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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Cold and Missing.
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I'm Ali.
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And I'm Eli.
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Welcome back everyone.
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Eli's back this week.
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He's been pretty busy working on a few things, so he's back with us this week.
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We're so excited.
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I'm so excited.
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Yeah, I'm very excited to be back and I'm always very grateful to be working on anything
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artistic that fills my cup up.
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And as always, I just want to say thank you at the top for everyone who took some time
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to write a review this week.
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It means so much.
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We had a really nice one come in through our website, www.coldandmissing.com.
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You can review us there, message us there, find our old episodes, quick plug at the top
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for the website.
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And thank you for rating and reviewing.
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I know everyone's busy and has a lot going on.
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So just taking the time to do that really means so much.
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But with that, I think we should just jump right in.
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We are on episode 120 this week.
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And we are on a missing person case this week.
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So let's get into it.
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So just as a bit of a content warning at the top, there is some brief mentions of sexual
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assault.
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Today we will be covering the missing person case of Annie McCarrick.
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And this takes place in March of 1993 in Dublin, Ireland.
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But first, a little bit about Annie.
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Annie was 27 years old in 1993.
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She was born and raised in Long Island, New York.
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Annie had visited Ireland on a school trip as a teenager and fell in love with the country.
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Her childhood friend said, quote, she loved the food, she loved the people, she loved
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the scenery.
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She even loved the plants, end quote.
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Annie made plans to get back to Ireland as quick as she could.
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She attended college in Ireland and in January of 1993, three months before she went missing,
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she officially moved there to see if she wanted to make it her home.
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She got an apartment with two other women in Sandymount, which is just southeast of
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Dublin.
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She picked up two waitressing jobs, one at Cafe Java on Leeson Street and the other at
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the Courtyard Restaurant in Donnybrook.
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She also loved to bake pies and would sell them at local markets.
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Annie is very smart.
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She's academic and intellectual, kind and caring, thoughtful.
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She kept a detailed journal of her day-to-day happenings for years.
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However, in the weeks leading up to her disappearance, she had suddenly stopped writing in her journal.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Thursday, March 25, 1993, Annie proclaimed that the weekend was starting now after her
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shift had ended.
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She attempted to collect her wages at that time, but the money wasn't ready yet.
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She said she would come back the next day to get it.
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On Friday, March 26, 1993, Annie had a full day.
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In the morning, she chatted with her roommates.
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Both of them were headed home for the weekend and Annie would have the flat to herself.
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Her plans for the morning appeared to have been full of errands.
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She had planned to go back to her job to pick up her paycheck, and she also dropped off
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some pies she had made.
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She goes to the bank and then she goes grocery shopping.
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Annie was seen on CCTV footage at the bank withdrawing her money.
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After the bank, she was headed to Quinsworth Supermarket.
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She had plans to host friends for dinner the next evening and her mother was going to arrive
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the following Tuesday for a visit.
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The receipt from Annie's groceries was time stamped at 1102 a.m.
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Shortly after going grocery shopping, Annie made it back to her flat and dropped her groceries
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off.
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It appears that she started to do some laundry as she filled the sink and was letting some
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items soak in it.
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She also started to make one of her famous pies.
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Annie called her friend in the afternoon to see if she wanted to go walking in the Wicklow
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Mountains located in Enniskerry just outside of Dublin.
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Her friend couldn't make it, though.
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She had hurt her foot and was trying to rest it.
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Now from here, it's unclear exactly what happened to Annie that night, but here is
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what's reported at the time.
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It appears that Annie was undeterred.
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Annie boarded the 18 bus in Sandymount.
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A witness said they saw Annie get off at Ronalog, but instead of taking the 44 bus which would
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have taken her to Enniskerry, which is where the Wicklow Mountains are located where she
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had wanted to walk, she boarded the 62 bus that was headed to Westland Row.
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Westland Row would have taken her into the city of Dublin, right downtown it looks like.
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However, investigators will walk back pretty quickly that she ever headed to Westland Row.
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Instead, they say that the last confirmed sighting of Annie was that she was on the
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bus headed to Enniskerry.
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On Saturday, March 27, the next day, Annie's friends, Hillary and Rita, arrived at her
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place for dinner.
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Annie had been planning to cook for them, however when they arrived at the flat, all
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the lights were out.
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No one answered the door.
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The friends left confused as to where Annie was.
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They started to call around to see if they could find her.
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They called Annie's job to see if she was there, but they say that Annie hadn't showed
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up for work that afternoon, which was unlike her.
