Unsolved Irish Mysteries.

If nothing shows up at Monastery Walk I would like to see every property ever associated with this suspect between 1993 and 2011 systematically searched with the cadaver dog. With his old alibi now undermined by his own brother combined with credible accounts of his violence to Annie, he is now without doubt suspect number 1. And his then girlfriend (maybe his wife now) that he was cheating on with Annie, would be a potential suspect number 2.

And the value in the extensive search at his old family home, even if no remains are found, is that his world is now upturned. What are the bets that the current detectives after his arrest only got 24 hours solid of "no comment". They will have got a lot from this face to face with him even if it was silence.

Strange. If I feared I was being fitted up by the cops for a murder I had nothing to do with, one thing I wouldn't do would be to delete my rental properties from all websites they were advertised on.

Sounds like wee Fern may have to cancel her holiday plans, but at least PSNI pay good overtime.

Not that it matters but it was 1989 before she went back to the states in 1991.

ridiculous amount of innuendo and posturing on this thread

Given the constraints of proof for the guards, I am surprised that there are not more vigilante activities against suspects …

" With his old alibi now undermined by his own brother "

That's the assumption a lot of people have been making, but according Sindo today the alibi was busted a few months ago when the person withdrew the statement that the suspect was at a hotel when Annie went missing.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hotel-alibi-for-suspect-in-annie-mccarrick-murder-investigation-has-been-withdrawn/a1942769068.html

https://archive.ph/M3Tli

Different times for sure. We thought nothing of people cursing like that but maybe an American was horrified by it. Fights and rough behavior was a lot more common especially if you grew up in a house full of siblings you fought your corner. I remember plenty fights and slaps among my own brothers. Nobody batted an eyelid. They weren't all on their phones wrapped in cotton wool in those days like they are now.

We hitch hiked everywhere as did most of our friends the length and breadth of the country. Coming out from college on a Friday evening there would be a line of hitchhikers on the road going home. No phones no means of contact except write a letter! After poor Jo Jo Dollard though that was the end of the hitchhiking. The era of perceived safety was over.

You can't apply the norms of today to how we lived in late 80s early 90s. Younger people today would be horrified.

I wasn't previously aware that Jo Jo's disappearance had prompted a decline in hitchhiking especially among females, but yeah that make sense.

Radio Espial have a new video up covering updates to the cases of Tina Satchwell, Fiona Pender, Annie Mccarrick and Aisling Murphy.

On the Annie Mccarrick case, no additional information on what has already been discussed here but they do include what is likely the last photo taken of Annie at the St. Patrick's Day parade 1993. Maybe it has been posted before but I don't recall seeing it.

Note Mick seems very angry/ cranky in this episode but the other guy Brian adds some balance. Sky news and some commenters getting singled out for attention!

They are kinda suggesting a lot of her friends are not telling the full truth still

She looks like a bubbly fun type girl and would have loads of friends no doubt....

"The Sunday Independent understands a man well-known to a Co Meath-based businessman who was arrested and released without charge told gardaí many years ago that the suspect stayed in a Dublin hotel on the night Ms ­McCarrick went missing."

Yes, looking at it again, I myself assumed "a man" was someone other than the brother. I suppose they couldn't say "a man close to the suspect" or "a man in another juristiction".

Maybe romantic encounter with one that went no where, and brief romantic relationship with the other that we know of? But now that you point it out, I hadn't heard that before either.

Id say the friends they are referring to may be the partner(s) - knowingly or unknowingly - although would be interesting if any one else was involved. The relative we know, but again if any other relatives were involved knowingly or unknowingly.

On the colleagues, this from the Sun newspaper last week if can be believed.

"Detectives plan to re-interview the suspect’s former colleagues and pals after raising concerns about his alibis at the time the US woman went missing.

One source said: “A plan is in place to establish the whereabouts of the suspect’s former colleagues at the time of Annie’s disappearance and reinterview them.

“It’s possible that through the passage of time that they might recall something that they might have forgotten about at the time.

“There are concerns over the suspect’s alibis but any evidence at the moment is just circumstantial.

“One strand is that one of the suspect’s former colleagues had concerns about his lack of empathy after Annie’s disappearance.

“This person made it clear that the suspect didn’t appear to be too grief stricken considering how much he was obsessed with Annie.”

We also understand that gardai have been made aware of a row the suspect had at a wedding in the weeks after Annie was last seen alive.

The source added: “He had a public row with a relative and gardai are trying to establish if this had anything to do with Annie."

https://www.thesun.ie/news/15387131/annie-mccarrick-murder-suspect-obsessed-gardai-reinterview/

In his book 'Missing, Presumed', retired garda Alan Bailey states Annie made two phonecalls from the phone box on the Friday morning.

"She first rang Hilary Brady at work to confirm their dinner date for Saturday night, and she told him how much she was looking forward to their company". The second was to Anne O'Dwyer.

Can this be taken as factual then, as in the phone records show a call was made to Hilarys workplace from the phone box around that time. Obviously there are a lot of issues with the content of that book that we now know about.

Well the suspect's brother "abroad" is saying, Quote;

"They did indeed interview me but there was nothing about my interview with them that gave them fresh evidence to go after my brother,” he said."

According to the Mirror this morning.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/my-brother-nothing-annies-disappearance-35434383

According to the article it appears the brothers did not work together.