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In the foothills of the Dublin mountains, dog walker Magali Vernier is

a long hike.

She had permission from a land owner to go onto his private land, and she used

to let the dogs off their leads in this area.

Millie!

Millie!

Nearly enough!

She came across an area of bones including a rib cage and she thought

was probably a deer carcass.

Further in she found blue tracksuit bottoms and when she touched the

tracksuit bottoms with her foot She noticed that there was a shoe inside.

She sees me with an unusually large bone in her mouth.

It was absolutely harrowing.

Oh, my God.

These are not the remains of an animal.

They are bones from a human.

Can I help you, sir?

My daughter's nowhere to be found.

I know something terrible's happened because I talk to her every day.

What's her name?

Elaine.

Elaine O 'Hara.

Frank O 'Hara is facing every parent's worst nightmare.

Frank, tell us, please.

that his daughter, Elaine, had been missing for almost two days. Nobody had

and heard from her. He hadn't been able to contact her.

But can you describe her?

She's 36 years old.

She's the best daughter in the world.

She was about 5 '3", sort of melty, short hair.

Slightly on the heavier side, but she had lost weight.

And she was just genuinely nice when she was.

She did have some problems.

In what sort of problems?

Well... Elaine wasn't a real outgoing

social person, really.

She used to suffer from depression.

She used to self -harm a little bit. She never tried to hide it. She'd wear

short sleeves.

Her problems began in her mid -teens. She became withdrawn after experiencing

bullying and also one of her friends was killed in a car accident.

When she was about 16 years of age, she attempted suicide.

Her mother walked into the bathroom and she'd actually flashed her wrists.

She did have a very good and supportive family unit. Her parents got her help

straight away when she needed it.

Through her 20s, Elaine still struggles with depression and anxiety, but finds

light tutoring kids.

She was very involved with working with young children, and that was her passion

in life. She'd go to their house and help them with their homework, and she

striving to finish all her exams to become a kindergarten teacher.

She had a good way of actually relating to children. She found it more easier

actually to relate to children than she did to adults.

In 2001, Elaine lands her dream job as a childcare assistant in the same Dublin

elementary school where her mother works.

Oh, Mom, you're never going to believe what happened at school today.

I am so proud of you.

This is the happiest I've ever seen you.

Sadly, Elaine's mother is stricken with cancer and dies six months later.

Elaine's mother was a teacher and she was very close to Elaine, very

of Elaine.

And when Elaine's mother died, she felt it very hard.

She really missed her mother.

Her mother's death had a huge impact on her and her family.

After her mother's death, Elaine turns to her father, Frank, for love and

support.

Elaine was close to her father.

He was her only surviving parent, and she spoke to him every day. Hey, Dad.

Yes, thanks, darling.

Wow, you're really fixing the place up nice.

Thanks, Dad.

Elaine's father, Frank, not only gives her emotional support, he also helps buy

her a place to live.

Elaine did have money problems.

She was in some financial difficulty and had run into death.

I feel bad asking, but you always said I could come to you if I needed a loan.

Absolutely.

It's just the doctors and hospitals and meds.

It's a lot, you know. Darling, don't worry.

The money's yours.

We'll take care of everything.

Thanks, Dad.

Of course.

Despite her father's help, Elaine's troubles become too overwhelming to

It just seemed like she'd get to a level where the stress would build up in her

life and she knew when to seek help.

That summer, she checks into a psychiatric hospital.

Dad, I'm really scared.

Oh, darling.

I wish I could take your suffering away.

You're going to get better.

I love you. I love you, too.

Three weeks later, Elaine completes her treatment.

Yep, I'm free.

I was actually talking to her on the phone and she was all excited. She'd

got out of hospital and she was on a high.

It's like I was taped.

I know.

I'll see you at the festival tomorrow.

She was talking about going to Tall Ships. She was going to be a guide for

tourists and she was really looking forward to it. Oh, I gotta go.

Bye.

Dad.

I missed you.

I missed you.

