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in October 2004 loving wife Rachel O'Reilly returned home after doing the school drop off less than 20 minutes
later she was murdered by her own husband Joe Riley killed his wife in the most brutal possible manner he hit her
across the head with a dumbbell several times inflicted on unbelievable injuries
this was a cruel calculated model in a horrific attack made to look like a burglary gone wrong Joe O'Reilly killed
the mother of his children terrible Legacy to leave those kids that's very Legacy for the rest of their lives
mother was murdered and their father did Joe O'Reiley reveled in the attention he
received as he paraded himself on TV he went on The Late Late Show with rose to make an appeal for whoever murdered his
wife to come forward or for people to give information he really was enjoying it
she knew the person because why else would you kill her he enjoyed the spotlight thank you very much as the
whole of Ireland watched on Joe O'Reilly proved himself to be one of the world's
most evil killers [Music] [Music] October 4th 2004 at around 5:20 a.m. Joe O'Reilly left his home in null in the
north of County Dublin the married father of two went to the gym before heading to the outdoor advertising
company he worked for in the west of Dublin City at 8:2 5 a.m. he left the office again and arranged to meet a
colleague at a bus garage 5 miles away in central Dublin he said they had to do an inspection in Broadstone that day to
examine the buses and the advertisements and he said he was there until 12:00 or
wherever he came back to his workplace but O'Reilly never made it to the bus garage instead he traveled 25 mil North
to his family home where his loving wife Rachel was unaware of what her husband had planned for
her Joe O'Reilly was an arrogant over self-confident man with no respect for anyone except his own
desires and the person who paid the price for that was his wife Rachel this killer Story begins in
County Dublin Island Joe O'Reilly was born in April 1972 one of four children O'Reilly
didn't have the easiest of childhoods Joe grew up in a Troublesome household his father was an alcoholic and a robust
type of character and violent Joe would have been subject to a lot of drunken abuse by his father he had one other
brother and he had two sisters one of them was very mentally handicapped and physically handicapped and joah told me
himself my father come in and I could hear him shouting downstairs where's the monster where's the monster referring to
my handicapped sister and he come up I'm going to kill that I'm going to kill it
I'm going to kill it now you know according to O'Reilly himself he was the doting Big Brother protecting his baby
sister from being harmed he said I'd have to hop up out a bed grab the baby out of the car and hide her under the
bed with me and he come in and he roared and shouting and then he be got he says
that's what I had to put up with so I would sympathize for Joan that you know no one wants to see that type but he did
have a Troublesome childhood it wasn't a comfortable upbringing it was complicated and he did feel
responsible for his siblings but there was also an hint of arrogance in that childhood as an adult Joe O'Reilly was a
hard character to read with those around him not knowing too much about him Joe he was always very very aloof I don't
think any of us ever had a a real understanding of him he never got too close to any of us
um never stand offish it's just it just never would have got to know him he just
seemed Shy Guy like in 1991 O'Reilly was working in retail in the center of Dublin City and this is
where he met 17-year-old Rachel Kali Rachel and Joe met at a large department store in Dublin he fancied her early on
and he he made several attempts to ask her out but she wasn't willing at the time but he he kept trying and she
eventually did go out room you know he takes her to Paris and proposes on the top of the Eiffel
Tower now I think that tells you an awful lot about O'Reilly's vision of himself and what he wanted he wanted to
put her on the back foot he should be the great I am and I think that that's the tone the background music that goes
through the entire relationship from the outside Rachel and Joe O'Reilly appeared to have the
perfect life they soon got married and moved to the countryside in null County Dublin Rachel seemed to be living the
life of her dreams her brother Paul remembers it being a joyous time in Rachel's life she loved the the country
living the country schools the she liked walking the lane talking to neighbors and stuff was a fine house and they just
seemed very happy out there to us they had the perfect marriage they were committed in many
ways but and here comes one of the telling elements in this tragic story he was an arch
manipulator he was one of those men who turned off his affections and on at a whim always putting the woman in his
life on the back foot it's very familiar among arrogant manipulative men now did
