The Case of Graham Dwyer

[Music] hey you and welcome my name is Mike and in this old video we're gonna look at a case that was it was pretty big in Ireland but not so big well really anywhere else the case of Elaine O'Hara and Graeme Dwyer this happened in 2012 and is heavily based in like yeah the good old BDSM stuff so so that's something to look forward to we're also gonna look at some tickity texts that are not so nice so look forward to that also and what happened when Elaine O'Hara disappeared [Music] so I guess we should begin with what happened to Elaine O'Hara Elaine was born in Dublin in 1976 on st. Patrick's Day no less growing up she was bullied quite a lot at school resulting in her developing a number of mental health issues and having to be hospitalized in psychiatric care she would later be diagnosed with depression borderline personality disorder was suffering at the same time from asthma and diabetes at 26 years olds in 2002 her mother died and later her doctor also died her doctor was actually a fella by the name of Anthony Claire who was pretty well known back in the day and far every minor ailment we drink gallons of cough mixture [Music] for your complaints and your doctor may prefer other treatments like exercise a healthier diet or a change in living HAP's she was actually quite close with her doctor why that's why that's worth mentioning because obviously she had to go see your doctor quite a bit from those issues I just told you about so these two things unsurprisingly did not help her very much I don't know how many people they do help but she took it worse than most living in South Dublin she was a lonely woman she worked as a childcare assistant and also part-time at a local shop and as she was taking night classes in childcare hoping and dreaming to become a Montessori teacher so I guess all of that kind of raises up to when she went missing which is the point of the story 36 year-old Elaine O'Hara disappeared from her home on August 22nd 2012 now it was first thought that she disappeared while volunteering at the Tall Ships races that were ending in Dublin around that time she had been planning to volunteer at them and they were kind of a big deal but when the police were alerted and began investigating her home they found as they always do her purse and phone at home however what was weird was that when the police were viewing the CCTV cameras you know of her apartment building they saw her leaving the apartment and like at the door of the building with a different phone in her paws a mystery phone I wonder if that will be important later who knows we'll see she was last seen by a jogger in Shangaan a park at 5:40 p.m. asking for directions chingada Park is about 15 minutes by car away from her home now in Schengen a park is Schengen a cemetery where Elaine's mother was buried a woman fitting Elaine's description was seen there crying loudly beside an old grave which is creepy as [ __ ] the woman who saw her in Shangaan a cemetery said she couldn't positively identify it as Elaine she couldn't see her face she only saw her from behind but said that she was a biggish girl who was not recently bereaved now the police did find her car in that part and it was assumed there's cliffs tenders dangerous cliffs in Shangaan a park it was assumed that she had jumped to her death given her mental health history history of self-harm and earlier in the day she went missing she had actually been released from a psychiatric hospital after she entered one for having suicidal thoughts so seemed to fit but they found nobody finally you're also looking for help in trying to track down a missing person yeah Alaina O'Hara she's been missing for just over a month now she went missing on the 22nd of August we have found Elaine's Cara but it hasn't given us any clues as to lanes where votes at the moment she's worth five foot four she's 36 years of age and it would remain that way for over a year so this is when things go up a notch [Music] over a year after Elaine O'Hara's mysterious disappearance in August 2013 three men in virtue reservoir found a bag in the water now the summer of 2013 was a long haul one which is weird for Ireland and so the water in the reservoir was lower than usual that's how they found the bag riichi reservoir is my 30 minutes by car from Elaine's house inside the bag they found FO canal handcuffs clothes a ball gag and restraints it was an extremely jolly somewhere and the reservoir levels are dictated to Boyd wetter and the water useful in Dublin so exam is the lowest I had ever encountered it and then eventually I snagged a prior to the rope and pulled up the rope and there was a couple sets of handcuffs and leg restraints Allison next thing we found the mask good it was just a letter strap basically that went around the camera around this way and then down and there was a ball that's placed in your mouth saucy alerting the police to this cuz they found this stuff and were like maybe someone was having a bit of fun but it was kind of weird gave the guys one of the guys who found it he put it in his van and he's like here's me kind of an odd feeling so he alerted the Irish police the Guardi and then they caught by the reservoir and did some diggin of their own and what did they find well more handcuffs he's a leather mask and knife and an inhaler they also found a supermarket loyalty card which turned out to be Elaine's there helped attract it to being Elaine's buy they basically following the barcode and they would also later find in the same reservoir two mobile phones a pair of glasses and sunglasses matching Elaine's prescription and a rucksack the items were handed in by William vegan Angela September 2014 party party party these items consisted of loading handcuffs slip shackles and the number of adult perforated I returned to the reservoir of myself on the 12th the following day after contacting mr. vegan to ascertain the exact location of his find on returning that day I was unable to see any items that were visible from the bridge in the reservoir I burned again on the 14th of September again I could not observe any items that would have been in the water furthermore I returned on the 16th of September on this day the weather conditions were far more favorable and I was able