Crosshairs

Episode 4 : Veronica Guerin

If you’re an Irish gangster in the 1990’s the last thing you wanted, apart from seeing the inside of a jail cell, is for
Veronica Guerin to be writing about you. Through her dogged investigating and fearless reporting, Guerin
exposed the rotten underbelly of the Irish criminal underworld - becoming the most famous journalist in the
country in the process. That level of notoriety unsurprisingly put a target on the thirty-six year old’s back, and on
June 26th 1996, whilst stopped at a red light, Veronica was shot and killed by two men on a motorbike, a
murder which sent shockwaves across Ireland.
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With one squeeze of a trigger, or flash of a blade, the course of history can change forever.
In this series - we tell the stories of assassinations throughout history, plotting the path of the killer and victim, step by step, until they meet. We examine the fall out, following the assassination of world leaders. We reveal how cultural icons were targeted, and why. And we unpack stories which you may never have heard about before.
From What's the Story Sounds - and narrated by Jonathan Guy Lewis - Crosshairs is your weekly dose of crime and history, with new episodes every Thursday.