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in October 2004 loving wife Rachel O'Reilly returned home after doing the school drop off less than 20 minutes
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later she was murdered by her own husband Joe Riley killed his wife in the most brutal possible manner he hit her
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across the head with a dumbbell several times inflicted on unbelievable injuries
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this was a cruel calculated model in a horrific attack made to look like a burglary gone wrong Joe O'Reilly killed
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the mother of his children terrible Legacy to leave those kids that's very Legacy for the rest of their lives
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mother was murdered and their father did Joe O'Reiley reveled in the attention he
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received as he paraded himself on TV he went on The Late Late Show with rose to make an appeal for whoever murdered his
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wife to come forward or for people to give information he really was enjoying it
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she knew the person because why else would you kill her he enjoyed the spotlight thank you very much as the
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whole of Ireland watched on Joe O'Reilly proved himself to be one of the world's
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most evil killers [Music] [Music] October 4th 2004 at around 5:20 a.m. Joe O'Reilly left his home in null in the
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north of County Dublin the married father of two went to the gym before heading to the outdoor advertising
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company he worked for in the west of Dublin City at 8:2 5 a.m. he left the office again and arranged to meet a
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colleague at a bus garage 5 miles away in central Dublin he said they had to do an inspection in Broadstone that day to
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examine the buses and the advertisements and he said he was there until 12:00 or
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wherever he came back to his workplace but O'Reilly never made it to the bus
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garage instead he traveled 25 mil North to his family home where his loving wife
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Rachel was unaware of what her husband had planned for her Joe O'Reilly was an arrogant over
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self-confident man with no respect for anyone except his own desires and the person who paid the
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price for that was his wife Rachel this killer Story begins in County Dublin Island Joe O'Reilly was
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born in April 1972 one of four children O'Reilly didn't have the easiest of childhoods
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Joe grew up in a Troublesome household his father was an alcoholic and a robust type of character and violent Joe would
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have been subject to a lot of drunken abuse by his father he had one other brother and he had two sisters one of
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them was very mentally handicapped and physically handicapped and joah told me himself my father come in and I could
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hear him shouting downstairs where's the monster where's the monster referring to
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my handicapped sister and he come up I'm going to kill that I'm going to kill it
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I'm going to kill it now you know according to O'Reilly himself he was the
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doting Big Brother protecting his baby sister from being harmed he said I'd have to hop up out a bed grab the baby
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out of the car and hide her under the bed with me and he come in and he roared and shouting and then he be got he says
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that's what I had to put up with so I would sympathize for Joan that you know
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no one wants to see that type but he did have a Troublesome childhood it wasn't a
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comfortable upbringing it was complicated and he did feel responsible for his siblings but there
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was also an hint of arrogance in that childhood as an adult Joe O'Reilly was a
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hard character to read with those around him not knowing too much about him Joe he was always very very aloof I don't
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think any of us ever had a a real understanding of him he never got too close to any of us
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um never stand offish it's just it just never would have got to know him he just
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seemed Shy Guy like in 1991 O'Reilly was working in retail in the center of Dublin City and this is
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where he met 17-year-old Rachel Kali Rachel and Joe met at a large department store in Dublin he fancied her early on
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and he he made several attempts to ask her out but she wasn't willing at the
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time but he he kept trying and she eventually did go out room you know he takes her to Paris and proposes on the
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top of the Eiffel Tower now I think that tells you an awful lot about O'Reilly's vision of
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himself and what he wanted he wanted to put her on the back foot he should be the great I am and I think that that's
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the tone the background music that goes through the entire relationship from the outside Rachel and
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Joe O'Reilly appeared to have the perfect life they soon got married and moved to the countryside in null County
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Dublin Rachel seemed to be living the life of her dreams her brother Paul remembers it being a joyous time in
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Rachel's life she loved the the country living the country schools the she liked
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walking the lane talking to neighbors and stuff was a fine house and they just seemed very happy out there
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to us they had the perfect marriage they were committed in many ways but and here comes one of the
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telling elements in this tragic story he was an arch manipulator he was one of those men who