to observe a number of items are examples of an item in the water which was what I recognized to be a part of a set of handcuffs partially submerged I find out as I had done the previous day to dress for bed and in this location I entered the reservoir to look for the items I retrieve the number of items so seems pretty obvious someone was dumping evidence in the reservoir to hide their tracks no diggity no doubt and one more thing it's probably important to note actually because this is how they found her body toward the end of August 2013 I ran the same time those tree lads found Elaine's stuff in the reservoir a dog trainer would regularly take her dogs for walks in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains really not far from where Elaine lived so this woman would take her dogs out and they'd be out running around exploring having a grand old time and those dogs would bring back bones to the dog trainer yeah at first the woman thought you know these bones they were animal bones deer bones perhaps that dogs are just fighting and bringing back so she didn't think anything of it and this went on for a couple of weeks until one day in red early September a dog brought a bone back was rominger ran through the forests of the mountains the bone had a bit of clothing on it either the deer were having a fancy dress party where that ain't no deer exploring the area the remains of Elaine O'Hara were found though there wasn't much a few scattered bits and pieces jaw bone rib cage she had been there for 13 months the Guardi were then contacted and they only found two turds of her body animals had taken the rest she was identified through dental records human skeletal remains were discovered here in a wooded area at killakee mountain near at Farnham in South Dublin on Friday evening by a woman out walking her dog so holy [ __ ] you might say man so we got one of them murders on our hands and the investigation done begun the Guardian that Elaine had been visiting a BDSM web site for five years before she disappeared under the username tree me wasn't not me that's not her name [ __ ] hers was called helped me learn 38f and she'd been linked to another account architect 72 and the police would discover who was behind the profile of architect 72 it would turn out to be a man named Graeme Dwyer who was actually shockingly he was an architect if you can believe it I know what are the odds his job would would match his his profile username small world architect Graeme Dwyer from opperman associates Graham specializes in computer 3d perspective so tell me your inspiration for the room well the challenge here was to create an individual look around a standard white bathroom suite so the approach I took was a modern one using simple geometry and color for effect yet the first thing I noticed this is this amazing wool is it a wall to the wall to the wall brilliant indeed yeah yes you can you can crush lino into any shape to suit your design excellent the mirror is quite unusual in that it has lights in it great so frame I see why they pay you the big books exactly great he was a couple of years older than Elaine brug car by he was married and had three children he was a director an architect firm and enjoyed the high life but was deep in debt as a result of D 2008 crash and it turned out him an Elaine have been partaking in the L BDSM lifestyle as you do but like hardcore you can see where this is going bondage violence and knives they had a relationship from 2007 that ended late 2008 but began again in 2011 with a text from Graeme that said this is an old friend we used to play together and I miss it terribly would love to catch up [ __ ] this dude Alain replied I'm not into blood anymore but he sure was violent homemade sex videos and fragments of emails were retrieved from both their laptops in some videos he was having sex with her while she was gagged and he was stabbing her yikes they also found videos of him doing stuff like that to other women so analyzing more of the CCTV from Elaine's apartment complex the police noticed the man visiting her apartment numerous times a week before Elaine's disappearance he spoiler alert - it was Green was spotted with the same backpack found in the reservoir the gardial found splooge in Elaine's bed that would later be links to one Graeme Dwyer by old d-n-a don't know why I said it like that and it turns out that the mystery phone Alain was seen with when she was leaving her apartment complex you know that wasn't her regular phone was her master/slave phone exciting recovered texts from the two phones that were found in the reservoir they was nasty it showed how he was extremely manipulative to a vulnerable person like Elaine on his violence it was only going one way Oh unfortunately for one person who was into knives and blood play so much he didn't just kill himself for the ultimate sexual experience I know right weird what didn't you think about so let's go true some texts shall we I don't really want to but I feel like I should show you guys what happened Graeme or rather master I want to stick my tongue okay I'm actually gonna start this again but I'm gonna add some funny music because this is just disturbing I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am sexually aroused I would like to stop a girl to death sometime still dying to knife someone stab stab rape kill it will all be worth it when I kill you smiley face I'm your secret killer my urge to rape stab or kill is huge you have to help me control or satisfy it Elaine would respond if she only wanted a loving relationship a baby and not to be you know stabbed not to be stabbed anymore I'm a person I have dignity frame responded not when you're chained up you don't if anything happened to you who knows about me you will have stab wounds you know the drill last few did not bleed these will so The Guardian all of this stuff on their laptops and put handcuffs on Graham funnily enough he initially said Elaine I'm racking my brains no idea you talking about sorry then he would admit that he did know Elaine and they had a relationship but he didn't kill her he swore he didn't kill her that's not me walking out the police disagreed and he was never granted bail though Graham's wire didn't speak during the brief hearing