The daughter of a woman abducted and murdered in the midlands 13 years ago today has issued a public appeal to catch her killer.
Marie Kilmartin (35) disappeared from her home in Portlaoise, Co Laois, in December 1993, and her body was found in a bog on the Laois/Offaly border six months later.
Marie's daughter, Aine, who only discovered in recent years that the dead woman was her mother, will be distributing leaflets today to begin her campaign to raise awareness about the unsolved murder.
Gardaí found Marie's fully clothed body under water in a bog drain. She had been strangled, and her killers had placed a concrete block on her chest to weigh her body down.
"Nothing that I could go through in my life - and I've been through a lot - could give me a hard heart to do something so callous to such a lovely woman," she told RTÉ Radio.
Aine is also launching a website - www.imom1512.com/ - in memory of the mother.
The murdered woman, who was originally from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, was classified as a missing person in Portlaoise, where she had lived for more than a decade. Her body was discovered in June 1994 more than 12 miles away.
Detectives have believed that one or more individuals with local knowledge of the midlands may be responsible for the murder.