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turned off his affections and on at a whim always putting the woman in his life on the back foot it's very familiar
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among arrogant manipulative men now did that come from his childhood did it come
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from the way he saw his mother treated by his violent alcoholic father possibly but certainly there's no doubt in my
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mind that he was pretty misogynist in his mind there was no doubt that Joe O'Reilly had little regard for women but
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nobody could have predicted how his marriage to Rachel would turn out for Rachel the 4th of October started
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out like any other day Joe had gone to the gym 6:00 a.m. is and she' got up fed
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and water the kids and dropped them off to their play school in school and she just came home
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then around 1:30 p.m. Joe called Rachel's family he told them Rachel hadn't collected their youngest son from
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the CEST it would have been very very very odd for Rachel not to her whole life was
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based around the kids their activities the thing everybody says about Rachel she was a dedicated mother
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her main goal in life was to look after her children and she did that to the best of ability she was a really caring
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mother when she became a mother that was her her big achievement in life although
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she loved every other part of life I think her two kids were the the sort of Pinnacle of her life so it
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was very strange when we got that phone call that she had missed one of the children upon receiving the phone call
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from Joe O'Reilly Rachel's mom Rose knew something wasn't right and headed
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straight to the house to look for Rachel what she discovered was horrifying the back door was open the curtains were
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drawn and she said that was very unusual that they never do that and she went into the house and she could see the tap
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was running and the drawers were pulled out and she could things see things scattered around and she was shouting
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for Rachel and Rachel and she made her way down to the down to the bedroom where she would think she would be and
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yes Rachel was there O'Reilly had encouraged Rachel's mother to go to the the house for Rose
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the devastating scene was one that no parent should ever have to see she couldn't even tell if Rachel was lying
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face down on the floor or face up because of the injuries inflicted on her there was so much blood and her hair was
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matted and she couldn't tell but she knew she was dead it wasn't long after them he mother
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rang and um we knew it was it was a big problem she didn't make a whole lot of
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sense all she kept saying was she's [Music] dead Detective Pat marry was on duty
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When A call came through of a violent incident in null as I made my way there there was messages conflicting messages
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coming over the radio oh that lady has been very badly hurt uh yeah it looked looks like a burgy gone wrong then
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someone says yeah no that lady I think is dead like you know and I said my good God news spread fast that something big
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had happened and journalist Pat Flanigan made his way to the scene when the crime
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was committed the initial uh thoughts were that was a burglary the house had been ransacked drawers pulled out was
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closed all over the floor Detective Pat marry entered the crime scene and what he discovered
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horrified even this seasoned police officer Rachel O'Reilly had been barbarically killed it was really Savage
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assault and that was shocking to me and I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot
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of ladies who have been murdered by their husbands and in situations like that but this was really horrific the
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degree of savagery that was used to kill her whoever done this to this woman hated
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her who ever did this had gone to Great Lengths to cover their tracks and Stage a fake
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burglary I've been had thousands of burgies and I know her a burglar and I know when there's one a real one and not
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a real one and this was not a real burglar a mother of two had been murdered in her own home in broad
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daylight on the surface the crime scene looked like a burglary gone wrong with tragic
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consequences but to the trained eye there was something else at play I know burglar I know how they
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behave I know what to do they don't want confrontation the first thing a burglar
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will do he get into a house he go to the bedroom he go to the woman's side of the
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bed he look for all the jewelry he'll separate the the uh costume jewelry take
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the good stuff put in the pillowcase gone we discovered also that there was two lots of money in the house as well
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which but now it was never taken like you know so we knew that it wasn't a burglary we just said like there's
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something that right here like you know Rachel has been severely attacked violently blooding two skull fractures
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many other bruises across her body this is not just bang on the head and run out
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the door if it's a burglar who's frightened it's going to be one hit and
