In 1982, wealthy socialite Malcolm Macarthur shocked Ireland with a brutal double murder. 40 years later, he's finally breaking his silence in a new book. Author Mark O'Connell explains what it ...

In 1982, Malcolm Macarthur, an Irish aristocrat and heir, was in financial trouble. With a vague plan to rob a bank, he bought a crossbow, a tweed fisherman’s hat, and called his mother.

Malcolm MacArthur during his trial at the Central Criminal Court in 1983. Photo: Independent News And Media/Getty Images. Despite Macarthur’s arrest, early in the morning of 14 August, ...

The only witness to Malcolm MacArthur’s murder of nurse Bridie Gargan has broken a 30-year silence to reveal the horror of what he saw that day ...

Malcolm Macarthur had one particular trait that became more and more apparent as I researched The Irish Times podcast series, Gubu, and, subsequently, my book, The Murderer and the Taoiseach.

At the age of five, Malcolm Macarthur was kicked in the head by a horse. At least that is how his neglectful mother and a farmhand on his parents’ Irish estate recalled it. Wrong, insists Mr ...

Malcolm MacArthur: The brutal murders and 'GUBU' scandal that rocked the nation . I wanted to pierce that silence, and break through to whatever lay beneath it.

MALCOLM Macarthur was known to his friends as a quiet academic with a raffish dress sense. He was widely understood to have immense wealth. The man with post-graduate degrees from both Trinity ...

In May 1982, Macarthur took his partner, Brenda Little, and son, seven-year-old Colm Malcolm, on a holiday to the Canaries. After six weeks his inheritance money ran out.

Malcolm Macarthur being led from a courthouse in Dublin in November 1983. Credit... Independent News and Media/Getty Images. By Christopher Benfey. June 27, 2023.

The writer of the No. 1 bestseller "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher" chooses her favourite true crime works. Her acclaimed new book, "The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place", is out now.