Ireland Ireland - Annie McCarrick, 26, US citizen, Dublin, 23 March 1993

[The Man On The Stairs]

The serial killer people think killed AM is presently traveling around Europe?!
Who do they think it is?

Larry Murphy.

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[The Man On The Stairs]

Thanks, now i remember.
Although only convicted of this crime, Murphy is regarded as being the prime suspect in the disappearance of a number of young women in the mid to late 1990s in the Leinster area, when he was known to be living in the region. These women have become known in popular parlance having disappeared within "Ireland's Vanishing Triangle". The list of vanished women include:
"Annie McCarrick, 26 (1993)

1. Eva Brennan, 39 (1993)
2. Imelda Keenan, 22 (1994)
3. Jo-Jo Dollard, 21 (1995)
4. Fiona Pender, 25 (1996)
5. Ciara Breen, 17 (1997)
6. Fiona Sinnott, 19 (1998)
7. Deirdre Jacob, 18 (1998)

No other such disappearances occurred while Murphy was in prison.

In particular Murphy has been suspected of being responsible for the disappearances of Annie McCarrick, Jo-Jo Dollard and Deirdre Jacob, all of whom vanished close to the area where Murphy lived at the time. The bodies of these individuals have never been found despite massive searches and investigations for over 10 years. Despite intensive questioning by Gardaí (Irish police), Murphy denies any knowledge or involvement in the disappearance of these women. Murphy has been ruled out of as a suspect in the Dollard investigation.[11]"

"In June 2014, it was reported that he was living in South London under an alias, working as a carpenter"

That's the . He was chased out of South London last I heard. The murders all stopped as soon as he was arrested - I don't believe in coincidences. Ireland for all its faults we don't have serial killers to speak of - he'd be the last one we had. The country is too small for them to operate, thank God. We get plenty of gun and knife crime but never serial killers. The last woman murderer we had was some sicko from a posh area of Dublin who was into knifing - real piece of work. He groomed some mentally unstable woman he found on one of those sicko stab websites and murdered her. He got caught by pure luck and zero thanks to the cops. Doing a hotel stretch (as our jails are holiday camps) in prison as I write; keeps himself busy answering all his fan mail - yeah, go figure!!! Tons of messed up chicks writing to him wanting to have his babies. I think he's appealing his sentence, wouldn't surprise me if he gets released. Life over here only means a few years, tops. Jails are full and we don't really have a government (who does, says you), just self serving parasites who the plebiscite keep voting for over and over again for some reason.

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[The Man On The Stairs]

IMO, no way! I don't know from Enniskerry to Johnnie Fox’s, but from Dublin to JF’s, it’s a maze of steep narrow roads with hairpin turns, sparsely populated, with mostly farms along the way. Not even a petrol station or shop. I assume it’s the same from Enniskerry.

But why would she, without a car, travel from Dublin to Enniskerry? It’s sort of out in the middle of nowhere, a charming little village, but not much there except a few small shops and a cafe or two back in the 90’s, IIRC. Did she have a man from there whom she had been seeing who then drove her to Johnnie Fox’s?

Johnnie Fox’s is a zoo on most nights and a “must visit” for tourists. I’m sure it has its share of regulars, but the place is extremely busy. I don’t know how a doorman could keep track of a couple. Maybe a bar man could, but not a doorman, IMHO.

