Ian Clenahan
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112 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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The biggest problem they ran into was the kind of refusal to accept that someone they had worked with in the past as an informant who had helped convict another child killer in the late 70s was in fact now manipulating them and murdering children himself.
People didn't understand at the time and had not really processed or considered the idea that there were individuals among us that were preying on children. And I think that was an incredible, shocking, and very horrific idea for most people to accept.
Today, it seems to be sort of a banal kind of concept, but back then, it was difficult for people to believe this had happened and that someone was actually out there killing children on a regular basis for their own sexual gratification.
What kind of explosion was Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
Uncover. This is Uncover.
A lot of women went missing, but their bodies were not found. With over 100 unsolved cases. Does that sound like a lot to you? Somebody's going to find them, somebody's going to dig something up, or somebody's going to talk.
I was like, holy shit. What has he done? He far exceeds Jeffrey Epstein. He far exceeds Bill Cosby. He owns the police. He owns everybody. He owns people.
This is a perfect storm of conspiracy theories. Rumors were rampant that it was the work of a satanic cult. The room became very distorted.
God didn't do it to us. It was the bishops, the popes, the priests. I have never seen such abject fear as what I saw in that child. Their aim was to kill us, plain and simple.
And that was the last time we heard from him. I don't want no one finding out shit. Well, of course it's got to come to the night. Pointed the gun at his head.
At this point, police say they have more questions.
My name's Ian Clenahan. I was the original officer who was allocated the investigation initially when the body was brought to shore.
It was one of my first jobs that I picked up, yeah. It came through that a body had been trawled up and could I go down to commence investigations into trying to find out who he was and the circumstances behind it.
There was nothing that kind of smacked me in the face as being, this is suspicious. He had the watch on, so that would kind of rule out a robbery. There was a cut on his head. But when you consider what he's just been through, he's been dragged along, you know, the bottom of a seabed. And he was fairly clean other than that. There was no signs of him being involved in an altercation.
You know, his shirt was tucked into his trousers. It was all, he was all neat. So you think, OK, well, I don't know what the cause of death is, so that will be ascertained in due course.
Because obviously that would be a case as well if your husband or brother, son, whatever, never came home.
Well, old-fashioned detective work. So you start by going through all the missing persons listed in the Devon and Cornwall police, and you try and rule those out, and then you go further afield, and you look at missing persons in the south-west, then you go further afield and look at missing persons in the south.
This is the description of the guy, this is what he was wearing.
Has anyone got any information that may help us identify the man?
But no, we didn't get anything, so it was never going to be easy. We contacted ferries.
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