The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast: The unsolved murder of Emer O’Loughlin

Pam O'Loughlin is the guest on today’s episode of The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast.

23-year-old Emer O’Loughlin was found dead in a burned-out mobile home in the Burren, Co Clare in April 2005. An inquest into her death last week established – 20 years on - that another person was involved in the young art student’s death.

Her sister Pam O’Loughlin has been campaigning for gardaí to treat Emer’s death as murder since the family learned in 2010 that she had been buried without a cause of death, her case treated as accidental. A forensic examination at that time established that she had been violently killed.

Emer’s last known movements were to borrow a phone charger from neighbour John Griffin, a native of Mervue in Galway city.

Griffin is the chief suspect in Emer’s death, but a series of bizarre events culminated in his disappearance off the island of Inis Mór. Pam believes he faked his own death, and is hiding somewhere in Europe.

In the years since Emer died, her mother has also passed away. Now her family, including her elderly father Johnny, hope that last week’s inquest may pave the way for a breakthrough in the case.

Pam O'Loughlin is the guest on today’s episode of The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast.