Fugitive Spanish serial killer STILL an Annie suspect

A FORMER Garda detective has claimed a fugitive Spanish serial killer will always remain" a suspect in the disappearance of an American tourist until he is found.

Antonio Angles is wanted over the November 1992 kidnap, rape, torture and murders of three teenage girls near Valencia whose deaths featured in a 2019 Netflix documentary.

AUS private investigator spoke last year about how Angles, identified as a stowaway on a container ship who fled Portugal for Ireland after escaping a police manhunt in Spain, would have reached Dublin just before 27-year-old Annie McCarrick disappeared.

She vanished on a day trip to Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, and both detectives who investigated her disappearance and her friend Marisa Mackle believe she was murdered by a serial killer.

Last night retired Garda Det Sgt Alan Bailey, who was involved in the investigation of the missing tourist, was due to tell a Spanish TV programme about Angles’ escape from police and the mystery of his current whereabouts.

He said: I would say he will remain a person of interest until he can be definitively ruled out and we know what happened with Annie.

‘Antonio Angles needs to be traced, investigated and ruled out of the inquiry if he wasnt involved.

“The fact he has never been located means he will be a suspect always.’

Recalling how several women vanished on the east coast between 1993 and 1998, Mr Bailey, whose task force investigated the disappearances to see if they could be the work of a serial killer, added: We had a number of suspects and one of them was Antonio Angles.