Missing Annie McCarrick. Right : reconstruction of the man who was seen with Annie.
Missing Annie McCarrick. Right : reconstruction of the man who was seen with Annie.
Name: Annie McCarrick
Case Classification: Endangered missing
Missing Since: March 26, 1993
Location Last Seen: Sandymount, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Date of Birth: March 21, 1967
Age: 26 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140 lbs
Hair Color: Brown, long
Eye Color: Unknown
Nickname/Alias: Annie Bridget McCarrick
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Soft Irish-American accent
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available
Clothing: Dark tweed jacket, jeans, oxblood colored boots
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Tan shoulder bag
Annie McCarrick has been missing from her home at Sandymount in Dublin since Friday, March 26, 1993. On that date, just days before her mother was due to arrive, Annie didn't show up as expected to pick up her paycheck at work. Annie travelled to Ireland to study and was living in an apartment at St. Catherine’s Court, Sandymount with two other friends, worked at a restaurant in Donnybrook, and was planning to become a teacher. On that Friday morning she was at home knitting and told her friends she may go for a walk in the Wicklow or Glencullen area. At approximately 11am Annie purchased groceries from supermarket Quinnsworth on the Sandymount Road. She returned home to St. Catherine’s Court with the groceries and they were left on the kitchen table. Later that day at 3.15pm Annie took a bus from Sandymount to Ranelagh. Annie took the number 44 bus from Ranelagh to Enniskerry. There was no bus from Enniskerry to Glencullen, Annie would have had to walk the 6km’s to where she was next seen at Johnnie Fox’s public house, Glencullen. Witnesses say Annie, who had no apparent boyfriend at the time, was seen with an unidentified man. On Saturday, when her friends arrived at her apartment for a previously arranged dinner party, there was no sign of Annie.
A private investigator hired by McCarrick's father, however, believes she was never at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance, because he doesn't think she wouldn't have walked that far in the rain to get there. The evening was cold and wet, and McCarrick would have had to walk six kilometers, or 3.73 miles, from the bus stop to the pub.
The investigator puts credence in another sighting of McCarrick, by an employee of a small coffee shop called Poppies. The witness, who worked at Poppies at the time and is now deceased, believed she saw McCarrick with a man on the afternoon of her disappearance. The man paid for McCarrick to purchase a snack, and the two of them left. The private investigator believes this man, whom he thinks he has identified, may have killed McCarrick.
Two suspects in her presumed death were identified in 2008. Neither of them have been publicly named, but both of them lived in the Wicklow area in 1993 and neither of them have criminal records.
A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a now-defunct Irish nationalist terrorist organization, is also a suspect in McCarrick's disappearance. The man allegedly raped the twelve-year-old daughter of another IRA member and possibly other girls, and investigators believe the IRA sent him to the United States so he could escape prosecution. Authorities stated they believe McCarrick met the IRA member at Johnnie Fox's Pub on the night of her disappearance and he murdered her. He has not been publicly identified.
Annie was formally reported missing by her mother Nancy, who travelled to Ireland on 30th March 1993. Police theorize her disappearance may be the work of a serial killer.
In 2020, the investigation is still ongoing. FBI is now involved.
In 2021, there is circumstantial evidence linking Larry Murphy to her disappearance and Jo Jo Dullard's. He remains a suspect, sources confirm.
Agency Name: Serious Crime Review Unit
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: +353-1- 666-3344
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Agency Name: Garda Missing Persons Unit
Agency Contact Person: N/A
Agency Phone Number: +353 1 666 9476
Agency E-Mail: missing_persons@garda.ie
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NamUs Case Number: Not listed
NCIC Case Number: N/A
Added: Prior to 2011; Last Updated: 08-23-2021 - By: Htmlcnvtr
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** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
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