Bonus: Dolores McCrea

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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This Bonus episode was first published as a "Guilt Trip" episode on Patreon on 7th April 2019.

Dolores McCrea married the man that she had met and fallen for while in Secondary School in Donegal. But her husband, Gary, was a controlling man and became abusive.

Soon the violence became too much for Dolores and she left Gary, bringing along their four daughters. But often the time after a person leaves their abuser is the most dangerous. And this was the case for Dolores.

Gary McCrea had plans for Dolores once she left him which would lead him to standing in the dock in the Four Courts just over a year later.

Music:

Kevin McLeod, Quinns Song : The Dance Begins. (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Sources:

24 Hours to Kill – Gary McCrea Season 4, episode 1. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j7aj3

Ken Foy, “Meet the bone expert who has helped to jail some of our nost notorious killers” in The Evening Herald https://www.herald.ie/news/meet-the-bone-expert-who-has-helped-to-jail-some-of-our-most-notorious-killers-31466476.html (21 August 2015)

“Hundreds expected at Dolores McCrea's funeral” from The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/hundreds-expected-at-dolores-mccrea-funeral-157311.html (16 July 2004)

Kathy Donaghy, “Dad-of-four gets life for murder” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/dadoffour-gets-life-for-murder-25955289.html (5 November 2005)

“Daughter says man told her he would kill her mother” in The Tirish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/daughter-says-man-told-her-he-would-kill-her-mother-1.507798 (20 October 2005)

Kathy Donaghy, “'My father told me he was going to stab my mother and rip her guts out'” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/my-father-told-me-he-was-going-to-stab-my-mother-and-rip-her-guts-out--25955291.html (5 Novmeber 2005)

“Mechanic gets life sentence for murdering wife” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/mechanic-gets-life-sentence-for-murdering-wife-1.514254 (5 November 2005)

Transcript

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0:30.0	You're listening to the mens rea Podcast, and this is the story of Dolores McCray. Oh, Delors McGrawrie was from a farming background, one of seven children and grew up just outside Balintra in County
1:16.0	Dunney Gaul. She was close with her family and had a very traditional background. Her parents thought her reliable and she'd help out on the farm.
1:26.1	She was bubbly, did charity work and fundraising, and she worked in local bars in different towns near Balantra. She was very well liked and considered a happy-go-lucky chatty young girl.
1:38.7	Gary McCrae was born in England.
1:42.1	His parents were from Dunigal though and the family moved back there shortly after he was born.
1:47.0	He went to the vocational school in Dunigal town and there he met Dolores. They started going out together while they were in their teens.
1:56.0	He completed a group certificate in 1979 and when he left school he took up a position as an apprentice mechanic.
2:05.0	People knew him as a sullen character, very serious and quiet.
2:11.0	He kept to himself. His in-laws found him strange and they said they didn't get on. He was
2:18.0	standoffish and one of Dolores's sisters in fact said she didn't really know him that well at all.
2:25.7	Gary and Dolores got married in their early 20s.
2:29.6	People thought that this seemed to be a classic case of opposites attract. They were so different. Yet to begin with, there was nothing
2:37.5	strange or noteworthy about their relationship barring the fact that they had a mixed marriage.
2:43.0	The McRory family were Roman Catholic and the McCraise Protestant,
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