392:, attended work at a local nursing home at 11 a.m. on 16 December 1993. At 4 p.m., two of Marie's female co-workers dropped her home and watched her walk to her front door. When Marie's housemate arrived home from her job at 6 p.m. she found that Marie was not at home and that none of the lights in their house had been switched on. The housemate also found Marie's groceries unpacked on their kitchen table. A forensic examination of Marie's home uncovered no evidence as to what may have led to her sudden disappearance, GardaĂ did however, discover that at 4:20 p.m. on 16 December a phone call was made to Marie's landline which lasted for two minutes. The call was traced to a payphone in
97:. The horses were discovered in the vicinity, damp and lost. Priscilla's body was never discovered. Two people were seen riding horses onto Charleville Estate on the day that Priscilla vanished. One was recognised as Kavanagh; the other person was not identified. However, Lynda called her husband to let him know she and Priscilla were going riding. At the time, it was believed that the women encountered difficulties while riding through the swollen river. However, Priscilla's family believe that foul play should have been further considered.
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so, so that she could climb back in. It is considered the most likely scenario in Ciara's case that she decided to leave her home to attend a pre-planned meeting with someone that night but this has never been verified. In 2014, two credible witnesses came forward with sightings of Ciara from the night she disappeared and in 2015, a man was arrested, but released without charge. The male suspect was arrested again in 2017 for an unrelated drink-driving charge and died of a
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parted company when they left the club. Antoinette remained with the two men until all three walked to the taxi rank on O’Connell Street. The men got a taxi to the
Ballymun area, while Antoinette continued to walk by the Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street towards O’Connell Street Bridge. Her disappearance was reported by her estranged husband. Her remains were discovered on the Glendoo Mountains near the Lemass monument close to
127:. Brennan's father went to her apartment because she had not come to the family home for two days. He rang the door bell. He then went over to the Horse and Hound Pub which the Brennan family owned and asked a barman to come over and they broke a window to get in. The jacket she had worn on the day she was last seen was there, so Brennan must have gone back to her apartment that day. There was no initial
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209:. Pender was seven months pregnant at the time of her disappearance. Fiona left her passport, clothing and credit cards behind. However, there were no signs of a struggle found in the apartment and it is believed that she left of her own accord and got in a vehicle. In 2008, a small wooden cross bearing the name "Fiona Pender" was found on
400:. A witness later came forward stating that she saw a lone male entering the phone box at the time the call was made. She described the man as 30 years of age, 5’6 to 5’9 in height and having dark hair. This particular individual has never been identified. On 10 June 1994, her body was discovered in Pims Lane near
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to get a bank draft to pay for student accommodation at the university, then went to the post office to post the bank draft. She disappeared just yards from her parents' home as she walked home. Passing motorists witnessed Jacob approaching within yards of her parents' driveway, but she never made it
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and that he had spent the night sleeping on her couch. Sinnott had gone directly to bed after complaining of pains in her arm and upper body, and the next morning, on 9 February, Carroll claimed that he entered
Sinnott's bedroom and discovered that she was awake and she told him that she was planning
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the following morning and Ciara was worried about this. The two had a short conversation on
Bernadette's bed before going to sleep at around midnight. After 2 a.m., Bernadette got up to go to the bathroom and discovered Ciara was missing. She had left a window on the latch and it is believed she did
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Kilcullen to Moone. She was last seen using a payphone and through telephone records, GardaĂ found out the call was made at 11:37 p.m. to Dullard's friend Mary Cullinan. She ended the call as she was about to enter another car. There was also an unconfirmed sighting of her walking
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investigation known to the family for around three months. The
Brennan family have criticised the GardaĂ on how they dealt with Brennan's disappearance. When last seen Brennan was wearing a pink tracksuit and leggings, a man's wristwatch with a brown strap and carried a red leatherette handbag about
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where she undertook a computer course for a short period. Keenan told Wall that she was going to the post office. Keenan left the apartment at 1:30 p.m. and walked down
William Street onto Lombard Street. The last confirmed sighting of Keenan is at this time when she was seen crossing the road
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day, Patricia's husband reported his wife missing. The GardaĂ were able to find a witness who reported seeing
Patricia at 9:20 p.m. on 23 December walking past Bridget Burke's Pub towards Old Bawn Shopping Centre. A second witness came forward stating that he saw a woman matching Patricia's
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by bus after the concert at about 11:30 p.m., and went to the Harp Bar on O'Connell Bridge before going on to a nightclub, La Mirage
Discotheque, in Parnell Street with a female friend. While in the club they met two men that they knew. They all left shortly after 2 a.m. Antoinette's friend
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when she went missing on 9 November 1995. She had recently dropped out of a beauty therapy course after finding it very difficult to juggle work and college. On the day she disappeared, she was planning on moving home to Callan. She had missed her bus home to Callan and had to take a bus to
113:, County Wicklow. She arranged to see friends the next day, but was not at home when they arrived; nor did she come to work on 27 March, and she was reported missing that evening. On March 24, 2023, authorities announced that they upgraded her missing persons case into a murder inquiry.
