Karen Buckley: A Fateful Encounter
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On a dry day, you'll find a steady flow of dog walkers here, coming into the park through a gate on the dead-end Dosham Road. They head for the grassy parkland and the wild meadows, where they let their dogs run off the leash. But drizzle falls this morning. On this Sunday morning, however, only one person is walking past the Dosham Road side gate. There's a bin just by the road, a tall rectangular metal bin with an open hole near the top. Visible inside the bin is a black handbag. The person entering the park sees it and pulls it out. They look inside to find an Irish passport and a mobile phone. The passport is in the name Karen Buckley, born 1991, County Cork, Ireland.
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When someone is killed in Ireland, the Gardaí call in a specialist unit of forensic crime scene examiners from the Technical Bureau. This is Ireland's real-life version of CSI, but it's nothing like the movies or TV shows. For 25 years I was one of the detectives on that team. My name is John Sweetman. My job as a guarded detective in the Technical Bureau was to read the evidence that could not speak for itself. I learned to see what others might miss. Fingerprints smudged on the handle of a door. Weapons disguised in everyday objects. Handwritten notes that revealed more than the writer ever intended. The smallest traces often unraveled the big story. And now, I'm here to tell you those stories. In this podcast from Go Loud, I take you inside some of Ireland's most haunting investigations.
This is Lines of Inquiry, a Go Loud original podcast that follows the evidence step by step and tries to uncover the real story behind the headlines. In this episode, a case that united two countries in horror. The senseless murder of a young Irish woman, living abroad in the prime of her life, and the relentless police investigation to catch a killer and unravel a complex and disturbing cover-up. The light drizzle forecast for Saturday night, April 11, 2015, didn't stop thousands of people heading out to pubs and clubs across the Scottish city of Glasgow. On any given weekend, venues across the city and its west end were full. Many nightclubs ran at full capacity, and bars and pubs were no different.
Glasgow is a university city, brimming with young people. The city has its rough edges, but it is a friendly place, a place where people talk to you when you're queuing or waiting around, or just walking by. That evening, 24-year-old Karen Buckley was out in the city with three Irish girlfriends. They were all studying occupational therapy at Glasgow's Caledonian University. Before leaving, they were getting ready at their flat on Hill Street, Garnet Hill.
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