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The Cannibal Murders Revisited

Oct 9th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Crime, Favourites, Policing, Scandal, gardai

Anyone remember Dean Lyons?
He was a vulnerable young Dublin man, a drug addict, who was framed by the police for a double murder he didn’t commit. A brutal, ritualistic murder with satanic overtones.
He was jailed for it, and remained in jail for seven more months even after another man committed an identical murder [...]



The Cannibal Murders

Feb 22nd, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Crime, Favourites, Policing, gardai

Do you remember the case of Dean Lyons?
No?
Back in March 1997, two mentally-ill women living in “sheltered housing” in Dublin were murdered in a savage attack during which the killer ritually mutilated their bodies. The crime, which came to be known as the Cannibal Murders, was plainly committed by a madman, and a forensic [...]