The Road to Oldcroghan #2- Identification
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Marie Cassidy the state pathologist arrives in Croghan to examine the remains of the victim. When Kevin Barry leads her to the corpse she makes a startling discovery.
Sound by Jason Looney
Artwork by Keith Hynes
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| 0:46.2 | murder is always a national and new story. |
| 0:50.1 | In Crohan, County awfully there hadn't been a murder that anyone could remember when a local man, Kevin Barry, made a gruesome discovery in May 2003. |
| 1:00.0 | When working on a bog, he uncovered a decapitated and disemboweled human torso in pristine condition. |
| 1:08.0 | Understandably this began what was an unsettling time in the local area. |
| 1:12.0 | Kron is a small tight-knit community. an unsettling time in the local area. |
| 1:20.4 | Kron is a small tight-knit community, just to 465 people according to the 2011 National Census. |
| 1:21.4 | It's the type of place where everybody knows each other, but on that |
| 1:25.1 | morning some were questioning how well they really knew their neighbors. The |
| 1:30.1 | murder was particularly heinous and no one could ignore what seemed clear. |
| 1:35.2 | Everything indicated it had something to do with their community. |
| 1:38.6 | The location and where the courts had been found was too remote and too isolated. It was almost inconceivable and outsider could have |
| 1:46.0 | happened upon it without some local involvement or knowledge. People were left wondering |
| 1:50.9 | could one of their own really have committed a murder like this? |
| 1:54.7 | And if so, why? |
| 1:56.5 | In this episode we will learn more about the victim and how he was a Croyhan native, but |
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