The 2 Best Mens Rea: A true crime Podcast Episodes
1) 6 – The Kerry Babies Murder & familial false confessions
In the year 1984, Ireland was a very different place. Contraception, Abortion and Divorce were illegal. The country was dogged by religious conservatism and was facing into a terrible recession. Amids...Show More
2) 91 - Pure Thuggery: The murders of Mariusz Szwajkos & Pawel Kalite
In February of 2008, two Polish men living and working in Drimnagh, South Dublin were killed in a fight outside their home. Both had been stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. It quickly emerged tha...Show More
3) Bonus - Tom & Kitty Fitzgerald
This episode was originally published asa Patreon exclusive on 12 Jan 2020.In 2016, shocking news broke that an elderly couple were found dead in their own home in rural Co Mayo, and a younger man was...Show More
4) Bonus - Satanic Panic in Palmerstown
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 December 2018In this episode we take a look at the little-known so-called "satanic" murder of John Horgan (7) in Palmerstown, Dublin i...Show More
5) Bonus - The Mysterious Death of Patrick Nugent
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 6 Oct 2019In the early hours of the 11th February, 1984, Patrick Nugent died in a car park in front of Bunratty Castle, Co Clare. There ...Show More
6) Bonus - Tina Cahill & the death of David Walsh
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 2 June 2019.This is our first bonus episode to take place outside of Ireland, but involves an Irish couple living and working in Austral...Show More
7) Bonus - Kilkenny City Cold Cases
This episode was originally published as a Patreon exclusive on 5 May 2019.Two women were murdered in the 1980's in Kilkenny. They were unconnected, and unsolved. It would be years before the two murd...Show More
8) Bonus - Eileen Costello O'Shaughnessy
This episode was initially released as a Patreon exclusive on 8th Sept 2019In November of 1997, Eileen O'Shaughnessy went to work as normal. She drove a taxi in Galway City, and was one of the few wom...Show More
9) Bonus - The Killing of Tom O'Gorman
This episode was first released as a Patreon exclusive on 7th October 2018This is the story of the shocking killing of Tom O'Gorman by his lodger, Sevario Bellante, who suffered from schizophrenia. Be...Show More
10) Bonus: Dolores McCrea
This Bonus episode was first published as a "Guilt Trip" episode on Patreon on 7th April 2019. Dolores McCrea married the man that she had met and fallen for while in Secondary School in Donegal. But ...Show More