14 - The Grangegorman Murders: A spree killing & a false confession

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🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Dublin: 1997. Three women occupy number 1 Orchard View, an assisted living facility for former patients of the nearby St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital. On the night of March 6th of that year, two of the women, Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callanan, were brutally murdered in their rooms. They were discovered the next morning by their housemate Ann Murnagh, and a hunt for the killer began. The Gardai soon heard that a young heroin addict who slept rough in the Grangegorman area may be responsible for the heinous crimes. Dean Lyons was questioned by the Gardai and promptly confessed to the killings. But was this man capable of the horrible crimes he had confessed to, or did the Gardai have the wrong man? There would be two further murders before the case was solved.... Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! If you would like to support the podcast, head on over to Patreon.com. Podcast Promos: Eye for and Eye Podcast and Murder Mile Podcast Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Report of the Commission of Investigation (Dean Lyons Case) Dublin:Stationary office, 2006. Alan Bailey, The Grangegorman Murders: Dean Lyons and Mark Nash (Dublin: Gill and MacMillan, 2015). Purchase here Ruaidhri Giblin “State scientists were 'trying to do down' serial killer Nash, appeals court heard” https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mark-nash-found-guilty-of-cold-case-murder-672676.html 20 April 2015 7 November 2017 Ruaidhri Giblin, “ Serial Killer Mark Nash launches appeal agains double murder conviction” http://www.thejournal.ie/mark-nash-appeal-3682486-Nov2017/ 6 November 2017 Ruaidhri Giblin, “Court Reserves judgment on Serial killer Mark Nash's appeal against conviction for 'Grangegorman murders'” https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/court-reserves-judgment-on-serial-killer-mark-nashs-appeal-against-conviction-for-grangegorman-murders-36425100.html 20 December 2017

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mansorya podcast and this is the story of the Grange Gorman murders. Oh, Grange Gorman is a small townland in the north inner city of Dublin.
0:47.2	It's between the village of Stonybatter and Phibsborough and today is mainly taken up by
0:52.2	housing and the new Dublin Institute of Technology campus.
0:56.0	But up until DIT's opening, it had mainly been known for being the location of St Brendan's psychiatric hospital. Nearly directly across from the old hospital
1:05.8	entrance is a terrace of houses, five in total, orchard view. It was owned and operated by the Eastern Health Board as a sort of halfway house for
1:16.0	psychiatric patients who were re-entering the community to get them used to living outside of the
1:21.4	institution and in some cases living independently.
1:26.4	Numbers one and two orchard view were both used with a view to get patients ready for full
1:30.8	reintegration into society, whereas numbers 3 to 5 were all interconnected
1:35.8	buildings with access to a nurse around the clock to provide care to the 12 patients who lived
1:40.9	there, as they were not considered as stable as the up to 7 patients who were not considered as stable as the up to seven patients who were
1:45.0	residents in numbers one and two. In March of 1997, number one orchard view was
1:51.6	running like a well-oiled machine.
1:55.0	It had three residents at the time.
1:57.0	The fourth and only male had been kicked out in January of that year after the hospital had gotten
2:01.8	complaints that he kept having visitors, mainly women, over to the house who stayed late into the night.
2:09.0	The three women who lived in the place kept the house immaculately clean, tidy and organized.
2:15.3	Mary Callenun was a 61-year-old and she had been an inpatient in the hospital since 1966.
2:21.9	She was diagnosed only child and her health problems had began when both of her parents had died in the early 1960s.
2:31.0	She had, by all accounts, a good childhood and the loss of her
2:36.0	parents had hit her heart. She lived in Orchard View since 1988 after being
2:40.8	placed in a high dependency hostile before graduating to her own room in the house.
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