44 - Missing & Murdered: Operation Trace Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

Women have been disappearing from, or ending up found dead in, the Wicklow Mountains for over 30 years. In this bonus episode we look at a man that is suspected to have committed some of these abductions and murders,  look back on a number of unsolved rape and murder cases in the 80's, and bring the story right up-to-date with that latest unfortunate woman to have been killed and dumped in what is called "the vanishing triangle".


So, what the heck is going on in the Wicklow Mountains?






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Sources:



Sarah McInerney, Where No One Can Hear You Scream: murder and assault in the Wicklow Mountains (Dublin: Gill & McMillan, 2008) Purchase here 



“5 years for rape, kidnapping and murder attempt” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/15-years-for-rape-kidnapping-and-murder-attempt-1.307441  (12 May 2001) 




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Murphy_(criminal)  




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%27s_Vanishing_Triangle 



“How two men `lamping' probably saved a woman from being killed” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/how-two-men-lamping-probably-saved-a-woman-from-being-killed-1.307440 (12 May 2001) 



“Have gardaí found the secret lair of Larry Murphy?” in Joe.ie   https://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/have-gardai-found-the-secret-lair-of-larry-murphy-30971 (2012) 



John Meagher, “The vanishing Triangle that still holds its darkest secrets” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-vanishing-triangle-that-still-holds-its-darkest-secrets-30875331.html (4 Jan 2015) 



Ken Foy “A vicious rape in the wood – and links to three missing women” in The Evening Herald https://www.herald.ie/news/a-vicious-rape-in-woods-and-links-to-three-missing-women-28961578.html (28 Nov 2012) 



Stephen McDermott, Five unresolved Dublin murders you may not have heard about” from Dublinlive.ie https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/five-unresolved-dublin-murders-you-12849515.amp (6 April 2017) 



Maeve Sheehan, “ Jastine Valdez murder: When innocence collided with evil on a quiet country road” in Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/jastine-valdez-murder-when-innocence-collided-with-evil-on-a-quiet-country-road-36950255.html (27 May 2018) 



Kathy Armstrong, “Jastine Valdez murder: Gardai search for a series of items including Nike runners, iPad and reading glasses” in Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/jastine-valdez-murder-gardai-search-for-a-series-of-items-including-nike-runners-ipad-and-reading-glasses-36955762.html (28 May 2018)   



Trevor Quinn, “Parents of tragic student Jastine Valdez may leave over horrific murder in Co Wicklow” in The Irish Mirror https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/parents-tragic-student-jastine-valdez-12609034 (28 May 2018)   



Garreth MacNamee, “Abductor and murderer: Gardai trying to unravel the mystery left by Mark Hennessy” in thejournal.ie http://www.thejournal.ie/jastine-valdez-mark-hennessy-4029739-May2018/ (27 May 2018) 



Anita McSorley, “Who is Mark Hennessy? Builder and dad-of-two suspected of abducting and murdering tragic Jastine Valdez” in Dublinlive.ie https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/mark-hennessy-wicklow-14690536 (22 May 2018) 



Ken Foy, “Family 'stunned' by secr