Tom Nevin: Web of Lies
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Two Gardaí drive into the car park of a large pub on the crossroads of the N11 in Wicklow. It's just after half past four in the morning of the 19th of March 1996. A call has come through to their station in Arklow, County Wicklow, reporting a panic alarm going off at the pub. The car park appears normal as they pull about front. A door is open. It leads into the private living quarters to the side of the main entrance. Guarder Martin McAndrew can see a light on in the hallway. He looks in and sees a woman slumped on the floor. She is wearing only a nightshirt and underwear. She has material hanging around her neck. Her hands are tied. He came into the bedroom. He had a knife. He had a knife and a hood over his head, she tells the guard.
His colleague, Gerda Paul Comiskey, looks closer at the ties around her hands. The first is a soft belt from a dressing gown. It can be easily removed. But underneath are two headbands wound tight around her hands. The woman is in shock. She winces in pain as they lift her off the ground. They notice jewellery scattered on the stairs and a jewellery box discarded in the room they carry her into. Where's Tom? she asks. They know Tom, her husband, and they know her. The guards look upstairs and find no one else. They begin searching the rest of the pub. They find Tom in the kitchen. He is lying on his back in a pool of blood. He has a wound to his chest. Tom is cold to the touch. Moore Gardie arrive. Jack White's pub is now a crime scene.
Superintendent Pat Flynn arrives and sees the woman sitting on the couch. The woman who has just lost her husband. She is Catherine Nevin. He sympathises with her, but she doesn't say anything to him. His colleagues say Catherine is in distress. Pat isn't so sure. He looks around, taking in the scene. A robbery gone wrong, maybe? Or perhaps something else? He suspects there is something more to learn.
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When someone is murdered in Ireland, the Gardaí call in a team of forensic scenes of crime examiners from the Technical Bureau. For 25 years, I was a part of that team. My name is John Sweetman. I was there to help read the silent and often hidden clues at a crime scene. I saw what killers tried to hide. Fingerprints unknowingly left behind. Murder weapons hidden in plain sight. Handwriting that betrayed a lie. Every detail told the real story, and now I'll tell you those stories. In this podcast from Golaud, I take you inside some of Ireland's most haunting crimes. This is Lines of Inquiry, a Golaud original podcast that looks beyond the headlines, following the evidence step by step and uncovering the stories behind the investigations.
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