Speaker 1: Parental discretion as advised violent sexual assault. The concept of
Speaker 1: vanishing might seem anachronistic in today's age of social media
Speaker 1: and surveillance capitalism, but few things have the capacity to
Speaker 1: frighten like the notion of completely falling off the face
Speaker 1: of the earth from the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony
Speaker 1: in the sixteenth century in what is today North Carolina,
Speaker 1: as covered in Season four, episode thirteen's Lost in Stormy
Speaker 1: Visions to images of lost children emblazoned on milk cartons
Speaker 1: during the nineteen eighties. Vanishing speaks not only to our
Speaker 1: collective anxiety about mortality, but seems to pluck at the
Speaker 1: very fabric of existence itself. Culturally, some of us may
Speaker 1: be consoled by notions of an afterlife, wherein death is
Speaker 1: not treated as an end but a new beginning. But
Speaker 1: vanishing implies non existence without closure, perhaps because its physical
Speaker 1: intangibility seems to robbers of everything and everyone at once,
Speaker 1: our presence, futures and pasts, and all unfulfilled potentialities. To
Speaker 1: disappear from sight is to disappear from memory, and to
Speaker 1: disappear from memory is to be as though we never
Speaker 1: existed at all. Conversely, for some, vanishing is an opportunity
Speaker 1: for freedom, an antidote to today's hyperconnected world, where cutting ties,
Speaker 1: going off grid and living on one's wits is an
Speaker 1: alluring alternative to the rat race. Thus romance, we're told
Speaker 1: in taking to the road, in starting it all again
Speaker 1: without the pressures of the mundane. Such a notion might
Speaker 1: seem appealing until we consider the consequences and the pain
Speaker 1: we'd most likely leave in our wake. Given Island's tempestuous
Speaker 1: history during the Troubles and beyond of enforced disappearance by
Speaker 1: paramilitary organizations, clandestine state actors, and powerful drug gangs, the
Speaker 1: idea of disappearance in the form of secret abduction, imprisonment,
Speaker 1: or murder cuts to the core of the concept. The
Speaker 1: vanishing triangle, a term coined by former crime correspondent Geraldine Nyland,
Speaker 1: refers to a number of high profile, possibly connected disappearances
Speaker 1: in Ireland that Nyland pursued between the mid nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: and late nineteen nineties. According to Nyland, up to fourteen
Speaker 1: women either vanished or were murdered within one hundred kilometer
Speaker 1: radius of islands capital Dublin. She noted a number of
Speaker 1: eerie similarities not only of circumstances, but attributes shared by
Speaker 1: many of the women whose disappearances she investigated. The women's
Speaker 1: ages ranged from late teens to late thirties. Each of
Speaker 1: them disappeared inexplicably and suddenly, with no substantial clues or
Speaker 1: evidence ever being found, despite large scale searches and campaigns
Speaker 1: by the National Police Force, the Garda Shiacona. Though the
Speaker 1: Guardee would eventually satisfy themselves that at least four of
Speaker 1: these cases were perpetrated by people unconnected with the other ten,
Speaker 1: questions still remain about whether a serial killer or killers
Speaker 1: was allowed to operate in the area known as the
Speaker 1: Vanishing Triangle for over a decade, and if ni Ellen's
Speaker 1: accounts of the disappearances that anything to go by, the
Speaker 1: main suspect may very well be walking free. To this day,
Speaker 1: you're listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. It
Speaker 1: was a typically rainy day in the affluent suburb of Sandymount, County, Dublin,
Speaker 1: but twenty six year old Long Island native Annie McCarrick
Speaker 1: had good reason to be feeling optimistic. Annie had spent
Speaker 1: most of her life in New York, but fell in
Speaker 1: love with Ireland while training to be a teacher there
Speaker 1: in the eighties. After a short spell back in the
Speaker 1: United States studying at Stonybrook University, Annie returned to Ireland
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three with plans to settle down. Something
Speaker 1: about the pace of life she'd enjoyed during her teacher
Speaker 1: training in Dublin had left a lasting impression on her,
Speaker 1: but it was also the way everyone greeted each other
Speaker 1: when they passed in the street, and the close circle
Speaker 1: of friends she'd made during her time there. Whatever it was,
Speaker 1: Annie was excited to tell her loved ones that she'd
Speaker 1: finally made a decision about what she was going to
Speaker 1: do with her life. Passionate as she was about working
Speaker 1: with the children, there was no doubt in Annie's mind
Speaker 1: that following her ambition to become a teacher had to
Speaker 1: happen in her adopted country. Annie's other great passion in
Speaker 1: life was the great outdoors. In March nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: Annie arranged to go hiking in the nearby Wicklow Mountains
Speaker 1: with one of her closest acquaintances. The next day, she
Speaker 1: had plans to meet other friends for dinner, and her mother, Nancy,
Speaker 1: was due to visit the following weekend, and so it
Speaker 1: was that on Friday, March twenty sixth Annie woke looking
Speaker 1: forward to taking in some crisp country air and maybe
Speaker 1: even calling into one of the traditional Wicklow pubs for
Speaker 1: a cold pint and to listen to some traditional music.
