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Where is Jón?

Where is Jón? - Trailer

Where is Jón?

RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Publishing from January 27th 2025 - A new multi-episodic series from RTÉ in Ireland and RÚV in Iceland.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some stories seem like total mysteries.

0:07.0

The 2019 Dublin Poker Festival hit the headlines when one of its players disappeared.

0:16.0

He got there before me because I just lost my passport.

0:21.5

41-year-old Joan Jonson had arrived from his home in Iceland, visiting Ireland for the first time.

0:27.8

But within 24 hours of arriving here, he was gone.

0:31.6

John Frustier-Jonson Wondington Hotel, well, he just vanished. The last CCTV footage is just half a kilometer from his hotel.

0:41.0

He left with the clothes that he was wearing his suitcase and his passport, mobile phone

0:45.7

are in his room.

0:46.6

There are serious concerns for his safety at this stage.

0:49.1

My feeling as a policeman, I would say that either someone did something to John or he chose to disappear.

0:57.1

It felt like a bad dream.

0:59.5

He had been very happy, very excited going to Dublin and stuff.

1:02.8

So there's really no evidence leading to us thinking that he took his own life.

1:08.8

No clues had been revealed until now.

1:12.5

I got a phone call and there was a man who told me

1:16.0

that he had information about what happened to Joan.

1:20.3

Some breaking news this lunchtime in the case of an Icelandic man

1:23.5

who went missing in Dublin five years ago.

1:26.0

He was very loyal and if someone treated him bad, he never forget it.

1:32.1

He's described as being 1.9 meters tall, of medium build, and with short brown hair.

1:38.2

Joan was so kind to everyone. That was his personality.

1:41.7

And I don't know, like I say, is it spinning in my head that he is still alive?

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