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On Sunday, March 28, Annie's roommates arrive back from their weekends out of town.
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They get back to the apartment in the evening hours and when they enter the apartment, they
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find Annie's groceries still on the table and her laundry is still soaking in the sink.
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A pie that she had been making was cooling on the stove and sitting untouched.
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It's unclear exactly when that evening, but her roommates call Annie's parents in New
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York and then they also call the police or the guardie as they're called in Ireland.
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On Tuesday, March 30, so Annie has been missing since Friday, Annie's mother arrives from
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New York.
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With her is Annie's father who had not originally planned to come to Ireland, but since Annie
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was missing, he comes as well and they both hope that Annie will turn up at the airport
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to pick them up.
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When Annie fails to show up, they know that something is very, very wrong.
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Annie's mother files a missing person report that evening.
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The guardie gets to work looking for Annie.
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They contact her friends and ex-boyfriends to get an understanding of who Annie is and
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when they last spoke to her.
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On April 7, so Annie has been missing for 12 days, investigators release a composite
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sketch of a man that they want to talk to.
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Tips had come in that on the night she disappeared, Annie was at the Johnny Fox Pub to watch a
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traditional Irish dance and music show, something called the Hoolie.
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The pub is located in Glen Cullen.
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To get to Glen Cullen from Enniskerry, Annie would have had to walk about an hour to get
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there, and the night she disappeared, it was also raining.
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According to witnesses, Annie wanted to see the Hoolie show, but didn't realize that
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there was a cover charge to get into it.
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A man in his mid-twenties, about 5'9", with an athletic build, stepped forward to
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pay the cover.
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He told the bouncer, quote, I'll look after that, end quote.
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Annie was also reported talking to a woman in the pub near the end of the night, around
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1130 p.m.
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However, no one said they saw Annie or the man leave.
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Over the years, people have doubted if Annie was ever at the pub, considering that she
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would have had to walk around 4 miles, or 6 kilometers, in the rain to get there.
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Some think it was someone else who just happened to look like Annie.
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The pub is a tourist spot, so it wouldn't have been so out of the ordinary to hear an
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American accent there.
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However, investigators continue to focus on this area as they believe that this is the
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last place that Annie was seen.
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On April 10th, so Annie has been missing for 15 days, her parents feel confident that they
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will find her alive.
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They also hire a private investigator that was recommended to them by the American Embassy.
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Annie's parents stress that they trust the guardie, but they want every resource available,
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working on the case and looking for their daughter.
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Two additional possible sightings of Annie come in from witnesses, but investigators
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at this point feel very confident that Johnny Fox's was the last place that Annie was and
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focused their search around this area and the Wicklow Mountains.
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The guardie also look into if Antonio Angel Martins could be involved with Annie's disappearance.
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At this time in 1993, he was Spain's most wanted man for kidnapping, assaulting, and
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murdering of three 14-year-old girls in Spain.
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Martin was on the run from police there and he had stowed away on a ship that arrived
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in Ireland two days before Annie disappeared.
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To date, it's never been confirmed if they have officially ruled him out or not.
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On the weekend of April 17th, a massive search is conducted with hundreds of volunteers near
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Johnny's Pub and in the Wicklow Mountains.
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During the search, a denim shirt is found.
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However, Annie's roommates don't recognize it as hers.
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Detectives talk to patrons in the pub hoping someone will remember Annie, but nobody comes
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forward with any additional information.
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Near the one-month mark of Annie's disappearance, the guardie announce that they're going to
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work with the International Police, Interpol, as they need help tracking down some French
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tourists who were at Johnny Fox's the night that Annie vanished.
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The group had a video camera with them and were recording the show.
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Police are hopeful that the camera has a glimpse of Annie on it and even the man who had paid
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for her cover.
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Investigators also at this time start to scale back the amount of people working on her case,
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though they continue to search bogs in the area for a sign of Annie.
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Annie's parents stay in Ireland for months looking for their daughter.
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However, as time passes, they have to make the heartbreaking decision to go back to America
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where they both worked.
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Annie's mom was a school secretary and her father was a special education teacher.
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However, they continue to champion Annie's case while in America.
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They write to their representatives to ask them for their help in keeping Annie's case
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at the forefront of the guardie's mind.
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Annie's parents both believe that she never made it to Johnny Fox's.
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Her father says, quote, It looks like she was yanked out of her apartment.
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A pie she was cooking was just sitting there, end quote.
