THREE ARRESTS FOR MURDER OF BALLINASLOE WOMAN 15 YEARS AGO

Date Published: 22-Sep-2008

Three people have been arrested this morning in connection with the murder of Ballinasloe woman Marie Kilmartin fifteen years ago.The arrests were all made in the Portlaoise area.35 year-old Marie Kilmartin disappeared from close to her home in Beladd, Portlaoise in mid-December 1993. Six months later on June 10th 1994, her body was found hidden in a bog drain almost 20 kilometres away on the Laois-Offaly border. She was fully clothed and had been strangled. Her killer or killers had used a concrete block to weigh her body down.