{"id":613828,"date":"2026-09-04T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613828\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:52:10","slug":"raonaid-murray-gardai-ask-witness-who-provided-alibi-for-suspected-killer-to-come-forward-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/613828\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonaid Murray: Garda\u00ed ask witness who provided alibi for suspected killer to come forward \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have issued a renewed appeal for a potentially key witness to come forward who may help to find the killers of teenager Raonaid Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Murray (17) was last seen alive at about 11.20pm on Friday, September 3rd, 1999, when she made her way home from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dun-laoghaire\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dun-laoghaire\/\">D\u00fan Laoghaire<\/a> town centre. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She had been socialising with a friend of hers before walking what would have been a 15-minute journey to her home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She never made it and her body was found at Silchester Crescent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/glenageary\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/glenageary\/\">Glenageary<\/a>, at 12.33am the next day, a short distance from her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">She had been stabbed four times with a sharp knife. Despite her injuries, she managed to stumble towards her home before collapsing. She later died from her injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Garda\u00ed have taken 4,500 witness statements in the intervening years. Twelve suspects were arrested and released without charge, but the motivation for the murder has never been established.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In their renewed appeal, garda\u00ed called on a witness who may have given an alibi for the suspected killer to come forward. \u201cYou may be unknowingly shielding a killer,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At the time of the original investigation, an eyewitness came forward to state she had seen a young man who appeared to be pestering a woman who matched the description of Murray at the top of Corrig Avenue, but nothing came of that lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Because of the Garda investigation, an inquest into her death was not carried out until 2013. A jury at the Dublin Coroner\u2019s Court returned a verdict of unlawful killing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The postmortem found she had died following shock and blood loss due to a stab wound in the left armpit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Her family have never given up hope of finding her killer and renew their annual appeal every year. A Garda statement said the force was still attempting to solve the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Many of those who were the same age as Murray then are parents now. \u201cWe would ask them to reflect now with the benefit of maturity and hindsight on any information that may be of assistance to the investigation,\u201d said the force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe solving of this murder is of the utmost priority for An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and any information received will be treated with absolute confidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have issued a renewed appeal for a potentially key witness to come forward who may help to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,16089,1346,1968,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-613828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-dun-laoghaire","tag-garda-siochana","tag-glenageary","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}