In December of 1993, 35 year old Marie Kilmartin got a phone call. Then, she left her house and never returned.

Marie's body was recovered some six months later, in a bog 25 km from her home in Portlaoise. She had been strangled.

Why would anyone want to hurt this friendly, vulnerable woman?

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