Annie Bridget McCarrick (born March 21, 1966)
is an American woman from
Long Island, New York
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who went missing under suspicious circumstances on March 26, 1993, while she was residing in
Ireland
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.
Background
McCarrick was born on
Long Island, New York
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and she lived there until her move to
Ireland
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in January 1987.
She was the only child of her parents John and Nancy.
[
She visited Ireland on a school trip as a teenager and fell in love with the country.][ She studied at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra and ]St Patrick's College, Maynooth
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland ...
in the late 1980s, then returned to New York and began studying at Stony Brook University
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in 1991.[
She moved to Ireland permanently on 4 January 1993.][ She moved into rented accommodation in ]Sandymount
Sandymount () is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. with two other tenants.[
]
Days before disappearance
She attended the Saint Patrick's Day
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parade with friends.[
She called at Café Java on in ]Leeson Street
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on 25 March to collect wages, but as the wages were not ready, she arranged to visit there the following day.[ She worked there as a waitress and also at the Courtyard Restaurant, ]Donnybrook
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[ She later visited friends and stayed for dinner.][
On Friday 26 March, she spoke to her flatmates, who were going to go home for the weekend.][ She visited the AIB branch in Sandymount shortly before 11 am - this is the last confirmed sighting of her.][
Her mother was due to visit her on 30 March and Annie was looking forward to seeing her.][
]
Disappearance
McCarrick disappeared on March 26, 1993. She had left her apartment in Dublin
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, Ireland so that she could go to the Wicklow Mountains
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for the day. She had asked a friend to accompany her, but her friend declined. CCTV
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captured images of McCarrick in the Allied Irish Bank
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location in Sandymount
Sandymount () is an affluent coastal suburb in the Dublin 4 district on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland.
Etymology
An early name for the area was Scal'd Hill or Scald Hill. , where she was seen withdrawing money from her bank account. She did some shopping at Quinnsworth
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supermarket before returning to her apartment at 3:00 pm. She was seen on a bus at about 3:40 pm in Ranelagh
Ranelagh ( , ; ) is an affluent residential area and urban village on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland in the postal district of D06.
History
The district was originally a village known as Cullenswood just outside Dublin, surrounded by lan ...
heading toward Enniskerry. Some time later that evening between 8 pm and 10 pm, the doorman at Johnnie Fox's pub in Glencullen
Glencullen () is a village and townland in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in south County Dublin, Ireland. It is also the name of the valley above one end of which the village sits, and from which it takes its name, and is on the ...
claims to have seen McCarrick at the pub accompanied by a young man who was wearing a wax jacket. Allegedly, McCarrick had gone to see an Irish music and dancing show that was a traditional event called the Hooley Show, but did not realise that there was a cover charge
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. McCarrick's male friend then paid for her and accompanied her in to watch the show. Nobody saw either McCarrick or her male friend leave the pub, and the man's identity has never been discovered. However, this sighting at Johnnie Fox's has been disputed over the years. As it was dark and wet outside that night, it seems unlikely that McCarrick would have walked all the way from Enniskerry
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Location
The village is situated on the Glencullen River in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains in the ea ...
to Glencullen, which was 6 km away.
Investigation and aftermath
Numerous searches by authorities in Ireland have turned up nothing in McCarrick's disappearance. The authorities focused their search on the Wicklow Mountains and wider Leinster
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area as many women have gone missing there (the "Vanishing Triangle") since 1990. Gardaí believe that McCarrick may have been murdered by the same serial killer involved in the other disappearances.
2008: Reopening
In 2008 the case was reopened.
2014: Ex-garda book
In 2014, in a new book called ''Missing, Presumed'' by a detective named Sergeant Alan Bailey, it was revealed that an IRA killer and child abuser was established as a "credible suspect" in the disappearance of McCarrick.
2020: Reported sighting in Enniskerry
In March 2020, it came to light that a woman named Margaret Wogan spotted a woman matching the description of Annie McCarrick, in Poppies cafe in Enniskerry on the Friday afternoon that she went missing. According to Wogan, McCarrick was accompanied by a man with a "square face". Private investigators now believe that this is a vital piece of information in the McCarrick case.
2020: US-based investigators
In July 2020, a New York-based lawyer named Michael Griffith announced that he had received a significant new lead in relation to the Annie McCarrick case. In September 2020, a U.S-based team of private investigators announced that they had identified the suspect whom they believe murdered Annie McCarrick. The investigative team believes that McCarrick never actually made it to Johnnie Fox's pub and that the alleged sighting at the pub was a case of mistaken identity. Instead, the team believes that McCarrick went missing some time after arriving in Enniskerry. Michael Griffith stated that the pieces of the puzzle were slowly coming together. Michael Griffith stated that the new lead they are working on involves someone whom McCarrick may have dated.
2023: Anglés allegation
In February 2023, Spanish television channel La Sexta
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aired a three-part documentary "Anglés: Historia de una fuga" claiming that the notorious criminal Antonio Anglés
Antonio Anglés Martins (born 25 July 1966) is a Brazilian- Spanish criminal and fugitive. He lived in his native Brazil for a year before moving to Spain. According to his relatives and friends, Anglés was known as a habitually violent crimi ...
might have been responsible for her disappearance.
2023: Murder inquiry
On 24 March 2023, two days before the 30th anniversary of McCarrick's disappearance, Gardaí stated they had upgraded the investigation to a murder inquiry. They also announced that they had identified two men of interest in regard to McCarrick's disappearance and that these two individuals had lived near to her in Sandymount.
Media
The case was discussed in episode 4 of the 2015 investigative series Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved entitled: The Case of Annie McCarrick.
McCarrick's disappearance is covered in ''MISSING: Beyond the Vanishing Triangle'', a two-part true crime
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documentary first aired in May 2023 on RTÉ One
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.
The case is also at the centre of the documentar
Six Silent Killings: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle
which first aired on 12th November 2023 in the UK.
See also
*List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enf ...
References
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1966 births
1990s missing person cases
American expatriates in the Republic of Ireland
Missing people
Missing person cases in Ireland
People from Long Island
Unsolved crimes in Ireland