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Over the summer of 1993, various sightings of Annie pop up.
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The guardie look into each and every one of them, as well as the family's private investigator.
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But no trace of Annie is ever found.
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An officer with a guardie tells the local paper, quote, To be brutally honest, these
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so-called sightings have turned out to be bullshit, end quote.
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Despite these numerous sightings, Annie's bank account has not been accessed since she
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vanished and her passport was left at her flat.
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And still no trace of her is found.
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At the one year anniversary of Annie's disappearance, so this is March of 1994, Annie's parents
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fly back to Ireland to drum up media about their daughter's case.
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The family offers an additional £100,000 to the reward, bringing the total up to £150,000.
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They say that the reward is being offered, no questions asked, if it brings them to Annie.
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The reward of £150,000 is only being offered while they're there for a week.
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They hope that someone will come forward and claim the money.
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They don't want to prosecute anyone.
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They just want to find Annie.
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Her family, the guardie, and the private eye all agree that the chances of finding Annie
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alive are slim.
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Over the last year, the guardie had investigated possible sightings of Annie, looked into cults
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around Ireland, and continued to search stretches of countryside for Annie, but nothing is found
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related to her case.
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The week ends and Annie's parents return back to America with the $100,000 reward still
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with them.
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Nobody came forward with information.
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After this, the case goes cold for several years.
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In June of 1997, so at this point it's been over four years since Annie vanished, the
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guardie excavate a pet cemetery in relation to Annie's case.
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They say they got a tip that something was buried here around the time that Annie vanished,
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but nothing is found.
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In August of 2010, so it's been 17 years since Annie vanished, and the women of Ireland
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are on edge.
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Larry Murphy is being released from jail.
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Murphy is also known as the Beast of Bolting Glass.
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Murphy is a convicted rapist, kidnapper, and an attempted murderer.
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The woman he was attacking had managed to get away from Murphy when he was interrupted
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by unexpected passer-byers that happened to recognize him.
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The attack happened in the Wicklow Mountains.
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He went to jail in 2001 and served less than 10 years for his crime.
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Notably, Murphy refused to talk about Annie's disappearance when asked by investigators.
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He also refused to answer questions in six other disappearances of women all around the
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same spot in Ireland.
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The spot becomes known as Ireland's Vanishing Triangle.
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Of the seven women who vanished, Annie was the first to go missing in 1993.
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The last one was in 1998.
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Over the years, there have been progress on some of the cases, but several remain unsolved
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and are believed to be the work of a serial killer.
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Murphy was arrested in 2000.
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The guardie mentioned that the attack stopped for good when he went to jail.
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In March of 2023, so it's been 30 years since Annie vanished, and the guardie officially
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reclassify her case as a homicide, but no additional details are given on why they do
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this.
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In March of 2024, so 31 years since Annie disappeared, and it's revealed that the
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CCTV footage showing Annie at the bank that morning, and what was thought to be the last
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confirmed sighting of her on CCTV, was actually captured 11 days before she went missing.
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At this point too, investigators have walked back to her last true sighting.
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They now say that her last confirmed whereabouts would have been when she dropped off her groceries
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at her apartment.
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They no longer say Johnny Foxx's is the last place she was seen, and they no longer say
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she was on the bus to Ensign's Gary.
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But that is all we know about the disappearance of Annie McCarrick.
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So if you know anything about the disappearance of Annie McCarrick in March of 1993, or her
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whereabouts today, please contact the Irish town guardia station at 01-666-9600.
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Or to leave a tip anonymously, you can call 1-800-666-111.
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So that is the case of Annie McCarrick.
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I'm hesitant to use the word excitement here, but I was just a little excited to hear that
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this case takes place in Ireland because we have a large amount of listeners that reside
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there.
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Hello to our Irish listeners, our people living in Ireland who are listening to us.
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Yes, and also my apologies to the people of Ireland.
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I worked really hard on my pronunciation of a lot of the places that we talked about in
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today's case, but I am sure that I am pronouncing something wrong.
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So I do apologize.
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I did work very hard.
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But I hope that if you are from Ireland or familiar with Ireland that you are at least
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knowing what I'm talking about.
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While hearing about Annie and knowing that she was a lover of Ireland and Irish culture
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and heritage, it just brought me a lot of joy.
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Both you and I are Irish as well and we enjoy learning about Irish lore and Irish culture
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and heritage as well.
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She seemed like someone even now that I would really get along with.
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I'm really hoping to find answers here.
