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Tina Satchwell- missing person case being treated as murder

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PlasticSheetingRTÉNews · 10/10/2023 20:05

Hopefully some closure.
Ur heart would go out to her family.
Such a sad story.
Between the erratic husband and backstory.
Address being searched seems to be home.
Now we hope her family has closure.
Do hope she’s at peace.

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Neverinamonthofsundays · 12/10/2023 21:01

How long can they keep him before they charge him? I mean it is funny the news reporting ' a suspect' when the entire country knows it was the husband. Sure it was even broadcast earlier that 'the suspect' was approached at a bus stop where he was sitting down before being asked to go to the police station and there is actual footage of Richard at the bustop this morning with the gardai. He always looked like he was lacking in something but he is clearly just evil as he has been able to hide this for over 6 years.

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PlasticSheetingRTÉNews · 12/10/2023 21:34

Apparently a second site was searched today- an industrial unit.

I’m hearing some pretty horrific rumours about what lead up to the remains being discovered.

If they’re true, I wonder if he’s killed others.

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Wendysfriend · 12/10/2023 21:50

I wonder why they're searching an industrial unit?

I did wonder how they decided to search under the floorboards now after all this time.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:09

I'm watching a cork red fm you tube podcast and my god does he scream guilty. And not the full shilling at all.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:12

He seems like a total psycho actually!!!

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 05:12

Oh he seemed like that to begin with which is why it is utterly baffling that it has gone on this long. Her neice used to post barely veiled accusations about him at the start but must have gotten a warning or something as she stopped.
He was or is a truck driver right?

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:18

No idea but just looking at this he really seems crazy. Really, really, really! crazy. And the interviewer is being fairly gentle. But i suppose all will out eventually.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:25

He seems so odd. Even if he's 100% innocent, he seems a very strange man.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:28

@Neverinamonthofsundays idk if he's a driver tbh. Just watching this particular interview is weird AF. He seems an odd man.

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 05:29

At least they have named him now and actually arrested him although I am sure not one person had any doubt. Her body wrapped in plastic under the stairwell. Jesus it just does not bear thinking about.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:30

Did they name him?

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:34

He just said in the podcast 'she was twisted' bc they had a sunbed in the house. Really beyond the beyond of creepy.

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 05:38

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:34

He just said in the podcast 'she was twisted' bc they had a sunbed in the house. Really beyond the beyond of creepy.

Twisted? what does that mean?

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:45

Idk but it seems a statistical probability. I await the trial. It would be great to get justice, and afaik, Tina wasn't even considered as 'the disappeared'. I just hope they can find out what happened to her, for her family. And if she she came to harm by someone else, i hope they get stuck in prison and named and shamed.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:49

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 05:38

Twisted? what does that mean?

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I know. I didn't get it at all so it stuck with me. He just came across so badly. All manner of strangeness in the case. RIP Tina.

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 05:52

This is a copy and paste jobby from boards.ie:

Irish Times:
<i>The remains were found at about 9pm on Wednesday night by Garda scenes of crime examiners. They used kango hammers, pickaxes and shovels to break up and remove <b>a concrete floor in a stairwell on the ground floor of a three-storey house on Grattan Street after a cadaver dog got a scent through the concrete. <b>The homeowner is understood to have had a brick wall built beside the stairs to close off a side view to the stairwell. Gardaí believe the works were carried out shortly after Ms Satchwell’s disappearance <u>as it was noted when they searched the house in June 2017 as part of the investigation.</u></b> The construction of the sidewall after Ms Satchwell’s disappearance in March 2017 <b>was picked up by detectives carrying out a review of the investigation file in recent months.</b> It was one of the first areas a search team examined after entering the property on Tuesday. They found the decomposed body buried in earth almost a metre down…</i>

Irish Independent:
<i>The remains, understood to involve an almost complete skeleton, were found in an area underneath the stairwell. Gardaí had to carefully excavate the space, <b>which appeared to have been walled-in.</b></i>
And the cherry of incompetence on top, after previously confirming to the press they were searching Tina Satchwell’s home, the following quote is in today’s Irish Independent also:
<i><b>Gardaí said it was too early to speculate over the identity of the individual.</b> However, DNA cross-reference samples were on standby, and detectives hope to know by early today who the remains are.</i>

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:52

It wasnt twisted like twisted drunk like. It was just odd!

LargeSquareRock · 13/10/2023 05:56

I don’t understand. Why wasn’t a cadaver dog used in 2017? Surely that is basic policing when someone disappears in suspicious circumstances.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 05:56

@Neverinamonthofsundays thanks for the article. Grim stuff.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 06:00

LargeSquareRock · 13/10/2023 05:56

I don’t understand. Why wasn’t a cadaver dog used in 2017? Surely that is basic policing when someone disappears in suspicious circumstances.

Do you know? I have no idea whatsoever. It might shake us a bit into demanding what we expect from the gardaí.

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 06:08

Ah ok so it was only the sun naming him but theres a video online of him talking to the police at a bustop and funnily a man was arrested at a bustop for the murder so does not take a genius.

They have till noon today to arrest or let him go. I wonder how many times they can rearrest someone?

Neverinamonthofsundays · 13/10/2023 06:08

And yes I juct checked my own facts from above and he was a lorry driver at the time.

Chickenkeev · 13/10/2023 06:38

Sure we'll hear soon enough anyway!

AnImaginaryCat · 13/10/2023 06:44

LargeSquareRock · 13/10/2023 05:56

I don’t understand. Why wasn’t a cadaver dog used in 2017? Surely that is basic policing when someone disappears in suspicious circumstances.

If they knew about it at the time, so why didn't detectives to pick up that a sidewall was construction at the time? Maybe someone high up made the decision it didn't warrant being checked at the time, for whatever reason.

I've no idea how often Gardaí would look into unsolved cases. You'd imagine it's usually sparked by new information being given to them. (Rather than detectives just looking into it again.)

Whatever the reason was, it's terrible. Her poor family. RIP Tina.