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 epis

  Josephine "Jo Jo" Dullard, 21, of Callan, County Kilkenny, was living in Harold's Cross, County Dublin when she went missing on 9th November 1995. She had recently finished a beauty therapy course after finding it very difficult to juggle work and college. On the day she disappeared, she was planning on moving from Dublin back home to Callan for good. She had missed her last bus to Callan and had to take another bus to Naas, County Kildare instead. She was last known to be in the Moone area of County Kildare while hitchhiking home to Kilkenny. She had been driven from the Naas area to Kilcullen, County Kildare and then on from Kilcullen to Moone. She was last seen using a payphone in Moone and through telephone records, Gardaí found out the call was made at 11:37 pm to Dullard's friend, Mary Cullinane. She ended the call as she was about to enter another car. There was also an unconfirmed sighting of her walking along the road in Castledermot, County Kildare. The d