Crimes in Ireland & the UK

It was March 18, 1977  — the day after St. Patrick’s Day. In the Boyle family’s Donegal home, children laughed, boots muddied in the...

If you walked down Cromwell Street in Gloucester during the late 1980s, nothing would have stood out. Children ran to school, washing...

Some crimes fade from memory after the headlines disappear. Others cling to the public imagination, refusing to let go. The murder of...

Northern Ireland has seen its share of sorrow, but some cases strike a nerve so deep that they never leave the public’s imagination. The...

It was the summer of 1987, the kind of night that sticks in memory. Dublin was alive with music, and David Bowie was in town performing...

It was May 10, 2020 — Mother’s Day. In Chaffee County, Colorado, the morning broke with that deceptive quiet that only later reveals its...

It was October of the year 2000. West London was quiet, the kind of evening where the city seems to exhale. In her flat,...

I keep coming back to one sentence. A vow. A chilling promise made in the smoky corner of a Dublin pub in the summer of 1976. John Shaw...

Every murder case begins with a moment — a fracture in the ordinary rhythm of life. For Clondalkin , that moment came on July 7, 2025 ....

It was just after three in the morning when the first emergency call came through. In Balcatta, a quiet suburb just outside Perth, most...

Saturday, July twenty-six, twenty twenty-five.Devil’s Den State Park, Arkansas. The Brink family packed lightly. Snacks, water bottles,...

It was March 26, 1993 — a Friday morning in Dublin. Spring sunlight cut through the clouds, and the streets of Sandymount bustled with...

It was the evening of July 10, 2025 . In the courtyard of St Michael’s Court, Limerick, pensioner Michael Hayes was making his usual...

On the surface, Carrick-on-Suir is an ordinary Irish town. Quiet streets, familiar faces, and the kind of routine where everyone knows...

When I first read the Gardaí’s (police) report on the disappearance of Michael Gaine , one detail jumped out at me: his dogs didn’t bark...

She was twenty-five. Seven months pregnant. A young hairdresser and part-time model with her whole life ahead of her. On an ordinary...

It was a cold January evening in County Sligo, the kind where silence hangs heavy across rural Ireland. At seventy-three, Tom Niland was...

When I first began reading through the details of Una Crown’s death, one thing immediately stood out: the police didn’t treat it as a...

A Murder That Refused to Fade When I first read about Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s death, one detail struck me more than any other: the...

On the late afternoon of August 6, 2009 , Steven O’Meara, a 26-year-old father of three from Wicklow Town, stepped out of his home for...