The handbag carried by missing Annie McCarrick may have been handed in to a Garda station shortly after she disappeared.
A member of the public posted on a missing persons website that he found the bag behind a Dublin pub in 1993 and brought it to a station. But it appears there is no record of this taking place although it is understood that gardai are investigating this claim.
Gardai have upgraded the investigation into the American’s disappearance to a murder probe. They issued a fresh appeal in relation to the brown bag she had when she vanished on March 26, 1993.