Detectives have finally upgraded a 30-year-old missing person case to a murder inquiry.
Annie McCarrick had been living in Dublin when she vanished just days after her 26th birthday. Shortly after the New Yorker would have turned 56, officers also revealed they recently travelled to the US to tell Annie’s 79-year-old widowed mum Nancy of the developments.
Announcing the move yesterday, Detective Supt Eddie Carroll vowed to resolve the case for Annie’s elderly mum. He said: “We are satisfied it is more likely now that Annie came to a foul demise.