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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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The vast majority of missing persons are found within 72 hours of being last seen. But if someone is not found within that timeframe, the chances of discovering what happened to them become less and less as time slips by. When Jón’s family arrived to Ireland in the days after he disappeared, they all felt something had gone very wrong for Jón. They just needed everyone else to believe them…
Credits: Where is Jón? / Hvar er Jón? is written, reported and produced by Liam O’Brien and Anna Marsibil Clausen. Original music soundtrack is performed and composed by Úlfur Eldjárn, with special guest Unnur Jónsdóttir on cello. Sound design is by Peadar Carney. Production assistance from Johannes Olafsson, Þorgerður E. Sigurðardóttir and the RTÉ Documentary On One team. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Marketing by Amy O’Driscoll, Maria Buckley and Kolbrún Vaka Helgadóttir. Design and creatives by John Kilkenny and Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Jilly McDonough. Sales by Graeme Bailey and Einar Logi Vignisson. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce.
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0:00.0 | Sunday, February 10th, 2019 was a cool day in Dublin, |
0:07.0 | and the afternoon weather forecast could have just as easily been given in Iceland as it was for Ireland. |
0:13.0 | Heavy showers will spread for south-eastwards across the country |
0:17.0 | and there's a warning that westerly winds will increase gale or strong gale force. |
0:21.5 | Joanne's partner, Yanna, had reported him missing to Gardee a few hours earlier. |
0:27.3 | She then returned to the only place she knew in Ireland, her bedroom in the Bonnington Hotel. |
0:32.6 | This was so mostly scary. |
0:35.5 | I didn't go out of my room a lot. |
0:38.0 | I went out to smoke and that was it. |
0:41.5 | Back home in Iceland, news was beginning to filter through to Yohn's family |
0:45.3 | that Yanna had now reported him missing to the Irish police on Garda Shokona. |
0:50.3 | And Yon had just walked out. |
0:52.9 | And this day I just knew something was wrong. |
0:56.3 | Anna Hilder, Yohn's sister, was standing in a parking lot in Reykjavik |
1:00.8 | when she got the call to say that something had happened to Yon. |
1:04.8 | And I know something is wrong. |
1:06.4 | I just knew it from the start. |
1:08.4 | My brother is missing and something is wrong. |
1:12.6 | And we talk as siblings. They were trying to contact him, but they didn't reach him. |
1:15.6 | And Yana said like he went out, but he didn't come back. |
1:18.6 | Before long, all of Yon's siblings would leave to go searching for Yon in Ireland. |
1:24.6 | If you have any information on Yon or his disappearance, |
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