that come from his childhood did it come from the way he saw his mother treated by his violent alcoholic father possibly
but certainly there's no doubt in my mind that he was pretty misogynist in his mind there was no doubt that Joe
O'Reilly had little regard for women but nobody could have predicted how his marriage to Rachel would turn out
for Rachel the 4th of October started out like any other day Joe had gone to the gym 6:00 a.m. is and she' got up fed
and water the kids and dropped them off to their play school in school and she just came home
then around 1:30 p.m. Joe called Rachel's family he told them Rachel hadn't collected their youngest son from
the CEST it would have been very very very odd for Rachel not to her whole life was
based around the kids their activities the thing everybody says about Rachel she was a dedicated mother
her main goal in life was to look after her children and she did that to the best of ability she was a really caring
mother when she became a mother that was her her big achievement in life although
she loved every other part of life I think her two kids were the the sort of Pinnacle of her life so it
was very strange when we got that phone call that she had missed one of the children upon receiving the phone call
from Joe O'Reilly Rachel's mom Rose knew something wasn't right and headed straight to the house to look for Rachel
what she discovered was horrifying the back door was open the curtains were drawn and she said that was very unusual
that they never do that and she went into the house and she could see the tap was running and the drawers were pulled
out and she could things see things scattered around and she was shouting for Rachel and Rachel and she made her
way down to the down to the bedroom where she would think she would be and yes Rachel was
there O'Reilly had encouraged Rachel's mother to go to the the house for Rose the devastating scene was one that no
parent should ever have to see she couldn't even tell if Rachel was lying face down on the floor or face up
because of the injuries inflicted on her there was so much blood and her hair was
matted and she couldn't tell but she knew she was dead it wasn't long after them he mother
rang and um we knew it was it was a big problem she didn't make a whole lot of sense all she kept saying was she's
[Music] dead Detective Pat marry was on duty When A call came through of a violent
incident in null as I made my way there there was messages conflicting messages coming over the radio oh that lady has
been very badly hurt uh yeah it looked looks like a burgy gone wrong then someone says yeah no that lady I think
is dead like you know and I said my good God news spread fast that something big
had happened and journalist Pat Flanigan made his way to the scene when the crime
was committed the initial uh thoughts were that was a burglary the house had been ransacked drawers pulled out was
closed all over the floor Detective Pat marry entered the crime scene and what he discovered
horrified even this seasoned police officer Rachel O'Reilly had been barbarically killed it was really Savage
assault and that was shocking to me and I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot
of ladies who have been murdered by their husbands and in situations like that but this was really horrific the
degree of savagery that was used to kill her whoever done this to this woman hated
her who ever did this had gone to Great Lengths to cover their tracks and Stage a fake
burglary I've been had thousands of burgies and I know her a burglar and I know when there's one a real one and not
a real one and this was not a real burglar a mother of two had been murdered in her own home in broad
daylight on the surface the crime scene looked like a burglary gone wrong with tragic
consequences but to the trained eye there was something else at play I know burglar I know how they
behave I know what to do they don't want confrontation the first thing a burglar
will do he get into a house he go to the bedroom he go to the woman's side of the
bed he look for all the jewelry he'll separate the the uh costume jewelry take the good stuff put in the pillowcase
gone we discovered also that there was two lots of money in the house as well which but now it was never taken like
you know so we knew that it wasn't a burglary we just said like there's something that right here like you know
Rachel has been severely attacked violently blooding two skull fractures many other bruises across her body this
is not just bang on the head and run out the door if it's a burglar who's frightened it's going to be one hit and
away this is not that this is an attack which indicates rage and indicates to premeditation the body was removed for a
postmortem at lunchtime forensic examination of the house is expected to last a couple of days while the Cali
family were hysterical with grief at finding Rachel Jo o Riley seemed quite the opposite it wasn't a grieving
