A reward of €10,000 was offered in November 2005 by the Crimestoppers confidential telephone line to any person who could supply information that led to a conviction in the murder of Marie Kilmartin. The 35-year-old woman had disappeared from Portlaoise, Co Laois on December 15th, 1993, and her body was discovered six months later in a bog off the Mountmellick-Portarlington road.

Crimestoppers offered a total reward of €80,000 in 2005 for information that would help gardaí secure convictions in the cases of eight different women, including three women whose bodies were found and whose deaths were being treated as murder. As well as Marie Kilmartin, the murdered women included:

27-year-old Antoinette Smith from Kilmahudderick, Dublin who went missing on July 11th, 1987 and whose remains were found on April 3rd of the following year in the Dublin Mountains. She had been strangled.

Patricia Doherty (29) from Tallaght, Dublin, who was last seen leaving her home on December 23rd, 1991. Her remains were found just over six months later in the same bog in the Dublin Mountains where Antoinette Smith was found. The mother of two had been raped and strangled.

The Crimestoppers campaign also featured the cases of five women who had gone missing in the past 12 years. They were:

Claire Boylan (36) from Terenure, Dublin, who was last seen on Sunday, March 2nd, 2003

Ciara Breen (18) who has been missing from her home in Batchelors Walk, Dundalk, Co Louth, since the early hours of Thursday, February 13th, 1997

Jo Jo Dullard (21) who went missing on Thursday, November 9th, 1995 as she was about to hitch a lift from Moone, Co Kildare, to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny

Imelda Keenan (22) who went missing from Waterford on January 3rd, 1994

American woman Annie McCarrick who has been missing from her home in Sandymount, Dublin, since March 26th, 1993.

Anyone with information about any of these cases is asked to contact Crimestoppers on

1800-250025.