He seemed to be almost enjoying the attentionĬallaly’s violent death, at her home in the Naul, in north Co Dublin, 17 years ago, shocked the nation. She sat rigid with rage, suspecting her daughter’s husband had committed the murder. Joe O’Reilly cajoled Rose Callaly into going on The Late Late Show to appeal for witnesses. But that obviously isn’t true in the case of the murder of Rachel Callaly (or Rachel O’Reilly as she was referred to in 2004).
It has also often confined itself to more obscure crimes, so that the viewer is on tenterhooks as to the eventual outcome. You could say it takes a forensic approach to true crime.
Rather than seek to apply a noir sheen to unspeakable real-life events, it soberly sets out the facts each week of a high-profile criminal investigation. The Case I Can’t Forget (RTÉ One, Monday, 9.35pm) is different. Just when you think the true-crime genre can’t turn any more crass or exploitative, along comes another 12-part Netflix series brimming with loopy conspiracy theories and filmed to resemble a Hollywood thriller.
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