Speaker 1: Later that night, Annie was preparing a list of provisions
Speaker 1: for herself when she got a call from her friend
Speaker 1: through a bunged up nose and the occasional splutter, The friend,
Speaker 1: clearly suffering from a cold, apologized profusely but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: be joining Annie on the walk after all. Though disappointed,
Speaker 1: Annie resolved to go it alone. Nonetheless, CCTV cameras tracked
Speaker 1: Annie as she made her way from her apartment in
Speaker 1: Sandymount to a local bank, where she deposited her wages
Speaker 1: from the cafe she worked at. From there, she went
Speaker 1: to a nearby supermarket to pick up groceries for that
Speaker 1: night's dinner. Annieged a short time later with a bag
Speaker 1: of groceries before heading off away from the high Street
Speaker 1: in the direction of her apartment. That night, a near
Speaker 1: full moon, barely glimpsed through overcast skies, rose above the
Speaker 1: rugged heather covered terrain of the Wicklow Mountains. As the
Speaker 1: air cooled, a light mist came down, obscuring the mountain
Speaker 1: peaks completely. The following day, Annie's friends gathered outside her
Speaker 1: apartment building, clutching bottles of wine. They rang the buzzer excitedly,
Speaker 1: keen to hear about Annie's hike from the previous day.
Speaker 1: Then they waited and waited. They checked their watches. Someone
Speaker 1: lit a cigarette. It was definitely today, wasn't it. They
Speaker 1: wandered amongst themselves. Either way, Annie wasn't home. One of
Speaker 1: Annie's friends knew the buzzer for the landlady who lived
Speaker 1: in the same building. When she answered, they asked if
Speaker 1: she wouldn't mind letting them up into Annie's flat so
Speaker 1: they could come out of the cold and wait for
Speaker 1: her there. Moments later, they stood a little anxiously outside
Speaker 1: Annie's flat as the landlady turned the key and pushed
Speaker 1: open the door. Inside was dark and eerily quiet. They
Speaker 1: flicked on the lights and made their way toward the kitchen,
Speaker 1: where they soon spotted a bag of recently bought groceries
Speaker 1: still unpacked, left out on the counter. She must have
Speaker 1: just popped out for a moment, they thought, until they
Speaker 1: found the receipt inside the bag. It was dated on
Speaker 1: the previous day and timestamped at eleven two. A m
Speaker 1: unsure what it all meant, Annie's friends called the police
Speaker 1: immediately to let them know that Annie appeared to have
Speaker 1: gone missing. It wouldn't be until the following day, however,
Speaker 1: with the young American having then been missing for almost
Speaker 1: forty eight hours, that an official missing persons report was filed.
Speaker 1: Over time, a picture of Annie's last known movements was
Speaker 1: slowly pieced together. The last confirmed sighting of Annie was
Speaker 1: the morning of the twenty sixth at her local bank.
