GARDAI were continuing their search yesterday of the area in which Mrs Patricia Murphy's body was found last Tuesday morning.
The search yielded a large amount of clothing which now has to be examined to see if it includes items worn by Mrs Murphy which were missing when her body was found.
Her black ski pants, black polo neck sweater, white shoes and a pink and blue anorak were missing when her body was found at 8 a.m. last Tuesday.
The Garda has appealed for information from anyone who might have seen Mrs Murphy after she left the Drumcondra bed and breakfast house where she worked at 10.30 a.m. on Monday. It should have taken her only 15 minutes to walk from the B&B on Drumcondra Road to her home on Griffith Avenue.
Her disappearance was reported by her husband, David, to Whitehall Garda Station at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday.
Workmen at a building site of Griffith Avenue discovered her partially clothed body there at 8 a.m. It is believed the body was placed there after the workmen left the site on Monday evening.
A post mortem examination showed Mrs Murphy had been strangled but not sexually assaulted.