When a procession of police officers, detectives and State pathologists trooped into one of the high-end brownstone houses that line Tudor Lawns in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland, costumed head to toe in white overalls and shoes and blue gloves, residents were surprised.
When they finally came out at around 1.30pm, white masks over their mouths and noses, wheeling a body draped in a dark-red sheet into a waiting ambulance, the residents’ surprise fast escalated into worry.