Disappearance of Annie McCarrick

Annie Bridget McCarrick (born March 21, 1966) is an American woman from Long Island, New York, who went missing under suspicious circumstances on March 26, 1993, while she was residing in Ireland.

Background McCarrick was born on Long Island and she lived there until her move to Ireland in January 1987. She was the only child of her parents John and Nancy. She had left her apartment in Dublin so that she could go to the Wicklow Mountains for the day. She had asked a friend to accompany her, but her friend declined. CCTV captured images of McCarrick in the Allied Irish Bank location in Sandymount, where she was seen withdrawing money from her bank account. She did some shopping at Quinnsworth supermarket before returning to her apartment at 3:00 pm. She was seen on a bus at about 3:40 pm in Ranelagh

2020: Reported sighting in Enniskerry In March 2020, it came to light that a woman named Margaret Wogan spotted a woman matching the description of Annie McCarrick, in Poppies cafe in Enniskerry on the Friday afternoon that she went missing. According to Wogan, McCarrick was accompanied by a man with a "square face". Private investigators now believe that this is a vital piece of information in the McCarrick case.

2020: US-based investigators In July 2020, a New York-based lawyer named Michael Griffith announced that he had received a significant new lead in relation to the Annie McCarrick case. In September 2020, a U.S.-based team of private investigators announced that they had identified the suspect whom they believe murdered Annie McCarrick. The investigative team believes that McCarrick never actually made it to Johnnie Fox's pub and that the alleged sighting at the pub was a case of mistaken identity. Instead, the team believes that McCarrick went missing some time after arriving in Enniskerry. Michael Griffith stated that the pieces of the puzzle were slowly coming together. Michael Griffith stated that the new lead they are working on involves someone whom McCarrick may have dated.

2023: Anglés allegation In February 2023, Spanish television channel La Sexta aired a three-part documentary "Anglés: Historia de una fuga" claiming that the notorious criminal Antonio Anglés might have been responsible for her disappearance.

Murder inquiry On 24 March 2023, two days before the 30th anniversary of McCarrick's disappearance, Gardaí stated they had upgraded the investigation to a murder inquiry. They also announced that they had identified two men of interest in regard to McCarrick's disappearance and that these two individuals had lived near her in Sandymount. In April 2025, it was revealed that Gardaí had interviewed one of two brothers, who were both friends of McCarrick's around the time she disappeared, at a hospital in France where he was receiving treatment for a long-term illness. The two brothers were reported to have first been interviewed by Gardaí in 1993, but both had alibis about being away from Dublin on the weekend McCarrick vanished. They were also allegedly interviewed again several years later as "persons of interest" by Gardaí working on Operation Trace.

2025: Suspect arrested On the morning of 12 June 2025, Gardaí arrested a 62-year-old man at his home in County Meath on suspicion of McCarrick's murder and thereafter released him without charge after 24 hours of interrogation. A house in the Monastery Walk area of Clondalkin was also searched by officers, with the building itself and its garden being subject to both technical and forensic examinations. According to media reports, the arrested man had been the prime suspect in McCarrick's murder for a considerable number of years, and Gardaí theorized that he had killed her as the result of a personal dispute. It was also reported that Garda detectives had traveled abroad to take statements from a close confidant of the suspect in recent months, that this man had previously told Gardaí that he was with the prime suspect during the weekend McCarrick vanished, and that the prime suspect was arrested as the result of Irish authorities receiving new information regarding her disappearance. It had also been established that McCarrick had confided in friends that she had been having trouble with a man, who had previously struck her.

Media The case was the subject of an episode of the TV3 (now Virgin Media One) crime series Crime in Mind.

The case was discussed in episode 4 of the 2015 investigative series Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved entitled "The Case of Annie McCarrick".

McCarrick's disappearance is covered in MISSING: Beyond the Vanishing Triangle, a two-part true crime documentary first aired in May 2023 on RTÉ One.

The case is also at the centre of the documentary Six Silent Killings: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle, which first aired on 12 November 2023 in the UK.