130: The Callous Murder of Mary Gough Whelan | Ireland

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Colin Whelan planned his wife’s murder before they were even married. He doubled their life insurance and searched the internet using phrases like death by strangulation and ‘asphyxiation’. The calculating groom even studied the court transcript of an American case, that of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace, using his method as inspiration. Then his wife died after falling down the stairs. Before Whelan could be brought to justice, he disappeared in an apparent suicide, but investigators felt he faked his own death...

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Evidence Locker.
0:10.8	Archesis have been researched using open source and archive materials.
0:14.2	It deals with true crimes in real people.
0:16.7	Some parts of graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised.
0:20.6	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved
0:24.8	ones.
0:29.0	Key and Sweeney was living the dream.
0:31.7	The 33-year-old barman had relocated from Dublin to the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
0:37.5	Most locals knew him because if he wasn't pulling plants or shaking cocktails, he was
0:41.5	out on the town, partying and socializing.
0:44.9	He had quite the reputation as a ladies man, tourists, locals, colleagues, key and had
0:49.8	charmed them all.
0:50.8	He had a VIP membership at Star Girls Bar, a strip club in Puerto Portals, and was known
0:56.2	to all the sex workers as a regular customer.
0:59.8	Then he met Katie, a British native who lived and worked on the island as well.
1:04.1	She swept him off his feet and before long she moved into his apartment.
1:07.7	Their apartment was small, but it was all they needed.
1:10.6	Katie looked forward to their future together and thought the tall, dark and handsome
1:13.8	Kean was the perfect guy.
1:16.8	On Saturday evening of July 10, 2004, Kean kissed her goodbye and got into his prujo
1:22.4	moped, heading off to start his shift at Karma Bar, overlooking Puerto Portals Marina.
1:28.4	But everything was about to come crumbling down.
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