Speaker 1: She also made a phone call that morning from a
Speaker 1: public phone box to her ex boyfriend's brother in the
Speaker 1: hope of trying to get in touch with her ex,
Speaker 1: who was out at the country at the time. What
Speaker 1: followed has only ever been considered anecdotal evidence. This conductor
Speaker 1: claimed to have seen a woman fitting Annie's description around
Speaker 1: three forty pm on the Friday, boarding a bus from
Speaker 1: Dublin to Enniskery in County Wicklow, about twenty five kilometers
Speaker 1: south of Dublin. Later that night, according to a dorman
Speaker 1: and some others, Annie was seen at Johnny Fox's pub
Speaker 1: in the Glen Cullen area, a good few kilometers walk
Speaker 1: from Enniscerrey. The dorman working that night would later tell
Speaker 1: investigators that he saw a woman meeting Annie's description with
Speaker 1: a man whom he described as having short brown hair
Speaker 1: and of rugby players built. The dorman remembered the interaction,
Speaker 1: he said, because the woman's accents stood out, and the
Speaker 1: man she was with offered to pay her cover charge
Speaker 1: for the venue. Annie had been missing for four days
Speaker 1: when her anguished parents, Nancy and John, arrived in Dublin
Speaker 1: to join the search. It seemed to Nancy and Annie's
Speaker 1: friends that the Guardy the Irish police only took the
Speaker 1: case seriously once Annie's father arrived on the scene. They
Speaker 1: only took men seriously at that time, said Nancy. That's
Speaker 1: just how it was back in those days. The Guardian
Speaker 1: felt there was little reason to suspect anything suspicious had occurred.
Speaker 1: As tragic as it was, it was beginning to appear
Speaker 1: to them at least as though Annie had either gone
Speaker 1: missing of her own accord, or had simply got lost
Speaker 1: or badly injured while out walking. Frustrated by what they
Speaker 1: saw as a lackluster response from the GUARDI, Annie's family
Speaker 1: hired private investigator Brian McCarthy to follow up on any
Speaker 1: potential leads that the police had missed. On McCarthy's advice,
Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifty thousand dollar reward was put
Speaker 1: up for any information that could solve the mystery of
Speaker 1: Annie's disappearance. Family friend and FBI special agent Kenneth Strange
Speaker 1: also offered to help securing resources from the US government
Speaker 1: to open a separate stateside investigation into Annie's disappearance. However,
Speaker 1: concrete answers remained elusive. In comparison to Annie McCarrick, friends
Speaker 1: of twenty one year old Josephine or Jojo Dullart described
Speaker 1: her as a somewhat shy and reserved character. Back in
Speaker 1: November nineteen ninety five, Jojo was experiencing financial difficulties after
Speaker 1: dropping out of her beauty therapy course in Dublin. Feeling
Speaker 1: a little insecure about the future, she decided to return
Speaker 1: home to the village of Callen County Kilkenny, about one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty kilometers south of Dublin, to stay with
Speaker 1: her parents for a short time while she considered her
Speaker 1: next steps. She told her family to expect her on
Speaker 1: November ninth. At eleven thirty seven pm. On the evening
Speaker 1: of the ninth, the phone rang in the home of
Speaker 1: Mary Cullinant, one of JoJo's closest friends who also lived
Speaker 1: in Callen. Mary picked up the phone to find Jojo
Speaker 1: on the other end of the line. It isn't known
Speaker 1: exactly why Jojo called Mary. Perhaps she didn't want to
Speaker 1: worry her parents or disturb them if they were already asleep.
Speaker 1: Despite being a little tired and cold, Jojo was otherwise
Speaker 1: in good spirits, as she explained to Mary. Although she'd
Speaker 1: missed her planned bus out of Dublin, she'd managed to
Speaker 1: get another one on to take her as far as
Speaker 1: Nays in County Kildare. She was just calling to let
Speaker 1: Mary know in case anyone was worried that she was
Speaker 1: now in Moon After securing a few lifts from strangers.
Speaker 1: With another seventy kilometers still to go until Callan, Jojo
Speaker 1: was just waiting in the hope of finding another ride
Speaker 1: to get her home. Mary heard the sound of a
Speaker 1: vehicle approaching before coming to a stop near the phone box.
Speaker 1: Moments later, the phone line went dead. Jojo Dunnart was
Speaker 1: never seen again. Despite JoJo's family's insistence that something untoward
Speaker 1: had taken place, the Guardie was said to be slow
Speaker 1: in taking her disappearance seriously. It wasn't until three days
Speaker 1: after she went missing that they opened a formal investigation.
