Dark Emerald Podcast is for people who know all about Ted Bundy, Jodi Arias and Scott Peterson, and might want to learn about some lesser known crimes. My name is Niamh, and I’ve been passionate about true crime for as long as I can remember, but so many cases get over looked - especially the Irish ones. Follow along and let me tell you about them!
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In 1995, police in the beautiful and charming town of Spotsylvania Virginia were noticing a frightening pattern. Young girls were being preyed upon, and abducted from their homes in broad daylight. Their abductor kept them alive for a while to rape them before drowning or strangling them and dumping their bodies in the water. It would take the brav…
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On the 17th of December 2010, Joanna came home to her flat, put down her keys, her phone, opened a small bottle of cider and popped a frozen pizza in the oven. But two days later when her boyfriend came home and found she AND the frozen pizza had completely disappeared, everyone feared she had been abducted. No one could imagine she had been murder…
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The Lonely Hearts Murders
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The Lonely Hearts Ad’s gained massive popularity in the 20th century and gave lonely singles a way to meet other people looking for love and companionship. However the ads exposed peoples vulnerabilities, and allowed fraudsters, adventurers and murderers to find easy victims. In this episode, we’ll learn about how one such crook was convinced to le…
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The Parent Trap: The Murder of Steven Beard
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Marriage, Money and Murder! At 3 a.m. one night, retired Texas millionaire Steve Beard made a terrified and confused phone call to 911. He told the dispatcher “my guts blew out of my stomach!” Steve had no idea how his organs were suddenly falling out of his body, but when he died four months later, the whole world would wait to see if the person h…
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The Murder of Mr. Moonlight
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Love triangle’s usually have an unhappy ending, but the case of Bobby Ryan- or Mr. Moonlight as he was known is particularly tragic. This episode will focus on his relationship with Mary Lowry and how the affair she had with her brother in law Patrick Quirke caused a deadly obsession.
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The Murder of Jason Corbett
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On August 2nd 2015, successful Limerick born businessman and father of two Jason Corbett was beaten to death by his wife Molly Martens and her father, retired FBI agent Tom Martens. They claim they acted in self defense, that Jason was going to kill them first. But was this the truth? Or is this claim of self defense just another one of Molly’s dra…
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Today’s case takes us back to Colonial Egypt, a time when the women of the Egyptian Royal family would marry to further their family’s dynasty, not for love and definitely not to a commoner. But that is exactly what Fathia did, she married Riad Ghali, the man she loved and was exiled for doing so, but that’s not the only terrible consequence she wo…
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The Clydach Murders
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Three generations of the same family were brutally murdered in their home on the night of the 26th of June 1999 in Clydach, a small village in Wales. The murderer was suspected to be known to one of the victims but there were multiple suspects, who could it be? This case sparked the largest scale and most controversial investigations in Welsh histo…
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Our second part of this case begins with the walls closing in on Charlie and Caril in Wyoming, but after the murder spree ends how will their story end? For Charlie, it’s in the electric chair, but for Caril…its a much different story. Was justice truly served in the end?
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This case begins in the mid 1950’s in Lincoln Nebraska. It was a safe, calm and well policed place. The kind of place where most homes had corn growing in the back fields, and the doors were left unlocked at night. So when a slew of vicious murders take place in town, the people of Lincoln are terrified. Two teenagers, Charlie Starkweather and his …
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Lorenzen Wright had it all, a 13 year long career in the NBA, a wife and seven kids, mansions, luxury cars, friend and family that loved him, and he was recognized in his home of Memphis as a local hero. But despite all that, his skeletal remains were found decomposing in an over grown rural field and 12 years would go by before the mystery of his …
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This case is so disturbing, it’s hard to believe its true. How does a teenage boy terrorize two different families, and take the lives of a pregnant woman and her two children? Well if you grew up in Massachusetts in the 1980’s you already know the name Daniel LaPlante very well. But if you didn’t then buckle up, you’re in for a bumpy ride.…
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The Attorney’s Obsession- The Murder of Anne Marie Fahey
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Affairs, politics, guns, and an igloo cooler - this case has it all. When 30 year old Anne Marie Fahey didn’t show up for a family dinner party, her sister Kathleen went to her apartment to check on her. Anne Marie wasn’t there, but her wallet, her handbag and her car was. A bag of new groceries was on the counter, rotting. So where was Anne Marie?…
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The Coors Kidnapping- The Abduction and Murder of Adolph Coors III
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On the morning of the 9th of February 1960, 44 year old Ad Coors was driving to his family’s brewery along a lonely mountain road. What he didn’t know, was someone was stalking him…for years, and he would never make it to work that day. In this case we’re going to be talking about one of the most sensational and senseless kidnappings in American hi…
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In 1974, two sexual predators arrive in Ireland on the run from authorities in the U.K. No one was prepared for the sadistic duo of Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw, or trail of terror left in their wake as they fulfilled their shared fantasy of abducting, raping and murdering one young woman a week.
