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25 Sept · Video

Philip Cairns Part 1

In October of 1986, on an ordinary Autumn Thursday, 13-year-old Philip Cairns disappeared. He had just finished lunch at his house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 and was walking back to school for his afternoon classes down quiet suburban lanes when he vanished into thin air. To this day Philip is one of the most well-known missing persons cases in Ireland. Despite almost 40 years of nationwide searches and appeals, no one has ever been arrested and Philip has never been found. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
30 Sept · Video

Philip Cairns - Part 2

In October of 1986, on an ordinary Autumn Thursday, 13-year-old Philip Cairns disappeared. He had just finished lunch at his house in Rathfarnham, Dublin 16 and was walking back to school for his afternoon classes down quiet suburban lanes when he vanished into thin air. To this day Philip is one of the most well-known missing persons cases in Ireland. Despite almost 40 years of nationwide searches and appeals, no one has ever been arrested and Philip has never been found. In Part 2 of our series on Philip Cairns we look at the biggest tangible clue in the case - Philip's schoolbag - and the decades of disappointment that followed that hopeful discovery, plus the fresh optimism Pirate Predator's Peter Mulryan has brought to the case. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2 Sept · Video

Antoinette Smith - Part 2

In the summer of 1987, Antoinette Smith went to see David Bowie in concert at Slane Castle and never came home. Aged just 27, Antoinette was a full-time mother of two, so the rare night out was extra exciting. Antoinette kissed her daughters goodbye on that sunny July day, not knowing she would never see them again. Her body was found nine months later in tragic and horrifying circumstances. In Part two of our series on the murder of Antoinette Smith, we delve into the murder investigation that has spanned almost four decades, starting with her body's tragic discovery during a child's game of hide and seek in the Dublin mountains in 1988. Get in touch at unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
26 Aug · Video

Antoinette Smith - Part 1

On the 11th of July, 1987, 27-year-old Antoinette Smith went to see David Bowie in concert at Slane Castle and never came home. Antoinette was a full-time mother of two, so the rare night out was extra exciting. Antoinette kissed her daughters goodbye on that sunny July day, not knowing she would never see them again. Her body was found nine months later in tragic and horrifying circumstances. In Part One of our series on the murder of Antoinette Smith, we meet the real woman behind the headlines - her life, her beloved daughters, her last day on earth and the beginnings of a murder investigation that has remained unsolved for nearly 40 years. Get in touch at unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 Aug

Fiona Pender - Part 3

Fiona Pender was last seen alive in August 1996 in her Tullamore flat. She was 25 years old and seven months pregnant. Fiona and her family had just come through a profound tragedy but were preparing for a new chapter in their lives. All this changed when Fiona disappeared. Her body was never found and no one ever got to meet the baby that Fiona and her boyfriend John were expecting. Part 3 of our series on Fiona Pender is the conclusion of Fiona Pender's story, from further searches in 2014 springing from a case in Canada to her case finally being reclassified as a murder investigation in 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9 Sept · Video

Annie McCarrick - Part 1

In January 1993, 26-year-old New Yorker Annie McCarrick moved to Dublin to build the life she'd long dreamed of. Two months later, she was gone, never to be seen again. In Part One, Barry Cummins and Katja Mia trace Annie's story from Long Island to Sandymount, from her Irish-American childhood to her years at Maynooth, and the ordinary Friday morning in March 1993 when she was seen for the very last time. They follow her final known movements and ask why sightings reported as fact for three decades are now in question. Plus: information sent from America in 1993 that never reached the detectives who needed it. Annie McCarrick's case remains Unsolved. Part Two is out next Wednesday. Get in touch at unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Season 1, Episode 3

Episode 3: I'm Lucy Fitzwilliams!

Samantha Cookes is now living as Lucy Fitzwilliams. She’s moved to Dublin and begins to settle into a new community in the affluent south side, quickly becoming a friendly face. Lucy begins working with children. But then things start to unravel when two local women begin to question who they’ve left into their lives. And they’re not going to give up until they find out… Credits: The Real Carrie Jade is written, reported and produced by Ronan Kelly. Narrated by Justine Stafford. Original music soundtrack by Fergal O'Connor. Sound designer is Ruth Kennington and the executive producer is Liam O’Brien. Production assistance by Nicoline Greer. Legal advice from Darren Lynch and Deirdre Ann Kelly. Marketing and promotions are by Maria Buckley, Amy O'Driscoll and Fiona Burke. Press and Publicity by Jilly McDonough. The designer is Niamh McKeown. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Contact us documentaries@rte.ie Episodes released weekly, each Friday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
16 Sept · Video

Annie McCarrick - Part 2

In January 1993, 26-year-old New Yorker Annie McCarrick moved to Dublin to build the life she'd long dreamed of. Two months later, she was gone, never to be seen again. As a crime journalist, Barry reported on Annie's case in good faith with what he thought were hard facts for over two decades. But those facts were called into question in 2023. Nothing in this case was as it seemed. In part 2 of our series on Annie McCarrick, we follow the full twists and turns of the investigation into the disappearance of Annie McCarrick from March 1993, up to and including the reclassification of her case to murder in 2023 and beyond, including the arrest of a person of interest and forensic search of a house in 2025. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Season 1, Episode 5

Episode 5: I’m a victim!

By 2020, Samantha Cookes has spent the last 6 years of her life moving around Ireland from coast to coast, pretending to be someone she’s not, before being rumbled and moving on. But now, she’s about to take things to a whole different level with a new identity that she wants the whole world to know about. What could possibly go wrong?...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1 day ago · Video

Jo Jo Dullard - Part 1

On a cold and windy Thursday evening, in November 1995, 21-year-old Jojo Dullard vanished without a trace while making her way home from Dublin to her flat in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. Jojo had recently gotten a new job that she was due to start the day after her disappearance. But she never started her new job. She never got the chance to pursue her dreams. Jojo was murdered - possibly the very same night she went missing, almost 31 years ago. If you have any information, please contact our tipline - unsolved@rte.ie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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