Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

Dunno. It's frustrating that the dig hasn't found anything so far, even with cadaver dog being put to work - same in most (if not all) of the other cases. As another poster said, seems extraordinary if suspect would have consented to sale of parents' house if there were any remains buried there, but maybe as he wasn't the executor of the will, he didn't have a choice? But if a wealthy man as the media articles state and some links I've been shown back up, surely could have stepped into buy out siblings' interests in house from them? Perhaps he may have offered to buy siblings' interests but was turned down flat….no way of us knowing at this point, we don't know what family dynamic is or was. Bear in mind are other siblings also.

edit:probably worth bearing in mind house sale was 2011, economy/property market still very depressed then, so even if suspect is wealthy now, back then may not have been: if it's true, as has been speculated that, he himself is involved in property investment, most people in that game were struggling back then, even the smart and canny operators. The less smart and canny ones and those who over-invested often had to declare bankruptcy or were at best technically insolvent, at least for a few years, before recovery in market from 2013/14 onwards.

Back in 2011, a lot of them ie, those involved in property investment, had to go 'cap-in-hand', as it were (lol), to their banks for interest moratoriums and debt rearrangements and so on and in some cases were turned down.

doubt it, Damien Rice might have at some stage

Cadaver dog is very particular about getting his overtime rates. No I'm joking, I have no idea.

The independent said yesterday the search will continue into the weekend with the dog onsite as well

I would think given he's living in France, a potential least lack of interest in pursuing his prosecution due to time passed and jurisdiction, the brother may well be able to provide a statement without any concerns about prosecution perhaps. Maybe they were able to come up with a compromise of "I cannot stand behind my original alibi statement" or something similar, and leave the rest of the sleeping dogs lie for him, and just focus on going after the brother.

Possibly, yes. Get the ball rolling on search for Annie early on and thus put AGS/media resources into search, while using the time to cover tracks.

"oh gosh, yes, I heard Annie was missing, my brother was saying he was invited to a meal at her gaf but apparently was no answer when he arrived at her apartment, how awful, I must do my bit to help find her"

And then he turns up being, shall we say, 'overly helpful' in the initial searches, according to a friend of Annie's who knew both her late father and her uncle. So he was overly helpful to get a steer on where the AGS were going with the investigation.

The men were among Ms Carrick’s friends who assisted her late father John McCarrick and her uncle John Covell when they arrived in Ireland to search for her in 1993. Kenneth Strange, who has been looking into the case since 2005, recalls Mr Covell telling him of tensions with one of the brothers at that time.

“I remember John Covell telling me that it was just unusual that he was so curious about the progress of the investigation, what they were finding, what they were not finding, and he was right with them all the time, to the point where John McCarrick allegedly had to yell at him and say, you know, ‘Butt out. This is none of your business now, stand down’,” he said.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41608546.html

While it looks like the brother/brothers probably wouldn't be classed as serial offenders and the killing of Annie mccarrick a moment of madness...not so much a twisted serial murderer still on the loose..were they ever a threat to society in general after that...I wouldn't think so...clever for sure.