Episode 428: Ireland's Vanishing Triangle

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

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4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle is one of the most chilling and unresolved mysteries in modern Irish history—a term coined to describe a series of disappearances of women between 1993 and 1998 in the eastern region of Ireland, mostly within an 80-mile radius of Dublin. The Victims: Annie McCarrick (1993) – American student last seen in Dublin. Eva Brennan (1993) – Vanished after leaving a family lunch. Imelda Keenan (1994) - disappeared from Waterford after heading out to go to the post office. JoJo Dullard (1995) – Disappeared while hitchhiking home. Fiona Pender (1996) – Pregnant woman who vanished from Tullamore. Ciara Breen (1997) – Teenager who snuck out of her home and never returned. Fiona Sinnott (1998) – Young mother last seen leaving a pub. Deirdre Jacob (1998) – College student who disappeared near her home. Their cases continue to receive media attention and public interest, with families still campaigning for justice. Click here to join our Patreon. Click here to get your own Inhuman merch. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to Inhuman, a true crime podcast. Welcome back, everybody.
0:28.3	Happy day.
0:29.8	Today's case, we are finally delving into, Haley, we'll know why I say say finally because this has been on my list for
0:41.1	gosh probably a year probably a year and I you know I started the research and then I don't know
0:52.0	another case perked my attention and it got pushed back, which I know
0:56.7	probably sounds terrible, but it's for good reason because I wanted to do this case justice because
1:01.2	it is kind of a big case.
1:03.8	Yeah.
1:05.2	And basically, we're going to be delving into Ireland's vanishing triangle, which may sound familiar to some of you.
1:14.2	It did not sound familiar to me when I came across it, but I knew I wanted to cover it because I love Ireland.
1:21.8	Yeah, I know nothing about this.
1:26.2	It's a series of chilling disappearances that happen in the eastern part of Ireland between the late 80s and the late 90s.
1:37.3	Okay.
1:38.3	So, and the reason why it is called the Vanishing Triangle is because the disappearances occurred in a region shaped like
1:46.0	a triangle with its points roughly at Dublin, Dundalk, and Wexford. So most of the victims
1:55.8	vanish from more rural areas or like roads in between these counties, but because of the proximity of the
2:03.4	disappearances, it's kind of in that triangle format, if you will.
2:07.5	Okay.
2:08.3	So the term vanishing triangle was coined by the Irish media in the late 1990s in response
2:15.8	to this, what they were calling at the time, like a pattern of
2:20.4	disappearances, of several women. But even though they all vanished without a trace, without
2:29.0	explanation, within the same areas, kind of in, you know, that 10-year time frame.
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