EVIL killer Graham Dwyer no longer receives “love letters” from female fans looking for a relationship with him.
The banged-up 52-year-old used to receive scores of letters every year from women in Ireland and abroad, anxious to connect with him.
But prison sources say the so-called “love letters” have now dried up and women, for various reasons, don’t want anything to do with the former architect any more.
Married dad Dwyer became one of Ireland’s most notorious murderers after his brutal killing of childcare worker Elaine O’Hara in 2012 sent shock waves across the country.
Her remains were found in the Dublin Mountains in 2013.
Dwyer is serving a life sentence at the Midlands Prison, and a jail source said: “The fan mail for Graham Dwyer has more or less stopped.
“There are little or no women writing to him anymore — in fact, he gets zero fan mail. He has now served ten years in jail and is getting older by the day.
“He has lost his boyish looks and is probably not the attraction that he used to be.
“I also think when women look at what he did to his victim, they might think to themselves, why would I want anything to do with a fella like him? It is a big blow to his inflated ego that women are not queuing up to write to him any more.”
Following a harrowing nine-week trial, evil Dwyer, from Foxrock, was convicted by unanimous verdict of stabbing 36-year-old Elaine to death in the Dublin Mountains.
The married man, who was filmed knifing sexual partners and admitted having an affair with his vulnerable victim, was hit with the mandatory life sentence.
Judge Tony Hunt told the court that he “110 per cent agreed” with the jury’s decision based on the evidence — which on three occasions was too gruesome for the public to be allowed to remain in the court.
Deluded Dwyer had pleaded not guilty ahead of the trial and did not give evidence, confident he would walk from court a free man.
The prosecution case summed up with the assertion he was “a sadistic and brutal pervert with nothing on his mind other than murder”.
Evidence from mobile phones used by Dwyer and his victim were central to the prosecution.
EVIDENCE FROM TRIAL
One text from the killer stood out in the evidence: “I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I’d like to stab a girl to death some time.”
Another sick message said: “My urge to rape, stab or kill is huge. You have to help me control or satisfy it.”
On the face of it, married Dwyer was living a normal life in a well-to-do part of south Dublin with his wife and children, working in a successful architects’ practice and enjoying a hobby of flying model planes.
Meanwhile all along he had been developing a deviant sexual affair after meeting his victim online.
State lawyers claimed he toyed with the idea of three potential victims, including Darci Day, a young woman from Maine in the US, who also met Dwyer on the internet and gave evidence via videolink.
Childcare worker O’Hara’s remains were found in a forest on Killakee Mountain on September 13, 2013.
She had been reported missing 13 months earlier.
No murder weapon was ever recovered, and due to her badly decomposed remains dental records were used to identify her, and an autopsy could not explain how she died.
A new Amazon Prime documentary on the brutal killing recently revealed startling images of the sex killer in O’Hara’s Dublin home.
Murderer Behind the Mask, released last month, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the major garda investigation which eventually led to Dwyer’s conviction.
The two-part series features startling images of Dwyer and O’Hara separately entering Belarmine Plaza, despite the architect’s initial denials that it was him on camera.
Detective Sergeant Kevin Duggan told producers the task of trawling through footage was similar to looking for a “needle in the haystack”.
Speaking on the Amazon Prime show, Duggan explained: “On the day that Elaine O’Hara was reported missing, a decision was made by the detective superintendent in charge to seize the hard drive of all the CCTV footage for Elaine’s apartment block should we need it at some stage in the future.
“At the time of the murder investigation I was given the job to coordinate all CCTV footage relating to the apartment block where she lived.
“It was a fairly mammoth task to review this footage. There was something like over 5,300 hours. It was like looking for the needle in a haystack.
WHO WAS ELAINE O HARA
ELAINE O’Hara was 36 years old when she was murdered by Graham Dwyer.
She was last seen in August 2012 in a park in Shanganagh, south Dublin.
Born on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, in 1976 in Dublin, Elaine was raised in the capital and educated in Ballybrack and at St Joseph of Cluny secondary school in Killiney.
As a teen, she was bullied at school and lost a close friend in a road accident.
This led her to spiral into isolation, becoming withdrawn and self-harming on occasion.
Two major setbacks in her life were the death of her mother in March 2002 and the death of Prof Clare in October 2007.
She was admitted to St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, Dublin – now St Patrick’s Hospital – 14 times between 1992 and 2012.
Elaine revealed to specialists she had been tormented by a “play in her head” – an obsession with being restrained – since the age of 12.
She was under the care of Professor Anthony Clare for 16 years, who said she did not have psychosis but diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and depression.
Elaine also suffered from asthma and diabetes and was dyslexic.
She moved out the family home in Killiney in 2005 to an apartment in Blackrock.
Eventually she’d move to Stepaside in 2008.
She took night classes in Dun Laoghaire to become a Montessori teacher and worked as a childcare assistant at a school in Ballybrack and part-time at Ken’s newsagents in Blackrock.
A month before her murder, in July 2012, she had contacted St Edmundsbury herself and got admitted.
Her dad Frank and multiple doctors said they thought she’d been “doing better” before she vanished that August.
Her family, in a victim impact statement read to court in 2015, described Elaine as a “very intelligent girl who never fully realised her potential due to her psychological difficulties”.
They added: “She was prescribed a lot of medication and this did have an impact on her ability to be a regular teenager, particularly socially.
“She was emotionally immature and very trusting of anyone who showed her kindness.
“In later years her medication was reduced, hospital stays became less common and she functioned more effectively. However, she had missed out on those important, formative teenage years.
“She had a strong work ethic and loved working with children, as she could relate to them better than to adults.
“She was always there to help and assist others, giving lifts, covering shifts at work or collecting many of the items for the Christmas Fair at school.
“Elaine adored her niece who was also her goddaughter and loved reading, painting and playing with her.
“Elaine’s ambition was to be a teacher and she was studying Montessori.
“In 2014, we collected a BA in Montessori education which was awarded to her in St Nicholas Montessori school.
“She would have been so happy and proud to stand up in her gown and hat to accept that degree herself after overcoming many obstacles to finally get the qualification she longed for, but unfortunately this was not to be.”
“We were looking through CCTV footage but we really didn’t know what or who we were looking for.
“At one stage while reviewing the CCTV, one particular individual enters the apartment block.
“We hadn’t noticed this male enter before. It was someone new to us.
“He piqued our attention a little bit when he seemed a little bit uncomfortable, he seemed to be hiding his face from the camera.
“Also when he went to push the button for the lift he covered his hand with his sleeve of his jumper.
“That alerted us a little bit, that was a bit of a red flag.”
In court, Detective Sergeant Duggan also gave evidence that he and his team had viewed hours of CCTV footage from the apartment block at Belarmine Plaza in Stepaside.
This was shown to Dwyer’s son and former co-workers during proceedings, and the man in the images was later confirmed to be Dwyer.
The new documentary follows gardai as they uncover a “very surprising suspect”.
