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Serail Killer / Rapist Dead

Now, don’t everyone cry at once.

Serial killer and rapist Geoffrey Evans — who chillingly planned to abduct, rape and kill one woman a week — has died at the age of 69 on May 20th.

Wanted to rape and kill 1 woman a week.

With his accomplice and fellow Englishman, John Shaw (70), Evans was convicted in 1978 of the rape and murder of two women, Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, and sentenced to life.

Shaw is still behind bars in Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon. The pair — who confessed to the killings when arrested — were among the longest-serving prisoners in the State.

Both men were only in their 30s when they arrived here in 1974 but they had built up a string of criminal convictions and were wanted by UK police in connection with three rapes.

Evans, the smaller of the two, was also said to be the smarter — and he worked out the logistics while former coal miner Shaw provided the brawn.

The men had decided to fund a pre-planned murder spree in Ireland — with the aim of killing at least one young woman a week — by carrying out house burglaries. However, they were caught in Cork the following year and got two-year jail terms for the break-ins.

Due to an administrative blunder, they were freed after 18 months and disappeared before they could be tracked down for their crimes in the UK.

Nice one! 2 women raped and murdered due to a ‘blunder’.  Trust me, I have a feeling the families call it something else.

In late August 1976 they drove to Brittas, Co Wicklow, where they spotted Elizabeth Plunkett, a 23-year-old clerk, from Ringsend, Dublin. Shaw and Evans offered her a lift and drove to Castletimon Wood where she was raped repeatedly.

Evans then told Shaw to kill her and he choked the young woman with the sleeve of a nylon shirt.

Suspicion

The men arrived in Galway on September 10 and bought a mobile home at a caravan park in Barna, outside the city and then stole a green Ford Cortina, changed the number plates and painted it black.

But they aroused suspicion when they walked into a shop in Maam, Connemara, and bought petrol. The shopkeeper noticed the poorly painted car and their English accents. He took down the car’s registration number.

The next day, the two arrived in Castlebar as local cook Mary Duffy (24) was trying to arrange a lift home to the family farm at Deerpark, Belcarra.

Shaw and Evans abducted, beat and raped her in the back of the car and then drove to Ballinahinch, Connemara, where she was again raped and tied to a tree. Shaw subsequently suffocated her by putting a cushion over her head.

On the night of September 26, however, a passing garda spotted their car and the two were taken in and confessed to their murderous crimes.

– Tom Brady Security Editor

Irish Independent

Won’t it be nice if there is an afterlife and sickos like these 2 get to have their fates settled by those that they victimised?

2012
05/26
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Jury is Told Defendant is Serial Killer

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland, Oct. 8 (UPI) — The jury in the trial of a truck driver accused of killing a girl in Northern Ireland in 1981 was told Friday he has been convicted of three murders.

Prosecutor Toby Hedworth warned jurors that Robert Black’s criminal record does not automatically mean he is guilty of the murder of 9-year-old Jennifer Cardy, the Belfast Telegraph reported. But he said they can consider the similarities between the abduction and killing in County Antrim and other crimes in England and Scotland.

“What you certainly must not do is say: ‘Well, he’s done those other ones, he’s a thoroughly bad man, so we’ll find him guilty in this case as well,'” Hedworth said.

Black, 64, is on trial in Crown Court in Armagh, charged with killing Jennifer while he was making a delivery in Northern Ireland. Jennifer’s body was found at McKee’s Dam, 10 miles from her home in Ballinderry, six days after she disappeared.

A native of Grangemouth, Scotland, Black was brought up by foster parents. Investigators say he may have killed many more girls in Britain and other European countries, the newspaper reported.

Black pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 6-year-old girl who was found tied up in the back of his van in Scotland in 1990. He was later convicted in Newcastle Crown Court of killing three girls in the 1980s in Scotland and northern England and attempting to kidnap a fourth, and was sentenced to life with a minimum of 35 years before release.

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Police suspected Black of the murders of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper. They checked his petrol receipts and eventually charged Black with all three murders, in addition to the attempted kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl who had escaped when a man who had tried to drag her into a van in 1988.

Black stood trial at Newcastle upon Tyne Moot Hall on Wednesday 13 April 1994 and denied the charges. Having sifted through many thousands of petrol-station receipts, the prosecution was able to place him at all the scenes and show the similarities between the three killings and the kidnap of the six-year-old girl who had been rescued. Juries are not usually allowed to know of a defendant’s current or past convictions, but in this case the judge allowed it.

On 19 May, the jury found Black guilty on all counts, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment and told that he should serve at least 35 years. This would keep him behind bars until at least 2029, when he would be 82.

I hope that by letting the jury know he is a convicted serial killer the prosecution did not mess up. I would hate for this trial to be a waste of tax payer money due to that.

2011
10/12
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A Serial Killer in Ireland?

A TOP forensic psychologist believes a serial killer could be operating in Ireland.

Dr Ian Gargan, who is to chair the 50,000 member Division of Forensic Psychology in the UK, told the Herald that he is not the only psychologist who suspects a multiple killer is at loose.

He said a Government investigation was needed and the results of it should be given to the families of the missing.

“We have got to look at the possibility that there is one out there,” said Dr Gargan, who is chairing a major conference in Dublin.

“We have a number of cases where young women have gone missing, and indeed some young men,” Dr Gargan said.

While there was no direct evidence that a serial killer is active, Ireland’s statistics for missing people were slightly higher per 100,000 than the international average.

Dr Gargan said the Government should commission a collaborative report and give a clinical psychologist with a track record in forensic psychology several months to examine the files and write a report, which could be given to the families and make the public aware if a serial killer is active.

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Serial killers always have a pattern and a modus operandi — and some of the missing women had a “fair amount” of common variables such as age and demographics, the Drogheda-born psychologist said.

Several years ago, gardai established Operation Trace to investigate the cases of six young women who vanished from the Leinster area over a five-year period. It concluded there was no common thread linking the cases but investigations were hampered by the fact that no bodies and no crime scenes have ever been found.

The aim was to establish whether a serial killer could have been responsible for the mysterious disappearances of Jo Jo Dullard (21), Fiona Pender (25), Annie McCarrick (26), Deirdre Jacob (19), Ciara Breen (18) and Fiona Sinnott (18). All are thought to have been murdered.

Gardai are believed to know who is responsible for the deaths of three of the six women, Fiona Pender, Fiona Sinnott and Ciara Breen, but do not have sufficient evidence to charge their killers.

mlavery@herald.ie

– Michael Lavery

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2011
09/23
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