Elaine was discharged from the hospital at about lunchtime on August the 22nd.

Several hours after leaving the hospital, Elaine and Frank visit her

grave.

It's okay, darling.

She's with us every day.

I know.

I'm going to go, Dad.

The festival's tomorrow.

Okay.

Love you, Dad.

Love you, dear.

Call me when you're back.

I want to hear about it.

The next day, Frank hears Elaine was a no -show at the festival.

Frank tried to contact Elaine on her phone and there was no answer.

Now, he had a key to her apartment, so he let himself in because he was really

worried.

Elaine!

You're here.

He was expecting her to be there, but there was no sign of her anywhere.

What does surprise him is he sees her phone at that time.

Then when Frank hadn't heard from Elaine by that night, he sent what he

described as an ironic text to her, which said, are you alive? There was no

response to that text message.

The next morning, there's still no word from Elaine.

So Frank and his friend, Sheila Hawkins, start to investigate.

Anything?

I sent this yesterday.

I'm going to go check your room.

Nothing had changed at all since the day before.

What he noticed for the first time was her handbag was still there.

was very unusual.

That in itself said that she didn't have any money with her.

She would never leave her phone in bag.

Sheila Hawkins placed her hand into a laundry basket and she found a latex

bodysuit.

She said that she recoiled at the oily, rubbery texture of it. The latex would

be quite common in the practice of BDFM.

Find anything in there?

No. Nothing, Frank.

Nothing.

She decided not to tell Elaine's dad because he was in such a distressed

This would only add to it.

Sheila's discovery begs the question, was Elaine keeping secrets?

Elaine!

I'm going to go check your room.

Two days after 36 -year -old Elaine O 'Hara vanishes, her family scours her

apartment for clues.

After finding her phone, a bondage suit and mask, they're certain something is

very wrong.

At that stage, Frank O 'Hara was very worried.

Frank contacted the hospital, St. Edmundsbury, where...

Elaine had been an inpatient to find out if she had checked herself back in, and

she wasn't there.

Frank then goes to his wife's grave, where he spots Elaine's car.

He noticed that inside her car there was cigarettes, a lighter, and most notably

there was a charger for a different kind of phone.

They only knew Elaine to have the iPhone that was actually left back in her

apartment.

With her car being found at Shangana Cemetery, where her mother was buried,

with her history of psychological problems, and Shangana Cemetery

is on the sea, Frank O 'Hara was concerned that she might have taken her

life there.

So on August 24th, 2012, the police issue a missing persons report for

'Hara. You'd only talked to the person a couple of days before that, and

suddenly they've disappeared.

It was terribly, terribly sad.

I rang, but her phone just went directly to message monitor.

So I just left a message saying, you know, people are worried about you. Can

give somebody a ring just to let them know you're okay?

Police first look at surveillance footage taken outside Elaine's home.

Hello. There she goes.

The police were able to see that she arrived home at 4 .29 p .m.

Skip ahead a bit.

Well, there she is.

They again see her leaving at 5 .05 p .m.

Elaine was wearing a blue hoodie, navy tracksuit bottoms and white shoes.

That's weird.

She had told her father that she was hoping to go home and get some rest

she had a big day tomorrow with the 12 Ships Festival.

Nobody knew that she would be leaving the house again.

Wait a minute.

What's that?

Didn't her family say she had an iPhone?

That's strange.

That doesn't look like any iPhone I've ever seen.

This was not a phone her family were aware that she had.

Nobody had ever contacted her on any other number than her iPhone.

A week after Elaine's disappearance, police returned to the place where her

was found, a large wooded area surrounded by both a cemetery and a

They canvassed the area and showed photographs to people using the park,

if they recalled seeing her the previous week.

Hello there.

I've seen this girl.

Yeah, I have actually. Yeah.

One man recognised her. Did you talk to her?

Um, briefly.

She was walking through here and she asked me did I know where the railway

bridge was.

Hey, do you know where the railway bridge is?

Um, I've no idea actually, sorry.

