Irish murderer who strangled American nurse led perverted life tracking women to hook up with

The Irish murderer who strangled American nurse Mackenzie Michalski after a night out in Budapest was identified as a perverted fiend who frequently filmed women in public before they rejected his advances.Lorcan Tadgh Murphy – who was convicted on Thursday in the Nov.5, 2024, killing of Michalski in his Budapest apartment – kept troves of files of his secretly recorded encounters with random women on his computer, the Irish Independent reported.Hungarian police painted a theory of Murphy’s “perversion” using the recordings and digital diary entries where he said his only motivation in life was picking up and having sex with women.Murphy, who was 37 during his deadly encounter with the 31-year-old Michalski, had footage of 16 different women, all of whom declined his offers, according to the outlet.He kept a personal record of the best European cities where he found the most success with “hot and how willing” women were.He also made a record of his attempts with women, hoping to get to 1,000 before the fatal encounter with Michalski.Murphy claimed he had “a few whiskeys” at his apartment before going to a bar where he saw the New York native talking to another man, he told the Budapest Metropolitan Court on Tuesday.Michalski, who was working as a nurse in Portland, Ore., had just finished a European trip with a friend and was experiencing Budapest nightlife ahead of her return flight to the US.“I saw her three times [in the bar],” Murphy said, according to the outlet.

“Initially, Mackenzie was with another man.I saw her sitting on a bench.

She was looking at me.She kept looking at me.

I interpreted this as an invitation [to approach her].”Murphy eventually made his way closer to Michalski, where they ordered a few 16-ounce beers and talked before finding a “more secluded part of the bar.”The Irish man told the court he didn’t think Michalski was drunk as they left the bar to go to a nightclub to dance.Video footage captured the two...