husband he was just looking he was taking in stuff he didn't act like a guy who had just found his wife battered to
death and on the floor Joe was standing out in the road in his own he never engaged with the
Cali family or went up to the ambulance to you know see what happened or talk about the situation or give each other
hugs or he was just standing there like a cabbo cut out standing on the road there like you know and that was
it while the public still suspected a burglary Pat Mar was looking at a different line of inquiry later that day
he paid Joe O'Reilly a visit we were wondering like what was the story with Joe like he gives an
account of his day he said yeah I got up at 5:00 in the morning he says O'Reilly
told the detective that he'd left the house at 6:00 a.m. to head to a nearby gym he was to meet a a friend a work
colleague there they both chatted uh they showered and then went away is this of course you know was to provide Joe in
Alibi O'Reilly who worked in advertising claimed he'd then gone to a bus depot to
inspect some adverts and to meet another colleague there he said he was there until 12:00 or wherever he came back to
his workplace this Alibi provided Joe O'Reilly with the perfect cover if true he couldn't have been responsible for
the murder of his wife maybe uh I says Rachel was having an affair and was some woman got someone to give her a hide and
to tear her the back no no no he says neither of us were having Affairs and I just looked straight into his eyes and I
was about 2 foot away from him I said Joe did you have an affair he says well I did have an affair but it's all over
now he admitted that he had an affair with a woman but he claimed it was over and had been and himself and his wife
had SED wrote on the no back to be a happy family I'd have been far more surprised if he wasn't having an affair
given his personality and the way that he liked to absolutely dominate everything he would love an audience he
would love fans and that's how he would see Affairs really even after the murder Joe
O'Reilly maintained the facade of being the loving husband regularly visiting The Grieving Kali family at their home
every couple of days he drop in and stuff me m used to make him dinners and all but that didn't last very long
anytime he was in the house he was very calculated very cautious didn't say a lot just listened a lot he just wanted
to know information all the time Rachel was buried one week after her murder on the 11th of October 2004
Joe basically just washed his hands at the funeral he he didn't want really Anton to do it he didn't even want to
pay for his wife's funeral the funeral was an opportunity for the Kali family to pay their last
respects to their beloved Rachel the CES were writing cards to put in the coffin
saying their last good boes and Joe was in the house with them to give him a card and stuff and he wrote what he
wrote and put it in the coffin now she was buried with these carrots it wasn't just
the family who were in mourning wellwishers spread far and wide the murder had sent shock waves through
Ireland and there was a huge public interest in the case I covered the funeral for the Daily Mirror at the time
and was quite a big funeral and very sad that that the calile family were in tears but Joe was uh seemed to be
removed from it you know as if it didn't affect him I suppose the day the funeral like
obviously it was very emotional day but I think that's when he started going into his kind of shiz mode it's he
really when he got up and did his eulogy he was like it was like an Oscar speech
up there you know um like it was really all about him you know and and he seemed
to love the attention and that was noticeable Even in our grief Joe O'Reilly was quite
a dominant and controlling person and felt a kind of ownership over his wife and over his children he certainly
represented himself as a family man it didn't really follow that up with the way he behaved in his relationship it
was more like well this is what I want people to see me as rather than this is what I really am Detective Pat marry
attended the funeral and had become close to the Kali family over the course of the
investigation their observations of O'Reilly and the leadup to the funeral had been playing on their minds I was
down in their house and we were talking about things and they said oh yeah and Joe was here sure you didn't care about
Rachel and we had to tell him to write that note like you know and the detective that was with me detector
Peter mcai the two of us looked around at each other cuz we thought the same thing what did he write in the note you
know you know and could it be a confession there or anything like you know with the Kali family's blessing
detectives made the difficult decision to exume Rachel's body they were certain that O'Reilly's note inside her coffin
could be the key to unlock the case there was a five-page letter in it he said it's the hardest letter I've ever
had to write in my life he asked for forgiveness and he said it'll haunt me for the rest of my life and uh I hope he