Speaker 1: As the years passed, there were few developments in both
Speaker 1: Jojo Dullard and Ani mccarricks cases. Unbeknownst to their families. However,
Speaker 1: key figures within the Gardi Shia Khanna were starting to
Speaker 1: hypothesize that something dark and disturbing was at play. Ever
Speaker 1: since Special Agent Kenneth Strange of the FBI opened his
Speaker 1: investigation into Anie McCarrick's disappearance in nineteen ninety three, resources
Speaker 1: were shared and theories discussed between the two international police bodies.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety eight, GUARDI detectives secured an invite to
Speaker 1: the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico, Virginia for a consultation. There,
Speaker 1: they began to develop the theory that both Jojo Dullard
Speaker 1: and Annie had been abducted and murdered, and possibly by
Speaker 1: the same person. They even developed a profile of the
Speaker 1: likely assailant. The potential suspect they believed was likely to
Speaker 1: be a married man in its thirties with children, who
Speaker 1: had no previous run ins with the law. In short,
Speaker 1: their perpetrator was probably someone who gave the appearance of
Speaker 1: being a law abiding citizen, and may even have ingratiated
Speaker 1: himself as a pillar of his local community. Ireland, it
Speaker 1: seemed potentially at its very own serial killer on the loose.
Speaker 1: In response to this terrifying prospect, the GUARDI set up
Speaker 1: a dedicated task force named Operation Trace, with the express
Speaker 1: purpose of solving any and all unresolved disappearances and homicides
Speaker 1: in what had then become known as the Vanishing Triangle area.
Speaker 1: They offered a ten thousand year euro reward for any
Speaker 1: information resulting in the recovery of a body. Despite the
Speaker 1: mood of general apprehension surrounding the Guardian investigation into the
Speaker 1: Vanishing Triangle, nineteen ninety eight was generally seen as an
Speaker 1: optimistic turning point for Irish society. In March of that year,
Speaker 1: the historic Good Friday Agreement was ratified into the Irish Constitution,
Speaker 1: effectively ending or at least quelling hundreds of years of
Speaker 1: animosity between the Irish and British states. Northern Ireland would
Speaker 1: have its own devolved Parliament. The Irish Republic meanwhile, was
Speaker 1: in the nascent stages of a period of economic prosperity,
Speaker 1: which would eventually bloom and become known as the Celtic Tiger. Then,
Speaker 1: in July nineteen ninety eight, another young woman disappeared. Eighteen
Speaker 1: year old student Deirdre Jacob had returned home from London,
Speaker 1: where she was studying to spend the summer with her
Speaker 1: parents in Newbridge, County Kildare. She just completed her first
Speaker 1: year at Saint Mary's University and was due to return
Speaker 1: to her accommodation in Twickenham, South London within the next
Speaker 1: few months. On the day of her disappearance, she completed
Speaker 1: some financial admin at the local branch of her bank,
Speaker 1: before going to the post office to complete a bank
Speaker 1: draft in anticipation of her return to London. This was
Speaker 1: the last known sighting of Deirdre. Sometime around three pm.
Speaker 1: Some passing motorists said they saw Deirdre approaching her parents
Speaker 1: driveway a short time later, but she never made it inside.
Speaker 1: On this occasion, the guy body wasted little time and
Speaker 1: immediately opened an investigation once again. However, they quickly reached
Speaker 1: a dead end. Eighteen months later, one dark, cold night
Speaker 1: in early February two thousand, two men Ken Jones and
Speaker 1: Trevor Moody drove into the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains
Speaker 1: to hunt for foxes. Coming up over a rise, the
Speaker 1: headlights from their jeep picked out a car in a
Speaker 1: lay by up ahead, and what appeared to be a
Speaker 1: pair of legs sticking out of the boot. There was
Speaker 1: a man there too, standing at the back of the car.
Speaker 1: Just then a woman burst out at the boot with
Speaker 1: what appeared to be a plastic bag stuffed in her mouth.
