Love you to death
By: Michael Clifford.
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780340963517
Subjects: Murder -- Investigation -- Ireland -- Case studies; Uxoricide -- Ireland -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: TRUE CRIME. From the recent notorious and horrific murders of Rachel O'Reilly, Dolores McCrea and Siobhan Kearney, cases are outlined as far back as the poisoning of Margaret Lehman in Dublin of the War years, for which her husband was hanged in 1945. A picture is revealed about how little has changed in this area of crime, but also about how society's attitude has changed towards it, as reflected in court verdicts and sentences. From open-and-shut cases to ones that relied on detailed forensic evidence, the book also examines the aftermath, describing courtroom scenes of high emotion. In its detailed examination of Ireland's most notorious wife killings from the 1940s right up to present day and the most recent returned verdict in the Siobhan Kearney case it charts each story from apparently normal marriages all the way to a violent ending and a legal conclusions. A chilling, gripping and at times gruesome read.