She was actually really rude. She just asked me and then just like took off.

Was she alone?

Yes, she was, yeah.

She seemed sad to you or maybe suicidal?

God, I don't know. She was just very preoccupied in her head.

He thought she appeared quite distracted and maybe a little bit upset, maybe in

some kind of distress.

Thanks, sir. No problem. That jogger, Connor Guilfoyle, was the last known

person to see Elaine alive.

With no more leads or evidence, police believe Elaine may have taken her own

life. by walking into the ocean.

As the months went on, we kind of reminded her that, the fact that that's

had happened. It was awful to think that she had taken her own life.

For the next 13 months, Elaine's name remains on a missing persons list.

Police get nowhere until September 10, 2013, at a reservoir 15 miles

south of where Elaine was last seen.

Every drunk night's a good night. All right. Well, make sure... Next one.

Are you all right?

Oh, I'm fine. Ah, you be grand. Let's wash your hands. Watch them in the

there.

Hey, what's that?

Oh, it's what?

Something under those leaves there.

Something under here?

Oi. My bag. My bag.

And the men fished out a ball gag, a blindfold, leg shackles, cuffs,

and a bondage collar.

That one's yours, isn't it?

They had a little bit of a laugh at it. They were pretty unusual items to find.

They just left the items there overnight.

But one of the men had a feeling, a bad feeling about it.

So the next morning he went back and he took the items to the local police

station in Roundwood.

Officer James O'Donoghue processes the contents of the bag.

He believes the sex toys could be connected to something far more

He immediately treated it as if it was evidence. He made efforts to actually

draw out the different items and he took it upon himself to go back and search

the reservoir.

A shiny object. He went and placed his hand in and he pulled out a set of keys.

On the set of keys was a supermarket loyalty card.

Yes, this is Officer O'Donoghue. I need an ID check on a loyalty card.

From that, they were able to identify these keys belonged to Elaine O 'Hara.

Elaine O 'Hara, thank you.

I need a name check on Elaine O 'Hara.

Officer O'Donoghue has unwittingly stumbled upon the identity of a long

woman. Elaine O 'Hara has been missing for over a year.

It was an absolute miracle in a case with absolutely no leads for 13 months.

Suddenly, he was able to match that number with the owner, Elaine O 'Hara.

We're going to need to talk.

Two days later, about 15 miles north from where the sex toys were found in

reservoir...

Oh, my God.

Police get a 911 call from dog walker Magali Vernier.

Investigators came and they recovered 60 to 65 % of remains of a human they

didn't know if it was male or female at that point.

We've got some clothes.

I won't know until I get it back to the lab.

Bag it up.

All right.

So they begin comparing the remains to missing persons throughout Dublin.

A jawbone was found at the scene, and it was compared with Elaine O 'Hara's

records, and it was an exact match.

I'll get it.

Elaine O 'Hara's family had just begun to move on. May we come in?

What happened?

We've been waiting here for over a year.

It wasn't a suicide, was it?

No, sir.

We believe she was murdered.

And none of them expected the knock on the door from the police telling them

that foul play was now suspected.

What good are you?

Very sorry, sir.

This news was a huge shock to them.

It was awful to think that something so terrible could have happened to somebody

that you were close to.

It's been a story that has gripped the nation and grabbed the headlines since a

young woman's remains were found in the Dublin Mountains.

Elaine O 'Hara parked her car here at Shangana Cemetery and it would be fatal.

News of Elaine's murder causes a frenzy of fear throughout the country.

Let me show you what I have here, Chief.

The hunt to catch her killer kicks into high gears.

You have two massive breakthroughs in different parts of the country.

On the one hand, you had remains of Elaine O 'Hara that had been identified,

on the other hand, you had Elaine's possessions found, and so the two

investigations merged instantly.

Now, I know this is a bit of a long shot. We have...

I've got power.

Here come the tax.

I can't believe what I'm seeing here. Oh my God.

