David Sullivan: The mystery of the headless alleged paedophile’s murder

David Sullivan: The mystery of the headless alleged paedophile’s murder

Author: Belfast Telegraph September 2, 2026 Duration: 18:51

In September 2000 a body was found in a bog in Fermanagh. This was not a so called ‘bog-body’, sacrificed long ago -  the body turned out to belong to local bus driver David Sullivan, who had gone missing 17 months earlier.  


There were things that were particularly disturbing about this discovery – the first of which was that Sullivan was the subject of dozens of allegations of child abuse, the second was that his body had no head. 


Olivia Peden is joined by Belfast Telegraph’s Andrew Madden and former DCI Norman Baxter. 


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