Mary Gough thought she had met her soulmate – but six months after tying the knot evil Colin Whelan strangled his 27-year-old bride and threw her down the stairs.
Twisted wife-killer Colin Whelan looked up ‘how to get away with murder’ while planning the wedding, his victim’s mother revealed.
Whelan, then 29, rang 999 in tears on March 1, 2001 and deceived friends and family into believing Mary’s death was an accident. READ MORE: Ireland weather: November forecast in full as Met Eireann warns of one woeful week before U-turnMarie thought her daughter seemed unhappy on her wedding day and even more miserable when the couple returned from their honeymoon.“Mary was quieter and she wasn’t dressed up as she used to and Colin didn’t seem the same.
Gardai uncovered computer searches from the two months before Whelan’s wedding showing he’d been researching how to strangle or asphyxiate someone.They also discovered he had been looking up American serial killer Henry Wallace, whose modus operandi was to strangle victims without leaving a mark.
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