The Indo Daily – Extra: Revisiting the disappearance of Annie McCarrick, as man (60s) arrested on suspicion of murder
On Thursday in Dublin, Gardaí arrested a man in relation to the murder of Annie McCarrick, who went missing on March 26, 1993.
There they searched at a home in Clondalkin but have stressed that the current residents of this home are not connected in any way with Annie McCarrick or her disappearance.
Ms McCarrick, originally from New York, disappeared without a trace, and the case has remained unsolved for over 32 years. The last confirmed sighting of her was in Sandymount, Dublin.
Today on this Indo Daily Extra; we replay extracts from an interview recorded in February 2023, as Fionnan Sheahan spoke to Claire McGowan, crime fiction writer and author of the Vanishing Triangle, the Murdered Women Ireland Forgot, about the disappearance of Annie McCarrick.
The Indo Daily – Extra: Revisiting the disappearance of Annie McCarrick, as man (60s) arrested on suspicion of murder
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