Describe The Relationship Between The Victim And Killer Graham Dwyer

Before the internet most homicides were a personal matter. The victim and killer would know each other. Husband killed the wife, rival killed rival, friend killed friend, etc. During the crime investigation, the investigation officer would draw a bull’s eye around the victim and the closer the person would be to the victim the more likely they were the killer. This has changed since the rise of technology and with that the chance to be anonymous and thousands of miles away has arisen. The architect Graham Dwyer disguised himself as architect72 and fetishboy online where he found his victim Elaine O'Hara. These two started a sexual relationship that involved violence, knifes and bondage. Dwyer had severe urges to rape, stab, and kill a woman, which he mentioned to O’Hara in his text messages where he was simple “Sir” and she “Slave”.

O’Hara’s body was found September 2013, a year after she disappeared in 2012. Graham Dwyer never mentioned his name in the texts, had an anonymous username for his accounts online, and used a disposable phone bought under another name. This made it difficult to identify the killer since it could be anyone online, not just the close circle around the victim. If the summer in 2013 was not hot enough to reveal the two disposable Nokia phones and the SM gear, the murder would never have been linked to Graham Dwyer. Through the little information that was given by Graham through the texts, the analysis of the cell masts used the most by the Nokia phone, and data from a toll booth in Galway, the phone got linked to Graham. If these phones were never found, Graham could have gotten away with murder (Burrows 2017, Gleeson 2015, Lally