because he's facing a charge of murder an application for bail will have to be made to the High Court as the district court does not have the jurisdiction to grant a judge Bridget Riley remanded Graham Dwyer in custody to appear again at Clover Hill District Court this day week and they actually spent some more sick [ __ ] on the laptops his laptop especially short stories that he wrote about him travelling to Newcastle in the United Kingdom and stabbing a woman there and another one that was titled killing Darcy Darcy was well is a real person Darcy day who lived in Maine USA he had met her on the internet and offered to kill her she had struggled with suicidal thoughts at the time and well unfortunately I ran this time she ran into this big old piece of [ __ ] who wanted to kill her for fun but about 8:00 tonight and about nine months now nine months ago I got a knock on my door from a detective from the major crimes unit and apparently one of the men that I talked to online ended up being suspected of murdering that he was acquainted with and I am now a key witness in a murder trial and in another two to three weeks I have to take the stand and give my testimony against alleged killer first I just want to start off by I want to pray for this man and I want you all to pray for the family of this woman who was murdered and lord I just pray that they reach into this man's heart you just you know please change him Heavenly Father she didn't die in spoilers and the trial began in January 2015 the defense said there's nothing linking him to her actual death her buddy well skeleton it had no cause of death and she was suicidal so there's that they kind of the defense kind of just kept saying you know um she just killed herself yeah how's he do by dumping all her stuff in a reservoir and then killing yourself 30 minutes away while leaving your car another 30 minutes away right they said yeah sure he talked about killing her and stabbing her a lot but come on he was just playing around there's no way that you know if that's what actually ended up hopping to her that's you know he actually meant those things that's just a coinkidink he would never actually do it the prosecution said that the evidence pointed to a plan by Graham to commit and get away with murder he had used Elaine's low self-esteem to manipulator and he had a desire to kill they said Elaine was not a willing participant in sexual violence she repeatedly expressed her wish not to be stabbed and not to be beaten by him she only wanted companionship loved and ultimately a child knowing that she had recently been released from psychiatric hospital Graham lured her to Shunyata Park got her in the car and took her to the mountains murdered her I thought that if she ever would be discovered well like the defense said they would just assume it was a suicide but his attempt to conceal the relationship he had with Elaine by dumping all their [ __ ] in the reservoir was [Music] kind of enough to prove that he knew what he was doing so there's that in March 2015 a Graeme Dwyer was convicted in a unanimous verdict and he was sentenced to life in prison which in Ireland actually only about 18 years it ranged from the diligent work of dinner around the Guardian to retake it's a comprehensive approach adopted by the investigation team and back off this case would grounded the expert evaluation that expert evaluation and use of data in both the investigative process and the transversus the investigation reflected the era of information technology and does it marriage detail and sometimes the news information derived from fundamental policing for a number of people and will affect for many years but today my thoughts with the thoughts of the entire investigation team with your family personally I can only hope that no family would ever have to you Franco I and he found me so after trial was all done and dusted it wasn't quite over and this part is actually continuing to this day seeing 20 18 grained wire actually won a legal battle against the Irish state the Cardiac cess in his film was a key part of putting this [ __ ] away but it was against European Union law the right to privacy and their attention of data so the long and short of it is a court ruled that Irish legislation which allows data from mobile phones to be retained and accessed is against EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights because you don't need a court order to review it essentially it comes down to there was an incompatibility of Irish law with European Union law and the case has recently and when I say recently I mean in 2020 been referred to the European Union Court of Justice so I'm not sure if that means he could actually be released in prison because even though they proved he killed her they'd gotten any information oh it's not good so I feel sick after all that and you know during the trial a number of witnesses actually came forward female witnesses who said yeah Graeme did similar stuff to them - the murder person but he was uh he was on the road to killing probably multiple people if you hadn't actually been caught there could be a lot more women in the Dublin Mountains which is not good I need a drink after all that I'm sure you do too but thankfully when I'm posting this it's putties day so I'll drink to that thank you so so much for watching I really really appreciate it I will see you as always real soon in the next video take care of yourselves Mike you [Music] you [Music]

Channel: That Chapter

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Keywords: that chapter, elaine o'hara, graham dwyer, graham dwyer supreme court, graham dower documentary, elaine o'hara vartry, elaine o'hara shanganagh, elaine o'hara kilakee

Id: jaibzSz55NE

Length: 24min 2sec (1442 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 17 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/WhyNoPockets]

Graham Dwyer gives me the heebee-jeebies

[u/Bozoso77]

Hey Mikey is it possible to maybe ramp up them out of videos during our time of crisis? I love this channel and well with what’s going on I need a little bit more :-) thank you

[u/TrisSuccubus]

That guy....ugh....it's gross to believe there are so many people like that in the world that we don't even know about! Gives me the shivers.