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Ciaran Dunbar

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306 total appearances

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The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

She's been in the North.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

She's been in the South.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

And I suppose I get the impression perhaps that it is a little harder to con your own.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

They maybe can sniff you out a bit better because she has the PSNI and the Gardie looking for and keeping an eye on her.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

And as well as that, my understanding is that she has social media detectives tracking her down.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

Now, obviously, we know that a lot of silly things happen on social media and there can be an awful lot of negative consequences for detectives.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

social media doctors and social media detectives and social media vigilantism.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

But people can use things like Facebook to track certain people down.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

And if you've got a footprint, slowly but surely, we've seen that in other cases that people have been able to track down a con artist because then maybe they're on social media because they're using it for that purpose.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

So can you tell me about that?

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

One of the things that happens is that people realize that they weren't the only one and slowly but surely this network grows up.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

Now, in May 2015, Julia Holmes, let's call her Julia Holmes, who was 63 at the time, and Mr. Ruttle, 56 at the time, their remains were discovered side by side in a bedroom.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

of this isolated farmhouse near Askeeton in County Limerick.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

And it is believed that the bodies had been there for some time.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

Now they were found in bizarre circumstances.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

What were those?

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

But there was a note signed by both parties saying, if you find us, don't revive us.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

So there was that and it was signed by both.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

The note also included specific instructions for GardaΓ­ to contact a named individual.

The Indo Daily
Tyrone to Texas: Con-artist Julia Holmes, her 40 aliases and the many lives she destroyed

However, when detectives contacted this party, that person said they didn't actually know anything about the couple.