102 - The murder of Colleen Mulder

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In 2004, 41 year old mother of 6, Colleen Mulder was found dead in her bed. Quickly, her husband Anton was arrested. Was Anton being abused? Or was he suffering from a mental disorder? It would take 4 years of court proceedings to decide. ********** With thanks to our sponsors for this episode: Try the casual mobile puzzle game Best Fiends today! Find it on the Apple App store and Google Play! Check out the fastest VPN on the market at nordVPN.com/mensrea and use the code MENSREA for an awesome discount! Sign up for the best monthly wine club around, and get a free case of three wines for the cost of shipping at wine52.com/mens ********* Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! Donate today to get access to bonus and ad-free episodes! Check out the Mens Rea Merch Store! ********* Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music: Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ********* Sources: DPP v Mulder [2007] IECCA 63 DPP v Mulder [2009] IECCA 45 “Man charged after wife's death” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-charged-after-wifes-death-26227785.html (19 December 2004) Marie O'Halloran, “Husband accused of assault after wife's death” in The Irish Times (20 December 2004) p. 4. “Husband charged over wife's death” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/husband-charged-over-wifes-death-25889477.html (20 December 2004) “News in Brief: Husband charged with murder” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news-in-brief-25997820.html (2 February 2005) “Man remanded in custody over wife's murder” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-remanded-in-custody-over-wife-s-murder-1.1173715 (2 February 2005) “News in Brief” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news-in-brief-25998012.html (3 February 2005) “Man sent to cells for outburst” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-sent-to-cells-for-outburst-26382683.html (2 May 2006) “Victim's brother sent to cells after outburst in murder trial” in The Irish Times (3 May 2006) p. 4. “Man pleads guilty to manslaughter of wife” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-of-wife-1.781260 (2 May 2006) Aodhan O'Faolain, “Man accused of killing wife 'had troubled marriage'” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-accused-of-killing-wife-had-troubled-marriage-26382853.html (4 May 2006) “Murder trial told of man's marital troubles” in The Irish Times (4 May 2006) p. 4. For a full list of sources, please see www.mensreapod.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Men's Rhea podcast, and this is the story of Colleen Mulder.
0:30.0	On the morning of Friday, the 17th of December, 2004, a woman called into Dunshockland
0:45.5	Garda station in a distressed state.
0:48.4	On foot of this and information that the woman gave to Gardee, Garda Derrick Halligan went
0:54.0	to an address in a nearby housing estate called Mildoon.
0:58.5	When he arrived, Garda Halligan found Anton Mulder, who lived in the home with his wife
1:03.1	and six children in the living room.
1:06.9	Colleen and Anton Mulder had lived in Dunshockland for about two years, having moved to the area
1:12.7	in 2002 from Northern Ireland after Anton got a job as a regional manager for KFC.
1:19.7	Colleen also worked for KFC part-time as did their two sons, the eldest of their kids.
1:27.0	The couple had met and married in South Africa, where Colleen and her family had moved when
1:31.7	she was seven years old from Banger County down.
1:35.8	After their marriage, Mulder had worked with traffic police in Durban, South Africa, but
1:40.9	the economy was suffering at the time, and as things worsened, he was made redundant.
1:46.2	The family moved to Ireland, following in the footsteps of Colleen's brother William,
1:50.5	who had also returned to Banger around that time.
1:54.1	The Mulder family moved back and forth between Colleen's home place of Banger and South
1:58.9	Africa with their small children for a number of years until Mulder began working for KFC
2:04.1	and they settled in Dunshockland.
2:07.1	In July of 2004, Colleen had had a miscarriage, and after this, according to Abigail Riley
2:13.3	writing for the Irish independent, the Mulder's marriage began to go downhill.
2:17.9	There was tension between Anton and Colleen, some said that Colleen became depressed.
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