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away this is not that this is an attack which indicates rage and indicates to premeditation the body was removed for a
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postmortem at lunchtime forensic examination of the house is expected to last a couple of days while the Cali
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family were hysterical with grief at finding Rachel Jo o Riley seemed quite the opposite it wasn't a grieving
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husband he was just looking he was taking in stuff he didn't act like a guy who had just found his wife battered to
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death and on the floor Joe was standing out in the road in his own he never engaged with the
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Cali family or went up to the ambulance to you know see what happened or talk about the situation or give each other
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hugs or he was just standing there like a cabbo cut out standing on the road there like you know and that was
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it while the public still suspected a burglary Pat Mar was looking at a different line of inquiry later that day
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he paid Joe O'Reilly a visit we were wondering like what was the story with Joe like he gives an
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account of his day he said yeah I got up at 5:00 in the morning he says O'Reilly
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told the detective that he'd left the house at 6:00 a.m. to head to a nearby
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gym he was to meet a a friend a work colleague there they both chatted uh they showered and then went away is this
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of course you know was to provide Joe in Alibi O'Reilly who worked in advertising
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claimed he'd then gone to a bus depot to inspect some adverts and to meet another
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colleague there he said he was there until 12:00 or wherever he came back to his workplace this Alibi provided Joe
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O'Reilly with the perfect cover if true he couldn't have been responsible for
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the murder of his wife maybe uh I says Rachel was having an affair and was some woman got someone to give her a hide and
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to tear her the back no no no he says neither of us were having Affairs and I just looked straight into his eyes and I
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was about 2 foot away from him I said Joe did you have an affair he says well I did have an affair but it's all over
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now he admitted that he had an affair with a woman but he claimed it was over and had been and himself and his wife
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had SED wrote on the no back to be a happy family I'd have been far more surprised if he wasn't having an affair
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given his personality and the way that he liked to absolutely dominate everything he would love an audience he
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would love fans and that's how he would see Affairs really even after the murder Joe
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O'Reilly maintained the facade of being the loving husband regularly visiting
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The Grieving Kali family at their home every couple of days he drop in and stuff me m used to make him dinners and
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all but that didn't last very long anytime he was in the house he was very calculated very cautious didn't say a
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lot just listened a lot he just wanted to know information all the time Rachel was buried one week after
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her murder on the 11th of October 2004 Joe basically just washed his hands at the funeral he he didn't want really
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Anton to do it he didn't even want to pay for his wife's funeral the funeral was an opportunity
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for the Kali family to pay their last respects to their beloved Rachel the CES were writing cards to put in the coffin
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saying their last good boes and Joe was in the house with them to give him a card and stuff and he wrote what he
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wrote and put it in the coffin now she was buried with these carrots it wasn't just
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the family who were in mourning wellwishers spread far and wide the murder had sent shock waves through
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Ireland and there was a huge public interest in the case I covered the funeral for the Daily Mirror at the time
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and was quite a big funeral and very sad that that the calile family were in tears but Joe was uh seemed to be
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removed from it you know as if it didn't affect him I suppose the day the funeral like
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obviously it was very emotional day but I think that's when he started going
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into his kind of shiz mode it's he really when he got up and did his eulogy he was like it was like an Oscar speech
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up there you know um like it was really all about him you know and and he seemed
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to love the attention and that was noticeable Even in our grief Joe O'Reilly was quite
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a dominant and controlling person and felt a kind of ownership over his wife and over his children he certainly
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represented himself as a family man it didn't really follow that up with the
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way he behaved in his relationship it was more like well this is what I want people to see me as rather than this is
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what I really am Detective Pat marry attended the funeral and had become close to the Kali family over the course
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of the investigation their observations of O'Reilly and the leadup to the funeral
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had been playing on their minds I was down in their house and we were talking about things and they said oh yeah and
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Joe was here sure you didn't care about Rachel and we had to tell him to write
