{"id":344190,"date":"2026-02-18T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/344190\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:33:11","slug":"how-tip-off-about-land-near-larry-murphys-home-led-to-dig-for-murdered-women-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/344190\/","title":{"rendered":"How tip-off about land near Larry Murphy\u2019s home led to dig for murdered women \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The tip-off that led the Garda to begin a search for the bodies of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob is likely not new, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/16\/convicted-rapist-larry-murphy-linked-to-search-over-disappearances-of-deirdre-jacob-and-jo-jo-dullard\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2026\/02\/16\/convicted-rapist-larry-murphy-linked-to-search-over-disappearances-of-deirdre-jacob-and-jo-jo-dullard\/\">to crime and security editor Conor Lally.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The piece of land on the border of counties Wicklow and Kildare has been in the Garda\u2019s sights for many years but since the disappearances of the young women are now considered murders, continuing reviews of the files bring new leads and new thinking to the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">News on Monday that garda\u00ed had begun an extensive dig on the land was accompanied by mention of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob, leading to speculation that it had been determined both women were the victims of the same murderer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Not so, says Lally, who notes that garda\u00ed suspect Deirdre Jacob, who disappeared in broad daylight, was killed by convicted rapist Larry Murphy, while Jo Jo Dullard was killed by an unknown male who gave her a lift as she tried to get home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Lally analyses this new phase in the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tip-off that led the Garda to begin a search for the bodies of Jo Jo Dullard and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,161392,18,13,14,6,19,17,161393,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-344190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-deirdre-jacob","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jo-jo-dullard","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116093780252364488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}