AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.
At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney was alleged to have poisoned his wife. While awaiting trial in the psychiatric wing of a Rochester hospital, he escaped and vanished.
Years later, a charming stranger calling himself Michael O'Shea surfaced in Dublin.
Claiming roots in the west of Ireland, he married a local woman and sold his garage business to buy a grand country estate.
For years he lived as a country gentleman and worked at the pinnacle of Ireland's film industry - until a US extradition treaty exposed his true identity.
Arrested in 1985, Maloney escaped justice again when his trial collapsed on a technicality. He fled Ireland, leaving US and Irish investigators clueless as to his whereabouts - until an RTÉ Documentary on One podcast picked up his trail decades later.
Runaway Joe is the story of a man who reinvented himself with chilling ease - a portrait of a remorseless manipulator whose acts left devastation across continents. Pavel Barter is a reporter for The Sunday Times newspaper in Ireland who has produced and presented award-winning radio documentaries for RTE in Ireland and other broadcasters. These include Grief of a Nation, the story of an Irish photographer who captured the events surrounding JFK's assassination, which won Gold at the New York Festivals in 2021. An investigation into one of the oldest unsolved cases on the FBI's books, spanning six decades and the Atlantic Ocean. RUNAWAY JOE is based on a successful podcast that reached number 1 in Ireland and has 2 million downloads worldwide. The podcast won IMRO Podcast Series of the Year 2024 True crime books based on 1980s cases have been doing well in the Irish market The book will get strong RTÉ promotion Author has discovered new information since the airing of the podcast