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that note like you know and the detective that was with me detector Peter mcai the two of us looked around
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at each other cuz we thought the same thing what did he write in the note you know you know and could it be a
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confession there or anything like you know with the Kali family's blessing detectives made the difficult decision
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to exume Rachel's body they were certain that O'Reilly's note inside her coffin
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could be the key to unlock the case there was a five-page letter in it he said it's the hardest letter I've ever
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had to write in my life he asked for forgiveness and he said it'll haunt me for the rest of my life and uh I hope he
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forgive me Rachel it's it's further evidence that Joe O'Reilly Is Not Innocent of the crime of
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murdering his wife but at this point there still isn't enough firm evidence he was saying sorry for what he
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had done and it's only him and she knew about it uh but yet again it could be
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anything else it was ambiguous and we couldn't use it as you know strong evidence more was needed to prove Joe
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O'Reilly had committed the crime as the investigation continued the killer put on a horrifying performance
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for Rachel's grieving family I know he was given the house back after a week we
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went out with him that day to help him clean up the house and he had us listen to phone messages for 20 minutes he made
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20 different calls to her saying are you dare I love you a concerned husband this
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is not the behavior of a man with much in the way of empathy it's the behavior
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of a man who seeking to cover his tracks O'Reilly then took the family to the spot where his wife was murdered and
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proceeded to act out how he thought the killer might have ended Rachel's life he
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knelt over where the body would have been and reenacted how he would have blud her whatever he buding her with he
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then even Ste kept over an imaginary body you know that wasn't there he also
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went to the uh to the bathroom and said explained how the the killer might have washed his hands and heard her gurgling
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and then went back to finish her off Mary Cassidy who on the postmortem and had viewed the
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injuries had said to us in her report and I confirmed it again with her what Joe had enacted is exactly what she
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believed the murderer would have done based on the injuries of the head and the body was laying it and all that
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so here's Joe reenacted exactly what he did like it was spooky not surprisingly
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Jim and Rose are I mean literally horrified how could they not have been they are in the presence of someone
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who's enacting out a murder and he's only been dead a week or so for the Kali
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family the disturbing truth about Jo o royy was starting to become clear my father was a little bit hesitant to to
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jump to this conclusion but the other three of us just said he's just admitted
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it we knew in our own hearts that he had murdered Rachel and we just had to play
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the waiting game then and hope to God the the police could get him could catch him
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after putting on a sickening display for Rachel's family O'Reilly was going to
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take his supposed grief to a national level for his next performance the cameras would be rolling why go to the
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extreme of murdering the person unless they can identify him while the eyes of the nation watched on Twisted Joe
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O'Reilly was loving the attention usually when someone is grieving that gri they don't want
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Limelight they don't want you know they want to be left alone to grieve and peace like you know members of the press
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you know said to himself this guy is too open because he was willing you know he
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was over willing to to give his side of the story gradually the tide torned and you know suspicion torn on Joe just over
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two weeks after O'Reilly murdered his wife he made an appearance on one of Ireland's leading chat shows with
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Rachel's mom Kali murder happened was in the bedroom which is the very last room
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of the house so it's the room where you're least likely to bring someone you
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don't know because you're cornered he went on The Late Late Show as a guest
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with rose to make an appeal for whoever murdered his wife to come forward or for
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people to give information Rose is clearly deeply upset and still grieving for her daughter O'Reilly by contrast
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seems incredibly relaxed M was very uncomfortable with the whole setup sitting beside him and to us was
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very obvious at that stage that he really was enjoying it like he really he enjoyed the spotlight he was controlling
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the narrative from the beginning he would not have been thinking I feel ashamed or I feel guilty about this he
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would have been totally confident I can tell everybody I didn't do this and they
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will all believe me the bigger platform I have to say that the more people will believe me my view as well would be and
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again it's just my view it's not a police Theory it's it's just my own
