Episode 236 - The Kerry Babies

10 Mar

On the 14th of April 1984, the body of a baby boy was found on Cahersiveen Beach, County Kerry in Ireland. The baby had been stabbed 28 times and its neck was broken.

The Garda quickly found a suspect; Joanne Hayes. And soon, this police investigation became a medieval witch hunt and a dissection of motherhood itself.

Sources:

The Kerry Babies Case: A Woman to Blame - by Nell McKafferty

Gardaí apologise to woman at centre of Kerry babies case (irishtimes.com)

Kerry Babies: Tribunal report was controversial, divisive, and raised more questions than answers (irishexaminer.com)

Wayback Machine (archive.org)

A cruel new take on Kerry babies - Independent.ie

Fresh hope for solving thirty year old mystery of Kerry Babies - EVOKE.ie (archive.org)

Kerry Babies: gardaí start house-to-house enquiries on Valentia (irishtimes.com)

Remains of baby found dead on beach in 1984 exhumed (rte.ie)

Give me a crash course in . . . the Kerry babies case development (irishtimes.com)

Kerry babies: ‘Suffering of ordeal finally behind us’ – Joanne Hayes (irishtimes.com)

Kerry babies case re-examined in new episode of RTÉ documentary series (irishexaminer.com)