113 - The Passers-by: The murder of Deirdre Mulcahy

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

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In September of 1989, 19 year old Deirdre Mulcahy was heading out for the night to meet her friends in Midleton, Co Cork. She never returned home. The garda investigation into her killing would last years - the court proceedings, however, would not. ********* With thanks to our sponsors for this episode: Get 40% off your premium subscription for the #1 mental wellness app at calm.com/mens Go grab your trial of Noom – the habit changing app for a healthier you! Find it at noom.com/mensrea ********* 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: Denis McClean, “Girl found bludgeoned to death” in The Evening Press (14 September 1989) p. 1. “Deirdre – whole town is shocked” in The Evening Press(14 September 1989) p. 1. John Murphy, “Girl (19) murdered” in The Evening Echo(14 September 1989) p. 1. John Murphy, “Brutal murder stuns community” in The Cork Examiner (15 September 1989) p. 1 – 2. Tommy Barker, “Gardai probe girl’s last movements” in The Evening Echo (15 September 1989) p. 1. Ken Whelan, “Murder girl’s pal raised alarm” in The Evening Press (15 September 1989) p. 2 Feargal Keane, “Murdered woman ‘took short cut’” in The Irish Press (15 September 1989) p. 4. Dick Cross, “Killer on the loose” in The Irish Independent (15 September 1989) p. 1. Dick Cross, ‘Tearful friends tell of shortcut” in The Irish Independent (15 September 1989) p. 9 “Heart break at Deirdre’s funeral” in The Evening Herald(16 September 1989) p. 2. Dick Cross, “Gardai plea to town on murder girl’s last minutes” in The Irish Independent (16 September 1989) p. 8 John Murphy and Tommy Barker, “Gardai still hunting killer” in The Cork Examiner (16 September 1989) p. 1. For a full list of sources, please see mensreapod.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Men's Raya podcast, and this is the story of Deer Jamul Kahi.
0:30.0	On the morning of Thursday, the 14th of September, 1989, a man was walking to work in Middleton,
0:46.4	East Cork. His ruse took him through a piece of scrub ground between the Riversfield housing
0:52.2	estate and a footbridge over the Ohnecura River, known as the Pum Tune Bridge, which brought
0:58.4	pedestrians close to the center of Middleton. At around 7am, just off the side of the
1:04.9	mucky path through the marshy wasteland, the walker saw a body of a girl. Her face was
1:10.8	bloodied and broken, and she was naked below the waist. The young man realized that the
1:16.0	girl was dead and rang to summon Guardian. It had begun to rain heavily by the time Guardian,
1:22.6	along with a local GP Dr. Jim Doran arrived on the scene. The spot, which was just a few hundred
1:29.4	yards from the main street in the town, was Cortondal. The girl was identified as 19-year-old Deer
1:36.1	Jamul Kahi. The night before, Deer Jamul Kahi was to have been out with friends in the town,
1:41.8	and she'd been expected home by her father, William, but Deer Jamul hadn't shown up as planned.
1:47.8	William began to look around the town for his youngest daughter, but there was no sign of Deer Jamul,
1:52.4	at about 3am he reported her missing to Guardian. Deer Jamul was the youngest of six children
1:58.4	in the Mulkahi family. Two of her older brothers had moved to London and one of her sisters
2:03.6	emigrated to the US. Deer Jamul's other brother and sister were still living locally,
2:08.3	but Deer Jamul was the only one who still lived in the family home in Balanakura, just about a
2:13.4	mile outside of Middleton town. Deer Jamul had attended the local Convent School and was described
2:19.8	as a lovely, quiet girl who was particularly close to her father. This closeness was likely even
2:26.1	more pronounced as Deer Jamul had died some years before. Deer Jamul had spent the previous year
2:32.2	after she finished school working as an Opaire in France, and then she'd been in America for three
2:37.8	months on a working holiday where she visited her sister. By the time of her death, Deer Jamul
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