forgive me Rachel it's it's further evidence that Joe O'Reilly Is Not Innocent of the crime of
murdering his wife but at this point there still isn't enough firm evidence he was saying sorry for what he
had done and it's only him and she knew about it uh but yet again it could be anything else it was ambiguous and we
couldn't use it as you know strong evidence more was needed to prove Joe O'Reilly had committed the
crime as the investigation continued the killer put on a horrifying performance for Rachel's grieving family I know he
was given the house back after a week we went out with him that day to help him clean up the house and he had us listen
to phone messages for 20 minutes he made 20 different calls to her saying are you
dare I love you a concerned husband this is not the behavior of a man with much in the way of empathy it's the behavior
of a man who seeking to cover his tracks O'Reilly then took the family to the spot where his wife was murdered and
proceeded to act out how he thought the killer might have ended Rachel's life he
knelt over where the body would have been and reenacted how he would have blud her whatever he buding her with he
then even Ste kept over an imaginary body you know that wasn't there he also went to the uh to the bathroom and said
explained how the the killer might have washed his hands and heard her gurgling and then went back to finish her
off Mary Cassidy who on the postmortem and had viewed the injuries had said to us in her report
and I confirmed it again with her what Joe had enacted is exactly what she believed the murderer would have
done based on the injuries of the head and the body was laying it and all that so here's Joe reenacted exactly what he
did like it was spooky not surprisingly Jim and Rose are I mean literally horrified how could they not have been
they are in the presence of someone who's enacting out a murder and he's only been dead a week or so for the Kali
family the disturbing truth about Jo o royy was starting to become clear my father was a little bit hesitant to to
jump to this conclusion but the other three of us just said he's just admitted it we knew in our own hearts that he had
murdered Rachel and we just had to play the waiting game then and hope to God the the police could get him could catch
him after putting on a sickening display for Rachel's family O'Reilly was going to
take his supposed grief to a national level for his next performance the cameras would be rolling why go to the
extreme of murdering the person unless they can identify him while the eyes of the nation watched on Twisted Joe
O'Reilly was loving the attention usually when someone is grieving that gri they don't want
Limelight they don't want you know they want to be left alone to grieve and peace like you know members of the press
you know said to himself this guy is too open because he was willing you know he
was over willing to to give his side of the story gradually the tide torned and you know suspicion torn on Joe just over
two weeks after O'Reilly murdered his wife he made an appearance on one of Ireland's leading chat shows with
Rachel's mom Kali murder happened was in the bedroom which is the very last room
of the house so it's the room where you're least likely to bring someone you don't know because you're cornered he
went on The Late Late Show as a guest with rose to make an appeal for whoever murdered his wife to come forward or for
people to give information Rose is clearly deeply upset and still grieving for her daughter O'Reilly by contrast
seems incredibly relaxed M was very uncomfortable with the whole setup sitting beside him and to us was
very obvious at that stage that he really was enjoying it like he really he enjoyed the spotlight he was controlling
the narrative from the beginning he would not have been thinking I feel ashamed or I feel guilty about this he
would have been totally confident I can tell everybody I didn't do this and they
will all believe me the bigger platform I have to say that the more people will believe me my view as well would be and
again it's just my view it's not a police Theory it's it's just my own personal belief is that she knew the
person because why else would you kill her if it's a a violent robbery why go to the extreme of murdering the person
if O'Reilly was hoping to put detectives off the scent his Antics instead had the
opposite effect I can tell you now that interview with Pat Kenny that night Joey
was suspect number one to everyone in the country but it was O'Reilly's Behavior
behind the camera that led to one of the biggest breakthroughs in the case as he
spent a lot of time on his phone we discovered the person he was on on the phone was his lover and he went and met
her after the show and he spent a night with her you know after trying to be on a show to appeal
for information respect to the death of his wife O'Reilly had told Detective Pat
