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Barry Cummins: Ireland has 51 unidentified bodies. There may be a way to name them

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By Barry Cummins
| The Currency Verified
I’ve a clear argument to make about a subject I’ve been reporting on for decades – the United States and Canada are surging ahead in solving hundreds of cases of unidentified bodies, while European countries, which have adopted a more conservative approach to investigative tools, are being left behind. As we recently approached the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one story caught my eye in particular. The moment I read various headlines, I knew how the breakthrough had happened.
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Barry Cummins I shudder to think I sat in Tina Satchwell’s home while her body lay buried there

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By Barry Cummins
| TheJournal.ie Verified
Youghal woman Tina Satchwell disappeared in March 2017 from the home she shared with her husband, Richard. For more than six years, her case remained one of the State’s most unsettling mysteries. Richard Satchwell told gardaí that Tina had left him, carrying two suitcases and €26,000 in cash. Searches of the couple’s home uncovered nothing. Media appeals followed, and journalists and interviewers sat across from Richard as he pleaded for information.
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How one father prompted the latest search for missing women - The Currency

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By Barry Cummins
| The Currency Verified
Michael Jacob stood up silently. He was about 20 feet in front of me and I easily spotted him rise from his chair. I was scanning the crowd in front of me, making closing remarks as I brought that year’s National Missing Persons Day ceremony to a close. It was December 2017, and another annual event to honour and remember Ireland’s missing persons was about to end, with poignant choir music. But the event wasn’t over yet. Michael Jacob had something he wanted to say.
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