The Vanishing Triangle Ireland’s Disappearing Women

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People go missing every year across the globe. They either die in the wilderness due to injury or intentionally, people will flee and start life as someone new, never to be heard from again. Unfortunately, people also go missing because of murder.
What should a community think or feel when not just one person goes missing from an area but eight people? Is it a serial killer, trafficking, or suicide? Why are these people here one moment and gone the next?
Those questions people in Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle have been trying to answer for decades. What happened to eight women, and why haven’t they been found yet?
The Vanishing Triangle
The Vanishing Triangle was a term coined by the media to refer to several disappearances of women in Ireland in the mid to late 1990s. The women were all seen by witnesses, but they somehow vanished into thin air.
At every “crime scene,” the Gardaí (Ireland’s police force) found zero evidence. Some believe the disappearances of eight women were the work of a serial killer or serial killers. All the missing disappeared within an 80-mile (129 km) radius of Dublin.
On a map, the last known locations of the women form a sort of wonky triangle, which is why this series of disappearances is called the ”Vanishing Triangle”. The unsettling name, lack of evidence, and suspects aren’t the only unknown factors in the Vanishing Triangle.
The Gardaí know that many of the eight missing women in the Vanishing Triangle had some things in common. All victims disappeared without a trace, and each woman was reported to be in good spirits and acting normal when last seen; they had friends and family in Dublin and nearby counties.
No bodies have ever been found. Many reports emphasize that another aspect of the victimology is that victims ranged in age from 17 to 39, and all “appeared young and attractive.”
The Order of Disappearances
The first victim of the Vanishing Triangle was 27-year-old Annie McCarrick, who vanished on March 26, 1993. Annie was an American living in Ireland and studying at Maynooth University.
Annie told her friends that she would be spending the day in the Wicklow Mountains, but she obviously set off late as she was seen at a bank at 3 pm on CCTV. Annie was seen again at 3:40 pm on the no. 44 bus, headed to Enniskerry Co Wicklow, seemingly to head on a hike.

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