Runaway Joe: 08 - Land of Reinvention

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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When Joe Maloney was released by the Irish authorities, it was always going to be unlikely that he'd simply hang around, waiting for justice to be served. Within days of his release, he slipped away. But where to? Almost 40 years later, we've not on

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0:00.0	Late July 1986, Joe Maloney boarded a fishing trawler and left Ireland, and almost everything he had behind him.
0:16.9	Apart from three things, cash, an unknown third alias identity
0:23.5	that he'd used to travel to Canada and Europe while in Ireland.
0:29.2	And his third wife, Sheila Chandler, O'Shea.
0:35.2	I heard on the great plane he went to South America.
0:38.6	Some people tell you went to Canada.
0:41.2	Joe escaped aboard a trawler that steamed out into the Irish Sea.
0:45.7	But to where?
0:47.4	Yeah, there were rumors he was seen in Spain.
0:50.7	You know, he got out to Malta.
0:54.8	It could have been Timbuktu.
0:59.0	I'm Pavel Bartur.
1:01.7	From RTE Documentary on One, this is Runaway Joe.
1:07.4	Episode 8, Land of Reinvention.
1:13.8	During the making of this series, we've heard many stories about where Joe Maloney went when he left Ireland.
1:20.9	Most were wild guesses, rumours, speculation without foundation.
1:26.8	Joe Maloney left Ireland with the help of his friend Rod Fenning.
1:31.0	They vanished.
1:32.2	Rod's sister, Pamela.
1:34.1	And nobody knows where they went to.
1:35.9	My brother never pretended where it was.
1:38.0	But it has to have been somewhere where there was no extradition.
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