Post by hi224 on Apr 14, 2019 15:54:03 GMT
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Marie Tierney - unsolved murder from 1984
Unresolved Murder
Gardaí (Irish police) from Kilkenny Garda Station are continuing to investigate the murder of thirty-four-year-old Marie Tierney who was fatally injured on a date unknown between 21st October 1984 to 21st December 1984.
The body of Marie Tierney was exhumed on 31st October 2018 and taken for examination to Waterford University Hospital. Following this a suspect has been identified but no arrests have been made.
Marie Tierney was a 34-year-old married woman with two children aged 12 and 13 at the time she was killed. She resided with her husband and their two Children at Clintstown, Co Kilkenny where they ran a grocery store and petrol station.
She was reported missing on the 22nd October 1984 by her husband. She had left their house at Clintstown, Jenkinstown, Kilkenny on the evening of the 21st October 1984 at approximately 10.30pm in the family car, a Renault 18 Estate registration number 35-HIP and had not returned. Her husband doesn’t know why she left so late but noted that £200 was missing from the grocery store takings.
Investigating Gardaí located the Tierney’s family car at Newpark Fenn about 15km away later that day. The keys were still in the ignition. Statements from a number of witnesses put the car abandoned in Newpark at approximately 11pm on the 21st October. This location is on the outskirts of Kilkenny. It has become more developed over the last few years but at the time it would have been less built up and quite rural.
Searches were conducted by Gardaí and members of Marie Tierney’s family and friends but Marie could not be located. On the 21st December 1984 the body of Marie Tierney was located by a male out walking on the Bleach Road, Kilkenny in a ditch. She had been strangled. This location is about 4km from where her car was found. Witnesses also saw two men acting suspiciously by the open boot of a car in the area where Marie’s body was discovered.
To date, over 500 lines of investigative enquiry have been opened and over 200 witness statements have been recorded. There have been no arrests to date for the murder of Marie Tierney.
Gardaí are appealing to any member of the public who may have seen any person(s) walking or cycling at or near Newpark / Newpark Fenn, Kilkenny on the night of the 21st October 1984. Gardaí are appealing to any member of the public who may have seen any person(s) walking or cycling or any vehicles including the Renault 18 35-HIP on or near the Bleach Road, Kilkenny on the night of the 21st October 1984.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/family-of-murdered-marie-believe-gardai-closer-to-finding-killer-37489911.html
www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/press-releases/2018/october/update-marie-tierney-murder-investigation.html