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personal belief is that she knew the person because why else would you kill her if it's a a violent robbery why go
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to the extreme of murdering the person if O'Reilly was hoping to put detectives
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off the scent his Antics instead had the opposite effect I can tell you now that
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interview with Pat Kenny that night Joey was suspect number one to everyone in the
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country but it was O'Reilly's Behavior behind the camera that led to one of the
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biggest breakthroughs in the case as he spent a lot of time on his phone we discovered the person he was on on the
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phone was his lover and he went and met her after the show and he spent a night with her you know
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after trying to be on a show to appeal for information respect to the death of his wife O'Reilly had told Detective Pat
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Mary that the affair was over but it was just another lie in the Killer's story
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we had arrested the girl he was having the affair with and she was in and she was
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questioned she said that they were having an affair and it was a fullon affair and that wasn't over having an
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affair it's a motive and was quite happy that we could establish that motive so we have a man
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who has if you like established for himself the kind of perfect marriage two children nice house in the countryside
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outside Dublin good job progressing up the ladder on the surfice everything is fine he's got a new Lover he wants to
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start a new life with her he wants to make sure that he gets custody of his children and so Rachel without knowing
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is watching her husband plan what he believes is the perfect murder the murder of his
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wife O's colleague who had provided him with an alibi was arrested and interrogated again about the mourning of
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the murder he was questioned at lint and he eventually admitted look I think I seen Joe at that stage but
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what you're telling me I must have been mistaken the colleague said he never
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seen him at the bus garage where it was supposed to be Joe O'Reilly's Alibi had evaporated
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he hadn't been at the bus depot that morning the challenge now was to prove he was at the murder scene instead an
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examination of shoes O'Reilly had been wearing that day led to a breakthrough the Fric examin them and
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they found dots of Blood on the inside of the shoe on not along the side of the shoe the drips came from above and down
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which would have been synonymous with him at the time he was standing over Rachel or at the time he was killing her
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with the weapon so we believed at that stage that we had enough to arrest him on suspicion of the murder of his wife
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and which we did all the 17th of November 2004 over a month after the murder Joe O'Reilly was arrested and
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taken in for questioning the arrest came with something as a shock to the public
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we questioned him and he didn't cooperate he had no comment and we put it about the shoes and that he had no
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comment we put about the phone record and him talking he I don't know I don't
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get any recollection or he didn't no comment to make you know so we didn't
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have enough to charge him without a confession the case against Joe O'Reilly
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still wasn't strong enough the director of public prosecutions told detectives
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they didn't have enough to take O'Reilly to trial we represented what we had to
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the DPP and the DPP says no you're just falling short I thought we had enough they were
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just a little cautious O'Reilly was released without charge with no new developments to rep
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reports on public interest in the case started to dwindle there was a kind of dropped off
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Sly dropped off the front pages and Joe O'Reilly felt fairly secure that he had
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got away with the perfect murder he taught he was going to be a free man the police carried on working quietly in the
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background to try and prove once and for all that oy was responsible for the vicious murder of his wife Rachel as
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detectives began to investigate they found uh emails that that went between Joe and his sister and they were very
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very uh derogatory towards Rachel he said the marriage was over Joe says I can see it I'm going to be missed our
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weekend Dad if we break up he wanted the children he wanted her gone and that was
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it and he knew the only way to get rid of her was the Killer and he has to make it look like a burglary he was quite
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domineering and he did exactly what he liked so I think it's fun far more likely that his views on divorce were
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you're not leaving me I will decide when this marriage is over and that's exactly
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what he did do detectives had to find conclusive proof that O'Reilly had been
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at the scene when Rachel was murdered they scoured through hours of CCTV but it was the cameras from the Quarry close
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to the O'Reilly house that provided valuable evidence we had Rachel she drove her seen a car leaving her house
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9:40 or something like that she was coming back her car was coming back but Joe O'Reilly himself drove a fat Maria
