About this episode

The episode discusses the disturbing case of David Sullivan, a bus driver with child abuse allegations, whose headless body was found in a bog in Fermanagh.

In September 2000 a body was found in a bog in Fermanagh. This was not a so called ‘bog-body’, sacrificed long ago -  the body turned out to belong to local bus driver David Sullivan, who had gone missing 17 months earlier.   There were things that were particularly disturbing about this discovery – the first of which was that Sullivan was the subject of dozens of allegations of child abuse, the second was that his body had no head.  Olivia Peden is joined by Belfast Telegraph’s Andrew Madden and former DCI Norman Baxter.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Olivia Peden

Guests: Andrew Madden, Norman Baxter

Topics covered

• murder investigation
• child abuse allegations
• bog body
• local news
• unsolved cases

Keywords

• David Sullivan
• murder
• headless body
• child abuse
• Fermanagh
• bog body
• investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Fermanagh

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