Ireland’s most notorious murderer still casts a disturbing spell

Investigating Malcolm Macarthur’s ‘criminal episode’ in 1982, Mark O’Connell finds uncomfortable similarities between himself and the dispassionate killer

From magazine issue: 08 July 2023

Malcolm Macarthur leaves court in Dublin in July 1983 to start his 30-year prison sentence. [Getty Images]

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