A BOMBSHELL photograph has been found of fugitive and alleged murderer Joseph Maloney who's been on the run from the FBI for decades.
Maloney from Rochester, New York, has been on the run since 1967 when he was charged with first-degree murder after the death of his wife June Fisk.
Despite being caught 20 years later in 1985 living a new life with a new name in Ireland, he evaded police once again due to an extradition failure.
He is still wanted by the FBI today at the age of 88.
Paval Barter and Tim Desmond the creators of the RTE podcast Runaway Joe, are dedicated to uncovering Maloney's whereabouts and finally getting justice for Fisk.
With episodes being created in tandem with new research, fresh tips sent to the team by listeners are providing vital clues and information about Maloney.
As the podcasters close in on the real Joe Maloney and attempt to locate him, the new photograph could break open the case.
The picture could help identify the fugitive who is believed to be living under an alias.
According to RTE, the uncovered photograph from the early 1980s depicts Maloney as O'Shea when he was in his mid-40s working in Ireland.
The photograph shared with the podcast team by Michael Nagy, "updates the most up-to-date photo the FBI had of him by 20 years approximately," according to RTE.
"We’ve been contacted by people we never thought we could find, all of whom have a unique insight into Joe Maloney," Desmond and Barter said as part of the image release.
"Having been given access to testimony and memories from people who haven't spoken before - and as the series goes on – we hope that people who have information about Joe Maloney's life as a fugitive and of where he went after leaving Ireland in 1986 will now come forward.
"We’re hopeful too that someone somewhere might recognize the man in this newest photograph of Joe Maloney we’re releasing – as we believe Maloney changed his identity again in the late 1980s."
"We’ve had a lot of tips coming in," Barter told The U.S. Sun.
"As I said, he lived a larger-than-life existence in Ireland. A lot of people knew him; a lot of people met him so we are uncovering more and more information.
"Certainly more information than the authorities had, the Gardai had, and probably the FBI and the prosecutors' office in New York from tracking his movements and actions in Ireland."
"We believe that there are people out there who know where he went and have answers about where he went but have decided for one reason or another not to talk about it," he added.
Before the discovery of the photograph, when The U.S. Sun spoke to Barter and asked if Maloney could still be alive and living under another identity, he warned listeners and readers not the underestimate the man.
"There is a very real chance that he is still alive," Barter said.
"He would be 88 and the one thing that I’ve learned from this story is not to underestimate him."
One of the recent episodes of the podcast revealed that Maloney had a previous relationship before his marriage to Fisk.
As a result of the relationship, he had a secret daughter whom he never told Fisk or his second wife Sheila Chandler O'Shea about.
Jerry Johnston who worked with Maloney in Ireland in the 1970s while he was known as O'Shea, says in the podcast that he was "a spoofer from day one."
The recent revelations made in the podcast prove this statement to be true.
Barter explained to The U.S. Sun that Maloney could have a new family whom he is duping with his new identity and warned that "they might not even know what his past was and his background."
"There is no doubt about it that he had another identity even when he was in Ireland," Barter said,
"He must have had another identity," he said as Maloney will have needed it to evade police and border control checks after his second disappearance.
"That is one of the things that we are including as part of the appeal," Barter added.
"If anyone knew him and knew if he had a nickname or another name that he used - we know he had a wallet which was full of credit cards.
"[Were there] any strange names in that wallet? Because that’s how ultimately the authorities would trace him today is through a name - But without a name, you’re completely anonymous."
Anyone with any knowledge of Joseph Maloney aka Michael O'Shea is urged to contact the podcast researchers at: documentaries@rte.ie