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estate car and we had that car we believed that car going up to the house at 10 past 9 in the morning and it's
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returning back at 9:59 so between 945 and 959 that's when Rachel was murdered so
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it sort of not ticked our box entirely but it gave us reasonable suspicions to believe it was Joe Riley's car you
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know new technology was emerging cell site analysis shows which nearby telephone masks a mobile phone has
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connected to every time a call or text is sent or received a telecom's company
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helped detectives analyze O'Reilly's phone data from the day of the murder
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they produced for us a a map to show where Joe Riley's phone was pinging off what Mass when he received
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text messages and phone calls that morning the data showed that O'Reiley had left work traveled through North
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Dublin to the house where he brutally murdered his wife this was the vital evidence Detective Pat Mary
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needed so we can establish without any shadow of a doubt Jo Ry had his phone that morning on his person and we could
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show 100% through the cell site analysis that Jo Riley was traveling out from the
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city out to his home at the time his wife was murdered but that wasn't the only breakthrough on the 14th of March
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2006 detectives were tipped off about a conversation O'Reilly had with his lover
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When Rachel was still alive Joe had also told his lover that he would kill Rachel
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but she didn't take him seriously she just start with a figure of speech had Joe O'Reilly actually
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admitted what he was going to do to Rachel prior to her murder we arrested Joe's lover again and brought
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her in and questioned her and she admitted that Joe said he'd kill Rachel if he got away with it but I don't I
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didn't take him seriously I didn't think he'd do anything like you know this when he said
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in flipping like it wasn't anything in it like you know on the 18th of June 2007 Joe oy appeared in court charged
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with the murder of his wife Rachel for Detective Pat marry the trial had been a long time
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coming it was quite an intense investigation and there was a good team of detectives on it and everyone has the
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same agenda to get the person who did this it had been almost 3 years since Rachel
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had been killed and at times the Cali family had almost given up hope of Joe O'Reilly ever facing Justice we always
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knew the hardest thing was to get him into court it was three years later he was still walking the streets still
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living his life still happy out um so it was a huge step to get him charged the trial was the final chapter in a story
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that had from day one attracted intense public interest journalist Pat Flanigan covered the trial at the central
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Criminal Court in Dublin there were cues down the street for the public to get in
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in fact I was there that morning and I had difficulty getting through the crowds to get into the courthouse I
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think a lot of people thought he were going to get off because of course they didn't know how watertight the uh the
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police case was against them while the facts of his actions were laid bare in court O'Reilly showed
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little emotion during the trial um Joe he seemed very relaxed in fact he you know
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he was looking around the court he didn't seem particularly worried you know at the time he had the demeanor of
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a man who felt he was beyond the reach of the law the trial was especially difficult
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for the Kali family as painful details of Rachel's murder were revealed as the postmortem results were
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discussed the n ales were reminded of the weeks following the murder when Joe O'Reilly acted out how the murderer
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would have likely killed Rachel you might say you saw the body and know like when you hear and I know he reenacted it
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and all but it was only when we were told exactly what happened that we knew his reenactments are actually real but
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um it's it's barbaric what he did it's horrific so he got great joy out of doed
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them he used more violence than was necessary to kill his wife there was rage in that
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there was resentment in that but it was also cold blooded planned execution of his
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wife you are in my way and I'm going to get rid of you that says so much about
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the type of person that he is on the 20th of July 2007 at the end of the 4-we trial the jury went out to
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deliberate despite the prosecution painting a picture of a man who had reason to kill his wife there was still
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doubt as to whether O'Reilly would be punished for his actions there has to be concern because
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it's it's I think there was 11 jurors in the end and it only takes a couple of
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them and you're you're in trouble I had gone over to a local pub with the guards
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and we were chatting none of them were confident you know they were all just you just never know a jury so that kind
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of diminished me a littleit Detective Pat marry waited anxiously with the Kali family after
