On the 28th of July, 1998, 18-year-old Deidre Jacob was walking home in Newbridge County

Kildare.

She had just returned from studying at St. Mary's University in London and was home for the summer

holidays.

Multiple witnesses saw her only yards from her family's home, so close she could probably

see her front door. But Deidre never made it inside.

She simply vanished. By this point, the guardie had hoped they wouldn't have to add another

name to the growing list. Since 1993, six women had vanished within an 80-mile radius around Dublin.

The similarities between the cases were eerie, chilling even, and to this day, none of them has ever been solved.

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their families, and loved ones. In March, 1993, Annie McCarrick, a 26-year-old American student,

was living her dream in Dublin. Born in New York in 1966, Annie had always been fascinated

by her Irish ancestry.

In 1987, she made the bold decision to move to Ireland permanently, settling in the seaside

suburb of Sandy Mount.

Annie was the kind of person who embraced life fully.

She loved the Irish countryside, particularly the Wicklow Mountains, and often took solo hiking

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