The Irish killer, the Budapest murder, the spy camera and the 1,000-woman tally

The Irish killer, the Budapest murder, the spy camera and the 1,000-woman tally

From The Indo Daily by Irish Independent

July 16, 2026 · 24 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the shocking murder of Mackenzie Michalski by Lorcan Tadgh Murphy in Budapest and the subsequent revelations about Murphy's life and intentions.

In early November 2024, Dublin man Lorcan Tadgh Murphy was in a bar in downtown Budapest, scanning the room. He was alone, supposedly in the city on business, but something of a more personal nature else caught his eye. Among the patrons in the bar that evening was a 31-year-old American nurse by the name of Mackenzie Michalski. She was enjoying her last night out as her trip around Europe came to an end. Across the room, Michalski and Murphy made eye contact and a flirtation began. The pair later moved to a nightclub before heading back together to Murphy’s nearby apartment. Hours later, Mackenzie Michalski was dead, and a panicked Murphy was frantically trying to get his story straight. But the life of Lorcan Murphy, now serving a lengthy prison sentence in Hungary, has since been revealed to be far more sinister than anyone first realised, as details emerged of covert recordings and an expressed ambition to sleep with 1,000…

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Host: Katie Byrne

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Organizations: Sunday Independent, Irish Independent

Places: Budapest, Ireland

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