42 - Danger at Home: The Killing of Celine Cawley

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🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Celine Cawley was a model, a former bond girl, an advertising producer and a successful business owner. But in December of 2008, she was attacked in her own home and died of her injuries. Her husband, Eamonn Lillis, said that there had been an intruder in their exclusive Howth home, but was he telling the truth? Promo: The Murder in My Family 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 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: Abigail Rieley, Death on the Hill: The Killing of Celine Cawley (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2010). Purchase here “Treacy tells court of Lillis affair” from RTE.ie https://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0120/126581-cawleyc/ (20 January 2010) Aengus O'Hanlon, “Don't let evil killers like Eamonn Lillis inherit their victims' assets, family of tragic Celine plead” from DublinLive.ie https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/celine-cawley-family-lillis-assets-15455514 (23 November 2018) Francesca Comyn, “Eamonn Lillis will leave prison tomorrow” from Newstalk.ie https://www.newstalk.com/news/eamonn-lillis-expected-to-be-released-today-after-serving-five-years-for-killing-his-wife-662547 (10 April 2015) Shane Phelan, “Celine's family in 'draining' battle to keep assets from wife killer Lillis” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/celines-family-in-draining-battle-to-keep-assets-from-wife-killer-lillis-37557859.html (23 November 2018) Ruairi Cotter, “Loaded wife killer Eamonn Lillis earns tidy profit as he flogs luxury Dublin property without ever living in it” in The Sun https://www.thesun.ie/news/2381348/loaded-wife-killer-eamonn-lillis-earns-tidy-profit-as-he-flogs-luxury-dublin-property-without-ever-living-in-it/ (31 March 2018) “'Wife Killer' Eamonn Lillis” from Crime.ie https://crime.ie/article/wife-killer-eamonn-lillis/3121 (2 April 2012) Larissa Nolan and Sheila Flynn, “Wife-killer flights daughter for his home saying: 'She can have it when I'm dead” in The Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327428/Wife-killer-fights-daughter-home-saying-She-Im-dead.html (7 November 2010) Vincent Browne, “The media's 'right' to photograph a witness” in Magill https://magill.ie/society/medias-right-photograph-witness (3 February 2010) “Family of Celine Cawley call for review of domestic killings in Ireland” from BreakingNews.ie https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/family-of-celine-cawley-call-for-review-of-domestic-killings-in-ireland-887340.html (23 November 2018) Dan Kerins, “Killer Eamonn Lilis flees to Southhampton from psion after killing Bond-girl wife” in The Southern Daily Echo https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/12885350.killer-eamonn-lillis-flees-to-southampton-after-being-freed-from-prison-after-killing-bond-girl-wife-celine-cawley/ (14 April 2015) Jack Power “Trial over killing of Celine Cawley was 'horrific' for her family” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/trial-over-killing-of-celine-cawley-was-horrific-for-her-family-1.3709594 (24 November 2018) Juno McEnroe and Fiachra O'Cionnaith, “Law blocking people who kill partners from profiting through inheritance laws to be introduced” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/law-blocking-people-who-kill-partners-from-profiting-through-inheritance-laws-to-be-introduced-909774.html (8 March 2019)

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0:00.0	You're listening to the mens rea podcast.
0:04.0	And this is the story of Saline Callie. Oh, Saline Kali was born in June of 1962.
0:47.0	She and her two sisters and one brother grew up in North County Dublin near the seaside in Portmanek. The family were wealthy. Her father was a solicitor and was well connected politically, as well as with media types.
1:02.0	Saline was a confident child and very likable.
1:06.0	She liked horse riding and yachting.
1:09.0	She went to the local Publeskalee in Malahide for a few years before completing secondary school
1:15.8	as a border at Claremont Convent Girls School, south of Dublin in Rathnew, County Wicklow.
1:26.1	She often spent her summers in the southwest of France at her aunt's home, where she would spend time with her cousins. After school she studied at
1:32.3	UCD and began working as a receptionist at her father's law firm during the summers.
1:38.0	It was there she was first approached by a photographer and she quickly fell into a career of modeling.
1:45.0	Soon she began taking jobs outside of Ireland.
1:49.0	She travelled through Europe and eventually settled in New York to pursue her career.
1:54.0	She signed with the prestigious elite model agency.
1:58.0	The modeling didn't really change her though.
2:01.0	She would turn up at chutes, makeup free, hair pulled back and wearing
2:05.8	relaxed t-shirts and jeans. She did shoots for Vogue and L and hung around with celebrities who, for the most part, enjoyed her. and and even landed a non-speaking part in a James Bond film as one of the beautiful women he encountered.
2:27.4	But soon, the shine of a jet-set lifestyle wore thin.
2:31.7	Saline wanted more and something different and so she decided to start
2:36.8	over and work her way from the bottom up in the film industry. She moved back to Dublin and took up a job working reception in the famous
2:47.1	Windmill Lane Studios. Soon she was taken under the wing of a successful producer who took her on as a personal assistant.
2:55.9	After proving herself there, she moved into production and over to London.
3:00.7	She was a good businesswoman and negotiator.
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