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Kerry Babies Case: New Investigation File Sent to Prosecutors

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Gardaí in Kerry submit investigation file on the 1984 Kerry Babies case to the Director of Public Prosecutions, potentially bringing closure to the decades-old mystery of Baby Johns death. Despite Joanne Hayes exoneration, the case remains unsolved, with over 560 leads followed and two individuals arrested, both released without charges. Officials remain silent on next steps, leaving the community in suspense.

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Kerry Babies Case: New Investigation File Sent to Prosecutors

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Belfast News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Kerry Babies Case: New Investigation File Sent to Prosecutors. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

I'm Cory with the story, and you've been listening to Europe News today, AI-powered European coverage. Guardi and Carrie, just in a full investigation file to the director of public prosecutions on the death of Baby John, a five-day-old boy found stabbed. Multiple times in a bag on White Strand Beach in Cohersevin, back on April 14, 1984, that grim discovery sparked the infamous Carrie Baby's case, where local woman Joanne Hayes got arrested and charged as the mother, but charges dropped. Fast, leading to a tribunal probe into Belize handling. DNA tech later proved Hayes wasn't connected, but she always said, and in 2018, the Ziazia, Wiaziaq, Justice Minister, and Guardi all issued, formal apologies to her for the ordeal. Since a review kicked off in January 2018, they've chased over 560 leads, interviewed hundreds, exhumed the baby's remains. Her checks that September, and even arrested a man in his 60s and a woman in her 50s

last March, though both walked free without charges. Now with this file in prosecutor's hands, the case that haunted Carrie for decades edges toward possible answers, as officials stay tight-lipped on, next steps.

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