Breaking Man, 60s, arrested on suspicion of Annie McCarrick murder
A man has been arrested in Dublin for the murder of Annie McCarrick, the 26-year-old American woman who went missing more than 32 years ago.
The man, who is in his 60s, was arrested by detectives from Irishtown this morning on suspicion of murder.
He is being detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be questioned for up to 24 hours.
Gardaí are also searching a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin as part of the investigation.
Originally from New York, Annie McCarrick lived in St Cathryn's Court in Sandymount in Dublin when she went missing on 26 March 1993.
The last confirmed sighting of her was captured on CCTV shortly before 11am that day at the AIB bank on Sandymount Road close to where she lived.
There are reported sightings of her in the Sandymount Green area and of her boarding the number 44 bus bound for Enniskerry in Co Wicklow.
There are also a number of further reported sightings in Enniskerry village and at Johnnie Fox's pub in the Dublin mountains.
Ms McCarrick had settled in Sandymount in January that year and worked as a waitress at the Courtyard Restaurant in Donnybrook and Café Java in Leeson Street.
She had bought groceries on the morning of 26 March 1993 in Quinnsworth shopping centre on Sandymount Road - confirmed by a receipt found in unpacked shopping bags in her apartment.
She was reported missing by a friend two days later on 28 March 1993.
The case was initially treated as a missing persons inquiry but two years ago it was upgraded to a murder inquiry.
The investigation is being led by the Dublin South Central Serious Crime Unit supported by the National Serious Crime Review Team.
This is the first arrest in the case.
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