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

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jetsfanjohn said:
I don't really think too much about the perishable groceries. The temperature would still be cold in March. Do we know what the groceries were ? Other than frozen food or milk, there would be no real urgency to put anything else into the fridge/freezer. Now if there was a lot of frozen food etc. left out on the counter then that could point to an abduction from her home, but that would be extremely difficult if she did not go willingly.

JMO, but I think the sighting in Poppies Coffee Shop is legitimate. I can't see a local coffee shop like that being too busy in March and an American woman visiting it would be remembered. She was seen in the company of a man. This person has to be the number one POI. I think we can assume that he was not local. Enniskerry is a small village. I would love to know how they parted company. Did he drive off and leave her in Enniskerry ? Did he offer her a lift ? Did he pretend to drive off and then circle back ?
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I read it was eggs, butter and cream. The eggs and butter I understand but not the cream. She also left washing in the communal washing machine and she didn’t pick up her pay even tho she said she would and there was four hours between her trip to market and the eye witness seeing her catching the bus.
 
huhubug said:
I read it was eggs, butter and cream. The eggs and butter I understand but not the cream. She also left washing in the communal washing machine and she didn’t pick up her pay even tho she said she would and there was four hours between her trip to market and the eye witness seeing her catching the bus.
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Yes, I think her actions that day do seem a bit strange, not picking up her wages in particular. I feel like we are missing a piece of the puzzle here.

If she did leave for Enniskerry, it seems that it was getting quite late in the day for a walk in the Wicklow hills. This makes me think that at some stage that afternoon, she decided to abandon the hill walking and decided to go for a walk around Enniskerry village and it's environs instead, as it is quite picturesque, near public transport and could be done relatively quickly.

Maybe she comes into contact with 'coffee shop guy" in one of the shops in the village, or else he sees her alone in the coffee shop and strikes up a conversation.

Alternatively, maybe she knew 'coffee shop guy' and he picked her up from Dublin and they drove to Enniskerry. This would negate the bus sighting, though. I tend to think it more likely that it was a chance encounter in Enniskerry village.
 
March 18 2023
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www.irishtimes.com

Annie McCarrick disappearance could still be solved, says former garda

Possibility American student was murdered in 1993 by Provisional IRA member must be pursued, former cold-case detective says
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''The disappearance and murder of Annie McCarrick could still be solved, and her remains returned to her family, despite the passage of time since she vanished three decades ago, a former Garda cold-case squad detective has said.

Alan Bailey, a retired detective sergeant who worked on the cold-case inquiry into Ms McCarrick’s killing, said the possibility she was murdered by a member of the Provisional IRA who is believed to have met her in Johnnie Fox’s Pub, Glencullen, on the day she was last seen alive must be pursued.

Gardaí have been told by a source the man panicked after revealing things about his life in the IRA, apparently trying to impress the American student, and then decided to murder her and had help disposing of her remains.

“It’s certainly one [line of inquiry] that should be followed up and put to bed one way or the other,” Mr Bailey told The Irish Times of the IRA man, whose identity is known to gardaí and who is believed to have fled to the United States in the 1990s.''
 
www.irishtimes.com

Remembering Annie McCarrick, my brother’s girlfriend, 30 years after she disappeared

Her disappearance remains one of the unsolved mysteries about a number of missing women during the 1990s
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March 19 2023
by Áine Ryan

''How Annie McCarrick’s vinyl collection was stashed in the attic of our family home is somewhat a matter of speculation. Not because we didn’t know this beautiful young American woman who has been missing since Friday, March 26th, 1993. She failed to return to her Sandymount flat after taking a bus to the Wicklow Mountains on that afternoon and, as a result, her disappearance remains one of the unsolved mysteries about a number of missing women during the 1990s.

Annie was our baby brother Dermot’s girlfriend during the late 1980s and early 1990s.''

.........

''Her dad, John, had visited me on Clare Island with an Irish priest friend during the summer of 1989. He was full of pride about his only child’s decision to move to Ireland to study and embrace her cultural roots and legacy.

It is hard to reconcile the big boyish man with a booming New York twang, who I met that day, with the broken man who died in 2009 after the years of fruitless searching and heartbreak he endured after his daughter disappeared off the face of the earth.''

