MISSING & MURDERED: SHATTERING THE VANISHING TRIANGLE ILLUSION (P2)

MISSING & MURDERED: SHATTERING THE VANISHING TRIANGLE ILLUSION (P2) - Radio Espial EP52

For the past three decades, through news media articles in print, TV and radio shows, podcasts, documentaries and dramas, we have been sold an unproven illusion, that one or more serial killers were rampant in Ireland during the late 80s and 90s. And one devious suspect was responsible for multiple such cases of missing person cases and the deposition of bodies found in the vicinity of the Dublin and Wicklow mountains and the man who may have been responsible for many of those cases is Larry Murphy.

It’s time we addressed the core media myth of Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle and its real origins. Here is your first clue. No Irish police investigation ever mentioned the phrase ‘Vanishing Triangle’.

Operation Trace was not set up with the specific intention of finding Ireland’s Serial Killer.

In episode 51 of Radio Espial - Missing & Murdered: Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle - Misinformation, Brian Goggin explored the origins of media misinformation across a number of cases.

In this episode we look at the suspects in the core six cases:

Annie McCarrick

Jo Jo Dullard

Fiona Pender

Ciara Breen

Fiona Sinnott

Deirdre Jacob

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