Lines of Enquiry
Episodes
The Hawe Family: Monster in a Mask
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As students across the country prepare to go back to school after the summer holidays of 2016, Mary Coll arrived at her daughter Clodagh’s house in ...
Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy: Innocence Lost
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the August of 1976, a young Dublin woman named Elizabeth Plunkett, went missing while on holidays in Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow. Her friends and fami...
Philip Cairns: The Lost Boy
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1986, 13-year-old Philip Cairns became one of the most recognisable faces in Ireland.The boy left his home in Dublin to walk back to school...
Trevor O’Keeffe: Hitchhiking Into Danger
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In August of 1987, 19 year old Trevor O’Keeffe embarked his journey home to Ireland after a brief holiday France. He planned to hitchhike across the...
Esther and Jessica McCann: A Deadly Secret
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of September, the 4th 1992, Esther and Jessica McCann went to sleep and never woke up. The 36-year-old mother and her 18-month-old-toddle...
Case Notes #002: Inside True Crime
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Lines of Enquiry: Case Notes, John Sweetman is joined by one of Ireland’s leading true crime podcasters, Nules Ní Chléirigh, cr...
Jasmine McMonagle: No Way Out
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
28 year old mother of two Jasmine McMonagle loved to write and longed to be a children's author one day. In 2019, a letter she wrote was sent to the G...
Antra Ozolina: The Set Up
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Antra Ozolina was found dead in her home in Kilnaleck, Co Cavan in June 2014, from the outset, the explanation seemed straightforward and the cas...
Seamus Ruddy: Hidden Clues I Part 2
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The arrival of two detectives with very different backgrounds reinvigorates the search for Seamus Ruddy. As the new investigators search the darkest c...
Seamus Ruddy: The Long Search | Part I
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In May of 1985, Seamus Ruddy went to meet three men in Paris. They were men he knew from a past life, in Ireland. Seamus had left that life behind, to...
Jastine Valdez: Abducted in Plain Sight
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jastine Valdez was abducted in broad daylight on a rural road in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, in May 2028. The 24-year-old had just stepped off a bus...
Case Notes #001: The Inbox
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this, Lines of Enquiry’s inaugural ‘Case Notes’, John Sweetman introduces a new strand of his hit true crime podcast series. Stepping away fr...
Mark O'Sullivan: Murder on the Farm
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Anne O'Sullivan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, tensions within the family about her will and the division of her substantial plot of land wh...
Kelly Lynch: Beneath the Surface
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On St Patrick’s weekend 2024, 23-year-old Kelly Lynch travelled from her home in Armagh to Monaghan to support her boyfriend after a sudden death in...
Nora Sheehan: The Past Speaks | Part II
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The prime suspect walks free for the murder of Nora Sheehan after the death of the pathologist left the DPP's case unable to proceed to trial. In...
Nora Sheehan: The Last Walk | Part I
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In June 1981, Nora Sheehan left the South Infirmary Hospital in Cork and disappeared into the night. In the hours that followed, she was seen by witne...
Barbara Walsh: Vanished after Dark
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Walsh house in rural Connemara is quiet by 4am on the 22nd of June 1985. Earlier in the night it was full of people celebrating the brief return o...
Marie Dillon: Horror at Home
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gardaí are called to a house in north Dublin, where they make a grim discovery. 72-year-old Marie Dillon has been found murdered in a violent attack ...
Robert Holohan: Robbed of Tomorrow
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 4 January 2005, 11-year-old Robert Holohan left his home to play on his bike in Midleton, Co Cork and never returned. What began as a desperate sea...
The Beast: The Midlands Letters
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sinister, disturbing handwritten letter arrives into Garda HQ. It has been sent anonymously to a school in the midlands. There are 23 pages, promisi...
Mary Gough: Death on the Stairs
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 27-year-old Mary Gough was found dead in her home in Balbriggan in 2001, it looked like a tragic accident. Gardaí were called to what appeared t...
Trailer : Lines of Enquiry
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former Garda detective and expert crime scene investigator, John Sweetman presents Lines of Enquiry, a GoLoud Original true-crime podcast examining so...