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Her body was buried secretly on a beach in County Louth , about 50 miles from her home. The IRA did not admit their involvement until over 20 years later, when they passed information on the whereabouts of the body. After a prolonged search, co-ordinated by the Garda Síochána - during which the search area and time involved was expanded by the Gardaí - the search was abandoned, as no body could be located in the area specified by the IRA. In August 2003, her body was accidentally found by members of the public while walking on Shelling Hill beach. ''"A Garda escort accompanied the cortege to the border from where it made its way to Crumlin in County Antrim to be waked at the home of her son Michael. The funeral took place on Saturday with Requiem Mass at St. Mary's Church in Belfast. In his homily, Bishop of Down and Connor, Dr. Patrick Walsh referred to Mrs. McConville's killing as touching "the depths of depravity". Monsignor Tom Toner, a friend of the McConville family, said, "Jean McConville and the other disappeared will forever stand in judgement on the shame and guilt of their murderers". A Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Ruth Patterson , read out comments from Mrs. McConville's children. Mrs. McConville, a Catholic convert, was buried beside her husband, Arthur, a British soldier who died from cancer, in Holy Trinity graveyard, Lisburn , County Antrim . Her family contend that she was killed as a punishment for aiding a dying British soldier in West Belfast, but the IRA claimed that they had discovered she was passing information on local Republicans to the security forces via a secret radio transmitter. Jean McConville's children reject this claim and have called on the IRA to clear her name. SEE ALSO
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