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.

Being a suspect does not in any way mean that one is guilty.

If ever someone comes to trial in court, charged with murdering Annie McCarrick, I hope they don't escape justice on the grounds that a fair trial was made impossible by their being called Guilty in the media before they were ever tried.

Many have been suspected of many things, often on very flimsy grounds; and many have turned out to be innocent when the real criminal is found. I'm taking no sides on this case (in public, anyway)

Are there any examples of people getting off / trials collapsing due to social media comments?

it’s frequently cited as a possibility & is used as a reason to turn off comments. But has it actually happened?

wonder how long more they will be searching that garden?

its nuts to imagine if his wife or children knew he had any link to this since it came out a bit in 2022/2023 .

i only ever heard about "a stalker" then, think it was in a new documentary on tv about her and i member thinking it seemed pretty probable that that person did it.

its awful really all those years people believed she has went off to johnny foxes pub when it was only one man (doorman) that said so….. and all along there was an obsessive ex in the background who has already been violent towards her, seems so wrong that he was not looked into more, only now 32 years later !!! well i hope to god if it was him , he pays for what he did and let his glory days be over………

I remember when the late banker Sean FitzPatrick was on trial, his defence picked up on a joking comment made on another Irish website, a poster claimed they themselves were on the jury. Now as it turns out he did get off…but it was nothing to do with comment, I think judge noted it and reminded social media websites of their responsibilities and confirmed post wasn't actually made by any jury member, and then things proceeded.

So they're not saying whether dog detected any scent. Possibly it did and they're focusing on spots dog alerted to but haven't found anything thus far.

I assume that there are multiple lines of enquiry to be followed up - with this being the one which has come into the public domain via the house search?

I know locally people are fairly gobsmacked with the search - trying to work out how it would be even possible to bury remains in the garden of a busy household, with overlooking neighbours, without anyone noticing.

There was always a feeling locally that the AMcC dissappearance was linked to a couple of the other Dublin area ones, but not the wider "Triangle" ones. A number of names, some in the public domain, some not, have been speculated on over the years. Never heard any suspicions over the household in question.

What an oddly specific scenario.

yes , i am completely flabbergasted that they went off on a wild goose chase around johnny foxes pub, when all the time there was an ex who had been violent to her ,and this was never really spoken of or it appears never investigated!!! saying she was part of a vanishing triangle etc when this violent ex who annie showed concern about was there becoming a millionaire in the background with the scent completely off him.it must have been nice for him that everyone was focused on the other crazy leads.How was he not a major suspect straight away !!!!!

Annies family have been left 32 years with nothing and we the public have been left with a scum bag with a secret who is living life around us as a millionaire.

obviously it is not proven he did it, but it seems fairly probable he may have. it is so maddening!!!! how it took 32 years to arrest him , ffs