The text messages that they retrieved from them revealed a really, really dark

relationship and somebody who was controlling the owner's mind.

It's crazy.

Like that. Got each bone.

A week after Irish authorities unearthed the remains of 36 -year -old Elaine O

'Hara, they recovered thousands of violent text messages.

from two mysterious cell phones.

Despite the phones having been underwater for 13 months, an awful lot

evidence was garnered from those two handsets.

There's a lawsuit.

The texts paint a horrifying picture.

Elaine was engaged in a dangerous sadomasochistic relationship over

years.

Elaine did confide in me that she was seeing a married man and he wasn't being

very nice to her.

And I advised her, look, get the hell out of that, you're worse more than

I never asked her again after it and I regret that.

All the awful stuff that came out was not the Elaine that I have known and

all the rest of us in the shop knew.

The text message, it was disgusting.

It was absolutely shocking.

On one phone, the only contact.

was saved as SLV, which is the word slave without the vowels.

On the other phone, the only contact saved was MSTR, which is master without

the vowels.

I don't think Elaine had very much confidence in herself.

She was a prime target for somebody to groom.

The master wanted to...

Dab women, rape women, and murder women for sexual gratification.

Are they also time stamped as well? Yeah, I've got time, date, everything.

In the year leading up to Elaine's disappearance, the relationship

It was really a constant barrage of abuse and pressure.

When she tried to withdraw from the relationship, he dangled the prospect of

day having a baby with her to reel her back in.

The master told Elaine that she had to help him find somebody to kill.

She loved children, loved working with children. She wanted a child.

Master was putting pressure on Slave to find him someone to kill.

Is it possible that Elaine failed to find Master a suitable victim and he

her?

It's possible. Or could there be more women out there, hmm?

But who is this sick bastard?

Who is Master?

Okay, get a trace on that phone.

He had to have bought it somewhere.

That Fitzgerald. Go through every line of those texts.

Tooth and nail.

And you'll find there's something to break this case open here.

We've got work to do. Come on.

Two weeks after Elaine's remains are found, police get a hit on Master's

He bought this phone on Grafton Street in Dublin.

He did give a name and address when he bought this phone, but he gave the name

Karun Kaithong.

They can't find anyone of that exact name, but they find one that's very

similar.

Police call a man in for questioning.

His name, Gordon Chisholm.

So, you like to dominate vulnerable young women now, do you?

What are you talking about? We know all about the ball gag.

Blood turning you on?

That's thick.

Whatever it is you're referring to, I got nothing to do with it.

He knew nothing about Elaine O 'Hara or the investigation.

He had a work alibi for all of the days in question.

Having hit another dead end, the task force focuses on the thousands of

Master sent Elaine over the years.

You guys should come.

And glean a few vague clues to his identity.

Of course.

Maybe. Maybe we will.

I'd love to. Excuse me?

Got to take this.

We could have a great time.

I'd be glad to.

Hi. Job's getting me down lately.

Bunch of you.

But I can't complain.

I think it's you're now a daddy again.

Thanks for last night there.

We really needed it.

Yes, beautiful baby girl may have born.

They were able to narrow down what baby girls were born on that date, which

would have given them a...

as sort of a short list.

Glad you enjoyed the other night.

Many more sessions to come.

By the way, I came in fifth in the flying competition.

I knew you could do it.

He mentioned the fact that he had just come fifth in a flying competition, so

they wondered were they dealing with a pilot.

See you sometime over the weekend.

Leave everything dark.

Be naked in bed, pretending to be in deep sleep.

Dinner's ready.

The investigators cross -reference pilots' licenses with babies born on

date, but they quickly hit a wall.

Pilots don't have flying competitions, so that was confusing for them.

Here's the thing.

If he's not a pilot, what sort of flying could he be doing?

Wait.

What if it's someone who flies model airplanes?

The police did some research into the members of Flying Club who might match

the description that they were seeking.

I'll call you back.

Married, with a baby, fifth place.

