In 1973, a twenty-year-old man committed the murder and mutilation of three young children. To this day, the motives for the crime are still unknown, and the killer has never expressed remorse. Now, after 45 years in prison, David McCreevy is preparing to break out of prison and lead a normal life again.
David McCreevy was 21 when he committed the crime By the estimation of Clive and Elsie Ralph, April 13, 1973, would have ended like any other day. Clive Ralph was a truck driver and his wife a waitress in a pub and they lived on Gillam Street in Wester with their three children, Dawn, Paul and Samantha, who were respectively four years old, two years old, and nine months old. McGreevey helped them sometimes, Clive's job was often away from home, and his wife sometimes worked evening shifts. McGreevey was good with the children and seemed to enjoy taking care of them.
Then he went to the basement and brought the ground comb (a tool like shovels) that he used to represent the bodies of dead children. When he finished, he took the small bodies to the garden, where they laid them on the iron fence that separated the garden of the house from the adjacent garden, and then left.