Almost the Perfect Murder by Paul Williams

Author:Paul Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241973769
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-06-03T16:00:00+00:00

11. Horror Stories

As Graham Dwyer was coming to terms with his incarceration inside the walls of a remand prison, there was no relaxation for the investigation team. Having him charged with murder and locked up in a cell, for the time being at least, was just the second phase in the enquiry. Now they faced the herculean task of corroborating even the smallest, most insignificant pieces of evidence as they prepared the case against him. And Dwyer’s success at managing two distinct personalities posed a challenge. They would have to scrutinize every aspect of his life since childhood in a bid to uncover his secrets – and to discover if there were any more victims.

Following her husband’s arrest, members of the investigation team spent several hours, over a number of days, taking statements from Gemma Dwyer. What she was being told about him tying up and stabbing a woman while living a normal family life was clearly beyond her comprehension. She remembered nothing unusual or out of the ordinary about his behaviour on the night of Elaine’s disappearance – 22 August 2012 – or any other night. Three weeks later she had organized her husband’s fortieth birthday in Bandon. They had been in the audience of the Late Late Show three months after that. All the normal stuff of family life. She faced the realization that she had shared her aspirations and hopes, her trials and tribulations, her life, with someone she didn’t recognize. The father of her two children was now accused of a savage crime. When the enormity of what he had been charged with began to sink in, she was traumatized and broken. The knowledge that her husband had been fantasizing about stabbing women to death while playing the role of a normal husband and dad at home made her physically sick. Her visceral reaction to what Gardaí told her confirmed that Graham Dwyer had not shared his predilections in the sixteen years they had been a couple.

The searches at his home and office uncovered a wealth of evidence to corroborate what the investigators had already put to Dwyer. A total of 219 individual exhibits were seized from the house, as well as a laptop, a badly damaged external Seagate hard drive and two media storage devices. Documents they found confirmed he had taken a 15 per cent pay cut in 2011, something ‘sir’ had mentioned in a text to Elaine O’Hara. They found a receipt for a bike bought under the Cycle to Work Scheme that tallied with the time and date of the text in which the master said he bought a bike because he ‘must get fit for murder’. Invoices confirmed that he had paid almost €4,000 for repairs to an Audi A6 and to a Porsche that his wife said he called his ‘baby’. In some of his texts Dwyer had mentioned problems with his cars and Elaine had also referred to one of them as his ‘baby’.

This growing wall of evidence was about to be consolidated, thanks to the cyber detectives.

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