Mary that the affair was over but it was just another lie in the Killer's story we had arrested the girl he was having
the affair with and she was in and she was questioned she said that they were having an affair and it was a fullon
affair and that wasn't over having an affair it's a motive and was quite happy that we could
establish that motive so we have a man who has if you like established for himself the kind of perfect marriage two
children nice house in the countryside outside Dublin good job progressing up the ladder on the surfice everything is
fine he's got a new Lover he wants to start a new life with her he wants to make sure that he gets custody of his
children and so Rachel without knowing is watching her husband plan what he believes is the perfect murder the
murder of his wife O's colleague who had provided him with an alibi was arrested and
interrogated again about the mourning of the murder he was questioned at lint and he
eventually admitted look I think I seen Joe at that stage but what you're telling me I must have been
mistaken the colleague said he never seen him at the bus garage where it was supposed to
be Joe O'Reilly's Alibi had evaporated he hadn't been at the bus depot that morning the challenge now was to prove
he was at the murder scene instead an examination of shoes O'Reilly had been wearing that day led to a
breakthrough the Fric examin them and they found dots of Blood on the inside of the shoe on not along the side of the
shoe the drips came from above and down which would have been synonymous with him at the time he was standing over
Rachel or at the time he was killing her with the weapon so we believed at that stage that we had enough to arrest him
on suspicion of the murder of his wife and which we did all the 17th of November 2004 over a month after the
murder Joe O'Reilly was arrested and taken in for questioning the arrest came with something as a shock to the public
we questioned him and he didn't cooperate he had no comment and we put it about the shoes and that he had no
comment we put about the phone record and him talking he I don't know I don't get any recollection or he didn't no
comment to make you know so we didn't have enough to charge him without a confession the case against Joe O'Reilly
still wasn't strong enough the director of public prosecutions told detectives they didn't have enough to take O'Reilly
to trial we represented what we had to the DPP and the DPP says no you're just falling
short I thought we had enough they were just a little cautious O'Reilly was released without
charge with no new developments to rep reports on public interest in the case started to
dwindle there was a kind of dropped off Sly dropped off the front pages and Joe O'Reilly felt fairly secure that he had
got away with the perfect murder he taught he was going to be a free man the police carried on working quietly in the
background to try and prove once and for all that oy was responsible for the vicious murder of his wife Rachel as
detectives began to investigate they found uh emails that that went between Joe and his sister and they were very
very uh derogatory towards Rachel he said the marriage was over Joe says I can see it I'm going to be missed our
weekend Dad if we break up he wanted the children he wanted her gone and that was
it and he knew the only way to get rid of her was the Killer and he has to make it look like a burglary he was quite
domineering and he did exactly what he liked so I think it's fun far more likely that his views on divorce were
you're not leaving me I will decide when this marriage is over and that's exactly
what he did do detectives had to find conclusive proof that O'Reilly had been at the scene when Rachel was murdered
they scoured through hours of CCTV but it was the cameras from the Quarry close to the O'Reilly house that provided
valuable evidence we had Rachel she drove her seen a car leaving her house 9:40 or something like that she was
coming back her car was coming back but Joe O'Reilly himself drove a fat Maria estate car and we had that car we
believed that car going up to the house at 10 past 9 in the morning and it's returning back at
9:59 so between 945 and 959 that's when Rachel was murdered so it sort of not ticked our box entirely
but it gave us reasonable suspicions to believe it was Joe Riley's car you know new technology was emerging cell
site analysis shows which nearby telephone masks a mobile phone has connected to every time a call or text
is sent or received a telecom's company helped detectives analyze O'Reilly's phone data from the day of the murder
they produced for us a a map to show where Joe Riley's phone was pinging off what Mass when he received
text messages and phone calls that morning the data showed that O'Reiley had left work traveled through North
Dublin to the house where he brutally murdered his wife this was the vital evidence Detective Pat Mary
needed so we can establish without any shadow of a doubt Jo Ry had his phone that morning on his person and we could
