Her body was left in a field, not even hidden, and hundreds of people were in the area where she was murdered. In this case, Gardaí had a chief suspect, a man facing countless allegations of violence against women both before and after Patricia’s death, but weren’t able to convict him until 1991. He was in prison until 1995, when he got out on appeal, and died in 1998, the year of the last disappearances.
