Fiona Sinnott

**Fiona Sinnott** was a young woman who vanished in 1998.

## Case

### Disappearance

Fiona was last seen in Ballyhitt, Wexford on Monday, February 9, 1998. The night prior to her disappearance Fiona was at home in Ballyhitt when she received a call from her friends who asked to meet her at Butler's pub in Broadway, South Wexford. They arrived at approximately 5:00 P.M. and they spent the rest of the night socialising in the pub. Fiona left at midnight but met her ex-boyfriend Sean Carroll at the door. They walked back to Fiona’s house together and, according to Carroll, she was complaining about pain she was experiencing in her arm and upper body. Fiona went straight to bed when she got home and Carrol, who had decided to stay at her house for the night, slept on the couch.

The next morning when Fiona woke up she was still in pain and told Carroll that was still in pain and wanted to go to the doctor later that day to see what was going on. Carroll gave her £3 before being collected by his mother, who was waiting in a car outside, later that morning. After spending some time at his parent house where their daughter, Emma, was staying, he got a lift back home and discovered that Fiona was gone. She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

### Investigation

When the Gardai searched Fiona’s house they were alarmed to see that her personal belongings appeared to have been taken. One officer went as far as to say that there was nothing to indicate that Fiona and her daughter had actually been living there at the time of her disappearance. People who lived in the area later claimed that they had seen black bin bags left outside her property. A farmer also came forward and said that he had found bin bags containing clothing with Fiona’s name on them abandoned on his property. Since he had a problem with strangers dumping rubbish on his land so he burnt the bags without thinking much of it at the time.

### Irish Vanishing Triangle

Fiona's case has been linked to the disappearances of a number of other young women who vanished in Ireland in the 1990’s. These cases, which are sometimes referred to as the Irish vanishing triangle, are considered to be the work of a possible serial killer. Investigators continue to investigate the cases but they are all unsolved and none of the young women’s bodies have ever been found. There are eight women and teenage girls who are usually included in the unofficial listing for the vanishing triangle.

The 1993 disappearance of Annie McCarrick from Enniskerry is the first case in the vanishing triangle. Later the same year Eva Brennan vanished from near her home in Rathgar. In 1994 Imelda Keenan disappeared from Waterford after heading out to go to the post office. The next year  Josephine "JoJo" Dullard went missing from Moone, she is believed to have been abducted. In 1996 pregnant Fiona Pender was last seen in Tullamore. In 1996 the youngest victim Ciara Breen was last seen leaving her home in Dundalk. Fiona vanished in 1998. Deirdre Jacob was the last to go missing in 1998.

## Characteristics

* Shoulder length auburn hair.
* Brown eyes.

## Sources

* Fiona Sinnott on Wikipedia
* Fiona Sinnott at the *Doe Network*
* *Ireland's National Police and Security Service*