Ireland Esra Uyrun, 38, mother. Left in car to go shopping, never returned. Dublin. 23 February 2011

[GuyfromCanada]

FEB 24, 2025

THE family of missing Esra Uyrun, whose car was last seen in Bray, Co Wicklow, have pleaded with gardaí to allow them to examine unseen CCTV footage that they believe could hold the key to solving the baffling case.

The 38-year-old mother-of-one was last seen leaving her home in Clondalkin, west Dublin, on the morning of February 23, 2011.

More at Family of woman missing for 14 years call for unseen CCTV footage to be examined

 

[starlightstarbright]

I don’t know the geography of Ireland well at all, so had to look these locations up. The distance between her house and Bray Head is a 21 minute drive.

I was also curious about these keys and found this article. Maybe they aren’t all that related to her disappearance:

“The owner told her the keys were found on a counter in the takeaway at some stage before Christmas and were hung on a hook.

The owner recognised the photo on the keyring after Ms Fidan put up a poster of her sister in the shop.

Gardai confirmed the keys fitted the car found in Bray.

Ms Fidan said Esra and Ozgur lost a set of keys six months before Esra's disappearance but these particular keys only turned up a year after the disappearance.”

Missing Esra's car keys found in a takeaway

A SET of keys for a car owned by missing woman Esra Uyrun turned up in a Dublin takeaway several months after her disappearance. The 38-year-old mother vanished on February 23 last year after leaving her home in Clondalkin to go to the shop.

m.independent.ie

 

[tennison]

Can anyone corroborate the story about her "going to the shop for milk"? I presume this statement was given by the husband who she lived with? I hope they took a look at him. Who knows if she even left that house alive. Especially as the timing was given as a very specific 7.15am but it takes her 30 minutes to get to a roundabout 5 minutes away? It also said they couldn't establish who was driving the car?

Screams foul play to me whether it was someone close to her or a random opportunist (statistically we know who it usually is).

JMO

The time anomoly could have been a slip up by the husband, the neighbour said she saw her leave in the car at 7.15am but at that time of the year it was still fairly dark, and if you were up you would have your indoor lights on looking through your window, how accurate could you be as to who got into that car.

 

[saztina]

Esra is missing 15 years today.

 

[annpats]

I'm thinking familial involvement, some sort of honour killing with this.
MOO.

 

[JellyBee]

I hope they took a look at him

Yeah I hate to be the person accusing the husband, but I just have a feeling something happened at home, probably the night before. If they treated it like a suicide, it makes me wonder what they actually did in terms of an investigation in the home.

Did they drive two separate cars? If they did, was his car ever checked on ANPR? Who was the last person to actually see or speak to her alive, bar the neighbour? What did her phone data show?

I don’t put any stock in the neighbours statement whatsoever. So many people come forward claiming they have seen someone and it later turns out they were already dead. People get days mixed up or just make assumptions all of the time, i.e it’s her car so probably her. I remember this being a massive issue in the Tia Sharp investigation.

 

[Melt71]

www.dublinlive.ie/news/heartbroken-family-missing-esra-uyrun-33452975

19 February 2026

.....
"We are living a nightmare with no answers," she said. "It only feels like a couple of days ago and all of a sudden it is 15 years."

Berna, who has made her annual trip to Dublin for Esra's anniversary, said she met with investigators of the case on Wednesday morning and she now hopes a fresh team might bring new momentum to the long‐running case. "The investigator is moving on and another investigator is taking over the case, so we hope a fresh set of eyes might help," she said......