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Chapter 1: What recent developments have emerged regarding Larry Murphy and missing women?
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It's not necessarily that they think that boat women may be buried there. It's that they got a call. They wouldn't say when they got the call, but that they got a call saying that in a period after boat women disappeared, they saw suspicious activity and something being buried in that quarry.
And because I think that quarry has kind of been identified in searches for boat women before because they both disappeared in Kildare. And also because he didn't name what woman. I think that's why they have them two linked together.
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Suspected serial killer Larry Murphy is being looked at again in relation to the disappearance of Jojo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob after searches begin at a quarry near his former Bolton Glass home in County Wicklow. Today I'm talking to Eimear Rabbit about a dig which has followed reports of suspicious activity at the isolated site. You're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
So the spectre of Larry Murphy returns. I mean, how long has Murphy gone out of the country? We remember when he was released from prison and the, you know, the hysteria that was around that. And as he kind of lurched around the country looking for somewhere to live and eventually went to initially Amsterdam and then settled in London, which as far as we know, he's still based in the UK now.
He's a tradesman. He's pretty much able to live or work anywhere. And look, he was caught in the act of having kidnapped a woman, raping her a number of times, brought her deep into the woods and had a bag over her head. Essentially, she survived because somebody stumbled upon him. He's a very evil man.
bad guy and I think that obviously linking him to some of the other women that had gone missing happened immediately after he was caught doing that because these women were often disappeared off the side of the road or you know where they were last seen nobody saw them they were just they disappeared into thin air
No, and I suppose the last, I think that's what kind of made people even more concerned as well at the time was because the last disappearance, so I think the first disappearance was Annie McCarrick in 93 and then Deirdre Jacob disappeared in 98.
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Chapter 2: What suspicious activities prompted the new search at the quarry?
So that's what, five years and six women and they were all extremely suspicious. Yeah. I think in a few of them straight away, there was people known to them who were sort of seen as suspects, but in the Dodo dollar, Deirdre Jacob and Annie McCarrick in particular disappeared. all random sort of seemed to be random abductions from streets and stuff like that.
And obviously it was only like, it was less than two years later that he was caught. He obviously abducted this woman, raped her repeatedly and then tried to kill her. And then obviously all that stopped. Obviously there's been suspicious disappearance since then, but not on the same...
And I think he made, you know, a supposed drunken jailhouse admission that he was involved in the Deirdre Jacob mystery. And that one in particular, I mean, she was standing outside her home and had witnesses had seen her there, a student teacher. She had been down in the post office, had done a bit of business and was standing at the gates of her house in Kilkenny and just missing.
Yeah.
And he had told this story in prison on prison hooch that he had been the one who pulled up in the car. You know, she leaned in to ask him what he was looking for. He pretended he was looking for directions and he claimed he overwhelmed her with a punch in the face, dragged her into the car and, you know.
And that he ended up killing her because of, yeah. And that like there was, yeah, there was all these theories about, like there are stories about how he had toys in the backseat to try and like disarm the car.
trying to disarm the people that he was abducting and there was always that theory as well about how because of how he operated with that woman that it couldn't have been not that it couldn't have been but it was unusual that that was his first time because he was known as a bit of a creep I think in pubs but he didn't have anything really serious in terms of convictions
And this was really planned out, you know, like this woman was coming out of her business. He, you know, in the same way, punched her, got her into the car and then brought her to a secluded area, knew where he was going, knew what he was doing. And then with the bag over her head. So the whole thing was this can't have been the first time. So that's where that real serial killer theory blew up.
And even his behavior afterwards, if you remember, he had like these hunters had come across, had scared him off. And they had rescued the woman who ran from them in terror through the brambles. And they had brought her essentially to the police station. And she was then brought to the sexual assault unit and the story uncovered.
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Chapter 3: How is Larry Murphy linked to the disappearances of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob?
In Jojo Dollard, was it?
No, he was in Deirdre Jacob. The guard sent a file to the DPP on him.
Oh, sorry, you're talking about Larry Murphy there.
Sorry, I'm just saying how... You know, the serial killer theory was there. And then obviously he remains a suspect in Deirdre Jacob, but other clear suspects emerged in the cases of Jojo Dollard and Annie McCarrick. So that kind of went away a bit.
And then obviously then with the two names yesterday, the fact that it's eight kilometres from Bolton Glass and the fact that, you know, Ken Foy is reporting today in Carmel how the source actually said this is his old stomping ground.
Yeah.
Sorry. So that all very much brings him back into the frame. And then it makes him think, God, he's been linked to Jojo too. But what seems to have be kind of the background to that is that it's not necessarily that they think that both women may be buried there. It's that they got a call. They wouldn't say when they got the call, but that they got a call saying that
In a period after both women disappeared, they saw suspicious activity and something being buried in that quarry. And because I think that quarry has kind of been identified in searches for both women before because they both disappeared in Kildare. And also because he didn't name what woman. I think that's why they have them two linked. Not necessarily that...
they were killed by the same person, but we don't know either.
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Chapter 4: What evidence has been found that connects Murphy to the missing women?
But as you said, like where they aren't going in with a digger if there's if they believe there's a body just buried underneath the ground, unless they believe it's in some sort of a container. I mean, you'd like to certainly think they wouldn't be going in with a digger to do that. And also, if there's a body on if they believe there's a body on a site.
you would like to see the cadavers in for that because they are very, very high functioning and have been used very successfully before in finding human remains.
Yeah. Oh, they have, yes. We know that in the Tina Satchwell case and in other cases they were really helpful. So, yeah, it's one of those ones and the families have, like, you know, they've never really given up hope. Like, the year Jojo Dollard has been missing was 30 years last November. You know, and a lot of her family members, her sister Mary Phelan was really kind of
involved in the campaign for missing people and she's died several years ago but her older sister Kathleen Bergen like they have a page Jojo Dollar missing page and she constantly updates it like she updated in January with the hope that Jojo would be brought home and you know I heard priests actually talking on RT radio today who knows the Jojo Dollar family and was saying that
They're not, they don't even seem that concerned with, maybe that will change, but they don't even seem that concerned with who did it at the moment. They just want her home. So you could just imagine like the answers like that you're looking for there.
So look, we'll follow this as the week goes on and there's always hope that something will be found, you know, and, you know, I suppose at least the GardaĆ are continuing to try. Yeah, it's good.
Yeah, exactly. These cases are, everybody knows their names in Ireland. So these cases, these kind of cases
situations do bring them into the keep them in the public light and I think it's good for the families as much as it's probably hard it's good that they're out there so and you know they have things have been solved you know you were talking earlier about the Noel Long and or Sheen case that was solved after him from the 70s for sure the coldest case in Ireland exactly and there was a conviction on it yeah so you just never know so fingers crossed alright Eimear thanks a million thanks Nicola
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