Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
Mens Rea is the legal principle of intent that must be proved in a number of crimes, such as murder. It means literally, "guilty mind". Mens Rea Podcast explores the most notorious crimes from Ireland and the UK and the court cases that followed. Join your host, Sinead, every fortnight when a new ca...
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Bonus - Tom & Kitty Fitzgerald
This episode was originally published asa Patreon exclusive on 12 Jan 2020.
In 2016, shocking news broke that an elderly couple were found dead...
Bonus - Satanic Panic in Palmerstown
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 December 2018
In this episode we take a look at the little-known so-called "sa...
Bonus - The Mysterious Death of Patrick Nugent
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 6 Oct 2019
In the early hours of the 11th February, 1984, Patrick Nugent died in...
Bonus - Tina Cahill & the death of David Walsh
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 June 2019.
This is our first bonus episode to take place outside of Ireland, b...
Bonus - Kilkenny City Cold Cases
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 5 May 2019.
Two women were murdered in the 1980's in Kilkenny. They were unconne...
Bonus - Eileen Costello O'Shaughnessy
This episode was initially released as a Patreon exclusive on 8th Sept 2019
In November of 1997, Eileen O'Shaughnessy went to work as normal. Sh...
Bonus - The Killing of Tom O'Gorman
This episode was first released as a Patreon exclusive on 7th October 2018
This is the story of the shocking killing of Tom O'Gorman by his lodg...
Bonus: Dolores McCrea
This Bonus episode was first published as a "Guilt Trip" episode on Patreon on 7th April 2019.
Dolores McCrea married the man that she h...
138 - The Longest Wait for Justice: Nora Sheehan
In 1981, Nora Sheehan went missing from Ballyphehane, Co Cork. She was found dead a week later, and gardai soon had a prime suspect for her murder whi...
137 - A Legacy of Violence: Derek Benson
In the middle of the night on the 13th May, 2000, a flat in Ballymun was set alight. Inside, the body of Derek Benson was found. But his cause of deat...
Bonus: GT - Kitty Carroll
Kitty Carroll was killed by Michael Murphy in Drogheda in 1983 - he would go on to kill again.
This episode was originally posted to Pat...
136 - David Byrne: Murder in a Dark Corner
In March of 2011, 19 year old David Byrne set out to meet someone near to his home in Drimnagh, Dublin City. Little did he know that he was walking in...
135: The Superglue killer: The murder of Julie Tennant
In August 2000, 21 year old Julie Tennant went missing from her home in Ballymena. Her parents searched desperately for her, while RUC officers began...
Listen Now: 48 Hours
One of television's most popular true-crime series is now adapted for your ears with the “48 Hours” podcast. Every week, award-winning CBS News corres...
134 - A Question of Self Defence: The murder of Leslie Kenny
Just after 10am, on Wednesday the 29th July 2008, shots rang out on a busy residential road in Kilrush, Co Clare. Two men who lived on the street, Les...
133 - Killer on the Run: The murder of Emer O'Loughlin
If you have any information on the whereabouts of John Griffin, you can contact Gort Garda Station on (091) 636400, the Garda Confidential line at 180...
132 - Nagged to Kill: The death of Gary Cotter
28 year old mother of one Norma Crotty appeared on her neighbours doorstep early on the morning of January 3rd, 1995. She was in a distressed state, a...
131 - For the Love of Money: The murder of Paul Jones
In September of 2019, Paul Jones was found dead in the hallway of his home on Bandon Road, in Cork. The 54 year old had a chequered past, but for the...
130 - Drugs, Death and Butchery: The Deaths of Vincent Costello, Morgan Costello and Damien Monahan
In the early hours of 29th April, 2000, a fire was discovered in an upmarket flat in the seaside resort of Scheveningen, The Hague. Three occupants we...
129 - A Battle for Justice: The murder of Brian Fizgerald
In the early hours of 29th November, 2002, 34 year old father of two arrived home from working his shift as the security manager at a popular nightclu...
128 - A Questionable Conviction: The Deaths of Margaret and Martin Glynn
On a chilly Sunday morning in December of 1980, Michael Kelly arrived at a neighbours house in a panic. There was a fire in the house he was staying i...
127 - An Unusual Defence: Layla Brennan
In March of 1999, Phillip Colgan and his wife Mary walked into Rathfarnham Garda Station and with a story to tell. It would be his first of many., and...
126 - Sex, Lies and Videotape: the murder of Gerry McGinley
In August of 2000, Gerry McGinley disappeared from his home near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. His wife Julie said he had packed up a plastic bag and had...
125 - Murder by Car: Daniel McDonald
In the early hours of 2nd February, 2007, a tragedy occurred on the main street of Arklow, Co Wicklow. A man had been struck by a car and lay dying in...
124 - Siobhan Hynes: Murder Most Foul
17 year old Siobhan Hynes went out with friends to the small village of an Cheathru Rua on the night of Sat 5th December 1998. She never made it home....
123 - Death in the Sun: Celine Conroy
In the summer of 2005, Celine Conroy decided to pack up her three kids to spend the summer in Spain alongside her partner Paul Hickey. But rather than...
122 - Darragh Conroy: The mobile phone murder
On the night of the 11th Nov, 2003, Patricia Conroy frantically searched the small midlands town of Mountmellick for her 14 year old son Darragh. He w...
121- For Reasons Unknown: The murder of Kenneth O'Brien
In January of 2016, people started to find body parts wrapped in shopping bags on a stretch of the Grand Canal in Co. Kildare. To gardai, this looked...
120 - Dear Diary: The murder of Alison Shaughnessy
In June of 1991, 21 year old newly-wed Alison Shaughnessy was found lying in a pool of blood at the entrance to her flat in London by her husband John...
119: Missing Mary
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 he...
118 - Raonaid Murray (from the Guilt Trip Archives)
On the night of the 3rd of September 1999, Raonaid Murray was walking home through Dun Laoghaire and Glenageary in South Dublin.
As she t...
117 - The Burden They Carry: The murder of Marie Kilmartin
In December of 1993, 35 year old Marie Kilmartin got a phone call. Then, she left her house and never returned.
Marie's body was recovere...
116 - Tom Clisham's Body
In December of 1997, 53 year old bachelor farmer Tom Clisham was found dead in his cottage in Galway. He hadn't been seen in some time, and his body w...
Introducing - Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Here’s a preview of Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper.
Over a single week in February 1942, a depraved serial killer stalked London’s dark...
Introducing - The ReWatcher: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Welcome to the Hellmouth Weirdos! Your favourite Morbid hosts Ash and Alaina are branching out from true crime and heading to Sunnydale for the ultima...
115 - Flawed Relationships: The killing of Julia O'Brien
Before the sun had even risen on the morning of Christmas Eve, 1995 Julia O'Brien was discovered dead on the floor in her home in Drimoleague, Co Cork...
114 - Damaged Individuals: The Murder of Patrick Sammon
In June 1997, Patrick Sammon was murdered in his home in Galway in the course of an argument.
What had led to the fight that night would...
Introducing: American Scandal - Edward Snowden, from Wondery
The terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, took a large toll on America’s sense of security. In the dawn of this new era, Congress moved to take s...
From the Archives: Marilyn Rynn: The Shortcut
In December of 1995, 41 year old Marilyn Rynn disappeared after attending her workplace Christmas party. Two weeks later her body was found hidden in...
From the Archives: The Disappearance of Philip Cairns
On Thursday the 26th of October 1986, Philip Cairns left his Ballyroan Road home after eating his lunch. He was headed back to school. But he never ma...