SELF-CONFESSED MASS MURDERER LAOIS- MAN KIERAN KELLY. FICTION OR
FACT? YOU CAN DECIDE
All True Crime enthusiasts know the only form of transport to fear is hitchhiking (Google Mary Vincent for details). Everything else points to escape, and therefore survival. However, it may be time to add trains to that list…. The reason for this writer's sweat-drenched commute to work, you ask? The Nobody Zone, a six-part podcast series, from RTÉ's Documentary On One, in association with Third Ear Productions. This true crime, murder history hybrid details the alleged 30-year killing spree of Irish serial Killer Kieran Patrick Kelly. Episode one details Kelly's egregious crimes, however, things may be worse than expected ….
Episode two of RTÉ's essential new True Crime podcast has just gone live; here is what Anna Joyce learned. Please prepare yourself for spoilers - listen to it here and here.
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| Self Confessed Mass Murderer Kieran Kelly. A Work of Fiction or Fact ? |
He
had a conscience… sort of
"What you're telling
us, is that it’s been playing on your mind for some time, you then decide to
come clean and tell us all the truth". While being questioned for the
murder of his cellmate Boyd (see ep.1) Kelly voluntarily admitted to a cluster
of other murderers. Extracts of this interview are played during episode two,
in which Kelly confesses to a staggering 13, 14 or as many as 15 murders.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6236101/Britains-15-unsolved-murders-baffling-police-today.htmlHe may be an undocumented Underground slayer...
If his crimes did not
sound monstrous enough in the first episode, the second installment of The
Nobody Zone has a fresh batch of evil to unleash. In episode two former
detective, Geoff Platt reveals he may have committed a second series of murders
in the London underground. "A drunken male approaching you at Clapham
Common, would probably get short shrift off most people. They would turn away,
they would try and ignore him, and move away from him. That tended to push them
closer and closer to the tunnel. And that’s where Kelly pushed most of his
victims underneath the train when they got to the edge of the railway
platform".
Kelly's
final confidant
In the first episode, two
detectives can be heard interviewing Kelly. However, there was a third person
present, Platt. Platt would become the most influential figure in the Kelly
investigation; his name comes up frequently in episode two. "Geoff Platt
is the only witness to revelations Kelly made about killing random strangers on
the tube. Geoff Platt is the only man who claims that there was a cover-up of a
London underground serial killer."
Kelly
is an invisible man
Irish Journalist Rob
Mulhern- is a critical figure in episode two. He scoured London for anyone with
a potential Kelly connection. And what did this veteran journalist, with a fat
contacts book find? Nothing. " The problem with Kelly is that he operated
so far from ordinary life - so deep in the grimy dark of The Nobody Zone as
we’re calling it - surrounded by alcoholism, homelessness, social deprivation -
you name it - that there’s really no one left alive who can talk about
him". No one except for Geoff Platt.
Every killer has an M.O.
A
large proportion of murderers kill out of unfettered hatred - the Green River
Killer hated women, Edmund Kemper his mother, Charles Manson the music
industry. And according to Platt Kelly hated homosexuals. "Something that
started as a horrifying experience became an addiction for a repressed
homosexual Kelly - who targeted men just like himself because he hated them for
what they were".
Credible
witness?
Will
Platt be the key to unlocking the truth about Kelly? The narrator gently pulls
at Platt’s story to encourage new lines of enquiry " Why does Geoff land
at 16 original confessions and not not the 13,14, or 15 DI Ian Brown said he
recalled in the last episode?"
Conspiracy
theories
If
like me, you are screaming into the void asking - how did no one notice the
work of an active serial killer! Fear not as there are conspiracy theories. In
2015 Platt released his book The London
Underground Serial Killer. In the book, he alleges Kelly’s victim count is
closer to 24 people, a number he latterly alters to 31. However, his most
striking revelation is that the Kelly story is a cover-up. Platt claims the
Home Office put direct pressure on the Metropolitan Police to bury the case and
keep it out of public view. At
this point, the podcast becomes the Russian doll of true crime stories. It is a
murder story, within a murder story, within a cover-up story about a murder.
Still with me? The narrator did say it was a bit bizarre.
Open Case
In
2015 the media erupted after Platt’s outrageous allegations, and the London
Metropolitan reopened the Kelly case. It’s still open. But don’t fret, The Nobody Zone promises to fill in all the
blanks - however you’ll have to keep listening.
Keep
up to date with episodes of The Nobody Zone here.
Words:
Anna Joyce
Unsolved murders re-opened | Oxford Mail
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