It's a hard one to figure out - nobody knows. There is zero transport up there - even to walk back to Kilternen from Fox's is a bit of a hoof; u can get a bus into Dublin city from there easy enough, but everybody's guess is she was meeting somebody - CCTV shows a man paying her into the live music part, that's the last footage of her. He never came forward and he isn't Murphy. But I doubt he was the killer. We don't know her state of mind and was possibly hitching out of there when abducted. But like u say, there is nothing up there at Fox's, it's miles away from Enniskerry. You wouldn't get a bus out of there unless u made it down to Kilternan before 11:20 p.m to the city center. Even then all other busses have stopped to connect u back to Sandymount from the city central by the time she would have got there - she could walk it back from the city, I suppose - but it is highly unlikely as there were no sightings of her that end - so, most likely tried hitching outside Fox's and got picked up by Murphy. I'm not saying the guy in the pub or some other cat could be responsible - but our history is not one of that type of predator - we have more domestic violence and rapists than u can throw a stick at, but not angry dudes who got refused of their amorous advances and went all kill mode. I just can't see it, not when the heat was on over all those missing women. Very frustrating. Murphy for me is the one - he lived near enough that route from Wicklow - those back roads there is no CCTV and zero lighting - perfect conditions for a serial out trawling.

 

[dotr]

If there are not many places to hide bodies, where could all the missing women be hidden, in water?
speculation, imo.

 

[The Man On The Stairs]

If there are not many places to hide bodies, where could all the missing women be hidden, in water?
speculation, imo.

Bogs. The mountains are full of them. Just a guess. Plus we have a joke of a police force that has zero resources. Near on 5 million people in the south and just over 13 - 000 cops to police it. Total waste of time. Unless u are connected by being a celebrity (and we have none of them lol) or a rich businessman/corporation who bribes bent politicians (basically the entire lot of them), or a politician, then don't expect much help from them. Basic crime is ignored. junkies infest our cities openly robbing tourists and nothing is done about it. Here's the difference between the States to this tiny little rock. In many of the states the DA trips over themselves to throw somebody into jail; here, they trip over themselves to keep violent offenders out of jail. So, somebody goes missing, they are not going to throw much at finding out why, whom or how. Violent crime has gone through the roof despite the lies the mainstream media spew to the contrary. I'm lucky, we relocated to what I can only describe as the land that time forgot - its like the 70's in my little village - even the teenagers are manageable. They're a bit naughty but so far so good, just typical teenagers bored acting out every now and again. Compare that to the towns and cities and its out of control. And I mean out of control. I wouldn't walk the street at night in any of our cities now, be taking my life into my own hands doing that. Crack cocaine has raised its ugly head to vie with the tried and tested favourite of angry disenfranchised youngsters, heroin, and I was reading the cannabis is getting laced with dangerous synthetics that can cause extreme psychosis. Its happening all over western Europe, the breakdown of society - it almost looks contrived to me hiding under the guise of political correctness.

 

[Bit of hope]

An older article, August 2010, after the release of Larry Murphy.

Marisa Mackle: My fears after the release of Larry Murphy and my memories of my vanished friend Annie McCarrick - Herald.ie

"Maybe he can start a new life abroad? How nice for him. With his new passport it would seem he can travel wherever he wants.

My friend Annie McCarrick however, will never travel again. I am still haunted by the memory of her tragic disappearance. Rarely a day goes by when I wonder where in the name of God she is buried.

What fate became that smiling, enthusiastic New York waitress? Where is her body? Where is her dignity? Why can her evil killer not let her parents have a funeral to finally get closure?

I still live in Donnybrook were we both worked. And every day I walk past the restaurant where I last saw Annie, unanswered questions still hanging menacingly in the air."

 

[The Man On The Stairs]

An older article, August 2010, after the release of Larry Murphy.

Marisa Mackle: My fears after the release of Larry Murphy and my memories of my vanished friend Annie McCarrick - Herald.ie

"Maybe he can start a new life abroad? How nice for him. With his new passport it would seem he can travel wherever he wants.

My friend Annie McCarrick however, will never travel again. I am still haunted by the memory of her tragic disappearance. Rarely a day goes by when I wonder where in the name of God she is buried.

What fate became that smiling, enthusiastic New York waitress? Where is her body? Where is her dignity? Why can her evil killer not let her parents have a funeral to finally get closure?

I still live in Donnybrook were we both worked. And every day I walk past the restaurant where I last saw Annie, unanswered questions still hanging menacingly in the air."

