A call for a cardiac arrest brought police to a house on Portship Road in Dundalk in October of 1991 where they found 97-year-old Irene White dead in her bed, and an autopsy later determined she had been strangled.
“We were pretty shook up. You know. It was a murder on our own street,” recalled William Morrison who says the case has haunted neighbors in the decades since, making his aging mother think twice about her own safety, “It definitely made her, because my mother was already elderly at that time. My mother died in 2011 at the age of 89, but she was still pretty upset about it.”
Irene White left her mark on the community, co-founding the Dundalk Historical Society, and even in her twilight years, she was still talking a class through the community college and actively renting out rooms in her home.
While the murder has remained unsolved for 32 years now, neighbors tell us it’s not as if police never had a suspect.
“The police said they knew who it was,” said Morrison, “It wa...
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