Ireland's Vanishing Triangle

Ireland's Vanishing Triangle Part One Episode One Welcome to the first episode in our series on Ireland's Vanishing Triangle with your host Ciaran McConnell. The perishable goods in the plastic bag which had been left on a table in a Sandymount apartment, was a clear indicator that something was wrong. Where was 27-year-old American woman Annie McCarrick? For the last 3 decades there have been man...

Welcome to our two part series on Ireland's Vanishing Triangle. Part one of the series will cover eight unsolved murder and missing person cases between the years of 1993 and 1998. In six of these eight tragic cases there is a suspect that was known to the victim and they have either been arrested or questioned by Gardi at some point. And in the two remaining cases suspects have been arrested or q...

Welcome to the Cliff’s Edge podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. The lonely phone box in Moone is long gone, however around 11:30pm on Thursday the 9th of November 1995 remains etched permanently on the memory of the nation. Who was the driver or occupants of the Toyota car that 21 year old Jojo Dollard hitched a lift from to bring her to the next stage of her unplanned journey that dark, cold...

Welcome to the Cliff's Edge Podcast and our 2nd episode of our two part Halloween special with your host Ciaran McConnell. What happened at 12 Ocean Avenue, Amityville a quaint suburb in Long Island, New York? On November 13, 1974 Ronald Defeo Jr, went from room to rom at his family home shooting his parents and sibling in cold blood, or did he? Many theories exist as to what happened to the six s...

Welcome to the Cliff’s Edge Podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. Prepare for the first of our 2 Halloween episodes. First up is the extraordinary story of Dorcas Kelly better known as Darkey Kelly. Was she a witch? Or was she Ireland’s first serial killer. What happened to make her the enemy of one of the most devious and evil men in high Dublin society. Ciaran and series regular Shayne P...

Welcome to the Cliff’s Edge podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. Philip Cairns was a good kid. He was the son, brother, grand child and friend you would want to have. So, when on Friday the 23rd of October ,1986 when 13 year old Philip, disappeared on his way back to school after his lunch time break, nobody could understand what had happened to Philip. Nearly 40 years on and Ireland still ask...

Welcome to the Cliff's Edge podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. In our previous episode Ciaran and Shayne covered the timeline in the murder of Jodi Jones on the 30th of June 2003. In this episode criminologist Dr. Sandra Lean joins them to discuss the discrepancies in the evidence against Luke Mitchell who was found guilty of her murder on the 21st of January 2005. If you enjoyed the episode...

Welcome to the Cliff’s edge podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. Through the v in a wall, on a lonely short cut between two Scottish housing estates lay the body of Jodi Jones, whose final moments on this earth were the most terrifying in all her 14 years on this planet. She had arranged to meet her boyfriend Luke Mitchell the evening she was murdered. Mitchell was arrested and subsequent...

Welcome to "The Cliff’s Edge" Podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. What happened to Tanya Lee Glover? Nobody knew where she had gone or in certain cases that she was even missing until 2022 when her mummified body was found behind wall in a north Brisbane unit block. She had been missing since 2009. Ciaran is joined by Anna Houlihan the national crime reporter for Australian community media. A...

Welcome to “The Cliff’s Edge” podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. It’s the morning of the 23rd of February 2011. 39-year-old mother Esyra Uyrun leaves her home in Clondalkin, West Dublin. When she does, nobody can envisage the search would continue to this day to answer the question of what has happened to her. On this episode Esyra Uyrun’s sister Berna joins our regular series contributor Sh...

Welcome to the Cliff’s Edge podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. 2014. Sandwich, Massachusetts. When the blue tarp was removed to reveal the severed torso of an unidentified male, so began the horrific case of the Barnstable County John Doe. To this day this poor unfortunate soul has never been identified, nor has anyone been apprehended and brought to book for this heinous crime.  In the...

Welcome to the first episode of “The Cliff’s Edge” podcast with your host Ciaran McConnell. Around 3:40am on the 31st August 1888, as the police whistles sounded and the crowd gathered, nobody there would or could ever imagine they were bearing witness to such a long-lasting whodunit. The discovery of Mary Ann Nichols’ body marked the first of five victims to be found in London’s Whitechapel area....