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Something else that I found just very beautiful about her was the fact that she kept journals,
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but immediately found it very, very odd that she stopped writing weeks or days leading
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up to her disappearance.
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I know that because I'm not myself a regular journaling type person, but you are.
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And immediately I knew that that was very odd and something worth taking note of.
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Yeah, the journal, that's something I kind of went back and forth with because when I
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am really in my journaling habit, I can't go to sleep until I do my daily journal entry.
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But there have been times in my life where I just fall out of it.
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I go out late one night or something's going on, I don't do it, and then I fall off of
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doing it for weeks or months at a time.
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So I would be curious what the entries were like leading up to her stopping and just if
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those have any details or clues as to maybe why she stopped writing.
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Was she just really busy over the next couple days or weeks?
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Or was there something else going on?
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I do have a question about Annie and her roommates, and I'm wondering if the roommates were already
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gone for the weekend when she started her laundry and bringing in the groceries and
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starting the pie.
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I'm curious to know if anyone was around that morning as well.
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So from my understanding, the roommates were not there when she got back from the grocery
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store.
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It's unclear exactly when she started soaking her clothes.
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My impression from all the reporting that I read about that day is that the roommates
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came back on Sunday, she vanished on a Friday, and the groceries were on the table still
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in the bag, and then there was laundry in the sink.
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So to me, it gave the impression that they discovered the laundry there as well.
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And this moves right to the end of what you told us in that they know that she was last
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seen most likely in her apartment.
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So I think this invites an even bigger question into who knew that she was going to be alone
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in her home.
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And I know you don't know the answer to that, but I think it's a question worth asking.
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Yeah, I think one thing that really anchors her at her home is the fact that she called
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a friend asking if she wanted to go to the Wicklow Mountains to walk.
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And as far as who knows that she was there, it seems like it could have been known amongst
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her friends and acquaintances and coworkers.
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When I had roommates, I was usually really excited if I had a weekend by myself, and
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I usually announce that to people that I was with, like, oh, I'm going to have a great
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weekend.
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I have the place to myself.
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So it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of people knew.
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Yeah, it's very easy for me to imagine that when her shift ended, I've said this multiple
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times.
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I'm sure I've said it earlier this week.
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My weekend is officially starting, even if it's on a Wednesday night or a Thursday night
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or a Tuesday night.
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People usually know when at least people in my immediate vicinity who I'm working with,
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customers in the store, those people around will know that it's my weekend and I might
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be alone.
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I think it's something very possibly that could be overheard if you are making an like
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kind of an exciting declarative, an exciting declarative announcement about the fun time
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you're going to have.
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Totally.
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And her working, you know, as a waitress, as a server, you know, patrons in and out
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of the restaurant, delivery people, like there's so many ears.
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So yeah, it it makes complete sense to me that that could happen in this case that the
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wrong person overheard and got the information.
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Learning that she most likely did not get on the bus makes the scene that they find
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with her not being there, but left in the middle of tasks being done, makes so much
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more sense to me.
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I'm so glad that, you know, you had the narrative and could kind of bring us to that conclusion
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that this is the spot that she was last seen in and this is where she was maybe pulled
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from or was the last place that she left.
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The guardie really hooked on to this idea that she was going to Innescarri, the Wicklow
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Mountains to walk because she called a friend asking if she wanted to go.
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So that did seem like what she wanted to do that afternoon.
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And there were witnesses that say they saw her on a bus.
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A bus driver says he saw her get on going on the bus that was headed like straight into
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downtown Dublin, that she was nervous and her hands were shaking.
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But then they kind of retrace that because, you know, she's got to get to Innescarri if
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she's going to end up at Johnny Fox's.
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So the whole second half of the day, kind of after, you know, 11 or whatever that exact
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timing of that phone call happens, for a while it seemed like it was really in stone.
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Like it's reported in the papers again and again, she was last seen on the bus or she
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was last seen at Johnny Fox's.
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So I think that really muddled things and got people focused in an area that, of course,
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needed to be searched, should be searched.
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But maybe that wasn't where the resources needed to be in those first, you know, weeks
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after her disappearance.
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I 100% agree.
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I think that, you know, in cases like this, you're always grasping at straws when a new
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lead comes in.
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But unfortunately, we now know that that was not the focal point.
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And that's not where resources should have been allocated.
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But I will say that, you know, we can talk about her parents later and the incredible
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job they did champion, championing her to come home.
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The Gardi did an incredible job with their search efforts.
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I am not super familiar with the terrain in Ireland and the area in which she was staying.
