One murder, 25 years, no killer ...

The 79-year-old widow Nancy Smyth was strangled in her home in 1987.

The case is being reinvestigated in hope of finally catching the culprit, says Richard Fitzpatrick

NANCY SMYTH was 79 years of age when she was strangled to death. She was 4’ 9” and lived alone in the corner house of a street in Kilkenny city. Her husband had died the previous December, nine months before her murder in the early hours of Friday, Sept 11, 1987.