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Beyond the Tape: The Life and Many Deaths of a State Pathologist

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You can’t please everybody. I worked in an industry where everything I said isn’t going to suit one lot and it’s not going to fit the other lot… I’m quite used to criticism. I just think that’s your opinion… If people don’t like what I’m doing than I’m sorry to upset people but it’s just fun… READ MORE - RTE viewers full of praise for Dr Marie Cassidy after watching episode two of Dr Cassidy’s Casebook The idea for her book came when she was approaching retirement. Over the years, she had become used to fielding interview requests, but was always advised to stay away in case she said the wrong thing, "which I did very regularly". For years, Cassidy made regular appearances in the media and became a role model for women interested in science. Asked if she considered herself a feminist, she shrugs. Among the group was Detective Chief Inspector John Fraser, a well-dressed senior detective whom Terry had met at a forensic medicine conference on deaths in custody some months before.

With Donegal roots, the former State pathologist grew up in Glasgow and has an older brother and a younger sister. As someone with such a successful career, Marie Cassidy seems like the type of person that always works hard at what she does — whether it’s in her field or on the dance floor. People lied and told me it had improved, it has not improved one bit but hey ho, let's just go with it.” Speaking ahead of her jive dance with partner Stephen Vincent, Marie said she ‘does’t need more seriousness’ in her life.I can't stand children, never wanted them but I ended up having two, God bless the poor ones," she laughed. The belt was taken as evidence and sent to the forensic science lab which confirmed the staining was Mary's blood. Meanwhile, her mother became the breadwinner. "When my dad became ill and then died, she had to take over the coal business and go out on the lorry," says Cassidy. "Not that she was carrying the bags of coal. She would have drawn the line at that. She recounts visiting a department store in Glasgow on her lunch break after a morning examining a badly decomposed body found in a wooded area. The deceased, she concluded, had likely died from alcohol or natural causes. Manuela’s mother and father set up the Manuela Riedo Foundation in Ireland to raise awareness of and prevent sexual crime in the country. It helps to fund charities and agencies who provide support to victims of rape and sexual violence. Shame on us: they lost a Swiss angel and we gained vital services for victims of sexual assault.

McDonnell, Ciara (11 May 2021). "Dr Cassidy's Casebook: A harrowing look behind the scenes of some of Ireland's most gruesome deaths". Irish Examiner . Retrieved 6 September 2022.

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She became Ireland's State Pathologist from 2004 until 2018, her image synonymous with breaking news of high-profile cases - a trusted figure in turbulent times.

It was humbling to meet them and express my sympathy for their loss, the loss of their ‘angel’. They presented all of us with a small porcelain figurine of an angel lest we forget Manuela. Mine looks down on me as I sit at my desk, a constant reminder of the fragility of life. Cassidy, who retired from her role as State pathologist in 2018, was very much looking forward to putting on her glad rags and taking to the dancefloor for the new season of the RTÉ show. I think it was just this old adage that if you don’t see somebody doing something, you don’t think of doing it yourself. And women just hadn’t thought to go into it because it’s not for everybody." I’m a bit like that. I’ll work very hard but at the end of the day, it should be fun, but I will take it very seriously. I think I’ve got middle child syndrome — you’re the serious one, the one that everybody depends on, so you know you have to do things well.”

Forensic pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy on her life at the frontline of death

Last year, she presided over Cold Case Collins, a two-part show that aimed to find out the truth about Michael Collins’ death on his centenary. At the start of this year, she turned up on Dancing With The Stars, where she performed as Cruella de Vil in a 101 Dalmatians-themed dance before she was voted off on the second week.

You have to be able to cope with it and that’s maybe where the strength comes in. You can deal with the situations and it doesn’t affect you, you don’t take it home, you can’t.” The woman, who was believed to have died in a housefire, was actually found to have been stabbed several times. Former state pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy has been a storyteller throughout her career. In court, it was how she got her message through to jurors, so they understood what had happened to the person at the centre of a crime. Her memoir, Beyond the Tape (2020), was peppered with tales of cases she’d encountered over her 20-year career in Ireland. Her latest story, though, is a work of fiction. And this one would be particularly unpleasant. ‘There’s no sign of a bag or a phone. But you might find something when you have a close look.’ At the far side of the lake was a large white van with ‘Technical Bureau’ emblazoned on it. As she and Fraser approached, Terry spotted two men in white coverall suits wrestling with a body bag. It’s an opportunity to say that was then and this is now. Now’s an opportunity to enjoy a bit of life and that’s all I’m doing.’Death is not a headline or an obituary notice, it is something that will happen to us all. I have witnessed death in all its guises. This book is an attempt to enable you to see with my eyes, to walk carefully in my footprints beyond the police tape.” Why do these women die at the hands of someone in their bed rather than someone under their bed? When it comes to women being killed it’s not the bogeyman, it’s someone they know.”

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