Posted by Annie McCarrick was a 26 year old student from Long Island, New York. She had fallen in love with Ireland moved into a flat in Sandymount. On the morning of the 26th of March 1993. Annie spoke with her flatmates before they left town for the weekend. She was in good form and making plans. Her mother, Nancy, was due to visit from New York in a few days. Annie talked about showing her Dublin, and introducing her to this new Irish life. Around 11 a.m., Annie was seen on Sandymount Road, visiting the AIB bank, then popping into Quinnsworth for messages. By mid-afternoon, she returned to her flat. Later her shopping would be found sat on the kitchen table, still in the bags. No note or sign of struggle. The scene her flatmates discovered silently implied that something or someone had interrupted her. Sometime after 3 p.m., Annie left the apartment again. Witnesses saw her on the number 44 bus heading toward Enniskerry, and possibly later that afternoon at Johnnie Fox’s Pub in Glencullen in the Dublin Mountains. That sighting has haunted the case ever since. Was it Annie, or was it a young woman who looked like her? In a tourist spot like that a good looking young woman with red hair and American accent wouldnt have been as rare. If Annie did make it into the mountains that day, she vanished into one of the most searched landscapes in Irish criminal history. The Wicklow Mountains were combed in the days and weeks that followed. Gardaí searched ravines, forestry tracks, bogland, abandoned building without finding a trace. There was an epidemic of women dissapearing in the 1990s, often after brief journeys, clustered around what became known as the Vanishing Triangle. The DTM will revisit that another day. In later investigations, friends revealed that Annie had spoken of being harassed by a man she knew. She had told people she felt watched and most seriously had been assaulted shortly before her disappearance. For thirty years, Annie McCarrick remained officially missing. In 2008, Gardaí reopened the case. In 2023, on the thirtieth anniversary of her disappearance, it was formally upgraded to a murder investigation. Then, in June 2025, came the most dramatic development in decades. A man in his sixties was arrested on suspicion of Annie’s murder. He was questioned, then released without charge. Shortly afterward, Gardaí searched a property in Clondalkin using cadaver dogs and forensic teams. Again, nothing was found. But the case is no longer dormant. Witnesses have been re-interviewed. Annie’s father, John, sadly died in 2009 without ever knowing what happened to his daughter. Her mother, Nancy, continues to ask Ireland to remember the young woman who came here full of hope and never made it home. If you have any info contact Irishtown Garda Station at 01 6669600, your local Garda Station or the Garda Confidential telephone line 1800 666 111
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