John Sweetman

But that, I would say, probably, well, it certainly sticks in my mind is, you know, one that, like, at the time, it was just, it was completely unlike anything really before.

A father and a husband would wipe out the entire family, you know, and to all intents and purposes, it was, everything was hunky-dory, like, whatever was similar way in the background, like, with him, you know.

There was, like, you know, like, I mean, from my end of it, I'd say because I was only involved with the handwriting and there was nothing really in the letters that he'd left given concrete reasons as to why he did what he did, apart from him saying that...

something was going to come out about him and the family would be in shape, would be so, you know, affected by this and that it'd be better if they were all dead.

And he put that in the letters.

Yeah.

And he was trying to reason that this was better for everybody this way.

Now, since that, Clodaghá, the mother of the three boys,

Her sister wrote a book, Jacqueline Connolly, and she goes a bit more into what was maybe going on with him to do with something that was going to come out around his job and stuff like that.

Maybe he was up to no good on the computer or something.

I'm not entirely sure, you know.

but you'll probably never get concrete answers because he's gone like you know and there was a reinvestigation of the whole thing afterwards but um yeah like it's just that that that was i'd say that one probably you know i'm trying to think there was there was one or two other ones i'm trying to think now some of the ones that we covered um i did the justine valdez one then as well yeah i remember that yeah you know what all these cases what

That's mad.

I want to know every detail of it.

Every detail.

Yeah, like I mean, as I say, the Justin Valdez one, again, I only was involved with the note that your man that had killed our Mayor Kennedy had left behind him and because he'd been shot by the guards and that he'd fallen across it and it was all covered in blood and I had to examine it and

try to decipher the writing before the fingerprinters and that washed it, just in case the ink could go.

Yeah, well it was, I think it was 2018, Justine Valdez, she was a Filipino student, she was over here living with her parents, they were living out in Enniskerry, they were

You know, they were working out there and she was just coming home on the bus.

I think it was a Saturday evening.