UNSOLVEDListenToormore, Goleen, County Cork, Ireland · 1990s
French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found beaten to death outside her holiday cottage near Toormore, West Cork, Ireland, on 23 December 1996; no one has been convicted in Ireland, though Ian Bailey was convicted of murder in absentia in France in 2019 and could not be extradited.
UNSOLVEDListenMoone, County Kildare — Jo Jo Dullard's last confirmed location · 1995
Josephine "Jo Jo" Dullard, a 21-year-old from Callan, County Kilkenny, disappeared on 9 November 1995 while hitchhiking home through Moone, County Kildare, after a final phone call in which she said she had just got a lift; her case, unsolved for more than thirty years, was upgraded to a murder investigation in 2020 and remains open.
UNSOLVEDListenChurch Street, Tullamore, County Offaly · 1996
Fiona Pender, a 25-year-old hairdresser and model who was seven months pregnant, disappeared from her home on Church Street in Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, on 23 August 1996. Neither she nor her unborn child has ever been found. The long-unsolved case was upgraded to a murder investigation in May 2025, but no one has been charged.
UNSOLVEDListenBallsbridge, Dublin, Ireland · 2000
Trevor Deely, a 22-year-old Dublin IT worker, vanished on foot in the early hours of 8 December 2000 after leaving his office Christmas party during a storm; CCTV captured an unidentified man near his last known sighting, and despite a reopened Garda investigation, a €100,000 reward, and renewed public appeals, he has never been found.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenNaas Dual Carriageway near Newlands Cross, Dublin · 1996
Irish investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who had reported extensively on organised crime, was fatally shot in a contract killing while stopped at traffic lights near Newlands Cross, Dublin, on 26 June 1996.
Credit: Peter WinterbachPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenDublin and Monaghan, Ireland · 1974
On 17 May 1974, the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force detonated four car bombs without warning in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 33 people and injuring almost 300 in the deadliest attack of the Troubles. The UVF publicly claimed responsibility in 1993; no one has ever been charged, and a 2003 Irish government inquiry concluded it was likely that British security force personnel had assisted the attack.
SOLVEDListenMelville Drive, Finglas, Dublin, Ireland · 2021
Jennifer Poole, a 24-year-old healthcare worker, was stabbed to death at her Finglas, Dublin apartment in April 2021 by her ex-partner, Gavin Murphy, who was later convicted of murder and given the mandatory life sentence.
SOLVEDListenChapel carpark, Doneyloop, County Donegal, Ireland · 2008
Andrew Burns, a man from Strabane, County Tyrone, was shot dead in a chapel carpark at Doneyloop, County Donegal, in February 2008, and one man was later convicted of his murder.
The files run from 1974 to 2022. The 1990s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Dublin and Monaghan bombings, from 1974.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (11), disappearance cases (4) and murder-for-hire and conspiracy cases (1).
10 files of the 15 have coverage attached: 10 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 6 creators. That Chapter, Danelle Hallan and Dr. Todd Grande have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Grangegorman penitentiary — Credit: Quasihuman at en.wikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Veronica Guerin — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
File:Field Near Coldblow - geograph.org.uk - 931415.jpg — Credit: Ian PatersonCC BY-SA 2.0Source
File:Firemen and police walk through Dublin bombing aftermath.jpg — Credit: Peter WinterbachPublic domainSource
15. By status: 7 unsolved, 1 ongoing and 7 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Dublin and Monaghan bombings, from 1974. Open the file
Killing of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (4 cases), Danelle Hallan (2 cases) and Dr. Todd Grande (1 case), among 6 creators in all.
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