....
''Our sister Eithne adds to that observation by Dermot: “He used to say, ‘Put Annie in Long Island or New York and she was so street smart, but bring her to Ireland and it was as if it became the land of the leprechauns and she was so very trusting’.”

The Case of Annie McCarrick

This disappearance of Annie McCarrick is one of Ireland's most infamous missing person's cases, it stunned the population of Ireland. How was it that a beautiful, vibrant, and intelligent young Am...
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John McCarrick father of missing American student Annie McCarrick with a picture of her.
March 24 2023 rbbm.
By Justin Kelly
www.irishmirror.ie

Annie McCarrick probe upgraded to murder 30 years on from disappearance

Annie McCarrick moved to Ireland to live permanently in 1993 and went missing that same year
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''Detective Superintendent Carroll and the Senior Investigating Officer have recently visited Annie's mother Nancy McCarrick in New York.

They said that based on the entirety of the information available to the investigation team at Irishtown Garda Station, An Garda Síochána have today upgraded their missing person investigation to a murder investigation.

Detective Superintendent Carroll, DMR South Central has made a public appeal on foot of the reclassification.

"I want to speak to any person who met, spoke with or had any interaction with Annie McCarrick on the 26th March 1993 or subsequently," he said.

"There are person or persons, who have information on the disappearance of Annie McCarrick and her murder on or about the 26th March 1993 and who haven’t yet spoken to Gardaí or who may have already spoken to Gardaí but were not in a position to tell everything that they know at that time.”

"I want to speak with any person who has any information on the large brown handbag which it is believed that Annie was in possession of when she went missing.”


"Annie’s father John has passed away not knowing what happened to his daughter.”

"Annie's mother Nancy deserves to know the truth, she deserves to know what happened to her daughter on or about the 26th March 1993. She is waiting 30 years for those answers.”
 
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Annie last seen on CCTV footage (Image: Garda Press Office)
March 24 2023
By Aakanksha Surve
www.dublinlive.ie

Exact timeline of Annie McCarrick's disappearance as gardai launch murder probe

Annie McCarrick went missing in Dublin in a disappearance that has baffled investigators for three decades
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''Annie permanently moved to Ireland in January 1993 where she lived in St Catherine's Court, Sandymount with two other tenants. She worked as a waitress at the Courtyard Restaurant, Donnybrook and as a waitress at Cafe Java on Leeson Street.

Here is the full time of event leading up to Annie's disappearance 30 years ago:

  • March 17, 1993: Annie attends the St Patrick's Day parade with friends. Gardai said Annie carried out a normal life working, socialising in various licensed premises, and visiting friends over the next few days.
  • Thursday, March 25: Annie was not working but called to Cafe Java to collect her wages. Her wages were not ready and Annie arranged to call again on Friday. She then visited friends and stayed for dinner.
  • Friday, March 26: Annie spoke to both her flatmates before they left separately to travel home for the weekend. Annie was excited planning for a visit by her mother Nancy on March 30. She visited the AIB branch on Sandymount Road shortly before 11am to run some personal banking errands. This is the last confirmed sighting of Annie McCarrick, captured on CCTV. Annie also invited her friends to her apartment for dinner the next day. There were other reported sightings of Annie in Sandymount Green. She was also reportedly seen boarding a No 44 bus bound for Enniskerry and a number of further reported sightings in Enniskerry village and Johnnie Fox’s pub.

  • Saturday, March 27: Annie's friends grew concerned after she was not at home when they called for the dinner invite. She had also not turned up for work on Saturday. A friend who turned up at her apartment that evening spoke to her flatmates. They also found groceries purchased by her that were left unpacked in shopping bags. A receipt in the bags confirmed the date and time of purchase was March 26, 1993, at 11.02am. This is the last confirmed activity by Annie.

  • Sunday, March 29: Annie was reported missing by a friend after she didn't show up at work on Sunday morning at Irishtown Garda Station.
  • Monday, March 30: Annie's mum Nancy arrives and confirms the missing person report.
Annie's father John passed away without knowing what happened to his only child. Investigating officers recently flew to New York to visit Nancy.''
 
