Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

Very expensive butter - could it have been inexpensive wine?

People wouldn't necessarily have carried notebooks with phone numbers around with them. Some people did, others didn't. I remember my parents had one in the house but it's not as if they brought it around with them out of the house. I was 20 in 1993 and still living with parents, but frankly I wouldn't have had enough numbers to even bother getting a notebook and writing them down, I might have remembered a few in my head, that was it. The person who made this call to Annie's mum would have been a few years' older at that time, mid to late 20s I think? Thinking of friends/work colleagues of his age or similar, I don't know if they typically carried notebooks with numbers in their bags/handbags/wallets/suit or jeans pockets - some did, some didn't. People who were self-employed or running their own businesses would have I'd guess, for work reasons. People who were PAYE employees - not necessarily, some would,others wouldn't.

I had a small pocket diary about the size of an iPhone that had a phone numbers section at the back - I kept all my contact numbers there but didn’t carry it around - I wasn’t self employed at the time - but if I was I would likely have had a Filofax or similar on the go - a few friends who were in the music industry at the time relied totally on their diaries for example - but close friends, I would have known their numbers by heart- still do to this day

There would have been CCTV footage of her in the AIB that morning. Why did they only release footage from a week earlier as part of the appeal to the public

Don't know, but where are you seeing that she definitely went to AIB on that morning? Even if she did or didn't, I'm not sure if it's significant. The Quinnsworth receipt shows she was alive and well and in Sandymount on that morning.

Were the two brothers involved in a car rental business? Think I read that one or both lived in the Sandymount area but can’t find the article.

In 2025, the average housing estate in Dublin or anywhere in Ireland, could have a dozen people who would fit the description "millionaire business man" or woman, most if not all with no public profile whatever. Bear in mind, he most likely wasn't a millionaire businessman back in 1993. Millionaire or multi-millionaire businessmen or women who have a high public or media profile usually have such because that's what they choose to have, or because having such a profile is considered important or necessary in their business.

Annie supplied Cafe Java with confections - the ingredients were for that purpose

First mention of dinner couple in IT seems to be 8 October 1993. Six months later.

My guess is they are both involved in the letting of high end properties

One year on from the disappearance and the US lawyer (who was on Morning Ireland this week) suggests that there were “other avenues” that could be looked at. Not just Enniskerry.

14 February 1995

The bus number is now an 18 which ran from Sandymount to Palmerstown (via Ranelagh).
Must be an error in reporting? Or another incorrect sighting?

Re the latest extract New Scottsman put up from the IT archives, the "paper of record" not looking too good, is it?

And TV crews apparently

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/06/13/annie-mccarrick-cold-case-murder-detectives-must-overcome-poor-investigations-of-1990s/

Not a bad piece…but of course, as usual with the media, they don't criticise their own. Especially when their own is the self-styled 'paper of record' (cough, splutter).

From the article: "In the cases of Ms Dullard and Ms Jacob, it is believed they were abducted and killed in sexually motivated opportunistic attacks, which are highly unusual."

So BG and LM. Even in the two cases where it's suspected it wasn't ex or then current boyfriend/partner, it wasn't a random psycho prowling the backroads and fields, it was separate individuals.

She was only in the Sandymount apt a few mths. All her friends might not have her new no and if only for incoming calls, and with her working long hrs, they relied on her contacting them? Initially it was a missing person inquiry and perhaps the earlier bank photo was decent one to give a likeness. It also showed her rather distinctive leather shoulder bag.