“Larry Murphy sat in the yard at Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison with a man who burned his wife and foster child to death and another who had raped and strangled a woman on her way home from a Christmas party.”
What a charming bunch.
Anyone have a version of the article that you can read without subscribing?
Interesting excerpts from the article:
>He alleged Murphy told him how gardaí did not have a clue and there were “more up the mountains”. “They won’t find any DNA because I don’t leave any,” he allegedly told another prisoner.
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>One day, the prisoner got into a fight with Murphy about another inmate who happened to be a convicted murderer. During the stand-off, Murphy allegedly said to him: “I’ve killed too.” Or did he mean: “I’ve killed two”? The prisoner was unclear.
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>His details were passed to Operation Trace… Detectives interviewed the prisoner in 2006. He stood by his allegations and gave them a detailed statement.
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>His allegations could never be verified, and attempts to interview the other inmates were unsuccessful.
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>The file was submitted the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) last year and, it is understood, came with a recommendation from gardaí that Murphy should be charged with Ms Jacob’s murder.
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>It emerged last weekend that the DPP decided the evidence was not there to prosecute.
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>In 2018, gardaí came at it again. The Serious Crime Review Team launched a cold case review.
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>24-year-old CCTV footage taken from premises all around Newbridge town on the day Ms Jacob disappeared was ripe for forensic image enhancement… The old footage from inside Newbridge Post Office minutes before Ms Jacob went in to post the bank draft showed the outline of a person standing inside. The face and features were indistinct, but detectives believed it to be a man. The images were sent to the UK for digital enhancement and analysis
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>The expert analysis concluded there was “moderate support” for the proposition that Murphy was the man in the post office.
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>Gardaí revisited the prison testimony about Murphy. The Arbour Hill prisoner, who we will call Prisoner A, was the first prisoner — but not the only one — to come forward to gardaí about Murphy. A year after Murphy got out of prison in 2010, a second prisoner — Prisoner B — in another jail contacted gardaí to allege Murphy had confessed to murdering a young woman in Newbridge.
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>He alleged that not only had Murphy confessed during a drunken night … about abducting a woman in Newbridge, by stopping to ask her directions, hauling her in through the car window and forcing her into the footwell of the passenger seat and hit her with a hammer. He claimed Murphy told him he buried the young woman’s body in the Wicklow Mountains.
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>Then, in 2019, a new witness came forward… He told gardaí he had been driving into Newbridge along the road that goes past Ms Jacob’s house, in a jeep that gave him an elevated view. As he passed an oncoming car, he saw a person who appeared to be in the footwell on the front passenger side of the car. The person was “either laughing or crying”, he could not tell which.
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>Gardaí never established where Murphy was on the day Ms Jacob disappeared, but they believe there is a strong likelihood he was in Newbridge.
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>The disparate but connected strands were among the circumstantial elements that tied together to create what gardaí believed was a strong case against Murphy: the CCTV footage of the “person of interest” in the post office minutes before Ms Jacob was there; his work around North Kildare; Prisoner A, who claimed Murphy confessed to killing; Prisoner B, who claimed consistently that Murphy had admitted killing, pulling her through the window and pushing her into the footwell of his car; and the “significant” witness who claimed to have seen a person in the footwell of a car, “laughing or crying” on the day Ms Jacob disappeared.
What will drive you more mad is the fact that Larry Murphy only served 10 years in prison.
Marilyn Rynn was the woman David Lawler murdered. She was on her way home from a Christmas party, Gardaí could find her on CCTV the entire way home until she crossed a street and was never seen alive again. The sick pervert followed her, raped her and murdered her minutes from her home. He even had the audacity to volunteer his DNA because he didn’t think they’d catch him.
It took a while because forensic science wasn’t what it is now, but they got him.
I think of her often. Because I was a woman heading home from a Christmas party on more than one occasion and that could so easily have been me.
RIP
These fellows should be executed, post haste
Wouldn’t it be great to see these vermin get thrown in general population in mountjoy, cloverhill, or so on. Real punishment
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“Larry Murphy sat in the yard at Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison with a man who burned his wife and foster child to death and another who had raped and strangled a woman on her way home from a Christmas party.”