Man, so sorry for your loss. Puts into perspective really, doesn't it? I'm pissed over some evil and that he was most likely responsible for her disappearance. It's a faux anger really as I didn't know her, was not affected in any way by the events, didn't know the family, zero. It only really dawns the enormity when a person such as yourself who knew and loved their friend explains the gaping hole left in them with unanswered questions, and no doubt utter rage that as u said, this effing b****d can travel around Europe with impunity. So sorry again, friend.

 

[Jbetty567]

Alright. Seems like Larry Murphy is the suspect people overwhelmingly like in Annie’s case. But what about others? To me, the dashing off to get the bus, leaving groceries, indicates that she was going to meet someone. Someone she knew...

Someone upthread said two suspects were looked at in 2008... any idea who these guys are? And she had two exes apparently? Anyone know anything about them?

Finally, what about this guy Robert what’s his name ... the guy with the van who is in for raping a 14 year old. Thoughts?

 

[Bit of hope]

Actually everybody could have taken her...I think she died the day she went missing or maybe a night over....the thing is...where is her body....tracing back to possible perpetrators could give a lead back to her body....My main feeling is that I want her remains to be found...knowing she will never be around with her beautiful appearance any more. But that's my feeling....

 

[dotr]

April 13 2020
Lengthy article. rbbm
'Range of suspects are being watched' as new cold case review raises families' hopes
''Gardai investigating the disappearance of six women in the 1990s are monitoring the movements and habits of a range of suspects in some cold-case reviews.

The names of Annie McCarrick, JoJo Dollard, Fiona Pender, Ciara Breen, Fiona Sinnott and Deirdre Jacob are familiar to us, but for all the wrong reasons.

Although they never knew each other, they are connected to each other in our minds because they all vanished from the Leinster area between 1993 and 1998, never to be seen again.

Gardai have identified suspects in some of the cases, and even more than 20 years later they are still being monitored, often with the help of police forces in other jurisdictions if the suspect is abroad.

This is the job of the Serious Crime Review Team of An Garda Siochana, now headed by Detective Superintendent Desmond McTiernan.

His team has taken over the cold-case investigations from what was initially an investigation called Operation Trace, which was set up by then garda commissioner Pat Byrne in 1998.''

"There can be a very genuine reason why people don't talk at the time."


People shouldn't fear they would be accused of withholding information if they provided a lead now, he added.


"There is a confidence that people can have that they won't be judged. They won't be prosecuted and they won't be charged and they've nothing to fear."


It seems incredible that between 1993 and 1998 Annie, JoJo, Fiona Pender, Ciara, Fiona Sinnott and Deirdre all disappeared. That so many women could be murdered is incredible, but for no trace of them to be found is unimaginable.''


"I've often thought about it myself, how these young women could vanish in quick succession," said Det Supt McTiernan.

"In each investigation there was an awful lot of work done by the gardai at the time.

"One thing that does strike me is that the level of investigation was very intense and very deep back in the early 90s''

 

[Bit of hope]

April 13 2020
Lengthy article. rbbm
'Range of suspects are being watched' as new cold case review raises families' hopes
''Gardai investigating the disappearance of six women in the 1990s are monitoring the movements and habits of a range of suspects in some cold-case reviews.

The names of Annie McCarrick, JoJo Dollard, Fiona Pender, Ciara Breen, Fiona Sinnott and Deirdre Jacob are familiar to us, but for all the wrong reasons.

Although they never knew each other, they are connected to each other in our minds because they all vanished from the Leinster area between 1993 and 1998, never to be seen again.

Gardai have identified suspects in some of the cases, and even more than 20 years later they are still being monitored, often with the help of police forces in other jurisdictions if the suspect is abroad.

This is the job of the Serious Crime Review Team of An Garda Siochana, now headed by Detective Superintendent Desmond McTiernan.

His team has taken over the cold-case investigations from what was initially an investigation called Operation Trace, which was set up by then garda commissioner Pat Byrne in 1998.''

