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| Brennan,Eva July 25,1993; Dublin,Ireland | |
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| Dianne | Apr 17 2008, 01:30 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.missing.ws/_missingPersons/missingPerson.asp?id=9 ![]() Eva Brennan Missing since 25 July 1993 from Terenure Dublin Born: 1953 Height: 5ft 7 Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Eva Brennan is missing from Terenure since the 25 July 1993. When last seen she was wearing a pink tracksuit and leggings, she wore a man's wristwatch with a brown strap and carried a red leatherette handbag about 8"x10" with a flap to the front. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Gardai in Terenure Dublin at 01-6666400 or any Garda Station or the Garda Confidential Phone line at 1800 666111 This information has been placed here with the permisison of Eva's sister, Collette Mc Cann. |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 06:54 AM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=2059587&page=2 Ireland's 'Vanishing Triangle' Families, Investigators Still Seek Answers in Women's Disappearances June 9, 2006 For more than a decade, there's been a deepening mystery around Dublin: a growing number of young women have disappeared. But finally, the investigations may be yielding some answers. Annie McCarrick, who disappeared in 1993, is one of several young women who have gone missing in an area of Ireland that's become known as the "Vanishing Triangle." (ABC News)The frightening disappearances began in 1993, with American Annie McCarrick, a 26-year-old from upstate New York, who had gone to college in Ireland, returned their intent on absorbing the country's history and her family's heritage. She shared an apartment with two female roommates in Sandymount, a quiet residential section of Dublin. In March 1993, Annie was eagerly awaiting a visit from her mother. On Friday, March 26, just days before her mother was due to arrive, Annie didn't show up as expected to pick up her paycheck at work. On Saturday, when her friends arrived at her apartment for a previously arranged dinner party, there was no sign of Annie. Annie's father, John McCarrick, said he knew immediately something was terribly wrong when her friends in Dublin called him to say they didn't know where Annie was. "She was always reaching out and touching someone. … She would never have gone a day without talking to someone. … We were very, very concerned," he said. The McCarricks left immediately for Ireland, where the hunt for their daughter became one of the largest searches in Ireland's history. In their fear and desperation, the family also turned to seasoned investigator Brian McCarthy, recommended by officials at the American Embassy. "There were very difficult days, those days, to live with the McCarrick family and see day after day the anguish that they had, the terror of what they felt might have happened to their only child," McCarthy recalled. The last thing anyone knows for sure about Annie McCarrick is that on the morning she disappeared, she'd run errands at the local bank and grocery store. What happened after that, police can only guess. One witness claims to have seen Annie later that day on a No. 44 city bus. The bus' route ends in the classic Irish small town of Enniskerry, where Annie frequently visited. Witnesses next place Annie around 9 p.m. that night at Johnny Fox's pub, 3 miles outside Enniskerry, nestled at the base of the Wicklow Mountains. It's another spot stepped in Irish tradition and popular with both locals and tourists. What makes the testimony of witnesses at Johnny Fox's more frightening is the fact that they say Annie, who had no apparent boyfriend at the time, was seen with an unidentified man. A police composite sketch of Annie's alleged companion was distributed around the country. And authorities began an exhaustive search of the countryside around Johnny Fox's. Soon after they had arrived in Ireland, Nancy and John McCarrick saw firsthand the friendship and feelings their daughter had engendered. Still, it was small comfort on a day when police were searching for their daughter's body. A Sorrow That Would Hit Other Families The McCarricks' dedication in the search for their daughter engendered respect and compassion all over Ireland -- particularly from families of other young women who had gone missing. Collette McCann recalls watching the McCarricks' grief on her local news, not knowing she would soon be experiencing a similar tragedy, when her sister vanished. "I remember seeing her father on the television in Ireland and I remember seeing the sorrow and the sadness and the anguish on that family's face. And I remember thinking to myself, 'God bless them.' I couldn't imagine anybody going through that. But then it was a very short 12 weeks later that we were going through the exact same thing with Eva," said McCann. Her sister, Eva Brennan, vanished after she left a family gathering on a Sunday afternoon. "I felt despair as to what could have happened to these girls. Annie was missing, and Eva Brennan went missing. To me, it