They found out that a person had come fifth in a flying competition in a

club near where items were discovered in the Varturi Reservoir and that this

person was also the father of the baby born on the day that that text message

was sent to Elaine O 'Hara.

This is our guy.

14 months after Elaine O 'Hara's remains are discovered in the Dublin mountains,

police believe they found the killer.

Are you Mrs. Dwyer?

Yes. May we come in?

We'd like to speak with your husband.

What's it about?

Is he here?

Graham?

Graham Dwyer?

Yes, what's going on?

We have an arrest warrant, sir, for the murder and mutilation of Elaine O 'Hara.

What are you talking about?

Just come with me now, sir.

Graham Dwyer appears to be the exact opposite of a person under suspicion for

sadomasochistic murder.

Graham Dwyer was a 41 -year -old man who was working as an architect. He was

living in Dublin's most expensive suburb, Fox Rock.

He moved to Dublin in the early 90s to attend college.

He later married a fellow architect called Gemma and they had two children

together. The couple was featured in the Irish Times when they fixed up a

cottage together.

He looked so normal. It just was weird. He could have been the man next door.

It's just a misunderstanding.

I'll call the lawyer right now.

Ma 'am.

Let's go.

Investigators then seized all Graham Dyer's computers from his home and from

workplace, so all the electronic equipment was taken.

So tell me about Elaine O 'Hara.

Elaine O 'Hara.

Elaine O 'Hara. Yeah, sure, I

knew her.

I met her on a website.

That be a BDSM or Domination website?

Yes. Graham Dwyer admitted to investigators that he had known Elaine,

said it was only by email. He claimed that he thought she committed suicide

everybody else did.

I never met her in person.

I was just trying to help her.

Really? Well, we have some text messages from you to Elaine that indicate

otherwise. A lot of otherwise.

I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am turned on.

Blood turns me on.

And I would love to... stab a girl to death sometime.

Who would send text messages like that? It's sick and vile.

Lads, you're way off.

You're way off there.

The police put it to him that he was the owner of the master phone.

He said, you've got this totally wrong. It's not me. I tried to help her.

So you never killed anyone?

No. Why would I do that? I got a family. I got a career.

You're looking in the wrong place.

No, I think we're looking in exactly the right place, Mr. Dwyer.

Well, look again.

Now that police have taken Graham Dwyer into custody, they dig deeper into his

past.

Starting with a previous girlfriend, Sarah Murphy.

When investigators spoke to this lady, they established that he was a very

frightening person from her point of view.

Remember when I said I wanted to spice things up a bit?

What did you have in mind?

I don't think so.

I won't hurt you, I promise.

Well, you can have it, but leave it over there.

Okay, all right, we'll start with that.

He confided in her that he had an interest in knives, and he wanted to

a knife into their sexual life.

And from that point on, he did bring a knife into the bedroom.

What are you doing?

I told you to leave that...

Just playing with it.

Sick.

Sarah eventually ends their relationship, but Graham doesn't know

for an answer.

When the relationship ended, he started intimidating and stalking her.

Investigators go through Elaine's apartment again, looking for evidence

Dwyer. A couple of cuts down here.

There's one there. Here.

Let's get some pictures of these.

When they examined Elaine's mattress in her apartment, they discovered there was

actually a number of puncture wounds in the mattress.

They found semen on the mattress. They extracted a DNA profile from this, and

that matched Graham Dwyer's DNA profile.

Despite circumstantial evidence, Graham Dwyer insists he's innocent, but his

computer says otherwise.

Hello, slave.

I know you want pain.

There were over 30 video clips found on his electronic devices.

These included videos of himself, one where he appeared to dab himself.

Oh, my God.

This man is a maniac.

But we've since learned he put tomato ketchup on himself afterwards.

There's more.

More?

There were also videos of him engaged in sex acts with four different women. He

was seen to be stabbing these women during sex acts.

And the woman who featured most often was Elaine O 'Hara.

Submit, slave.

Submit to your punishment.

It was really, truly horrifying, actually, what they found on a couple of

hard drives.

