Gardaí reopen cold case into murder after 25 years

Gardaí have reopened a 25-year-old case of the murder of an elderly widow in the hope of catching the killer who strangled her before torching her home.

The partly burned body of 79-year-old Nancy Smyth was discovered in her small cottage on Wolf Tone St in Kilkenny in Sep 1987 by firemen, who found her pet dog dead beside her.

In RTÉ’s Crimecall tonight, Ms Smyth’s nephew Des Murphy is pleading with the public to come forward with any information that could help solve his aunt’s murder.