John Sweetman

There were also long straps with padded restraints and buckles, a blue hoodie and a white vest.

They decided to leave the items on the bridge wall, but the discovery didn't sit well with one of the anglers.

He came back the next morning, gathered up the items, and took them all to Roundwood Garda Station.

The angler handed the items to Garda James O'Donoghue.

His first reaction was that, although pretty odd, someone had just dumped belongings they didn't want anymore.

Still, he bagged each item and hung the clothes to dry.

Three days later, on September 13, 2013, and just over half an hour north of Vartree Reservoir, a dog walker was out strolling on Killikee Mountain near Rathfarnham.

She was taking the dogs along some private land she often walked, on the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.

As she approached her car, she noticed her own dog had run off from the group to an isolated section of the woodland.

She could hear the dog scratching, but when she called he didn't come.

She put the other dogs in the car and waded into the thick undergrowth.

As she pushed through, she saw some bones and old clothing with something inside.

Using her foot, she thought she felt a shoe.

There was a collar and a rusty knife.

Then she saw her dog with another two bones.

She called the landowner and they went back together, finding what they thought might have been a jawbone.

They called Talla Garda Station, who sent two officers down to the scene.

After finding what they agreed was a jawbone and a rib cage, as well as a tracksuit bottoms and a runner, they cordoned off the area and alerted the Technical Bureau.

Garda Sergeant Ronan Lawler would run the search team.

He arrived alongside other members of Ratfarnham Gardaí.