It seemed that there were two completely different sides to Graham Dwyer.

The public persona, the family man, and then this other man, this monster.

We have him.

We have him. This is what we need.

What's our next move, Chief?

Our next move is we keep him. He doesn't leave this building.

You're looking in the wrong place.

No, I think we're looking in exactly the right place, Mr. Dwyer. Well, look

again.

Dublin architect Graham Dwyer claims he had nothing to do with the murder of

Elaine O 'Hara.

But then, investigators discover a treasure trove of deviants on his

There's you having sex with her.

That is you, laddie, isn't it?

I had a relationship with her.

But I didn't kill her.

When investigators asked Graham Dwyer if he was the owner of the master phone,

he denied all knowledge.

You don't get it, sir, do you?

They're going away for a long time.

I didn't tell her.

Bye, Mr. Dwyer.

From his jail cell, Dwyer writes his wife.

begging her to believe him.

He told her he hadn't killed Elaine O 'Hara, whom he described as that awful

woman. He said that he had helped Elaine O 'Hara.

He said he should have told Gemma about her, but swore he did not murder her.

After the evidence about Graham Dora came out, his wife just...

He had been leading a secret life. You know, this was not the man she knew.

By the time Graham Dwyer is put on trial for murder, the case dominates front

pages in Ireland.

This case was huge when it went to trial. It attracted huge media attention

hundreds of onlookers.

I would never have covered anything like it, and I've covered a lot of criminal

trials.

This case was the biggest trial this country has ever seen because Graham

had everything. He had no reason, you know, to take this route.

Based on the extensive circumstantial evidence, police believe they know what

happened to Elaine O 'Hara.

To trick police into thinking Elaine's depression caused her to commit suicide.

Dwyer pounces the day she leaves the psychiatric hospital.

He had ordered her to leave her phone that she had every day. He had ordered

to leave that at home.

He had told her to meet him at Shangana Cemetery.

He told her to leave her car there, which she did. He gave her specific

instructions of where to go when she got there.

You know where the railway bridge is?

No idea, actually. Sorry.

She did get lost and she did ask that jogger for directions.

She was walking to her death.

She was walking straight to her death.

I've got all our toys, slave.

Master, you really want to do this all the way up here?

In the last week or so of her life, Grandoir asked, does anybody know about

if anything happens to you?

And she assured him that nobody knew about him. And he said, good, let's keep

that way.

He took her up.

the mountain to kill a key and he carried out his lifelong fantasy of

woman to death.

She must have been so frightened. She must have been just so scared.

Because no matter what, Elaine would never ever have wanted that to happen.

Two people went up the mountain. One person came back. That person was Graham

Dwyer.

After stabbing her, he drove to another county where he knew there was a

reservoir because it was near where he was a member of a flying club and he

threw the evidence into the reservoir and he thought that that reservoir would

keep his secrets.

The day he killed Elaine O 'Hara, he went back home to his wife like nothing

happened. Hi, love.

Sorry I'm late, love.

He went into work the next day like nothing happened. He continued on in his

life, totally as he did before.

Were it not for a very unusually dry and warm summer in Ireland and the

reservoir level going from 20 feet to 18 inches,

Were it not for the diligence of a local police officer and for a

curious dog, Elaine O 'Hara might still be assumed to have taken

her own life.

Oh, my God.

After 40 days of testimony and seven and a half hours of deliberations, the jury

delivers a unanimous guilty verdict against.

Graham Dwyer.

He is sentenced to life in prison.

Graham Dwyer is the most evil murderer that Ireland has ever known.

It was a great relief when he was found guilty of murder.

You were happy that Elaine got justice.

You were happy for Elaine's family.

It was just so sad that somebody so vulnerable, so lonely, would have been

preyed upon by such a...

Dark, dangerous man.

If Elaine was here, I'd say to her, you deserved a hell of a lot better than

what you thought.

I hope she's happy and healthy wherever she is.

She's watching out on us.