Tag: unsolved crimes

119: Missing Mary

On By mensreapod@gmail.comIn Child Victim, Cold Case, Controversial Case, Irish Crime, Kidnapping, murder, Serial Killer, unsolved

Mary Boyle disappeared from a swampy field next her grandparents home in an isolated part of Donegal in 1977. She disappeared without  a trace, and her case has become the longest running missing child case in Ireland.

In forty years, the case has seen only one arrest and also has been linked with notorious Scottish child-killer Robert Black, and has drawn the attention of controversial media figures. But, through all that, Mary is still missing, and her mother still prays daily to know what happened to her.

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72 – The Missing Postman: Larry Griffin

On By mensreapod@gmail.comIn Cold Case, Controversial Case, Irish Crime, Kidnapping, murder, unsolved, Vintage murder, Wrongly Accused

On Christmas Day, 1929, postman Larry Griffen went to work in the small village of Stradbally, Co Waterford. As he called into homes with the post, he was thanked with tips and a few drinks. That night, Larry never made it home. His bike was found abandoned in the middle of the road.

A conspiracy of silence kept the truth of what happened to Larry Griffin from his family, and still does to this day.

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