was like a bad dream reoccurring," investigator McCarthy said. And as it turned out, the nightmare was only beginning. Just months after Annie McCarrick vanished from Dublin, there was another case from the Irish suburbs that would turn out to have disturbing similarities to Annie's. At first, no one made a connection, and no one suspected that the number of missing women would continue to grow. Just as with Annie, the search for Eva yielded no answers. And there were other similarities between the cases, according to Geraldine Niland, a journalist writing a book on Ireland's missing women. Both women, Annie McCarrick and Eva Brennan, were visible one moment and then gone. And Eva was just like Annie. She was quite close to her family and maintained contact. It wasn't -- it wouldn't be like her to kind of vanish or disappear. From the start, both families worried that their loved ones were victims of foul play. And as time went on, the possibilities of what may have happened became more profoundly disturbing. And the questions surrounding the disappearances became even more chilling as the sadness and the terror spread. Annie McCarrick and Eva Brennan disappeared in Dublin's closest suburbs. Then, the mystery moved out into the quiet countryside. In November 1995, 21-year-old JoJo Dullard went missing. "JoJo lived with her sister in a small town in County Kilkenny. Thursday, Nov. 9, she met with friends in Dublin, and she was supposed to catch a bus and return by Thursday evening. However, she got slightly sidetracked chatting with her friends, and she missed the last bus," said Niland. JoJo chose what was then a common transportation alternative for women in Ireland: hitchhiking. Her first ride took her halfway to the little town of Moone. "She phoned her friend from a phone box there. And she told her friend that she was hitching a ride, and waiting for another ride to come along. Then, suddenly, when she was talking with her friend, she said, 'Oh, a car is coming, and I have to go now.' And she put down the phone. And that is the last we head of JoJo Dullard," Niland said. JoJo had been raised by her older sisters who worried when she'd left for the larger world of Dublin to become a beautician. "I gave her a little ring and a little bracelet, and I'll always remember in the room, she says to me, 'Mary, when I finish my beauty course in Dublin, you know, I'll come home to you and I'll do your hair and I'll have you looking nice.' And I never saw her again. It's terrible," said her sister Mary Phelan. Life at Mary Phelan's rural farmhouse took on one focus, pressuring authorities to keep JoJo's case alive. Funds were raised to erect a small monument for JoJo, placed next to the phone booth from which she made that final call. Mary's tireless actions were inspired, she says, by a man who became her role model: Annie McCarrick's father. "When Annie disappeared, I admired her dad. I saw him on the television, and I thought, 'My God, what is this man going through? What is he really going through?' That's been a great help to me. If John can go out there and do so much for Annie, then why can't I do it? He was a great influence on me," she said. Annie and Jojo were united in a way -- authorities placed their missing posters, less than a block apart, on Dublin's busiest street. The Vanishing Triangle As time went on, so many young women disappeared that an area around Dublin would became known as the Vanishing Triangle. And just recently, there have been headlines suggesting a chilling answer to the mysteries there. The Vanishing Triangle begins in Dublin where McCarrick and Brennan disappeared, then goes southwest to Moone, where JoJo Dullard vanished. From there, that sad geometry heads north, to the seaside town of Dundalk, where 17-year-old Ciara Breen went missing. On Feb. 13, 1997, Ciara and her mother talked late into the night. "She said, 'Well, I'm tired, mom. I'm going to bed.' She gave me the, the kiss and the hug, and she says, `Good night, mom. See you in the morning. I love you.' And that was it. That was the last, and that's really what I have to hang on to now, that the last thing she said to me was 'I love you,'" her mom recalls. Police believe Ciara left the house on her own later. Her window latch was open from the inside. It's tragic and unbelievable enough when only one woman so completely disappears. But in the Vanishing Triangle, Ciara Breen was not the last. In February 1998, 19-year-old Fiona Sinnott disappeared, after leaving a pub in Wexford. Earlier, in the town of Tullamore, 25-year-old model Fiona Pender went missing. As the numbers mounted, the Irish press was proposing a chilling possibility, one the police were beginning to take more seriously -- the disappearances could be tied to a serial killer. "You have the same profile, young, attractive females, who have all disappeared inside a very close geographical triangle. The common denominator is there's no evidence left behind, there's no evidence at all. No shoe, no belt, no purse, no watch, nothing," McCarthy said. In July 1998, fears of a serial killer reached a peak with the disappearance of an 18-year-old