By Associated Press Reporter Northern Ireland police announced Thursday they will sue to obtain all of the audiotaped interviews of former militants who described their wartime careers to a Boston College oral history project, a move designed to reopen scores of "cold case" murder investigations in the British territory. Police last year successfully sued Boston College to obtain 11 interviews of Irish Republican Army veterans discussing the 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of Jean McConville, a 38-year-old Belfast widowed mother of 10. Those tapes were used as a primary basis for arresting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who had been accused by some IRA interviewees of being the Belfast IRA commander at the time who ordered McConville's slaying.
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Boston College interviewed up to 40 former loyalist and republican paramilitaries about their role in the Northern Ireland troubles for an oral history project
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Tapes were meant to be kept secret until their deaths
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Police Service of Northern Ireland managed to get access to tapes involving the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville
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Gerry Adams was questioned over the murder based on evidence contained on the 11 recordings
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Now the PSNI want the entire audio archive from Boston College, saying it will help them with other cases
Jean McConville (left) was dragged from her home in West Belfast by the @placeholder in December 1972 and murdered