The Coldest Winter: The Murder of Marilyn Rynn and Ireland’s First DNA Conviction

In December 1995, 41-year-old Marilyn Rynn vanished while walking home from a Christmas party in Blanchardstown. When her body was discovered in Tolka Valley Park weeks later, Gardaí were left with a brutal crime scene and zero initial leads. This episode explores the harrowing tragedy and the relentless, massive police hunt that followed. Faced with a wall of silence, detectives turned to a radical new science—marking the historic first time DNA profiling was ever used to catch a killer and secure a murder conviction in Irish history.Narrated by AI.