student teacher, Deirdre Jacob. As with Annie McCarrick, the last things known for sure about Deirdre's whereabouts were captured by security cameras: the local bank, the post office and passing by on the main street of Newbridge, where she lived. Police established that after doing errands and visiting her grandmother in the middle of town, Deirdre was returning home along a country road she'd walked all her life. "Neighbors saw her about 200 yards from her home. And then, suddenly, she was gone. She literally was standing at the side of the road, about to cross over into her home, and then, she was gone," Niland said. Deirdre Jacob's shocking disappearance in broad daylight crystallized fears that a serial killer may be roaming the Irish countryside. Police responded to the increased barrage from the press and public by forming a special task force, Operation Trace. For the first time, the information on all the missing women was gathered in one place. Six cases were targeted for review with a fresh eye by detectives not involved with the original investigations. Only the most basic characteristics unite the missing women. They are all between 17 and 39 and they all disappeared within an 80-mile radius of Dublin. The Trace operation marked a new commitment to investigate mysteries the missing women's families still live with every day. Under the strain of their ordeal, John and Nancy McCarrick divorced five years after Annie disappeared. It's now 13 years later, and the grip of that mystery has not loosened. The passage of time has brought no conclusion about what happened to Annie McCarrick after she left her Dublin apartment on a Friday afternoon. But just recently the Irish press posed a chilling answer. Headlines linked Annie to a man known as the Werewolf; his real name is Robert Howard. "Robert Howard is a known sexual deviant, a killer, a rapist, murderer. Robert Howard is the personification of evil in Ireland," said Jilly Beattie, a reporter. At 61, Howard is currently serving a life sentence in England for the 2001 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl there. And now he's of interest in several cases in and beyond the Vanishing Triangle. "Robert Howard was connected with Annie McCarrick's case, Jojo Dollard's case and various other cases in Northern Ireland and in the south of Ireland and in England," said Beattie. Howard's got a string of sexual convictions, including an attack on a 6-year-old girl and the rape of a 58-year-old woman. "We understand from our own contacts that he was in and out of the area, around the time that Annie was enjoying life in Ireland," said Beattie. "All the while he relied on his quaint Irishness as a man who wore tweed jackets and just looked like an ordinary man, to encourage people to trust him," she added. Investigators say Annie felt very safe in her Irish neighborhood and had the kind of outgoing innocence to be easy prey for a man like Howard. Police in Dublin will say nothing on the record as to what may or may not be any interest in Robert Howard and these cases. Reportedly, the clues linking Howard are his presence in the area when the women vanished and his long history of abductions. But Jilly Beattie says her contacts imply there may be more. She said some of her sources "would put their life savings on the fact that Robert Howard was involved in these murders. And it's crippling for them as investigators, as professional men and women, that the clues are there, but the evidence isn't there to back it up," she said. "We don't have a crime scene. We don't have a body. That obviously creates its own difficulty. And it makes it harder for the investigator to utilize new technology," said John O'Mahony, who now oversees these cases. And while Irish police never make public comments on possible persons of interest, O'Mahony did confirm the serial killer theory was in play. Another Possible Suspect? While the notion that a serial killer was at work in the vanishing triangle seems ever more likely, there are conflicting theories over who it might be. Geraldine Niland said she's got a different possibility. The Wicklow mountain area outside of Dublin is the last spot witnesses place missing American Annie McCarrick. Investigators now believe, even if she didn't disappear there, it's where she might be buried. Seven years after Annie vanished, a rape case in the same area set off alarms. The man involved was a 36-year-old carpenter named Larry Murphy. "[He]very much looks like the boy next door, and he had no criminal record, until he came to light in February 2000 when he abducted a young businesswoman who he had been stalking," Niland said. It happened in the town of Carlow, within the area now known as the Vanishing Triangle. Murphy waited one day in the parking area near her office, his car parked in slot five. When she walked by he jumped out, hit her in the face hard enough to break her nose and forced her into his car trunk. He sped off, drove nine miles to a secluded spot and raped her. Then forced her back in the trunk. "He then drove another 14 miles to another location where he then took her out of the boot