O'Connell tracked down and interviewed Irish socialite Malcolm Macarthur, who killed two strangers in Dublin in 1982. To write about Macarthur, he realized, was both to exalt and to exploit him.

Among the stolen files were those of the Father Niall Molloy case and that of Malcolm MacArthur. Report shows the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions. To camera Tom McCaughren reports ...

He was also as defence lawyer for Malcolm Macarthur, who killed nurse Bridie Gargan in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, and Catherine Nevin who was convicted of the murder of her husband Tom in the Co ...