MsMiniSleuth said:
Poor Annie.

www.rte.ie

Murder inquiry launched into McCarrick disappearance

The garda investigation into the disappearance of Annie McCarrick 30 years ago has been upgraded to a murder inquiry.
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Thank you, from link..
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When Annie disappeared it is believed she was in possession of this large brown leather bag
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Extensive searches were carried out in the days and weeks after her disappearance (Pic: RollingNews.ie)
 
Long time lurker here, this case and all the other unsolved missing from the 80/90s in ireland always nagged at me
A few things that I have been thinking about for ages
Before Annie and the vanishing triangle women, there was another woman who was murdered
Her murder stands out for me because of where she was found and how she was killed.
Her murderer has never been found
ANTOINETTE SMITH a mum of 2 very young girls went missing from dublin City after the slane David bowie concert in July 1987
There were rumours of her going back to a party in a taxi to rathfarnham with two men which were cleared or unsubstantiated afaik(newspaper reports)
On Easter Monday April 1988, she was found , naked with a plastic bag over her head in friarstown dublin mountains 24 km from enniskerry.
The reason this resonates with me is because
1 last victim of larry murphy who went through hell and was saved only by accident by two hunters who drove up the same dirt road, was found by those men naked with a plastic bag over her head 21km away from friarstown in kilranelagh
2 proximity to enniskerry where Annie was (possibly) if bus sightings are corr
Could these be the first and last victims of murphy? With Annie and the others in between
Apparently a cold case review of antoinette smith murder revealed no usable forensics due to storage issues of evidence plus she was not found for almost a year
The geographics here bring Annie and antoinette very close too.
Just my opinion folks
 
huhubug said:
I read it was eggs, butter and cream. The eggs and butter I understand but not the cream. She also left washing in the communal washing machine and she didn’t pick up her pay even tho she said she would and there was four hours between her trip to market and the eye witness seeing her catching the bus.
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With regards to the food that was left out on the table, there is a theory that when she was returning to her flat she saw the bus that she wanted to catch 'stuck' in traffic in the distance.

So she hurried into the flat, left the purchases on the table and rushed back out to catch the bus.
 
tennison said:
Long time lurker here, this case and all the other unsolved missing from the 80/90s in ireland always nagged at me
A few things that I have been thinking about for ages
Before Annie and the vanishing triangle women, there was another woman who was murdered
Her murder stands out for me because of where she was found and how she was killed.
Her murderer has never been found
ANTOINETTE SMITH a mum of 2 very young girls went missing from dublin City after the slane David bowie concert in July 1987
There were rumours of her going back to a party in a taxi to rathfarnham with two men which were cleared or unsubstantiated afaik(newspaper reports)
On Easter Monday April 1988, she was found , naked with a plastic bag over her head in friarstown dublin mountains 24 km from enniskerry.
The reason this resonates with me is because
1 last victim of larry murphy who went through hell and was saved only by accident by two hunters who drove up the same dirt road, was found by those men naked with a plastic bag over her head 21km away from friarstown in kilranelagh
2 proximity to enniskerry where Annie was (possibly) if bus sightings are corr
Could these be the first and last victims of murphy? With Annie and the others in between
Apparently a cold case review of antoinette smith murder revealed no usable forensics due to storage issues of evidence plus she was not found for almost a year
The geographics here bring Annie and antoinette very close too.
Just my opinion folks
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Thanks for bringing this idea to this thread. The plastic bag over her head certainly has echoes of JM's other known victim.
 
The timeline in this case is a mess.

Annie was seen on the bus, or she wasn't. (I actually believe that she was, as the witness was a former colleague.)
Annie was at Johnny Fox's, or she wasn't. (I don't believe that she was. It just doesn't make sense timewise or location wise.)
Annie made it to Enniskerry and was seen at Poppie's, or she wasn't. (I believe she die make it there.)

And now, Annie left her apartment at 3 pm, or she arrived in Enniskerry at 1 pm. This is the latest news item I read:

Detective thinks Annie McCarrick killer may have kept her bag as souvenir

Mr Bailey said: “The problem with the investigation was if Annie arrived in Enniskerry, which was some time around 1pm on March 26, the next sighting then would have been at Johnnie Fox’s which is some miles away from Enniskerry village and at 7.30pm. It’s those missing hours that are important in this investigation and we could never establish where Annie went during that time.”
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Her mother must be so incredibly frustrated at all the different takes on this. I hope that classifying the case as a homicide will somehow raise the case in priority enough to focus on the case and dispel or confirm some of these sightings.
 