of the car and raped her again. And this second location was in the woods … in County Wicklow," Niland said. By some pure coincidence, the life of this woman was spared. "Literally, out of nowhere, two men appeared. And this obviously spooked Larry Murphy. He panicked and sped off in the car," Niland said. Murphy, easily identified by the woman and the hunters, was quickly apprehended by the Irish police, known as the Gardai. Reports quickly noted that a surprise attack by a total stranger was a profile that could fit the Vanishing Triangle cases. There were plenty of questions. Did he bear any resemblance to a police sketch made after witnesses said they saw a man with Annie in a Wicklow area pub? There was a lot of circumstantial interest. The victim in the Carlow rape case was the same age as Annie McCarrick. It turns out Murphy lived a few towns away from where JoJo Dullard disappeared. And he was working as a carpenter near where Deirdre Jacob vanished. Interesting for reporters, but not enough for police to make a case. Murphy was sentenced to 15 years in the rape case. Officials say since his conviction the disappearances have stopped. But now, ironically, under Irish law, while he's in prison for one crime, he cannot be questioned about any other without some convincing clues. Before news of a Vanishing Triangle spread across Ireland, young women felt safe enough to hitchhike on country roads. But that string of disappearances shook the whole country's sense of safety, and derailed the lives of individual families. While police were forming a special unit to investigate these cases, a candlelight mass for all of Ireland's missing was held in the town of Moone. Families were acknowledging together what they separately feared -- that their loved ones were never coming back. After years of fundraising by the families, the monument Mary Phelan envisioned became a reality. "For Mary, this is how she coped with the disappearance of JoJo," said Niland. "Her great efforts culminated in a wonderful garden in Kilkenny Castle with this monument to missing people. The design is based on the notion of hands reaching out to the missing, with the casts for the hands taken from the families of the vanished. "Because we don't know where they are. They could be scattered around Ireland. It'll be nice to think that this is where they are. This is the monument we made to them," said Collette McCann, whose sister, Eva, is one of the women who went missing in Ireland's Vanishing Triangle. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 06:54 AM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 08:35 AM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-3145025.html DAY 3 OF OUR MOVING SERIES: A serial killer has snatched our girls EXCLUSIVE: SISTER OF MISSING EVA FEARS MANIAC IS ON THE LOOSE From: Daily Mirror Date: August 14, 2002 Author: NIALL MOONAN More results for: Annie McCarrick A SERIAL killer could be behind the mystery disappearance of Eva Brennan almost a decade ago, her sister said yesterday. Eva, then 39 and from Dublin, went missing minutes after leaving her parents' home on July 25, 1993. Gardai have always refused to say a vicious killer could be responsible for the unsolved cases of dozens of disappeared Irish women and men. But Eva's sister Colette McCann said yesterday: "There has to be someone out there. These people are there one minute and gone the next." Mum-of-three Colette, who lives in Newcastle, Dublin, never expects to see her beloved younger sister alive again but every day clings to hope that her body will be found. And she doesn't care if she never knows who took her sister's life because one day, she says, their nerve will finally break. Her family's living h**l is shared by dozens of other Irish parents and siblings whose loved ones' disappearance has taken over their lives. Behind most of these tragic stories there are no arguments to trigger a disappearance and no dramatic exits. Most - like Eva - were simply dealing with everyday life when they went missing without trace. Eva visited her parents' home in Templeogue, Dublin, for dinner but because she didn't want lamb she left and returned to her apartment in Rathgar - never to be seen again. Her family knew she reached the flat because they found the jacket she had been wearing earlier that day. Colette, 50, said: "She didn't look 39. Anyone who had bad intent in their mind wouldn't say 'She's 39, I won't have her'. "She did suffer from depression but that was never a factor and cannot be attributed to her disappearance. "She was very religious and often joked that she was put on earth to pray for the rest of us. She went to mass every morning too. There is absolutely nothing bad to remember her by." A massive search of hedgerows, canals, fields and city streets turned up nothing but nine years on the trauma continues. Colette added: "It was a dreadful time, the first while was awful because we simply didn't know where to look. "My brother Peter broke the window in her apartment and there was nothing. The police were called but said that as she was over 21, she could do what she wanted." A full-scale