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The Suitcase Murder- The Murder of Bill McGuire
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In the early hours of May 5th 2004, a couple of local fisherman found a dark green suitcase floating in the water near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel. Inside this suitcase, wrapped in black plastic trash bags were the dismembered legs of a man, cut from the knees down. This would only be the beginning of more gruesome discoveries in similar suitc…
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Have you heard of Geli Raubal? Probably not, because her suspicious death was very quickly covered up to protect her Uncle and rumored lover, Adolf Hitler.
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In 2015, Isabel Erikkson was working as a successful escort in Stockholm, Sweden. When a wealthy American stockbroker named Martin reached out to her, she agreed to meet up for a date. She had no idea of his real identity or the monstrous plans he had spent FIVE years developing for her.
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When Mary Laura Cross died on the second of June 1887, her death was listed as typhoid fever by her husband Dr. Philip Cross. What people didn’t realize was Philip was besotted with the family’s young governess. Let’s go back in time for some betrayal, lust and death in Victorian Ireland!
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On a cold October morning in 2019, no one could imagine the breakdown of a quiet rural farming family would result in murder and suicide or the greed, jealousy, hatred over a bitter inheritance dispute would cost the lives of Mark, Diarmuid, and Tadhg O’Sullivan.
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Joe O’Reilly’s lies are finally picked apart and the Callaly family get justice for Rachel.
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The Murder of Rachel O’Reilly Part 1
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When Rachel O’Reilly failed to pick up her two year old son from day care, her mother knew something wasn’t right. But Rose never expected to find her daughter bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of her home. The brutal murder of suburban mother of two Rachel, turned into one of the most notorious cases in Ireland’s history because of her husband Jo…
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The Submarine Case: The Murder of Kim Wall
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On August 10th 2017, experienced free lance journalist Kim Wall meets with entrepreneur and inventor Peter Madsen to interview him about his self built submarine the UC3 NAUTILUS as well as his upcoming projects. She’s surprised when he invites her for a tour of his submarine later that evening around 7 p.m. Kim agrees and is last seen alive waving…
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When a leg is seen floating along the Royal Canal on the 31st of March 2005, people passing by presume its belonged to a mannequin. But then someone noticed it had a sock on the foot. It wasn’t a mannequin leg. It human leg. Let me tell you about the Scissor Sisters, their victim Farah Noor and how they committed one of the most gruesome murders in…
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Something terrible happened to Mary Gough on the night of February 28th 2001. To solve her murder, investigators would have to use advanced computer forensics, unusual physical evidence, travel to Wales and Spain and employ all their detective skills to capture a very cunning killer.
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The McAreavey’s were on the honeymoon of a lifetime in the tropical paradise of Mauritius when tragedy struck. Less than two weeks after her wedding day Michaela was murdered and now 11 years later, the murderers are still walking free. Sources: https://www.irishcentral.com/news/last-wishes-of-tragic-murdered-bride-michaela-harte-revealed-113863979…
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What does an infamous Victorian murder have to do with Sir David Attenborough you ask? Well let me tell you…
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