"There can be a very genuine reason why people don't talk at the time."


People shouldn't fear they would be accused of withholding information if they provided a lead now, he added.


"There is a confidence that people can have that they won't be judged. They won't be prosecuted and they won't be charged and they've nothing to fear."


It seems incredible that between 1993 and 1998 Annie, JoJo, Fiona Pender, Ciara, Fiona Sinnott and Deirdre all disappeared. That so many women could be murdered is incredible, but for no trace of them to be found is unimaginable.''


"I've often thought about it myself, how these young women could vanish in quick succession," said Det Supt McTiernan.

"In each investigation there was an awful lot of work done by the gardai at the time.

"One thing that does strike me is that the level of investigation was very intense and very deep back in the early 90s''

Thanks @dotr. I'm happy to see they still working on the cold cases. I hope fresh eyes, people maybe coming forward now and new forensic technology will eventually lead to solving them. Or at least find the bodies so this victims can be brought back to their families and laid to rest in a proper way.

 

[dotr]

July 6 2020
US lawyer and ex-FBI agent aim to crack cold case

Annie McCarrick
''A crack team from the US will travel to Ireland later this year in a bid to solve the mystery 1993 disappearance of American tourist Annie McCarrick.

Ms McCarrick was 26 when she was last seen taking a bus to Enniskerry. Her father John, who spent years trying to find out what happened to her, died in 2009 with no answers.

Now, a lawyer he hired in 1993 to help with the investigation into her disappearance has joined forces with a former FBI agent and Ms McCarrick's uncle, John Covell, to try to finally solve the mystery. The men have identified a prime suspect and are hoping to obtain access to the cold case file on the initial investigation.''

US team plans 'one last roll of the dice' to solve riddle of lost Annie
Catherine Fegan
July 06 2020 rbbm.
''The men have identified a prime suspect in the case and are hoping to get access to the cold case file on the initial investigation.

The men are being assisted by Brian McCarthy, an Irish private investigator who was initially hired by the McCarricks when their daughter went missing almost 30 years ago.

Mr McCarthy recently became aware of a witness statement allegedly given to gardai back in 1993, which puts a woman matching Annie's description in a local cafe in Enniskerry.

The private investigator, who used to work for the American embassy, believes the statement could put an entirely new timeline on the case.

At the time, gardai investigating Ms McCarrick's disappearance collected information to say that she had visited Johnnie Fox's Pub in the village of Glencullen, high in the Dublin Mountains.

Mr McCarthy and the US-based team do not believe that information to be true.
"She wasn't in Johnnie Fox's," said Mr McCarthy.''

TripAdvisor

 

[Bit of hope]

July 6 2020
US lawyer and ex-FBI agent aim to crack cold case

Annie McCarrick
''A crack team from the US will travel to Ireland later this year in a bid to solve the mystery 1993 disappearance of American tourist Annie McCarrick.

Ms McCarrick was 26 when she was last seen taking a bus to Enniskerry. Her father John, who spent years trying to find out what happened to her, died in 2009 with no answers.

Now, a lawyer he hired in 1993 to help with the investigation into her disappearance has joined forces with a former FBI agent and Ms McCarrick's uncle, John Covell, to try to finally solve the mystery. The men have identified a prime suspect and are hoping to obtain access to the cold case file on the initial investigation.''

Oh wow! Thanks for sharing. I wish with whole my heart this journey is going to turn out successful! Good thoughts for all three of them and for beautiful Annie.

BTW....I'm totally with them....it's my believe too, based on my own analysis of the available information, she was not in the Johnnie Fox. I can't wait for how this investigation will evolve

ETA

 

[MrsWatson]

Her updated Charlie Project entry. Nothing really new.

Wouldn't it be great it there was finally some closure for these families?

Updates – The Charley Project

 

[dotr]

Her updated Charlie Project entry. Nothing really new.

Wouldn't it be great it there was finally some closure for these families?

