With the Annie McCarrick disappearance now upgraded from missing person to murder inquiry, gardaí say there is a strong prospect the case could be significantly advanced, or even solved.
For decades speculation centred on Wicklow following reported sightings – and the Garda’s focus on the area at the time is now under scrutiny.
It is believed that the young woman never left Dublin and the focus of the cold-case murder investigation will focus on where she lived in Sandymount and her friends, acquaintances and colleagues at the time.
Two men, who were interviewed in 1993 about the 26-year-old New Yorker’s disappearance, are now suspects in the case.
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Irish Times Crime and Security Editor Conor Lally explains the thinking that has pushed this cold case, the subject of so much speculation for decades, back into the headlines.
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