Garda hunt later began but failed to ease the agony and the family even put a private detective on the case. Colette said: "We spent the time going round looking for a body. "I know what Eva's capable of. I know she wouldn't put us through the heartache of taking her own life. "I wouldn't care if I never knew who did it. At some stage in their lives, this person has to look at themselves in the mirror and say 'I did this'. "I don't want a face to hate because it would be soul destroying. Eva's gone and nothing will bring her back but we would like to have her body. You've got to come to a stage in your life that you have to go a bad road or a good road and try to get the person that you were before this happened back. "But there's no point in feeling angry. Who can you be angry at? "I talk to Eva every day just like I talk to my father who passed away last year. You have to continue doing something you've always liked doing. "Yes, there is one per cent of you thinking she's still alive but we know that she's not. "Despite that, we haven't declared her dead yet and I haven't been on holidays since Eva went missing in case something turns up." Colette feels her sister's disappearance could be connected to that of other people and she said: "There has to be one or more out there taking these people. Wouldn't it be awful to think there is a different person who takes people in almost every county in Ireland? "Maybe saying there is a serial killer is creating a bad image for the country and the Gardai and everyone else don't want that bad image. "But there has to be someone around. They all went missing more or less the same way - there one minute, gone the next. "To have a definite attitude that there's no serial killer, I'd like to know what police think of Eva's case. I haven't one clue what they did." The pain of losing a sister who is never around to share birthday parties, anniversaries or for someone to confide in is compounded by the fact that Eva is one of the lesser known disappeared. Colette claims Gardai always highlight the cases of six missing women, when eight disappeared around the same time. The missing are Annie McCarrick, Imelda Keenan, Jo Jo Dullard, Fiona Pender, Michelle McCormack, Ciara Breen, Deirdre Jacob and Eva. Colette said: "Eva and Imelda Keenan are two girls that are very rarely mentioned - and that is nothing to do with, or no fault of, the other families. "Gardai are inclined to give out six names and I don't understand why people don't mention Eva. Is it her age? It hurts me. "In saying that, the Sunday before her last anniversary the police put a little notice in the paper and I cried. It broke my heart. "In one sense I was relieved they acknowledged again that she was missing but I don't understand why they don't mention eight of them ALL the time. "The fact that they don't mention Eva is the most hurtful thing that's happened to me since she went missing." The effect of Eva's disappearance had a profound effect on the family but they have emerged from their ordeal with strength. Colette said: "It even took us an awful long time to feel not guilty for laughing. "It was very bad. My poor father went to his grave not knowing where she was. "I definitely think she came to take him. Dad was very happy when he died." Sometimes Colette, her mum Eileen and her five brothers and sisters meet up with other families who are living through the same harrowing experience. They last met at the unveiling of a monument to the missing in Kilkenny earlier this year. But the common dream shared by the families is to be reunited with their loved ones. Failing that, it would simply be enough to have a graveside to visit and the knowledge, at last, of where they are. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 08:39 AM Post #5 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Hunt for killer of 8 missing women From: The Independent - London Date: September 26, 1998 Author: Alan Murdoch More results for: Annie McCarrick POLICE IN the Irish Republic fear that a serial killer may be responsible for the fate of up to eight women who have disappeared in the same area. Commissioner Pat Byrne said yesterday he had set up a special team of detectives in an attempt to shed light on the disappearances. Psychological profiles of possible abductors are being prepared. The moves came as intensive searches began in counties Carlow and Kildare for two men who tried to pull a 24-year-old woman into a red car at Tullow, Kildare, on Tuesday. Judith Gahan, who has three children, was stalked by the car, and one man offered her a lift. When she declined he got out and grabbed her. Her clothes were torn but she escaped. Existing inquiries are being overseen by the assistant commissioner in overall charge of the police's eastern region, Tony Hickey, who in 1996 headed investigations into the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin. "We have no evidence unfortunately that {the eight women} are alive," Commissioner Byrne said. "We must assume as police investigators that they are dead. We have no bodies and no crime scene, which makes it extraordinarily difficult." The