The daughter of a woman abducted and murdered in the midlands 13 years ago has issued a public appeal for information to help catch the killer or killers.
Marie Kilmartin, 35, disappeared from Portlaoise in mid-December 1993.
Six months later her body was found hidden at a bog on the Laois-Offaly border.
Marie Kilmartin's daughter, Áine, has been distributing leaflets in Portlaoise in her campaign to raise awareness about this unsolved murder.
It is only in recent years that Áine discovered that Marie was her mother.
Today she launched a website in her mother's memory, www.imom1512.com, which will serve as a permanent reminder of the unsolved case.
For almost six months Marie Kilmartin, who was originally from Ballinasloe, was classified as a missing person last seen in Portlaoise, where she had lived for over a decade.
Then in June 1994 almost 20km away on the Laois/Offaly border, her body was discovered.
Ms Kilmartin's body lay beneath water in a bog drain. She was fully clothed and had been strangled. Her killer or killers had placed a concrete block on her chest to weigh her body down.
Gardaí have long believed a person or persons with local knowledge of this part of the midlands may be responsible for the unsolved murder.
