‘Misplaced loyalty’ behind missing women cases

Crumbling loyalties could lead to breakthroughs in many of the missing women cases, according to a senior garda who investigated them.

Retired detective sergeant Alan Bailey told the Irish Examiner that people have “covered up” for those responsible in a number of the cases, either out of love of fear.

In a forthcoming book about the six missing women, Mr Bailey reveals that an IRA hitman was the only suspect in the Annie McCarrick case yet to be ruled out of the investigation into her disappearance in March 1993.