serial killer theory was examined by chief superintendents at a special meeting during their six-monthly conference on Thursday and yesterday at the police force's training college in Templemore, County Tipperary. Suspicions of links between the cases is fuelled by their proximity. Six of the eight women vanished within a 30-mile radius of Newbridge, Kildare. All but two occurred within 50 miles of the capital. Detectives from earlier cases are now helping investigations into the disappearance of Deirdre Jacoban, an 18-year-old trainee teacher from County Kildare, last seen on 28 July. Ms Jacob vanished after walking the mile from her home into Newbridge to post a money order. A man has confirmed giving a lift to a woman answering her description on the day she went missing, from nearby Clane to Carrickmacross, Monaghan, where she said she had friends. The other women whose disappearances are being investigated are: Ciara Breen, 18, of Bachelor's Walk, Dundalk, missing since 12 February. Fiona Sinnott, 19, from Bridgetown, Wexford, who has a year-old daughter. She has not been seen since leaving a pub at Broadway, County Wexford, on 8 February. A restaurant worker, she was living at Ballycushlane after splitting with her boyfriend. In June police drained the nearby Lady's Island lake but found nothing. Fiona Pender, 25, a former model and motorcycle enthusiast, disappeared from the flat she shared with her boyfriend in Tullamore, County Offaly, on 23 August 1996. She was seven months pregnant. Jo Jo Dullard, 21, disappeared after trying to hitch a lift to her home at Callan, County Kilkenny, on 9 November 1995. She was last heard from when she called home from a rural phone box at Moone, Kildare. Annie McCarrick, 26, an American student and qualified teacher working in a fashionable coffee shop and living in Sandymount, south Dublin, vanished after visiting a pub at Glencullen in the Dublin mountains on 26 March 1993, with a man in his twenties. A police image was issued but no one was charged. The location has a macabre reputation; since 1979 several murder victims have been found buried in the Dublin and Wicklow mountains. In May 1993 Ms McCarrick's father, John McCarrick, from New York, offered a large reward for information. He said last week he accepted that his only daughter must be dead. Despite mountain searches by hundreds of volunteers, no body has been found. There are also fears for Eva Brennan, missing from her Dublin home since 25 July 1993, and Catherine Madigan, also from Dublin. She has not seen been since 15 May this year. Geography is arguably the biggest problem the police face. Resources have long been focused on border anti-terrorist work and Dublin drug-related crime, and the 11,000-strong force's ability to mount sustained large- scale inquiries in rural areas is limited, even with helicopter assistance. The number of unresolved missing persons cases is already becoming a political controversy in a country where the sharp rise in crime since the early 1980s has made law and order an election battleground. Last week the Fine Gael opposition reminded the justice minister, John O'Donoghue, of his commitment, before coming to power, to set up a missing persons unit. Fine Gael said that more than 80 people have disappeared since 1991, and insisted that the existing policy of handling cases separately under local superintendents was inadequate. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4935723.html |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 08:56 AM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61109322.html WHERE ARE OUR LOVED ONES; Fury erupts over families' petition.(Features) From: The Mirror (London, England) Date: March 7, 1997 Author: Leslie, Neil More results for: Eva Brennan Dublin Campaigners branded Justice Minister Nora Owen a "disgrace" yesterday after she grudgingly took personal delivery of a petition signed by 100,000 people demanding: "Find our missing kids". Mrs Owen at first refused to meet a delegation led by Mary Phelan, sister of vanished hitch-hiker Jojo Dollard. She sent a civil servant to collect the petition from demonstrators outside the gates of Leinster House. But the crowd was furious when told the Minister was "too busy" to meet them. They refused to hand over the file and sent the civil servant packing. "You're nothing but a messenger boy," Mary's husband Martin said. "We're not moving until Minister Owen meets us." Minutes later the delegation were invited inside where Mary put her case for the setting up of a new Garda unit. She wants the unit to re-investigate several baffling cases in which young men and women have disappeared. But when she emerged after a brief meeting Mary was even angrier. "Mrs Owen doesn't care," she said. "She said she doesn't see the need for a special squad to have another look at Jojo's case. We are very disappointed - and not just about Jojo. "There's a stack of dreadful crimes against women none of which have been solved. "Nothing is being done. It's a disgrace." Protesters brought traffic to a halt outside the Dail as they raised banners carrying photographs of missing friends