In the east of Ireland, on the territory of the province of Leinster, there is an area that in the 1990s was nicknamed the "Triangle of Disappearances", since in several years 8 people, 8 women disappeared without a trace here.
The women were of different ages from adolescents to 40-year-olds and of different types, and all disappeared without a trace and there were no leads to find their killers or killers (if the version with the serial maniac was correct).
The first to disappear here was 26-year-old Annie McCarrick, who came to her family in Dublin from New York. She was last seen on March 26, 1993 in a pub in Glenkallen and was allegedly there with a stranger. The search for Annie lasted six months, but to no avail.
On July 25, 1993, 39-year-old Eva Brennan from Rathgar, a Dublin suburb, went missing. She had lunch with her family, and then left the house in an incomprehensibly depressed mood to go to her apartment and no one else saw her. She never got to the apartment.
On January 3, 1994, 22-year-old Imelda Keenan from Waterford disappeared. She had three brothers and on holidays she stayed with one brother in Cove, and then went to two others in Waterford. She was last seen crossing the road at Waterford.
On November 9, 1995, 21 - year old Josephine "Jo Joe" Dullard, who was hitchhiking from Dublin to Kilkenny, disappeared. One of the eyewitnesses saw her in a payphone by the road and after that her trace disappeared.
On February 13, 1997, 17-year-old Kiara Breen went missing. She disappeared right from her home in Dundalk. At about midnight, the mother and daughter went to bed, and when after 2 hours the mother got up and went to the toilet, she noticed that her daughter's room was empty. The window was open.
On August 23, 1996, 25-year-old Fiona Pender from Tullamore left her boyfriend John's apartment and was never seen again. Fiona was 7 months pregnant and she was the only one of 8 women whose probable trace years later could be found. In 2008, a wooden cross with the name of Fiona Pender was found on the Slieve Bloom Way in Liish County. He was on it the day it disappeared. There is a version that Fiona's body was buried somewhere near this cross.
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On February 8, 1998, 19-year-old Fiona Sinnott disappeared from the village of Broadway. In the morning, Fiona told her boyfriend Sean that she was not feeling well and needed to see a doctor, Sean gave her £ 3 and she left. She never got to the doctor and disappeared.
And finally, the eighth caught, 18-year-old Deirdre Jacob, who disappeared on July 28, 1998 in Newbridge. She went to her parents and was last seen not far from their house.
Commemorative plaque in memory of Imelda Keenan, who disappeared on this street.
This strange chain of disappearance of women remains unprecedented in Ireland to this day. Neither before nor after did anything like this happen here, and if someone disappeared, then his body or other evidence was found, indicating what happened to him.
All the victims did not know each other, they were all of different ages, types, disappeared in different places and under different circumstances. Therefore, the most popular version of the serial killer did not stand up to criticism. The only thing that united the victims was the complete absence of the slightest clues and the remains that were not found.
However, the fact that everyone had disappeared within a few years and in the same area indicated that there was still something in common between them.
Maybe the girls were stolen in order to make them prostitutes later? This may be appropriate for young victims, but what about 39-year-old Eva Brennan? And if the girls were alive, they would still be noticed by someone, their portraits were shown on all channels in Ireland, Great Britain and other countries.
The Irish police did their job carefully; the relatives of the disappeared, their acquaintances, eyewitnesses who were the last to see the girls were interviewed. Suspicious types were detained and subjected to intensive interrogation, but all was in vain.
One of the likely suspects was a certain Larry Murphy, who served time for rape and lived in houses that were close to those of Annie McCarrick, Joe Joe Dullard and Deirdre Jacob. However, there was no evidence against him and Murphy himself categorically denied his involvement.