What a charming bunch.
Anyone have a version of the article that you can read without subscribing?
Interesting excerpts from the article:
>He alleged Murphy told him how gardaí did not have a clue and there were “more up the mountains”. “They won’t find any DNA because I don’t leave any,” he allegedly told another prisoner.
>
>One day, the prisoner got into a fight with Murphy about another inmate who happened to be a convicted murderer. During the stand-off, Murphy allegedly said to him: “I’ve killed too.” Or did he mean: “I’ve killed two”? The prisoner was unclear.
>
>…
>
>His details were passed to Operation Trace… Detectives interviewed the prisoner in 2006. He stood by his allegations and gave them a detailed statement.
>
>His allegations could never be verified, and attempts to interview the other inmates were unsuccessful.
>
>…
>
>The file was submitted the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) last year and, it is understood, came with a recommendation from gardaí that Murphy should be charged with Ms Jacob’s murder.
>
>It emerged last weekend that the DPP decided the evidence was not there to prosecute.
>
>”’
>
>In 2018, gardaí came at it again. The Serious Crime Review Team launched a cold case review.
>
>…
>
>24-year-old CCTV footage taken from premises all around Newbridge town on the day Ms Jacob disappeared was ripe for forensic image enhancement… The old footage from inside Newbridge Post Office minutes before Ms Jacob went in to post the bank draft showed the outline of a person standing inside. The face and features were indistinct, but detectives believed it to be a man. The images were sent to the UK for digital enhancement and analysis
>
>…
>
>The expert analysis concluded there was “moderate support” for the proposition that Murphy was the man in the post office.
>
>…
>
>Gardaí revisited the prison testimony about Murphy. The Arbour Hill prisoner, who we will call Prisoner A, was the first prisoner — but not the only one — to come forward to gardaí about Murphy. A year after Murphy got out of prison in 2010, a second prisoner — Prisoner B — in another jail contacted gardaí to allege Murphy had confessed to murdering a young woman in Newbridge.
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>…
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>He alleged that not only had Murphy confessed during a drunken night … about abducting a woman in Newbridge, by stopping to ask her directions, hauling her in through the car window and forcing her into the footwell of the passenger seat and hit her with a hammer. He claimed Murphy told him he buried the young woman’s body in the Wicklow Mountains.
>
>…
>
>Then, in 2019, a new witness came forward… He told gardaí he had been driving into Newbridge along the road that goes past Ms Jacob’s house, in a jeep that gave him an elevated view. As he passed an oncoming car, he saw a person who appeared to be in the footwell on the front passenger side of the car. The person was “either laughing or crying”, he could not tell which.
>
>…
>
>Gardaí never established where Murphy was on the day Ms Jacob disappeared, but they believe there is a strong likelihood he was in Newbridge.
>
>…
>
>The disparate but connected strands were among the circumstantial elements that tied together to create what gardaí believed was a strong case against Murphy: the CCTV footage of the “person of interest” in the post office minutes before Ms Jacob was there; his work around North Kildare; Prisoner A, who claimed Murphy confessed to killing; Prisoner B, who claimed consistently that Murphy had admitted killing, pulling her through the window and pushing her into the footwell of his car; and the “significant” witness who claimed to have seen a person in the footwell of a car, “laughing or crying” on the day Ms Jacob disappeared.
What will drive you more mad is the fact that Larry Murphy only served 10 years in prison.
Marilyn Rynn was the woman David Lawler murdered. She was on her way home from a Christmas party, Gardaí could find her on CCTV the entire way home until she crossed a street and was never seen alive again. The sick pervert followed her, raped her and murdered her minutes from her home. He even had the audacity to volunteer his DNA because he didn’t think they’d catch him.
It took a while because forensic science wasn’t what it is now, but they got him.
I think of her often. Because I was a woman heading home from a Christmas party on more than one occasion and that could so easily have been me.
RIP
These fellows should be executed, post haste
Wouldn’t it be great to see these vermin get thrown in general population in mountjoy, cloverhill, or so on. Real punishment