and relatives. They included: VANISHED: Philip Cairns, 12. VANISHED: Annie McCarrick, 26. VANISHED: Eva Brennan, 39. VANISHED: Michael Farrell, 29. VANISHED: Jojo Dollard, 21. VANISHED: Fiona Pender, 25. Some of the distraught families joined Mary Phelan's march to the Dail yesterday. Eva Brennan's sister Collette said gardai had only two things to say when taking details of a missing person. "The first thing you're asked is their age. Then officers will tell you they're old enough to go missing if they want." Michael Farrell's father said: "I hope this petition will help me fi0nd my son." Mary Phelan repeated the family's claim that they know who killed Jojo Dollard. And Mary's pal Diane Brennan summed up the anguish of the families. She said: "I believe Jojo is in limbo and wants to get into Heaven. She can't do that until we find her." Jojo Dollard THE case of hitch-hiker Jojo Dollard is the most high profile. The 21-year-old waitress was thumbing lifts late at night as she made her way home from Dublin to Kilkenny. She called home several times on the journey and was seen taking lifts from several motorists. Most have come forward. One, the driver of a dark Toyota, has not. Jojo's relatives believe that she was murdered on November 9, 1995 and say someone known to the police killed her and they know who it is. Detectives admit she was probably murdered. But they refuse to search an area near Moone, Co Kildare town of Moone where the family believe they will find Jojo's body. Philip Cairns THE case of schoolboy Philip Cairns triggered national concern he was the victim of a child abduction racket. The 12-year-old disappeared on his way home from school more than 10 years ago. Despite a huge Garda manhunt and numerous pleas from his parents he has not been seen since. The only evidence uncovered was his schoolbag found in a laneway near his Rathfarnham home two weeks after he vanished in October 1986. Philip's mother is convinced her son was kidnapped. Rumours swept the posh Dublin suburd where he lived. There were reports that he had drowned in a local river and washed out to sea and had been snatched by a religious cult. Annie McCarrick THE case of tourist Annie McCarrick poses two questions. Was she murdered? Or did she plunge to her death in the Wicklow mountains? The American beauty had everything to live for. A student from a wealthy US family she was spending a working vacation in Dublin. In March 1993, Annie took a bus trip to the Co Wicklow village of Enniskerry. And there the trail runs cold. Dad John says his 26-year-old daughter was murdered. "We have suspicions about who was involved and will never stop looking for the truth," he said. The alarm was raised when Annie didn't show up to collect her wages at the Java Cafe where she worked. Eva Brennan THE case of the woman who walked home alone tortures her family. Eva Brennan vanished after spending the evening chatting with her parents and family. She set off from their home in Terenure to make the 10-minute walk to her Rathgar flat. Eva, 39 and single, has never been seen since that night in July, 1993. Eva's family want her case reopened and are backing the Dollard family's call for the setting up of a special garda unit. They are fed up hearing officials say that at 39 Eva was entitled to disappear if she wished. They believe something sinister happened. For if Eva left home she took no cash, clothes or credit cards with her. Michael Farrell THE case of missing cinema manager Michael Farrell still poses a series of questions two years after his disappearance The 29-year-old father of three had been employed for nine years as manager of the movie house on board the Rosslare to Pembroke ferry. On September 19, 1994, he waved goodbye to his wife and set off for work. At 10.30pm he was seen in the ship's cinema by one of the crew. But at 11.15pm when he was due to screen another film he could not be found. The skipper set sail as normal despite an alert for the missing seaman. And the ship owners, Irish Ferries, did not raise the alarm until the next day. Michael's father is still trying to obtain a copy of the company's official report into his son's disappearance. Fiona Pender THE case of Fiona Pender involves two mysteries. The model was seven months pregnant when she vanished from home in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Fiona, 25, had been busy making plans for the arrival of her first child with lover John Thompson. The farm worker left her sleeping when he went to work at 6.30am in August last year. She was gone when he returned. Fiona's mum Josephine still hopes of finding her daughter alive - and her grandchild, who will be five months old. Mother and daughter were very close and had been brought even closer by the death of Fiona's younger brother Mark, killed in a motorbike accident soon after his 21st birthday. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 08:57 AM Post #7 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60143564.html FBI FEAR SERIAL KILLER PAIR BEHIND LOST GIRLS; Expert says psychopaths work together.