show 100% through the cell site analysis that Jo Riley was traveling out from the
city out to his home at the time his wife was murdered but that wasn't the only breakthrough on the 14th of March
2006 detectives were tipped off about a conversation O'Reilly had with his lover
When Rachel was still alive Joe had also told his lover that he would kill Rachel
but she didn't take him seriously she just start with a figure of speech had Joe O'Reilly actually
admitted what he was going to do to Rachel prior to her murder we arrested Joe's lover again and brought
her in and questioned her and she admitted that Joe said he'd kill Rachel if he got away with it but I don't I
didn't take him seriously I didn't think he'd do anything like you know this when he said
in flipping like it wasn't anything in it like you know on the 18th of June 2007 Joe oy appeared in court charged
with the murder of his wife Rachel for Detective Pat marry the trial had been a long time
coming it was quite an intense investigation and there was a good team of detectives on it and everyone has the
same agenda to get the person who did this it had been almost 3 years since Rachel
had been killed and at times the Cali family had almost given up hope of Joe O'Reilly ever facing Justice we always
knew the hardest thing was to get him into court it was three years later he was still walking the streets still
living his life still happy out um so it was a huge step to get him charged the trial was the final chapter in a story
that had from day one attracted intense public interest journalist Pat Flanigan covered the trial at the central
Criminal Court in Dublin there were cues down the street for the public to get in
in fact I was there that morning and I had difficulty getting through the crowds to get into the courthouse I
think a lot of people thought he were going to get off because of course they didn't know how watertight the uh the
police case was against them while the facts of his actions were laid bare in court O'Reilly showed
little emotion during the trial um Joe he seemed very relaxed in fact he you know
he was looking around the court he didn't seem particularly worried you know at the time he had the demeanor of
a man who felt he was beyond the reach of the law the trial was especially difficult
for the Kali family as painful details of Rachel's murder were revealed as the postmortem results were
discussed the n ales were reminded of the weeks following the murder when Joe O'Reilly acted out how the murderer
would have likely killed Rachel you might say you saw the body and know like when you hear and I know he reenacted it
and all but it was only when we were told exactly what happened that we knew his reenactments are actually real but
um it's it's barbaric what he did it's horrific so he got great joy out of doed them
he used more violence than was necessary to kill his wife there was rage in that
there was resentment in that but it was also cold blooded planned execution of his
wife you are in my way and I'm going to get rid of you that says so much about the type of person that he is
on the 20th of July 2007 at the end of the 4-we trial the jury went out to deliberate despite the prosecution
painting a picture of a man who had reason to kill his wife there was still doubt as to whether O'Reilly would be
punished for his actions there has to be concern because it's it's I think there was 11 jurors in
the end and it only takes a couple of them and you're you're in trouble I had gone over to a local pub with the guards
and we were chatting none of them were confident you know they were all just you just never know a jury so that kind
of diminished me a littleit Detective Pat marry waited anxiously with the Kali family after
less than 24 hours of deliberation on Saturday the 21st of July 2007 the jury had made their decision I
remember being with the family we went down to the pub and we were having an appointed Guinness and I remember I just
had one called and it was sitting in front of me and next people come in the jury are coming back the jury are coming
back back in the courtroom the jury delivered their verdict a unanimous guilty Joe O'Reilly was finally
convicted for the murder of his wife Rachel the whole Court just erupted the judge was banging his gravel on it and
there was no nobody was paying any attention like you know it was just it was a huge release of emotion
that Justice had been done like you know and I think the whole country were shouting and I was standing there and
Rose G him over to me to give me a big hug and I started crying as well and I cried I make no bones about it well
thankfully he was found guilty um the only way I can describe it it's it's like taking the air of a balloon it it
just you you nearly collapse and yet you nearly jump touch the sky it's an amazing
feeling it was just it was very emotional you know this supremely confident indeed you
might say arrogant man is finally cut down to size by a jury of 12 of his peers who see through his Supreme
