For the first time this week the two cases of the disappeared and murdered women Josephine “Jo Jo” Dullard (21) and Deirdre Jacob (18) were linked by the Garda.
And now the name of convicted rapist Larry Murphy is being mentioned for both of their assumed murders. More than 15 years after he was released from prison in Dublin and left Ireland, his notoriety continues to grow.
Jo Jo Dullard was making her way home from Dublin to Callan in Co Kilkenny on the night of November 9th, 1995, when she vanished. She was hitching the last part of her journey, from Moone village in Co Kildare, where she called a friend from a phone box. She hung up after saying a driver had just pulled in to offer her a lift.
She was never seen or heard from again.
Deirdre Jacob vanished on the afternoon of July 28th, 1998, near her family home at Roseberry in Newbridge, Co Kildare.
She had walked into Newbridge to organise a rent deposit for her second college year in London, where she was studying to be a teacher. Gardaí believe she was abducted from the roadside close to her home as she was returning there.
On Monday, a disused quarry in Castleruddery Upper, west Co Wicklow, was sealed off by gardaí who began excavations. Garda headquarters confirmed the operation was part of the investigations into the murders of both women.
Immediately one man’s name emerged, linked to both women: Larry Murphy (60).
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