

But I never saw such grief. And

32:18

Eileen was sitting beside her trying to

32:20

comfort her. I

32:24

just, my heart went out to her. But

32:27

I remember standing looking at Marty

32:30

in the coffin, and noticing

32:32

the bruises on his lip.

32:34

And what really caught my

32:36

attention, I'd

32:38

only seen maybe my grandparents,

32:40

my grandfather, I hadn't seen many people

32:42

who were dead, but they were old.

32:45

And they always liked the hands cast

32:49

and a rose repeats was the usual

32:51

thing. And those hands, Marty's

32:53

hands were

32:55

almost covered with the lining of

32:57

the coffin

33:00

lining. And that really

33:02

caught my attention. I kept thinking,

33:04

why, why are they covering his

33:06

hands? Why are his hands covered?

33:08

But you couldn't see his fingers.

33:11

And, but I kept looking at it and

33:14

like, you're dead because

33:16

people hated you. You're not you're not just

33:18

dead, because you're old or was an

33:20

accident. Somebody has taken

33:23

your life because they hated

33:25

you because they thought you did something that you

33:27

didn't do. So

33:30

what about those who killed Marty? Well,

33:33

the guards were waiting for John Gotten

33:35

when he returned home that night with

33:37

his cousins, James and Sean Lynskey. He

33:40

lied at first, telling them they picked

33:42

Marty up at the graveyard and left him

33:44

on Ferry House Road where he got into

33:46

a gray car, which then drove off. He

33:49

changed his story later and described how Marty

33:52

was bundled into the back of his

33:54

car and that the Lynskey brothers were

33:56

questioning him about Una's death. He

33:59

said he remembered asking asking if Marci was dead when

34:01

they pushed him out of the car, to

34:04

which James replied, he is not,

34:06

his heart is beating, he is up to his

34:08

old tricks. James

34:10

admitted losing his patience when he saw

34:12

Marci at the crossroads, but

34:15

told the guards he thought he was pushing it on

34:17

when he went quiet in the car. At

34:20

the end of his statement he said, now

34:22

that I have heard that Marci Kerrigan is dead,

34:24

I want to say that I don't know how

34:26

he could have died, it must be very easy

34:28

to kill a person. His

34:31

brother Sean Lynskey admitted shaking Marci's

34:34

head up and down nine or

34:36

ten times as he questioned him

34:38

about Una's murder. After

34:42

putting his hand over his mouth at the

34:44

petrol station, he said Marci went quiet for

34:46

the rest of the journey, but he too

34:48

thought he was play acting. On

34:52

Wednesday the 15th of

34:55

March 1972, all

34:57

three stood trial for Marci's murder.

35:02

Porrick Gaughan was called to give evidence

35:04

against his cousins. I

35:32

remember him saying

35:35

they called my father a murderer.

35:38

I think he was like he is now, he was upset. The

35:42

case against John Gaughan and the Lynskey brothers

35:44

was that they murdered Marci as a revenge

35:46

killing for what they believed to be his

35:49

role in Una's death. They

35:51

denied that, claiming they only wanted information

35:53

and believed he was still alive when

35:55

they left him up the mountains. John

35:59

Gaughan was told to kill Marci. Marcie was dead, he

36:01

said, Jesus Christ Almighty, we have

36:03

to face it. James

36:06

Lynskey looked shocked when he found out but

36:09

didn't say anything at all. Sean

36:11

Lynskey said he didn't care if he was strung up

36:13

in the morning. At

36:16

trial, the jury heard a double barrel

36:18

shotgun was found in John Gohan's mini.

36:21

They also heard Sean Lynskey had two knives

36:24

on him that night, a

36:26

bread knife and a pen knife. When

36:30

he took the stand, he came to use the

36:32

bread knife to cut an apple tart and

36:34

only brought it with him that night in case he

36:37

needed to defend himself. He

36:39

accepted it was a dangerous weapon but

36:41

insisted he never used it. The

36:44

jury was told there was no blood found

36:46

on it while the pen knife wasn't tested.

36:52

According to the state pathologist, Marty

36:54

Kerrigan died from suffocation. Something

36:56

or someone had interfered with

36:58

his breathing. When

37:01

asked, the pathologist agreed that the pressure

37:03

of a person's hand being applied over

37:05

his mouth and nose could have killed

37:07

him. The

37:10

defense suggested that Marty was drunk when

37:12

they rolled him into the ditch and

37:14

that perhaps he had fallen down and

37:16

caused his own death. The

37:19

prosecution suggested Sean Lynskey's possession of

37:21

a knife proved his intention to

37:23

kill or cause serious harm. In

37:27

the end, it was left for the jury to decide.

37:30

They were sent out to begin their deliberations

37:32

just before half past two on the

37:34

afternoon of Wednesday 29th March 1972. They

37:40

returned with their verdict just after

37:42

1am the next morning. Having

37:46

poured over the evidence for 10

37:48

and a half hours, they found

37:50

the three men not guilty of

37:52

Marty's murder but guilty

37:54

of his manslaughter. The

37:58

packed public gallery Felt. Blinds.

38:02

Stay. We don't understand. How.

38:05

Is end to the thin man such. To.

38:07

Something not right somewhere along. The way

38:10

because and he says he says leave

38:12

their has. Nice. To

38:15

nice and a gun. Deaths.

38:17

Nurse. Has. Cents on

38:19

to say had three since they had

38:21

their. Sights set

38:23

on. But Detective.

38:26

Things are never the same as to pass. The.

38:31

Community of Porters Town Lane was

38:33

forever changed. After March he was

38:35

killed. A

38:38

young woman had been abducted and

38:40

don't have the.the mountains and in

38:42

a cruel act of misplaced vengeance

38:44

a young man soon suffered the

38:46

same face. For

38:49

their roles in Killing Marty Shown

38:51

Lynskey and John Gone were jailed

38:53

for three years. James

38:56

Lynskey got two years detention and

38:58

same class. Those.

39:00

Closest to Marcy. found they got off

39:02

lightly. And they never come

39:04

to terms with the senselessness of his

39:06

death. How could he get some information

39:09

about something he knew nothing about? He

39:11

just couldn't give them the information that

39:13

they want to say because he didn't

39:15

know in the next episode of Inside

39:17

The Crime. We'll

39:20

go inside the courtroom once more.

39:23

With Marti's killers now behind bars,

39:26

it wasn't long before Mars and

39:28

Con Me and Dick Donnelly found

39:30

themselves in the dark. They had,

39:32

don't know, wrong. But they

39:34

were not believed they were charged and

39:36

would soon face a jury for the

39:39

murder of Una Lynskey. Guards appeared from

39:41

everywhere like at the must have come

39:43

across the sales and everything he can.

39:46

The said the house to com market

39:48

has to come and so they went.

39:51

There face now lay in the hands of

39:54

Lady Justice. Surely

39:56

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