Speaker 1: She felt at the ground and crawled rapidly off into
Speaker 1: the shadows. The man, suddenly disturbed by the lights of
Speaker 1: the jeep, darted into the car, reved up the engine,
Speaker 1: spun it around, and tore off, but not before the
Speaker 1: hunters saw his face. Pulling up the jeep, Jones and
Speaker 1: Moody sprinted toward a ditch where they thought the woman
Speaker 1: had gone. When they shone the torch into it, they
Speaker 1: gasped in horror. The woman lay trembling, caught on a
Speaker 1: fence of barbed wire. She was naked from the waist up,
Speaker 1: her face and body bruised and bloodied. It's okay, they
Speaker 1: said to her. We want to help you. We know
Speaker 1: who that was. Four years ago, the man they saw
Speaker 1: tearing off in his car had sexually assaulted one of
Speaker 1: their friends in a pub not too far away. They
Speaker 1: were sure of it. The man they believed was from
Speaker 1: the bolting Glean about thirteen kilometers away. He was a
Speaker 1: carpenter and his name was Larry Murphy. Jones and Moody
Speaker 1: rescued the young woman from the ditch and drove her
Speaker 1: immediately to bolting Glass police station. It was just after
Speaker 1: eight a m. The following morning when two car loads
Speaker 1: of guardie arrived at a small dormer bungalow about five
Speaker 1: kilometers outside of bolting Glass, the home of Larry Murphy,
Speaker 1: his heavily pregnant wife, and their two sons. Just like
Speaker 1: the FBI profile had predicted, Murphy was eventually found guilty
Speaker 1: of repeatedly and violently assaulting and raping a twenty six
Speaker 1: year old woman. It was a terrifying and lengthy ordeal
Speaker 1: that began with her abduction from a car park in
Speaker 1: Carlo Town, about ninety kilometers southwest of Dublin and a
Speaker 1: good twenty five kilometers from where she eventually ended up
Speaker 1: in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains. Larry Murphy, or
Speaker 1: the Beast of bolting Glass, as he was dubbed by
Speaker 1: the media, received just fifteen years in prison for his crime,
Speaker 1: despite the seriousness of the incident. Murphy, like the men
Speaker 1: who caught him, was also known to be a hunter,
Speaker 1: having secured long term rights to hunt in Glen Cullen Forest,
Speaker 1: not far from where his survivor was found. He knew
Speaker 1: the place like the back of his hand. Given what
Speaker 1: many considered to be the practice nature of the abduction
Speaker 1: and the fact that Murphy had traveled almost thirty kilometers
Speaker 1: from his home to Carlo Town before driving back to
Speaker 1: his own patch as it were, to commit the crime,
Speaker 1: suggested to police that he warranted further investigation as a
Speaker 1: suspect in the disappearances of Annie McCarrick, Jojo Dullart, Deirdred Jacob,
Speaker 1: and potentially a dozen more women. During his incarceration, Murphy
Speaker 1: was scheduled to speak to the police about several of
Speaker 1: these disappearances, but failed to show for the interview after
Speaker 1: his lawyer pulled him away at the last minute. Another
Speaker 1: reason for Murphy's suspected involvement in these cases came about
Speaker 1: after a fellow inmate of Murphy's in Port leechh prison
Speaker 1: was heard to remark that he had enough to quote
Speaker 1: put Murphy away for a very long time. As it happened.
Speaker 1: In July nineteen ninety six, Murphy was working in Newbridge,
Speaker 1: County Kildare, the place where eighteen year old student Deirdre
Speaker 1: Jacobs disappeared from the same month. Officers reviewing CCTV footage
Speaker 1: pulled from the post office the day Deirdre went missing
Speaker 1: got a shock when, about nine minutes before Deirdre appears
Speaker 1: on the tape the last known sighting of her, a
Speaker 1: customer enters the branch who looked a lot like Murphy.
Speaker 1: Larry Murphy was released in two thousand and nine, having
Speaker 1: served just nine years of his fifteen year sentence for
Speaker 1: good behavior. There was no legislation at the time that
Speaker 1: required Murphy to register as a sex offender. When graffiti
Speaker 1: started to appear marking him out around his hometown of Boltinglass,
Speaker 1: he left the country to start a new life in England.
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, did Drew Jacob's case was reclassified as
Speaker 1: a murder inquiry because of some new information the Guardy
Speaker 1: had received, including an alleged confession by Murphy to a
Speaker 1: fellow prison inmate. Officers attempted to interview Murphy on a
Speaker 1: voluntary basis, but failed to gain any further information about
Speaker 1: his possible involvement in the various disappearances. If, as some
Speaker 1: senior GUARDI and FBI investigators seemed to believe Murphy was
Speaker 1: responsible for the disappearances of Annie McCarrick, Jojo Dullard and
Speaker 1: Deirdre Jacob, it leaves many uncomfortable questions which have yet
Speaker 1: to be answered. For a start, what happened at the
Speaker 1: dozens of other women who were either murdered or disappeared
Speaker 1: in the Vanishing Triangle over the years, to twenty five
Speaker 1: year old Priscilla Clark and thirty nine year old Linda Cavanah,
Speaker 1: both of whom disappeared on a third of May nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight, when Murphy was twenty three years old. The
Speaker 1: pair were last seen horse riding near Enniskerry, County Wicklow,
Speaker 1: and though Linda's body was recovered two days later from
Speaker 1: the River Dargle, no trace of Priscilla has ever been found.
