# Sex, lies and video tape: Julie McGinley and the murder of husband Gerry McGinley Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-husband-gerry-mcginley Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-husband-gerry-mcginley.md Podcast: [The BelTel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912) Published: 2026-04-11T17:10:44+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-beltel/episodes/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-hus Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/e/69d9042fd3f0dd7747cbbbca/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-husband-gerry-mcginley Duration seconds: 1445 ## Resource On a spring morning in June 2001 an eight-year-old girl gathers moss for her grandmother’s hanging baskets in a forest near Ballinamore in Co Leitrim. The child lets out a scream, she had discovered a body.  The remains belonged to Enniskillen businessman, Gerry McGinley and it was clear that he been murdered.  He had been killed by his own wife Julie and her lover, in fact they were already in custody over it.  But it wasn’t a simple tale of adultery. It involved hotel sex with strangers, lies, blackmail and videotape – and included many prominent people in Fermanagh.   Andrew Madden researched this sordid story for the Belfast Telegraph.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-husband-gerry-mcginley/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sex-lies-and-video-tape-julie-mcginley-and-the-murder-of-husband-gerry-mcginley.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.