‘Why I might have done what I did’: conversations with Ireland’s most notorious murderer

07/14/23 • 44 min

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Malcolm Macarthur was the wealthy, bookish socialite who shocked Ireland with a brutal double killing in 1982, and caused a major political scandal. I tracked him down and heard, for the first time, the tale he told about himself. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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