10 – Catherine Nevin: The Black Widow (Part 1)
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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🗓️ 4 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Catherine Nevim the Black Widow Oh, The 19th of March 1996. |
| 0:44.0 | Tom Nevin was shot in his pub while he worked, |
| 0:47.0 | totting up the takings from that day. |
| 0:49.0 | He had had a few pints over the last couple of hours while he was working, maybe as many as five, and he was slightly over the legal limit for driving at the time. |
| 0:59.0 | But given his size, he was six foot two and had a decent amount of weight on him, it's not likely that these few pints would have impaired him all that much. |
| 1:07.0 | And yet he didn't react when he was shot at point blank range, no farther away than a yard with a rifle. |
| 1:15.0 | It was a gun meant for game hunting and the cartridges it contained were for larger game like deer and only had six pellets in. Those pellets hit him on the right side of his |
| 1:25.9 | chest and continued in an upward trajectory at the upper portion of his left shoulder. |
| 1:31.5 | The internal damage to his lungs and heart were immense. Dr. John Harbison, the chief |
| 1:36.9 | state pathologist, concluded that he may have lain alive and conscious for a brief time before he finally passed away, but it would have been a matter of |
| 1:45.6 | minutes or seconds only. There was very little blood spread around on the floor that he had collapsed |
| 1:51.6 | onto, implying that there was little to no struggle. |
| 1:54.8 | His glasses sat perfectly placed on his nose, undisturbed, and he still held his pen in his hand. |
| 2:01.6 | The temperature in the kitchen had kept the body warm and it was impossible for |
| 2:06.0 | the pathologist to determine an exact time of death. It's possible that the last thing Tom |
| 2:12.1 | ever saw was the face of his wife, Catherine Nevin. |
| 2:17.0 | Tom had been married previously to a lady named June, but this marriage was annulled after eight years, divorced still being illegal in Ireland at the time. |
| 2:27.0 | He was from Tyna, County Galway, where he grew up on his family farm. |
| 2:32.0 | He left at 16 to work in England and began working in pubs. It was his |
| 2:36.8 | ambition to own his own pub one day. He and his first wife June lived and worked in pubs in |
| 2:42.0 | England and Australia while they were saving money to buy their own pub back in Ireland. |
| 2:47.3 | Tom met Catherine in either the Castle Hotel in Dublin or at the Listoon Varn of Bachelor Festival. Stories vary. It was 1970 and she was just 19 years old. Tom was a good 10 years her senior. |
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