Where is Jón? - 06. The Notes

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

During the first five years of Jón’s disappearance, through to February 2024, there was no indication of where Jón’s remains might lie. But behind the scenes, two anonymous notes had been handed into the authorities. The first was handed into a Garda station in 2022 - and the second to a priests house in 2023. Both indicated Jón was buried in a specific location. Could this be the first real breakthrough in the search for Jón?

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. Episodes released weekly, each Monday.

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0:00.0	So do you remember Jone Thruster Yomson who disappeared in Dublin?
0:10.0	Yeah, I do.
0:12.0	What do you remember about it?
0:14.0	I just remember he was, I think he was gambling and then just went to a walk without telling anybody
0:19.0	and just disappeared and it's never been heard from again.
0:21.7	It's late November, 23, and Liam and I are on Luegavegur,
0:27.1	the main shopping street in downtown Reykavik.
0:30.7	We're asking people if they remember your own story,
0:33.8	partially because it completely disappeared out of the media over the last few years.
0:38.9	Why do you remember, do you think?
0:40.7	Because it was odd.
0:42.3	I mean, there are so few of us, Icelanders.
0:45.1	So I think we look out for each other.
0:47.0	That's probably one part.
0:48.6	And if somebody goes missing, it just touches us in some way, yeah.
0:52.8	It's worth telling you how this all started out,
0:56.4	how Anna and I came to work together on Yon's story.
0:59.9	And that goes back to May 23,
1:02.6	when I'd come to Iceland for the EBU Audio Storytelling Festival.
1:07.7	For lots of different reasons, I'd never forgotten Yon's story.
1:12.3	So, when I met Anna at the festival, I asked her if she remembered Yon too.
1:18.4	And I did. Liam and I got to talking. One thing led to another, and that's how he came to
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