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less than 24 hours of deliberation on Saturday the 21st of July 2007 the jury had made their decision I
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remember being with the family we went down to the pub and we were having an appointed Guinness and I remember I just
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had one called and it was sitting in front of me and next people come in the jury are coming back the jury are coming
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back back in the courtroom the jury delivered their verdict a unanimous guilty Joe O'Reilly was finally
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convicted for the murder of his wife Rachel the whole Court just erupted the judge was banging his gravel on it and
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there was no nobody was paying any attention like you know it was just it was a huge release of emotion
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that Justice had been done like you know and I think the whole country were shouting and I was standing there and
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Rose G him over to me to give me a big hug and I started crying as well and I cried I make no bones about it well
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thankfully he was found guilty um the only way I can describe it it's it's
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like taking the air of a balloon it it just you you nearly collapse and yet you nearly jump touch the sky it's an
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amazing feeling it was just it was very emotional you know this supremely confident indeed you
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might say arrogant man is finally cut down to size by a jury of 12 of his peers who see through his Supreme
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confidence for what it is merely that a pretense a pretense that oh he couldn't
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possibly have killed it was an outsider an intruder it's one of the most cold
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blooded of killings it's possible to imagine O'Reilly is nothing more than a
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coldblooded calculated murderer Joe O'Reilly was sentenced to life imprisonment and was taken f first to
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Dublin's Mount Joy prison before transferring to Midland jail to serve his sentence life imprisonment in Ireland is
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anything now between 18 and 23 years but people do serve a lot longer than that and I suspect Joe Riley will serve maybe
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30 years hopefully never gets out but being found guilty didn't stop Joe O'Reilly from appealing his
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conviction which he did in 2009 Joe riy was so confident that he would win his appeal that he told inmates when
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he was in prison that he' move back into the house where he moured his wife as
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soon as he was released and bring his two children with him O'Reilly lost his
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appeal and remains in prison but for the Cali family the nightmare continues he was found guilty
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he did it seven years and every two years after that he's applied for role what we have to do as a family then is
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every two years when they contact us we have to write letters send the in way we
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think he should stay in jail so you know it just seems a bit unfair that we're
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not actually the guilty party here and yet we' have to kind of beg to keep him
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in jail for many people in Ireland Joe O'Reilly remains a threat to society I believe Joe Riley is a total
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psychopath he is no empathy for anybody when he could do that to his wife he could do
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anything he was evil evil to the core and if he got out could he do it again yes he could joy in my mind is an evil
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person people like Jo O'Reilly don't change this is who he is he killed Rachel because of the way he is the way
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he thinks his world to view his ego his entitlement that's not going anywhere
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there's a danger that he will behave in exactly the same way in future relationships as he did in his past
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relationships Rachel lost her life at the hands of the evil O'Reilly but she was not the only victim
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of this devastating crime your biggest hope is like the the two boys had lost their mother and you just
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hope to God it wasn't the father like if it was a burglary or anything else I'm not saying it would be
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any easier but at least they'd be left with their dad um so I think once that
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realization came in that he he like he didn't just take our sister he took their mother which
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which to me like I think that's barbaric no matter how much you hate someone it's a terrible Legacy to leave
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those kids you know that that's their legacy for the rest of their lives the
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mother was murdered and their father [Music] did who knows what she would have went
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down for a ra had Endless Possibilities like she she was such a doer such a giver such a great mother great sister
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great daughter she could have done an in life it's just a shame he he just he just cut
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her dead like that and you know all that possibility was lost he destroyed her for the years
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leading up to her death so we are the hopei ratson [Music] prison Joe O'Reilly fell out of love
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with his wife and wanted to move on with his lover instead of getting a divorce and fighting for custody he chose to end
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the marriage in the most final of ways by brutally murdering Rachel and depriving his two children of their
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mother or was a selfish man who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted and he will be remembered as one of the
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world's most evil killers [Music]