confidence for what it is merely that a pretense a pretense that oh he couldn't possibly have killed it was an outsider
an intruder it's one of the most cold blooded of killings it's possible to imagine O'Reilly is nothing more than a
coldblooded calculated murderer Joe O'Reilly was sentenced to life imprisonment and was taken f first to
Dublin's Mount Joy prison before transferring to Midland jail to serve his sentence life imprisonment in Ireland is
anything now between 18 and 23 years but people do serve a lot longer than that and I suspect Joe Riley will serve maybe
30 years hopefully never gets out but being found guilty didn't stop Joe O'Reilly from appealing his
conviction which he did in 2009 Joe riy was so confident that he would win his appeal that he told inmates when
he was in prison that he' move back into the house where he moured his wife as soon as he was released and bring his
two children with him O'Reilly lost his appeal and remains in prison but for the Cali family the
nightmare continues he was found guilty he did it seven years and every two years after that he's applied for role
what we have to do as a family then is every two years when they contact us we have to write letters send the in way we
think he should stay in jail so you know it just seems a bit unfair that we're not actually the guilty party here and
yet we' have to kind of beg to keep him in jail for many people in Ireland Joe O'Reilly remains a threat to
society I believe Joe Riley is a total psychopath he is no empathy for anybody when he could do that to his wife he
could do anything he was evil evil to the core and if he got out could he do it again
yes he could joy in my mind is an evil person people like Jo O'Reilly don't change this is who he is he killed
Rachel because of the way he is the way he thinks his world to view his ego his entitlement that's not going anywhere
there's a danger that he will behave in exactly the same way in future relationships as he did in his past
relationships Rachel lost her life at the hands of the evil O'Reilly but she was not the only victim
of this devastating crime your biggest hope is like the the two boys had lost their mother and you just
hope to God it wasn't the father like if it was a burglary or anything else I'm not saying it would be
any easier but at least they'd be left with their dad um so I think once that realization came in that he he like he
didn't just take our sister he took their mother which which to me like I think that's
barbaric no matter how much you hate someone it's a terrible Legacy to leave those kids you know that that's their
legacy for the rest of their lives the mother was murdered and their father [Music]
did who knows what she would have went down for a ra had Endless Possibilities like she she was such a doer such a
giver such a great mother great sister great daughter she could have done an in life
it's just a shame he he just he just cut her dead like that and you know all that possibility was
lost he destroyed her for the years leading up to her death so we are the hopei ratson
[Music] prison Joe O'Reilly fell out of love with his wife and wanted to move on with
his lover instead of getting a divorce and fighting for custody he chose to end the marriage in the most final of ways
by brutally murdering Rachel and depriving his two children of their mother or was a selfish man who would
stop at nothing to get what he wanted and he will be remembered as one of the world's most evil killers
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In October 2004, Rachel O’Reilly left her home to drop her children off at school. Less than 20 minutes after returning from home she was murdered. Her husband, Joe O’Reilly, staged the crime scene to make it look like a burglary gone wrong.

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Brief Summary

Joe O'Reilly brutally murdered his wife Rachel, staged it as a burglary, and was later convicted after a lengthy investigation and trial.

Key points

The Brutal Murder of Rachel O'Reilly. In October 2004, Rachel O'Reilly was brutally murdered by her husband, Joe O'Reilly, in a calculated attack.
Joe O'Reilly's Alibi. Joe O'Reilly provided an alibi claiming he was at the gym during the murder, but inconsistencies arose.
The Grieving Husband's Performance. Despite the murder of his wife, Joe O'Reilly maintained a facade of grief, visiting the Kali family regularly.
Joe's Letter of Regret. A letter found in Rachel's coffin revealed Joe's ambiguous feelings of guilt, complicating the investigation.
The Disturbing Truth Unfolds. As the investigation progressed, the Kali family began to suspect Joe O'Reilly's involvement in Rachel's murder.
Joe O'Reilly's Confident Lies. O'Reilly believed he could manipulate the narrative and evade suspicion.

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He really was enjoying it.

Describing Joe O'Reilly's demeanor during the investigation.

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