Her disappearance remains one of the unsolved mysteries about a number of missing women during the 1990s
Who knows now.
By the time Annie had gone missing, he was living in Mozzate, near Lake Como in northern Italy, with his wonderful wife-to-be, Barbara. Like Annie, they also met while studying at Maynooth University and would marry in Barbara’s native Italy in October 1993. When Dermot returned home during the early summer of 1993, he presented himself to the gardaí in Irishtown station to see if he could help in any way and confirm he was living outside the country when she disappeared.
Our sister Eithne adds to that observation by Dermot: “He used to say, ‘Put Annie in Long Island or New York and she was so street smart, but bring her to Ireland and it was as if it became the land of the leprechauns and she was so very trusting’.”“Annie was beautiful, very smart and very articulate. She was really open-minded and a free spirit. She had a great presence and was so warm. You would be immediately drawn to her. She had a beautiful voice, a lovely timbre to it.