Gardaí hope US facial recognition sketch will help identify rail line body

Irish Independent

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2 Oct 2025

Gardaí have issued a fresh public appeal in a bid to identify a mystery woman whose skeleton was discovered dumped by an old Cork railway line.

The new appeal is accompanied by a special sketch by a US forensic facial reconstruction artist now central to their new campaign.

The woman's skeleton was discovered on January 5, 2021 by workmen clearing sections of the old Midleton-Youghal railway line as part of a greenway development.

One theory being examined by detectives is that the woman may have been illegally exhumed from a grave - and then deliberately dumped by the rail line where she lay undiscovered for years.

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