Timeline of a murder

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

Noon: Elaine O'Hara (36) is released from St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, a psychiatric unit where she has been a voluntary patient since July 14th. Graham Dwyer is in contact with her via texts, and instructs her to meet him that evening for "punishment" at a place he has selected in the Dublin mountains.

She visits her father Frank O’Hara and her niece in Killiney and they visit her mother’s grave at Shanganagh Cemetery.

4pm: O'Hara goes to her apartment at Belarmine Plaza, Stepaside, visits a pharmacy, and rings the newsagent where she worked part-time to inquire about shifts.

5.05pm: O'Hara is captured on CCTV driving out of Belarmine.

5.45pm: O'Hara is last seen by a jogger, Conor Guilfoyle, crossing the railway bridge at Shanganagh Park, close to the cemetery.

6pm: Dwyer sends her a last text message from his "master" phone to her "slave" phone: "Go down to shore and wait".

6pm to 9.15pm: Dwyer's work phone is switched off. He has taken O'Hara to Killakee mountain and murdered her, disposing of her belongings at the Vartry reservoir then or some time later.

Thursday, August 23rd 2012

O’Hara does not turn up as a volunteer at the Tall Ships Festival. Her father becomes concerned about her whereabouts and texts her, “Are you alive?”

Friday, August 24th, 2012

O’Hara’s family reports her missing and find her car at Shanganagh Cemetery. There is a search in the park, cemetery and along the coastline. Her apartment is also briefly searched.

Friday, August, 31st, 2012

Gardaí seize items from O’Hara’s apartment, including chains and padlock, a PVC dress, bedding, a rope, and a gas mask. Her two iPhones and two laptops are examined.

Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

Fisherman William Fegan and two friends see a rope and something shiny in the Vartry reservoir, near Roundwood, Co Wicklow. The water level is very low due to a dry summer. They recover handcuffs, restraints, a ball gag, a blindfold, and clothing. They leave the items on the bridge.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

William Fegan returns to the reservoir, collects the items and brings them to Roundwood Garda station. Garda James O’Donoghue receives them.

Friday, September 13th, 2013

Magali Vergnet discovers bones while out walking her dog at Killakee Mountain, Rathfarnham. She tells the landowner, who contacts gardaí.

Saturday, September 14th, 2013

Deputy State Pathologist Michael Curtis and anthropologist Laureen Buckley examine the remains at the scene and at Dublin City Morgue. They cannot determine the cause of death.

Monday, September 16th, 2013

Garda James O’Donoghue, on his third visit to the reservoir, retrieves a set of keys with loyalty cards, along with a leather bondage mask, an inhaler and other items.

Tuesday, September 17th, 2013

The keys are confirmed as O’Hara’s when Dunnes Stores identifies her via its loyalty card. O’Donoghue enters her name in the Pulse system, finds she is missing, and contacts the investigation team. Follow-up searches of the reservoir yield further items, including a Nokia phone.

On the same day, Dr Mary Clarke, an oral surgeon at the Dublin Dental Hospital, identifies the remains at Killakee as those of O’Hara, using her dental records.

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

Gardaí return to Belarmine to retrieve O’Hara’s mattress. It shows evidence of having been punctured and contains blood stains.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Det Sgt Peter Woods and other officers investigate the possibility that the sender of a text found on O’Hara’s phone referring to flying was not a pilot, as they had first supposed, but a model aircraft fan. After an internet search, the full name of Graham Dwyer is on Woods’s radar for the first time.

Monday, October 7th, 2013

Garda divers return to Vartry reservoir and retrieve further objects, including another Nokia pay-as-you-go phone and a pair of glasses owned by O’Hara, as well as sex toys.

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Gardaí arrive at Dwyer’s home at Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, at 7am. Dwyer is arrested and a search is carried out. A simultaneous search of Dwyer’s workplace, A&D Wejchert in Lower Baggot Street, takes place.

Among the items recovered are external hard drives with video clips of Dwyer having sex and cutting O’Hara and other women. Documents found include “Killing Darci”, a story about killing American woman Darci Day.

Friday, October 18th, 2013

After 24 hours in custody and five Garda interviews, Dwyer is charged with the murder of O’Hara.