When Marry looks at that case he feels “there’s no way she ever went to Johnnie Fox’s”. He says whoever killed the 26-year-old American woman almost certainly cropped up in the initial Garda investigation but was wrongly discounted. He explains the only way to avoid that is to talk to all of the people around the victim and crime and “drill down” – check and double check – every fact they utter in their statements, even innocuous things unrelated to the crime.
“If you don’t fully analyse what you have – and I always, always took my time with this – then you’ll fall between two stools or you’ll set the investigation down the wrong track.” “I could tell he was lying,” says Marry. “And I could see by the look on his face ... he realised I knew well he was lying, and that I’d prove it.”Marry says working on murder investigations is “full commitment, with no half measures”.
Aaron Brady was convicted in 2020 of murdering Det Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth in 2013. Photograph: Collins Michael O’Sullivan is another retired Garda member with a storied career. While he was an assistant commissioner by the time he retired, he worked for years as a detective with the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, which assists local detectives nationwide in all murder inquiries.
A garda could be told they had a half-assed statement and if they came back with another one like that, they were not the type of person who should be on this [murder investigation] team. There could be 30 or 40 people in the room at the time However, it is possible for even very experienced and conscientious investigators to be led astray, at least temporarily.
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