Deirdre Jacob

* Living photo
* Age progressed

**Deirdre Jacob** was a young woman who vanished near her home in Newbridge, Ireland. Her age progression depicts her at 28 years old.

## Background

Deirdre was born on October 14, 1979 to parents Michael and Bernadette Jacob. At the time of her disappearance, she had completed one year teacher training at St Mary's College in Strawberry Hill London and was spending the summer at home in Ireland.

## Case

### Disappearance

Deirdre vanished from County Kildare, Ireland on July 28, 1998. That day she had left home at around midday with plans to visit her grandmother and then get a bank draft to pay for student accommodation at the university. She arrived at the AIB (Allied Irish Bank) in Newbridge at around 2:10 P.M., then went to the post office before returning to her grandmother. She finally decided to walk the approximately twenty five minutes back to her house. She was last seen at approximately 3.30 P.M. when passing motorists witnessed her at the gateway to her house, however she never made it home.

### The Irish Vanishing Triangle

Deirdre'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 Sinnott vanished after leaving Butler's Pub in Broadway in 1998. Deirdre was the last to go missing.

### Possible involvement of Larry Murphy

Larry Murphy, a convicted rapist, confessed to the murder to another inmate while incarcerated. The Gardaí were able to find that Murphy, a carpenter, had completed some work in a shop owned by Deirdre's grandmother. Murphy maintains his innocence in Deirdre's case.

### Recent developments

In 2017, Deirdre's case was reviewed and CCTV footage in her case was digitised, resulting in new witnesses. A cold case team along with detectives and senior officers managed to locate several areas of interest within a 30 minute drive from where she was last seen.

In 2018, the Gardaí announced that Deirdre's case was upgraded to a murder probe. In October 2018 the Gardaí revealed that they had new leads in Deirdre's case and that Murphy was classified as a person of interest. It is worth noting that Murphy is also suspected of being responsible for the disappearances of Annie McCarrick and JoJo Dullard.

In October 2021, the Gardaí began searching woodland near Usk Little on the Kildare/Wicklow border. They hoped to find the remains of Deirdre and JoJo Dullard but eventually called off the search after nothing was found.

## Characteristics

* Chin length black/ brown hair.
* Grey/ green eyes.
* She had a slim build.

## Clothing and accessories

* Either a navy NIKE V neck t-shirt with white trim on the collar and sleeves or a navy NIKE jumper.
* Navy or black straight jeans.
* Either white shoes or blue NIKE runners.
* A distinctive black Caterpillar bag with the letters "CAT" printed in yellow on the front.

## Sources

* Deirdre Jacob on Wikipedia
* Ireland's Vanishing Triangle on Wikipedia
* Deirdre Jacob at the *Doe Network*
* *Missing Irish People*
* *Ireland's National Police and Security Service*