April 01 2023
www.independent.ie

Annie McCarrick murder: Fresh twist as Sandymount-based suspect identified in 30-year-old case

A man who lived in the same Dublin 4 neighbourhood as Annie McCarrick has been identified as a suspect in her murder.
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'A man who lived in the same Dublin 4 neighbourhood as Annie McCarrick has been identified as a suspect in her murder.
The man is understood to have lived in Sandymount at the time the young American was murdered on or about March 26, 1993.'

www.irishmirror.ie

Former FBI agent tells Annie McCarrick gardaí to interview everyone again

EXCLUSIVE: “You know, did their stories change? Are they the same stories? I think that has to be done. That’s crucial."
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“Larry Murphy, of course he was around and worked in Enniskerry, and we know his history so I think you can’t exclude anybody - but be prepared for that person you never saw coming.”

“This is why I;m excited that they're going back to the beginning and re-interviewing witnesses because it could be one of those people who are harbouring a secret and maybe something wasn’t picked up by the original investigators.

“I think the people in her circle from the get-go.

“You have to take a look at all those people and re-interview them.”
 
New thread for other victim referenced in article.. (the family hopes that new clues in Annie's case might assist in solving the murder of their mother)
www.websleuths.com

Ireland - Ireland- Antoinette ‘Angie’ Smith, 27, after David Bowie concert, went missing on walk home, remains found @ Glendoo Mountain, 11/07/87 *New appeal*

April 2 2023 https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/family-dublin-mum-whose-brutal-29609634 ''The family of a woman murdered 36 years ago say they’ve been given fresh hope after Annie McCarrick’s case was upgraded to murder. Antoinette Smith’s killer has never been caught but her daughter...
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huhubug said:
I read it was eggs, butter and cream. The eggs and butter I understand but not the cream. She also left washing in the communal washing machine and she didn’t pick up her pay even tho she said she would and there was four hours between her trip to market and the eye witness seeing her catching the bus.
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I think she was attacked at her apartment or building.

The clothes in the communal washing machine and groceries imply she didn't leave there alive.

The timeline doesn't add up either. She was shopping and at the bank at 11am. Then gets the bus at 3pm to go hiking in the Wicklow mountains despite it getting dark at 6pm.
You don't head off to the Wicklow mts at 3 or 4 pm for a walk. It's too late even in the summer and this was late March.
It takes an hour by bus and poor public transport to return.

She rang her friend at 11am to join her and she wasn't able to so she decided to stay home baking for the day I'm guessing.

She was planning to make homemade desserts for Cafe Java, which is why her groceries were still out. You leave groceries out if you intend to use them immediately otherwise you put them away. Something disturbed her at this time. Maybe 11:30 am.

Maybe she encountered someone at the Laundry or someone followed her back from the shops.

I'd look at residents of the apartment building.

I think she never went hiking in Wicklow mountains. AFAIK she didn't change her clothes either. All the eye witness testimonies are false.

Just my opinion
 
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OrangeRhyme said:
I think she was attacked at her apartment or building.

The clothes in the communal washing machine and groceries imply she didn't leave there alive.

The timeline doesn't add up either. She was shopping and at the bank at 11am. Then gets the bus at 3pm to go hiking in the Wicklow mountains despite it getting dark at 6pm.
You don't head off to the Wicklow mts at 3 or 4 pm for a walk. It's too late even in the summer and this was late March.
It takes an hour by bus and poor public transport to return.

She rang her friend at 11am to join her and she wasn't able to so she decided to stay home baking for the day I'm guessing.

She was planning to make homemade desserts for Cafe Java, which is why her groceries were still out.

Maybe she encountered someone at the Laundry or someone followed her back from the shops.

I'd look at residents of the apartment building.

I think she never went hiking in Wicklow mountains. AFAIK she didn't change her clothes either. All the eye witness testimonies are false.
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More than beginning to think you are right in that Annie might have been attacked at her home or nearby.
If that is true, maybe AM is hidden much closer to home?
speculation, imo, fwiw.
 
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