212: The Heinous Murder of Rachel O’Reilly | Ireland

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Rachel O'Reilly was found murdered in her home in 2004, and suspicion quickly fell on her husband, Joe. Despite his insistence that he was at work when Rachel was killed, he was ultimately found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. The case exposed the dark side of the O’Reilly’s marriage and garnered widespread media attention in Ireland and beyond.
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0:49.8	ones.
0:51.8	It was a quiet morning in Null County, Dublin on the 4th of October 2004.
0:58.0	From the outside, the home of the O'Reilly family, a three-bedroom bungalow called Lambay
1:02.8	View, looked welcoming and cozy as usual.
1:06.1	However, inside, an imaginable horror waited to be discovered.
1:12.0	Thirty-year-old Rachel O'Reilly did not show up to collect her son from preschool.
1:16.6	The teacher called Rachel's husband Joe at work and informed him about the situation.
1:21.1	A frantic Joe called his mother-in-law Rose, and asked her to go to the house to check
1:25.2	on Rachel.
1:26.2	Rose felt chills as soon as she walked through the front door.
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