Runaway Joe

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1967. Rochester, New York. Joseph Maloney poisoned his wife at their son’s fifth birthday party. Following her death and awaiting trial, he escaped from the psychiatric wing of the state hospital and went on the run. A few years later a strange man named Michael O’Shea arrived in Dublin, claiming to have family in the Midlands and beginning to work in the film industry. He married Sheila Chandler and sold a house in Dublin, moving to a large country estate in the Midlands where he lived like a lord for a decade. In 1984 following an extradition treaty with the US he was again arrested and put on trial, but the case collapsed due to a constitutional legality. He then fled to East Berlin, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall he moved to Northern Cyprus, where he is believed to have died in 2005. This book is an investigation into one of the oldest unsolved cases on the FBI’s book.

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney was alleged to have poisoned his wife. While awaiting trial in the psychiatric wing of a Rochester hospital, he escaped and vanished.

Years later, a charming stranger calling himself Michael O'Shea surfaced in Dublin.

Claiming roots in the west of Ireland, he married a local woman and sold his garage business to buy a grand country estate.

For years he lived as a country gentleman and worked at the pinnacle of Ireland's film industry – until a US extradition treaty exposed his true identity.

Arrested in 1985, Maloney escaped justice again when his trial collapsed on a technicality. He fled Ireland, leaving US and Irish investigators clueless as to his whereabouts – until an RTÉ Documentary on One podcast picked up his trail decades later.

Runaway Joe is the story of a man who reinvented himself with chilling ease – a portrait of a remorseless manipulator whose acts left devastation across continents.

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Dimensions 23.4 × 15.3 cm
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Paperback

Pages

288

Language

English

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Dewey

364.1523092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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