Updates – The Charley Project

Thanks for the link! rbbm.
''Last updated July 6, 2020; picture added, details of disappearance updated.''

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McCarrick, circa 1993
''McCarrick she left her apartment in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland on March 26, 1993 to spend a day in the Wicklow Mountains. She invited a friend to go with her, but her friend was unable to come and so McCarrick went alone. She was sighted on the 44 Bus from Ranelagh to Enniskerry, at 3:40 p.m.

Sometime between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. there was a possible sighting of her at Johnnie Fox's Pub in Glencullen, talking to a man who was in his twenties and wearing a waxed jacket. The woman believed to be McCarrick had gone to attend the Hooley Show, an event with traditional Irish music and dancing, and hadn't realized there was a £2 cover charge. Her companion paid for her, and continued to pay for her throughout the evening. No one saw the woman leave the pub, and the man who was with her has never been identified.

She had been to the pub before; it's a popular venue. After her disappearance, multiple people who'd been there that night recognized her picture in the
newspapers and came forward with their information. The sighting is believed to be credible, but it hasn't been confirmed.

McCarrick has never been seen or heard from again, and police believe she was murdered. Several other women went missing or were murdered in and around Dublin during this period; investigators think there was a serial killer operating in the area and McCarrick may have been one of his victims.

Two suspects in her presumed death were identified in 2008. Neither of them have been publicly named, but both of them lived in the Wicklow area in 1993 and neither of them have criminal records.

A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a now-defunct Irish nationalist terrorist organization, is also a suspect in McCarrick's disappearance. The man allegedly raped the twelve-year-old daughter of another IRA member and possibly other girls, and investigators believe the IRA sent him to the United States so he could escape prosecution. Authorities stated they believe McCarrick met the IRA member at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance and he murdered her. He has not been publicly identified.

A private investigator hired by McCarrick's father, however, believes she was never at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance, because he doesn't think she wouldn't have walked that far in the rain to get there. The evening was cold and wet, and McCarrick would have had to walk six kilometers, or 3.73 miles, from the bus stop to the pub.

The investigator puts credence in another sighting of McCarrick, by an employee of a small coffee shop called Poppies. The witness, who worked at Poppies at the time and is now deceased, believed she saw McCarrick with a man on the afternoon of her disappearance. The man paid for McCarrick to purchase a snack, and the two of them left. The private investigator believes this man, whom he thinks he has identified, may have killed McCarrick.

McCarrick was born and raised in Long Island, New York but moved to Ireland in 1987. She studied at St. Patrick's Training College in Drumcondra, Dublin, and later at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth. She went back to America in 1990 to get a master's degree, but returned to Ireland in January 1993 to settle.

After moving back to Ireland, McCarrick lived with two female roommates in Dublin, worked at a restaurant in Donnybrook, and was planning to become a teacher. Her mother was scheduled to visit her later in March. She never picked up her last paycheck from work, and it's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning.

The Charley Project is profiling McCarrick's case because she is an American citizen. She is described as an outgoing but naive, trusting woman.''

 

[Bit of hope]

Thanks for the link! rbbm.
''Last updated July 6, 2020; picture added, details of disappearance updated.''

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McCarrick, circa 1993
''McCarrick she left her apartment in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland on March 26, 1993 to spend a day in the Wicklow Mountains. She invited a friend to go with her, but her friend was unable to come and so McCarrick went alone. She was sighted on the 44 Bus from Ranelagh to Enniskerry, at 3:40 p.m.

Sometime between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. there was a possible sighting of her at Johnnie Fox's Pub in Glencullen, talking to a man who was in his twenties and wearing a waxed jacket. The woman believed to be McCarrick had gone to attend the Hooley Show, an event with traditional Irish music and dancing, and hadn't realized there was a £2 cover charge. Her companion paid for her, and continued to pay for her throughout the evening. No one saw the woman leave the pub, and the man who was with her has never been identified.

