Hello everyone, in this update i get into the various reasons as to my absence and lack of content of late. If you are triggered by discussions of suicide and and other such issues, please do not listen. 

In the late hours of Friday night, down a darkly lit laneway in Glenageary, South Dublin, Ireland a voice pierced the September night air, a voice cried out  “leave me alone, go away and fuck off”. These were witness reports of what would soon be determined to be of Raonaid Murray in her final moments.

Raonaid or “Rainy” lovingly called by friends had been out in a bar with some friends after finishing her shift at work. She had spent an hour there before deciding to head home briefly to change clothes as the group were deciding to head to a nightclub.

Though had friend waited, and even rang the house phone to see where she was, Raonaid did not show. Later that night, shortly 12;30 am as Raonaid’ s sister was returning home with some of her friends, they spotted something unusual in the laneway known locally as “The Gap” or more sinisterly as “The Cut”. There they found, tragically, was the lifeless body of the 17- year- old.

Raonaid had been viciously stabbed four times and even more heart-wrenchingly she had died within 20 yards (18 m) of her home, evidence later showing from pools of blood she had lived on and staggered for a time before succumbing to her wounds.

In today’s case, we cover Irelands “longest-running active murder investigation in modern Irish history,” with more than 9,000 people interviewed, from 12 suspects to no suspects and a 22-year-old question left on unanswered, who is responsible for the brutal and senseless murder of Raonaid Murray.

SOURCES

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Raonaid_Murray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2kjsm11_t4&t=5189s&ab_channel=GrahamJones

https://www.broadsheet.ie/?s=raonaid+murray

https://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/raonaid-murray/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/raonaid-s-friends-grieve-for-promise-brutally-terminated-1.224919

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/raonaid-murray-murder-glenageary-dublin-22599030

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/garda%C3%AD-renew-appeal-to-find-killer-of-dublin-teenager-raonaid-murray-1.4346174

https://www.thejournal.ie/raonaid-murray-appeal-anniversary-killing-5195081-Sep2020/

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/paul-williams-20-years-on-raonaid-murrays-death-is-the-longest-running-murder-probe-in-modern-irish-history-38469091.html

https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/raonaid-murray

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/organised-serious-crime/serious-crime-review-team/raonaid-murray.html

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/did-a-jealous-love-rival-kill-raonaid-34907183.html

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/if-its-near-the-weekend-the-area-is-really-not-that-safe-26557156.html

On May 28th, 2011, twenty-year-old Madison Geraldine Scott or Maddy, attended a birthday party at Hogsback Lake approx. 25 km southeast of Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Maddy had attended the party with her friend Jordi Bolduc. But as the evening went on and turned to midnight, Maddy retired for the night to tent she pitched beside her 1990 white Ford F150 pick up truck. A fight had broken between Jordi and a few other men at the party out and left Jodi injured and as she was drunk also felt she needed to leave with her new boyfriend. After trying to talk Maddy into leaving with them it was clear Maddy didn’t want to get up as she was already settled in for the night, Jordi left.

Between the hours of 3 am and 4 am, many of the party goers had left, and these being some of the last people to physically see the young woman, many had reported talking to her and even offering her a ride back but Maddy declined. At 8:30 am Jordi and her boyfriend returned to the campsite as she had to pick up her clothes and sleeping bag before going to work. Having arrived, Jordi noticed the tent unzipped with Maddy’s sleeping bag and stuff moved to the side but with Maddy nowhere to be seen. Jordi stated she did not see Maddy anywhere and never reported the state of the tent to anyone.

With a party of over 50 people attending, a large frame of missing time and the trail getting colder by the minute, an investigation will be launched using some of the most investigative tools than have been used in a case before in BC history and theories involving the purposed Highway of Tears and even serial killer Israel Keyes, today we look into the unexpected and truly baffling disappearance of Maddy Scott.

SOURCES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn0ROcjh7ys&t=1163s&ab_channel=faithlovehopefindmaddy

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6lay5b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Maddy_Scott

https://www.myprincegeorgenow.com/134458/nearly-decade-long-case-of-missing-vanderhoof-woman-showcased-on-international-podcast/

https://letsfindthem.wordpress.com/tag/rcmp/

https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/nine-years-since-maddys-disappearance-3740483

https://canadiantruecrime.ca/episodes/80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeilmVm3CAI&ab_channel=LordanARTS

This episode contains potentially triggering topics of suicide and suicide ideation.

On the night of Wednesday, 23rd of November 2016, Tom Brown and some friends met at a Middle School car park. An ordinary night filled with driving, listening to music and big dreams to leave the small town of Canadian, Texas behind and start their lives.

Tom and friends Christian and Kaleb bundle into Christian’s car and they drive around town, stopping to go for a walk. Soon 11 pm rolls along so the trio decided to call it a night. Christian drives the boys and herself back to the car park where they get into their own cars. Kaleb watches Tom get into his red Dodge Durango at 11:26 pm and drive away, not knowing this would be the last time he saw his friend.

At the Brown residence, Tom’s midnight curfew comes and goes without any sign of the 18-year-old and mother Penny begins to worry as it was very unlike him to be late. The minutes slowly trickle by and after a few texts, Penny is advised by her husband, a volunteer firefighter and Tom’s stepfather, to ring a sheriff’s dispatch And after 45 minutes a deputy responds and search for Thomas begins.

What ensues from this night and well into the days, weeks, months and years is a truly bizarre and baffling case. A case where misinformation, a thousand different stories and rumours attach themselves to a case already beset with issues such as private investigations and rumours of a cover up.

But behind the controversy and small-town gossip, lies a heart-breaking case and questions that remain unanswered, what happened to Thomas Kelly Brown, a young man who played football, video games, was well liked and a class president. How did his car come to be abandoned at a water treatment plant, his belongings scattered for miles beyond and ultimately where his remains would be found three years later? In this episode we explore the disappearance and eventual discovery of Tom Brown.

 SOURCES: 

https://truecrimesociety.com/2020/06/29/a-death-in-canadian-the-story-of-tom-brown/#:~:text=D.,the%20family%20it%20was%20suicide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/dvldbj/update_unsolved_death_of_thomas_brown_from/

http://charleyproject.org/case/thomas-kelly-brown

http://www.findtombrown.com/case-history.html

https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/thomas-browns-dad-speaks-about-his-sons-case

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7hssxd/unresolved_disappearance_what_happened_to_thomas/

https://www.newschannel10.com/2019/01/17/investigators-detail-how-thomas-brown-was-found-whats-next/

https://www.facebook.com/ABC7Amarillo/videos/2206038473035538

https://casefilepodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/85-tho

https://www.newschannel10.com/2019/11/12/hemphill-county-sher

https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/tcole-investigation-of-reveals-new-information-about-thomas-brown-case

https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/new-details-released-in-canadian-teens-death

https://www.reddit.com/r/Casefile/comments/d0c8w9/tom_brown_transcripts_surface_likely_suicide/

https://www.newschannel10.com/2020/06/29/klein-investigations-says-thomas-brown-case-moving-into-prosecution-phase-this-year/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpqmQD0LZWs