Speaker 1: What about twenty two year old Emelda Keenan of Mount Melick,
Speaker 1: who vanished without a trace from her home in Waterford
Speaker 1: City on the third of January nineteen ninety four. Immelda
Speaker 1: was last seen by her boyfriend Mark Wall after leaving
Speaker 1: their shared flat to go to the post office. Immelda
Speaker 1: left their apartment at one thirty pm, walked down William
Speaker 1: Street onto Lombard Street and was sighted for the last
Speaker 1: time crossing a road by a friend. Was never seen again.
Speaker 1: In Irish mythology, there is a concept known as chachron she,
Speaker 1: known in English as fairy stray or stray sod. A
Speaker 1: stray sod refers to a patch of ground which has
Speaker 1: been enchanted by the she or fairy folk, ostensibly as
Speaker 1: a way of performing mischief on the human race. A
Speaker 1: person who finds themselves in the midst of a stray
Speaker 1: sod will instantly become disorientated, even lost, often in surroundings
Speaker 1: which are otherwise familiar to them. In order to break
Speaker 1: the enchantment, a person must turn an item of clothing
Speaker 1: inside out, thereby confounding that she who trick them in
Speaker 1: the first place. If they want to prevent it from
Speaker 1: happening at all, carrying a nail or salt in your
Speaker 1: pockets is said to ward off the influence of other
Speaker 1: worldly magic. As with most Irish fairy stories, the concept
Speaker 1: of fairy straying is both fascinating and terrifying in equal measure,
Speaker 1: perhaps because, as with the concept of the after life
Speaker 1: in relation to death, it originated in the days before
Speaker 1: modern medicine as a way of explaining the disappearing of
Speaker 1: people who became lost or disorientated and never returned. It
Speaker 1: can be frustrating, then, to have to face down the
Speaker 1: same kind of inexplicable disappearances in the modern age. Because
Speaker 1: we've come to think of ourselves as a progressive species,
Speaker 1: always pushing at the boundaries of science and reason to
Speaker 1: find answers to the questions which baffled our ancestors. It
Speaker 1: is a very particular gnawing that takes hold when for
Speaker 1: all of our sophistication, things remain unanswered. The only thing
Speaker 1: that is certain about the victims of the so called
Speaker 1: vanishing triangle, if they were indeed abducted and murdered by
Speaker 1: a man, is that they will not be the last
Speaker 1: to suffer such a horrific fate. It's been said that
Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety three, the Irish Gardi were too
Speaker 1: slow to consider a sinister motive for animccarrick's disappearance, because
Speaker 1: essentially that sort of thing just doesn't happen there. Since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, two hundred and sixty seven women are
Speaker 1: known to have been murdered in Ireland by men, eighty
Speaker 1: seven percent of whom knew their victims. It is a
Speaker 1: pattern of endemic male on female violence that is in
Speaker 1: no way restricted to Ireland. In fact, Ireland rates as
Speaker 1: con comparatively low on the internationally recognized Women Peace and
Speaker 1: Security Index for danger. In the UK, it has been
Speaker 1: calculated that a woman is killed by a man every
Speaker 1: three days, and in the US three women are murdered
Speaker 1: by men every day. And these are just the crimes
Speaker 1: that are solved. For the families of those like Annie McCarrick,
Speaker 1: Jojo Dullart and Deirdre Jacob, whose fates remain unknown, it
Speaker 1: isn't so much that their loved ones have disappeared from
Speaker 1: the world, but that their worlds have disappeared without the
Speaker 1: answers they so desperately crave. They live in a permanent
Speaker 1: suspension of the natural order of things, perhaps the cases
Speaker 1: of these missing women will remain unanswered for decades more
Speaker 1: to come, their family forever stuck in the most unutterable limbo.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps one day the truth will finally emerge, and
Speaker 1: in some small but vital way, their worlds will come
Speaker 1: back into view. This episode was written by James Connor
Speaker 1: Patterson and Richard McLean Smith. James is a brilliant writer
Speaker 1: and poet. His debut collection of poems, titled Bandit Country,
Speaker 1: Exploring the hinterland between the North of Ireland and Republic,
Speaker 1: was shortlisted for the twenty twenty two T. S. Eliott
Speaker 1: Prize and is out now to buy. Do check it out.
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