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Outlore with Eleanor Neale

61: Murdered on a Night Out in Glasgow (Karen Buckley)

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Today's episode is on a case I covered back in 2020 about Karen Buckley, an Irish student in Scotland and her killer, Alexander Pacteau. Trigger Warning: Sensitive topics Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, usual disclaimer listeners. It's Eleanor just popping in quickly before we get

0:11.4

started to let you know that since there's no new episode this week, we'll be taking a dive

0:16.1

into an old one from my YouTube channel archive. The murder of Karen Buckley was one that shocked our whole nation.

0:24.0

She was just like any other young woman her age, a university student on a night out at a local

0:29.3

club who went home with a man and was never seen again.

0:35.7

Karen's case is one I come back to a lot because she really could be any of us.

0:40.3

I don't know about you, but case has always hit me so much harder when I can relate to the victim.

0:45.3

And Karen was the kind of girl I'm sure I would have been friends with if I'd met her.

0:50.3

So I hope you enjoy this blast from the past and we'll be back again with a new case for you next time.

1:00.0

Today we're going to be doing another case from Scotland which I don't think I've done a Scottish case in a long time.

1:06.0

But this case is really unique in the way that it did happen in Scotland, however the victim herself was Irish.

1:12.6

So that's a whole two nations that were affected by this incident.

1:17.6

Well, the whole of the UK was affected by it.

1:19.6

But before we get into the case, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video. This video is for educational purposes and everything I'm about to say is just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

1:35.3

So like I said, today we're going to be talking about a relatively recent case from Scotland.

1:41.3

However, the victim herself was from Ireland, so we'll start over there.

1:45.0

Karen Buckley was born in 1991. She was the first child to John and Marion Buckley,

1:50.0

later having three younger brothers, making Karen the first of four siblings.

1:55.0

She was born and raised in an area named Maughan Abbey in County Cork in South West Island,

2:00.0

and this area was very small, very rural,

2:03.6

it was a farming community. It's one of those places where everyone knows everyone. All the kids play together,

2:09.6

all the parents are neighbours and they're all friends. And Karen Buckley was a very nice,

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