Patricia O’Connor: House of Secrets
19 May - 1 hour 12 mins
Podcast Series
Lines of Enquiry
In June 2017, a family out for a picnic discovered a human torso discarded in a ditch in the Wicklow mountains. Gardaí and army personnel came together to comb the area for any clues. The search recovered fifteen more body parts dumped in nine different locations across a 30km range.
Initially, it was believed the body was that of a young man, after the recovered bones were measured. But this theory was about to turn on its head when one month later, a man walked into a garda station in Rathfarnham, in south Dublin, with a confession. He knew about the body parts, and he knew what had happened.
In this episode of Lines of Enquiry, John Sweetman explores the murder of Patricia O’Connor, a...
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