She had been to the pub before; it's a popular venue. After her disappearance, multiple people who'd been there that night recognized her picture in the
newspapers and came forward with their information. The sighting is believed to be credible, but it hasn't been confirmed.

McCarrick has never been seen or heard from again, and police believe she was murdered. Several other women went missing or were murdered in and around Dublin during this period; investigators think there was a serial killer operating in the area and McCarrick may have been one of his victims.

Two suspects in her presumed death were identified in 2008. Neither of them have been publicly named, but both of them lived in the Wicklow area in 1993 and neither of them have criminal records.

A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a now-defunct Irish nationalist terrorist organization, is also a suspect in McCarrick's disappearance. The man allegedly raped the twelve-year-old daughter of another IRA member and possibly other girls, and investigators believe the IRA sent him to the United States so he could escape prosecution. Authorities stated they believe McCarrick met the IRA member at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance and he murdered her. He has not been publicly identified.

A private investigator hired by McCarrick's father, however, believes she was never at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance, because he doesn't think she wouldn't have walked that far in the rain to get there. The evening was cold and wet, and McCarrick would have had to walk six kilometers, or 3.73 miles, from the bus stop to the pub.

The investigator puts credence in another sighting of McCarrick, by an employee of a small coffee shop called Poppies. The witness, who worked at Poppies at the time and is now deceased, believed she saw McCarrick with a man on the afternoon of her disappearance. The man paid for McCarrick to purchase a snack, and the two of them left. The private investigator believes this man, whom he thinks he has identified, may have killed McCarrick.

McCarrick was born and raised in Long Island, New York but moved to Ireland in 1987. She studied at St. Patrick's Training College in Drumcondra, Dublin, and later at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth. She went back to America in 1990 to get a master's degree, but returned to Ireland in January 1993 to settle.

After moving back to Ireland, McCarrick lived with two female roommates in Dublin, worked at a restaurant in Donnybrook, and was planning to become a teacher. Her mother was scheduled to visit her later in March. She never picked up her last paycheck from work, and it's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning.

The Charley Project is profiling McCarrick's case because she is an American citizen. She is described as an outgoing but naive, trusting woman.''

Yes, that's it. Essential new information.

 

[MrsWatson]

So, bouncing off the coffee shop sighting ( I didn't realize that was new, thought it had been mentioned in previous articles), was this a new acquaintance she'd just met or someone already known to her? If the investigator thinks he has identified the man, who would it be? Allegedly, she didn't have a new romantic interest. Could he be married? Why she didn't mention him? Or a very very new friend, as in that day she met him?

Living with two female roommates,though, I would think something like that would be hard to keep completely under wraps, if she was seeing someone on the down low like a married guy.

Would the investigator just come out and say it if he thought it was the Murray guy? Who, BTW, why is he out of prison??? That's a ridiculously lenient sentence and he's horror movie level of scary.

I never thought her walking to the pub that far in miserable weather sounded real plausible. I'm the same age as Annie would be, and it 1993, there is no way I'd walk that far in rain in cowboy boots and well, my hairdo. She looks like she took care in her appearance, so that never sounded likely. And just because it wasn't uncommon to hitch rides in Ireland then, she was from Long Island, in New York. and I don't think she'd be real comfortable hitching rides.

all MOO, of course.

 

[Bit of hope]

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I didn't have time to watch, but I thought I post it here and will look at it later.

 

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I didn't have time to watch, but I thought I post it here and will look at it later.

Finally had the time to look at it....to be fair....kind of a waste of time....of course a tribute is always wonderful, grant it everybody who is missing, but........

 

[TootsieFootsie]

New witness comes forward in 28-year-old cold case of missing Annie McCarrick


According to reports in The Independent, a witness has come forward in the last 18 months and has shared information on what they believe to be Annie McCarrick’s whereabouts before her disappearance in March 1993.

The American woman was last seen on Friday, March 26 that year, taking a bus to Enniskerry, however, a new witness claims to have another sighting of Annie.