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on 14 May 1998. She was admitted to the hospital on 5 February, for treatment for a mental illness which caused her to be severely depressed. At 2 p.m., she left the hospital on her own. Hospital staff informed authorities that she was going for occupational therapy. She was seen on
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when she went missing on 8 February 1998. Fiona was last seen leaving Butler's Pub in
Broadway. She left the establishment with her ex-boyfriend and father to her eleven-month-old daughter, Sean Carroll. Carroll told investigators that he had walked Sinnott back to her house in
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to get a ride to her doctor later that day. Sinnott vanished without a trace. She did not visit a doctor that day, and there were no records of her having gone to any of the local surgeries. On 12 September 2008, a memorial plaque for
Sinnott was stolen from a cemetery in
239:. She was last seen by her mother Bernadette, who said at the time that they had both gone to bed just after midnight. That day they had gone to a local café for dinner then returned home. According to Bernadette, she was due to get the results of a
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or killers being active in the area during this period. The cases of these missing women feature in the Irish media periodically and the disappearances have been the subject in a number of unsolved crime documentaries. GardaĂ set up an investigation
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characteristics. The women's ages range from their late-teens to late-30s, they disappeared inexplicably and suddenly, and no substantial clues or evidence of their fate has ever been found despite large scale searches and campaigns by the
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in an area known as Glassmucky Breaks, less than a mile from where Smith's body was found, when he also found human remains. These were identified as Patricia's by the GardaĂ through dental records. It was concluded that Patricia was
150:, but left after a short while when she went to stay with two other brothers in Waterford City. She was living with her boyfriend, Mark Wall, and they both lived in an apartment in the town on William Street. Keenan attended the
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by a local doctor's secretary who knew her well. The secretary and a friend observed Keenan crossing the road at the corner of the Tower Hotel and Lombard Street. She was never seen again.
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to her house. No trace of her has ever been found and she was never seen again. In 2018, the case was reclassified as a murder enquiry because of new information and a review of the case.
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in Wexford. The marble plaque, which had been cemented into the wall, was removed the night before it was due to be unveiled. In 2005, her case was upgraded to a murder investigation.
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864:"'Suicidal' new mum missing since walking from hospital"
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836:"Fiona Sinnott's family: 'We know who murdered Fiona'"
780:"Fiona Pender: A look back through an 18-year mystery"
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1023:"The mystery of those who were never seen again"
981:"DAUGHTERS' APPEAL 26 YEARS AFTER MUM'S MURDER"
494:"FBI identify Irish rapist as a serial killer"
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1093:"Ireland's Vanishing Triangle"
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1135:"On the trail of a killer"
1037:"Nightmare of not knowing"
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1121:"Marie Kilmartin – Laois"
544:"IRELAND'S MISSING WOMEN"
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