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Retired officer Woods: Elaine's murder was taped

- MICHAEL O'TOOLE

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GRAHAM Dwyer filmed himself murdering Elaine O'Hara - and hid the video of the gruesome crime, the investigator who nailed him says.

"I have no doubt that he did film it," Peter Woods says in an exclusive interview with the Irish Mirror today.

And, speaking for the first time since Dwyer's jailing for life 10 years ago for the murder of Ms O'Hara, Mr Woods says he and other officers carried out a search for the video - but could not find it.

Mr Woods spent 32 years in the Gardai until his retirement late last year and investigated serious crimes for most of his time in the force - but says he has never seen anything like Dwyer's murder of Ms O'Hara in the Dublin Mountains in August 2012.

He tells us: "I've been involved in a lot of cases including where fellas have gone after minors for sexual purposes and all that.

"But I've never seen anything like (Dwyer). I don't think there are too many of those individuals around here. I'd say he's very, very unusual and rare."

Dwyer has been locked up ever since then Det Sgt Woods and colleagues from Blackrock Garda Station in south Dublin called to the architect's home in Foxrock on October 17, 2013 to arrest him for Elaine's murder.

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The arrest came just over a month after the remains of Elaine were found in Killakee Wood, also in south Dublin, following her disappearance more than a year earlier.