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8. Down the Rabbit Hole: The Murder of John Horgan and the curious motive
In June 1973, seven-year-old John Horgan disappeared from his home in Palmerstown, Dublin. What began as a search for a missing child would end with a horrifying discovery in the attic of a neighbouring house.
The teenager responsible, Lorcan Bale, was arrested and later pleaded guilty to John’s murder, receiving a life sentence. But because there was no contested murder trial, many questions surrounding the crime were never publicly examined in the way they might have been.
The case has subsequently become associated with claims of Satanism, occult practices and a possible ritual murder. But…
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