(News) From: The Mirror (London, England) Date: November 2, 1999 Author: Foxe, Ken More results for: Eva Brennan Dublin A PAIR of serial killers may be on the loose in Ireland, said an FBI expert who has studied the cases of six missing women. Retired agent Bob Kessler, who worked on a series of serial murder cases in America, said there is a possibility two killers are working together. However, despite the setting up of Operation Trace last year to investigate the disappearances of six women - JoJo Dollard, Annie McCarrick, Ciara Breen, Fiona Sinnott, Fiona Pender and Deirdre Jacob - Gardai are still not convinced the cases are linked. But Kessler said there's not just one but at least two murderers on the prowl in Ireland. Kessler has claimed all the abductions and probable sub- sequent killings have been planned with meticulous detail. "Once decided on the type of person he intends to kill, he will probably stake out a specific locale: a shopping precinct, a singles bar, a lonely bus stop - or even a busy main road, if hitchhikers are his target - to wait or cruise for those victims," he said. "Before he launches his first attack, he is likely to have methodically reconnoitred the locale - his way in and way out. "Nearby traffic lights, roundabouts, one-way streets, any factor likely to impede his getaway in an emergency - until satisfied he has a practical escape route available. Such a precaution is doubly important if the serial killer intends to abduct his victim and dispose of the body elsewhere." The FBI man believes that behavioural analysis like this is the key to solving apparently motiveless crimes, when the killer does not know his victim. Kessler thinks there's more than one killer working together in Ireland and is sure the murderers are being sheltered by family members. He believes the killers are likely to come from a broken home. Serial murderers consistently have a history of bed wetting, arson, cruelty to animals and other people. "We're not talking here about kicking the dog. We're talking about tying firecrackers to the legs of small animals and blowing them off," said Kessler. Another behavourial feature, said the FBI expert, is most serial killers are obsessed by pornography, mostly bondage or violent porn. From his FBI experience he claimed that once they've killed for the first time, they have to strike again - like a heroin addict needs another fix. After studying the catalogue of missing Irish women, Mr Kessler said in a recent interview with men's magazine Patrick, that he believes the serial killers reside in either south Co Dublin or north Wicklow. The killer is likely to be unmarried or separated, and may live with his mother, but has his own private space at home. Because some of the abductions took place during the day, the retired FBI man said the killer may be self-employed or work on the move. Most eerily, he thinks that the Gardai are likely to have already interviewed the killer or killers either once or on a number of occasions. Kessler said nothing obsesses psychopathic killers more than the thought that police are close to knowing about his or her crimes. Late last year, the Gardai launched Operation Trace to investigate the specific dis- appearances of six women. All of them disappeared in what has come to be known as the Vanishing Triangle - an area spanning Wicklow, Kildare, Offaly, Dundalk and Wexford. All the disappearances occurred in the last seven years. There are other cases of women missing in Ireland which Gardai have not yet solved including those of Phyllis Murphy, Eva Brennan, Antoinette Smith, Patricia Doherty and Imelda Keenan. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | Apr 17 2008, 09:03 AM Post #8 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60619219.html Gardai in missing women link probe.(News) From: The Mirror (London, England) Date: September 23, 1998 More results for: Eva Brennan Dublin GARDA Commissioner Pat Byrne has ordered a review of the disappearances of several women over the past six years to investigate if they were linked. Fears that a serial killer may have killed the women grew this summer when student teacher Deirdre Jacob, 18, vanished without trace near her home in Kildare. Her disappearance is yet another mystery that has dogged Gardai who have no idea how the Newbridge girl could have vanished. Now, following exhaustative probes into the disappearances of Jacobs, Jo-Jo Dullard, Annie McCarrick and Eva Brennan, a special review has been ordered. Last night, Commissioner Byrne told his 40 Chief Superintendents and Assistant Commissioners that answers must be found. The cases officers will be trying to link are: Annie McCarrick (26) - an American student who went missing in Dublin in 1993 Jo Jo Dullard (21) - disappeared in 1996 in Co Kildare after hitch-hiking from Moone Eva Brennan - who has not been seen since leaving her family home in Terenure, Co Dublin Deirdre Jacob - who disappeared from outside her home in Newbridge in broad daylight Fiona Pender who disapperared in Offaly last year Fiona Sinnott from Wexford who vanished this year. |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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