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But I know it's not the same as here in America.
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To me, it sounded like vast efforts were that none of them were spared, that everyone did
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everything that they could.
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Yeah, the terrain specifically where they were focusing, you know, the Wicklow Mountains
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and around Johnny Fox's is very mountainous.
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It was a very tough search and hundreds of volunteers came out to help search for Annie,
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which is just like a beautiful testament to the community there that everyone got together
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to walk in really rugged, tough conditions to look for somebody that they didn't know.
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Now I know I very briefly brought up Annie's parents, but a question I did have about them
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was, were they always planning to come to Ireland that weekend?
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So her mother was always coming on Tuesday, March 30th.
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So she went missing on Friday.
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Her mother had plans to come in on Tuesday.
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That was planned.
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However, when her roommates called her parents and said, you know, we can't find her, it
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seems like she hasn't been here for a few days.
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That's when her father decides to join as well.
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And when they get to the airport, you know, they're kind of holding on to a hope that
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Annie's going to turn up.
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She knows she just spent a weekend away, needed to decompress, and she's going to turn up
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to pick them up from the airport.
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But she's not there and they know something is very, very wrong at that point.
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For this case, for Annie's case, there are a lot of possibilities and a lot of people
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when you consider the area of both the pub and the mountains.
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I think there's a lot of room to speculate here.
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And my mind did begin to kind of run, run awry and speculate all of the different possibilities
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of how Annie's disappearance happened until you introduced us to Larry Murphy at the very
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end.
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It sounded like he covered a lot of ground in committing his crimes.
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And while I hate to point to him being the most probable suspect, it really seems like
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it's definitely a possibility that he had something to do with her disappearance.
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Yeah, Larry Murphy.
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So he has only been convicted of kidnapping, assaulting and attempted murder on one person.
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The other cases, along with Annie's, that are all attributed to the Vanishing Triangle,
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Ireland's Vanishing Triangle, some have been solved, but others have not been solved.
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Most of them actually remain unsolved.
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So with Murphy, I think one of the things that stuck out most to me was just how it
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was almost like an offhanded comment that was made.
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When the guardie mentioned that the attacks stopped for good once he went to jail.
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And when you look at the timeline of all the attacks, there are sometimes months, sometimes
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years in between.
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But when he went to prison, they stopped for good.
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Well, now that this case is out there, I am very interested in doing my own more in-depth
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research.
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Because while a lot of time has passed, I don't think enough time has passed where this
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can't be solved or answers won't be uncovered.
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I think there's a lot of possibility here that in some capacity we could bring her home
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or maybe in some capacity, some justice can be had for the family.
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Those parents, her parents did what feels like everything.
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And I can't imagine having to leave where my baby is, probably.
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I can't imagine the inner turmoil and pain that these folks had to go through.
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So learning that they did everything they could brings my heart some peace.
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Yeah, Annie's parents were always very dedicated to her case.
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And her father has passed away, but her mother is still alive and deeply wants to know what
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happened to Annie and to know where she is.
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And something that she's mentioned, she really wants is just a place to go visit her.
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She wants a grave site to visit for Annie.
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So I'm very hopeful that in this case, we will get that for Annie's family.
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They'll be able to bring her home and put her to rest where they know where she is.
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Ireland is a small country.
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So to me, it feels like there is a possibility of finding her still.
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There's a lot of places still in Ireland.
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There's a lot of bogs which are really difficult to search.
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Overall, I really hope that Annie gets to be put to rest by her family someday.
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But again, if you know anything about the disappearance of Annie McCarrick in March
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of 1993, please call the Irish town Garda station at 016669600 or to remain anonymous,
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call 1-800-666-111.
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And we will have pictures of Annie on our Instagram at Cold and Missing.
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We'll also have a clip of the footage from the CCTV or still from the CCTV footage at
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the bank.
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Again, it was revealed just a few years ago that this was very likely not taking the day
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she disappeared, but several days beforehand.
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So a lot of muddling in the timeline on this case.
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But all of that will be on our Instagram at Cold and Missing.
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And again, if we ever need to take a break, or if we have an unexpected week off, we will
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always put the announcement on our Instagram.
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So keep up with us there.
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And as I said at the beginning, thank you so much to everyone who's rated and reviewed
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And thank you for doing it in the future.
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And also, as mentioned at the top, our website www.coldandmissing.com.
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You can contact with us there.
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But that is all I have.
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Thank you so much to listening to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Ali.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli.
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