Deirdre Jacob - Part 2

The summer after Deirdre Jacob turned 18, she disappeared in broad daylight, outside her own front gate. The year was 1998 and Deirdre was the seventh woman to vanish without a trace in Leinster in just five years. Ireland’s vanishing triangle of more than 12 missing and murdered women across the 1980s and 1990s was finally taken seriously by Gardai when Deirdre disappeared. Her case was the catalyst that led to multiple searches, a number of arrests, amid efforts to seek justice for so many missing or murdered Irish women. But despite the impact Deirdre's case had, she has never been found. In part two of our series on Deirdre Jacob we investigate the many dead ends faced by Deirdre's loved ones in the wake of her disappearance, the renewed hope the 2018 reclassification to murder brought to the case and the in-depth searches that are currently being undertaken. Get in touch at [email protected]   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The summer after Deirdre Jacob turned 18, she disappeared in broad daylight, outside her own front gate. The year was 1998 and Deirdre was the seventh woman to vanish without a trace in Leinster in just five years. Ireland’s vanishing triangle of more than 12 missing and murdered women across the 1980s and 1990s was finally taken seriously by Gardai when Deirdre disappeared. Her case was the catalyst that led to multiple searches, a number of arrests, amid efforts to seek justice for so many missing or murdered Irish women. But despite the impact Deirdre's case had, she has never been found. In part one of our series on the murder of Deirdre Jacob, we meet Deirdre and track what happened on that sunny July afternoon on the outskirts of Newbridge. Get in touch at [email protected]   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Approaching the 26th anniversary of Trevor Deely's disappearance, his three older siblings, Mark, Michele and Pamela speak to Barry and Katja about their brother Trevor - their memories of him, the enormous search they mounted for him, what they would like done next and what they think happened to him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 2000. Dublin city centre. The Government had just announced Budget 2001. Taxi drivers were on strike and the weather was grim. Then-US President Bill Clinton was about to come to town. The economy was booming and Christmas party season was in full swing. And on Thursday December 7th, Trevor Deely, a 22-year-old IT worker at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, was preparing to go to his work Christmas do. Trevor never made it home after his Christmas party. His family never saw him again. Almost 26 years later, the disappearance of Trevor Deely remains Unsolved.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a cold and windy Thursday evening, in November 1995, 21-year-old Jojo Dullard vanished without a trace while making her way home from Dublin to her flat in Callan, Co. Kilkenny.In Part 2 of the story of Jojo Dullard we track the investigation into her disappearance, how her case got upgraded to murder, the arrest of a man for questioning in 2024 and the progression of the case all the way up to the searches in 2026.If you have any information, please contact our tipline - [email protected] omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a cold and windy Thursday evening, in November 1995, 21-year-old Jojo Dullard vanished without a trace while making her way home from Dublin to her flat in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Jojo had recently gotten a new job that she was due to start the day after her disappearance. But she never started her new job. She never got the chance to pursue her dreams. Jojo was murdered - possibly the very same night she went missing, almost 31 years ago. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In October of 1986, on an ordinary Autumn Thursday, 13-year-old Philip Cairns disappeared. He had just finished lunch at his house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 and was walking back to school for his afternoon classes down quiet suburban lanes when he vanished into thin air. To this day Philip is one of the most well-known missing persons cases in Ireland. Despite almost 40 years of nationwide searches and appeals, no one has ever been arrested and Philip has never been found. In Part 2 of our series on Philip Cairns we look at the biggest tangible clue in the case - Philip's schoolbag - and the decades of disappointment that followed that hopeful discovery, plus the fresh optimism Pirate Predator's Peter Mulryan has brought to the case. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In October of 1986, on an ordinary Autumn Thursday, 13-year-old Philip Cairns disappeared. He had just finished lunch at his house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 and was walking back to school for his afternoon classes down quiet suburban lanes when he vanished into thin air.To this day Philip is one of the most well-known missing persons cases in Ireland. Despite almost 40 years of nationwide searches and appeals, no one has ever been arrested and Philip has never been found. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special episode of Unsolved, documentary maker Peter Mulryan of Pirate Predator joins Barry and Katja to exclusively reveal a new development in the case of missing schoolboy Philip Cairns, who disappeared almost 40 years ago, in October 1986. In 2016, a female witness gave a statement to Gardai alleging that in October 1986, when she was nine years old, she was in the company of Eamonn Cooke when he picked up a boy she identified as Philip Cairns in his car, brought him to the radio Dublin studios and physically assaulted him. Her witness statement was not pursued by Gardai in 2016 due to questions about her witness timeline.As the 40th anniversary of Philip's disappearance approaches this October, Doc on One have unearthed new information which could provide new leads in Philip's case and Pirate Predator producer/presenter Peter Mulryan joins us in today's special episode of Unsolved to talk us through them.  As part of her statement, the witness alleged that missing schoolboy Philip Cairns was in the company of Eamon Cooke the day of his disappearance.  The new evidence supports a crucial detail provided by a witness, whose account had previously been dismissed by investigators.Get in touch at [email protected] See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In January 1993, 26-year-old New Yorker Annie McCarrick moved to Dublin to build the life she'd long dreamed of. Two months later, she was gone, never to be seen again.As a crime journalist, Barry reported on Annie's case in good faith with what he thought were hard facts for over two decades. But those facts were called into question in 2023. Nothing in this case was as it seemed.In part 2 of our series on Annie McCarrick, we follow the full twists and turns of the investigation into the disappearance of Annie McCarrick from March 1993, up to and including the reclassification of her case to murder in 2023 and beyond, including the arrest of a person of interest and forensic search of a house in 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.