52 - Betrayal: The murder of Mary Gough
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to to be here. Oh, Mary Gough was the only daughter of Marie and James Gough. She had five brothers and the family were from Stemullen, County Meath. She was an independent girl, but was very close with her mother, a relationship |
| 0:56.2 | that only strengthened more after the sudden death of her father in 1989 when Mary |
| 1:02.2 | was only 15 years old. She was a hard worker and although she |
| 1:07.5 | hated school Mary went every day. In fact according to an interview with her mother Marie in the Fingal Independent, Marie had a distinct memory of her daughter returning home having completed her final exam in the Leaving Certificate. Mary had been collected by her uncle and as she |
| 1:26.1 | walked up the path to her front door she lifted the top of the wheelie bin and dumped |
| 1:31.0 | her entire school bag in it, glad that she would never need it again. |
| 1:37.0 | Mary balanced her dislike of formal education with going to work after school hours. She got her first job at 16 in the nearby town of Drajata, and was so determined |
| 1:48.0 | to take care of herself that she cycled the 8 miles each way to the town, rather than rely on others for lifts. |
| 1:55.6 | A year after working in Drajadee she took up a job in the Huntsman pub in Gormanstown, |
| 2:01.8 | County Meath, which was much closer to home, less than two miles away. |
| 2:07.5 | In 1993, in that pub, Mary Gough met Colin Wheelen. The two had known each other to see but had never really spoken until then. |
| 2:16.8 | Colin was a local lad from Gormanston and had a similar background to Mary. He had three brothers and two sisters and was just a few years older than Mary. |
| 2:27.5 | He studied computer science at Letterkenny College and Dunney Gull and when he graduated he took up a good job as a computer analyst with Irish |
| 2:36.4 | permanent on Stephen's Green in Dublin City Centre. Mary and Colin |
| 2:41.9 | started going out and it soon became a steady relationship. |
| 2:46.0 | Colin became part of Mary's family and vice versa. |
| 2:50.0 | But in April of 1995, Colin suddenly broke things off with Mary, with no explanation. |
| 2:57.2 | Mary was devastated, but Colin was cold and attached. He gave no reason for the breakup and didn't seem to care how upset she was. After some time grieving, Mary's |
| 3:10.3 | independent streak took over. |
| 3:12.7 | According to author Chivon Gaffney in her book on the case, |
| 3:16.1 | Till Death Do Us Part, Mary got a new job working as a secretary |
| 3:20.8 | with a large film company. She did so well there that when they finished |
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