Clues say killer knew Marie

AMID the gruesome circumstances of Marie Kilmartin’s murder, there were some clues.

These clues pointed to a murder that was planned, a killer who had local knowledge and, perhaps, a killer who knew her.

Unlike many of the other missing women in the Leinster-midlands area in the 1990s, gardaí located Marie’s body. On June 10, 1994, six months after she disappeared from her Portlaoise home, Marie’s body was found hidden in a bog, 18km outside the town.