The unsolved murder of Emer O’Loughlin

23 year old Emer O’Loughlin was found dead in a burned-out mobile
home in the Burren, Co Clare in April 2005. An inquest into her
death last week established – 20 years on - that another person
was involved in the young art student’s death.


Her sister Pam O’Loughlin has been campaigning for Gardaí to
treat Emer’s death as murder since the family learned in 2010
that she had been buried without a cause of death, her case
treated as accidental. A forensic examination at that time
established that she had been violently killed.


23 year old Emer’s last known movements were to borrow a phone
charger from neighbour John Griffin, a native of Mervue in Galway
city.


Griffin is the chief suspect in Emer’s death, but a series of
bizarre events culminated in his disappearance off the
island of Inis Mór.P am believes he faked his own death, and is
hiding somewhere in Europe.


In the years since Emer died, her mother has also passed away.
Now her family, including her elderly father Johnny, hope that
last week’s inquest may pave the way for a breakthrough in the
case.


Pam O'Loughlin is the guest on today’s episode of The Deirdre
O’Shaughnessy Podcast.


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