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Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

Mens Rea is the legal principle of intent that must be proved in a number of crimes, such as murder.

Episodes

Total: 161

Bonus: Dolores McCrea

2024/9/10

This Bonus episode was first published as a "Guilt Trip" episode on Patreon on 7th April 2019. Dolor

In 1981, Nora Sheehan went missing from Ballyphehane, Co Cork. She was found dead a week later, and

In the middle of the night on the 13th May, 2000, a flat in Ballymun was set alight. Inside, the bod

Kitty Carroll was killed by Michael Murphy in Drogheda in 1983 - he would go on to kill again. 

In March of 2011, 19 year old David Byrne set out to meet someone near to his home in Drimnagh, Dubl

In August 2000, 21 year old Julie Tennant went missing from her home in Ballymena. Her parents searc

Listen Now: 48 Hours

2023/10/16

One of television's most popular true-crime series is now adapted for your ears with the “48 Hours”

Just after 10am, on Wednesday the 29th July 2008, shots rang out on a busy residential road in Kilru

If you have any information on the whereabouts of John Griffin, you can contact Gort Garda Station o

28 year old mother of one Norma Crotty appeared on her neighbours doorstep early on the morning of J

In September of 2019, Paul Jones was found dead in the hallway of his home on Bandon Road, in Cork.

In the early hours of 29th April, 2000, a fire was discovered in an upmarket flat in the seaside res

In the early hours of 29th November, 2002, 34 year old father of two arrived home from working his s

On a chilly Sunday morning in December of 1980, Michael Kelly arrived at a neighbours house in a pan

In March of 1999, Phillip Colgan and his wife Mary walked into Rathfarnham Garda Station and with a

In August of 2000, Gerry McGinley disappeared from his home near Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. His wife

In the early hours of 2nd February, 2007, a tragedy occurred on the main street of Arklow, Co Wicklo

17 year old Siobhan Hynes went out with friends to the small village of an Cheathru Rua on the night

In the summer of 2005, Celine Conroy decided to pack up her three kids to spend the summer in Spain

On the night of the 11th Nov, 2003, Patricia Conroy frantically searched the small midlands town of