Amy Fitzpatrick’s sudden disappearance is one of the most baffling missing person cases in Irish history.
Amy, who was 15 at the time she vanished, seemingly hadn’t an enemy in the world.
The blue-eyed girl from Coolock in Dublin went missing from Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa, near Fuengirola on New Year’s Day 2008.
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She was last seen as she walked home from her friend Ashley Rose’s house in Calahonda on Spain’s Costa del Sol.
The pretty teen was living with her brother Dean, mum Audrey Fitzpatrick and stepfather Dave Mahon at the time.
She had moved to Spain in 2004 but was unhappy living there and had wanted to return home to Ireland.
Amy had been due to visit her father, Christopher, in Dublin on St Stephen’s Day 2007, but the trip fell through and she was extremely upset.
She spent New Year’s Day at the house of her best friend Ashley Rose, helping to babysit.
Shortly after 10pm she left there to walk home via a dirt track, which should have taken about 10 minutes.
According to her mother, Audrey, she never arrived. Her disappearance sparked a major appeal from her family in Spain and in Ireland.
Yet there has been no sign of Amy since she vanished almost 15 years ago.
Some investigators believe there could be a Dublin gangland connection, with suspicion falling on the hitman Eric “Lucky” Wilson (currently in a Spanish prison for shooting a British criminal dead) and the unnamed friend of a Kinahan cartel bagman. More recently, it’s been reported that Amy had started visiting the home of a man later jailed for child sex abuse.
However, despite several leads, nothing concrete over what happened Amy has ever emerged.
Spanish police maintain they have not closed the teenager’s file and they will actively pursue any new leads.
But unfortunately because of the transient nature of life on the Costa del Sol, many of those who lived in the area at the time and who might have been able to help detectives with their inquiries have since moved away.
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