Experts open high-tech search in Irish bogland for grave of Belfast man killed by IRA in 1972
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Forensic experts have begun a high-tech search for the unmarked grave of an Irish Republican Army victim, a long-unresolved part of Northern Ireland's peace process.
Lead investigator Geoff Knupfer said Monday that ground-penetrating radar and a sniffer dog would be used to try to find the remains of Joe Lynskey, a Belfast IRA member who disappeared in 1972.
Knupfer's team is surveying a six-hectare (15-acre) field in County Meath northwest of Dublin near where remains of another long-missing IRA victim were found Oct. 1. Knupfer says he believes the IRA dumped several bodies in Meath bogland in the 1970s.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The IRA admitted in 2010 that it killed Lynskey, and IRA intelligence officer. The outlawed organization said it punished Lynskey for having an affair an imprisoned IRA member's wife.