MISSING ANNIE IN FEAR OF STALKER

True crime TV docu reveals US woman ‘was hit by man’

- MICHAEL O'TOOLE

ANNIE McCarrick had been stalked and assaulted just weeks before she vanished without a trace, it has emerged.

The bombshell revelation comes in a new RTE true crime documentary - focusing on her disappearance and the cases of other missing women.

The first episode of Missing: Beyond the Vanishing Triangle airs on RTE 1 tonight at 9.35pm.

It deals with the case of Ms McCarrick, an American student teacher who vanished in 1993.

The 30th anniversary of her disappearance fell in March and gardai have now upgraded her case to a murder inquiry even though her remains have never been found.

The hard-hitting documentary reveals Annie's family and friends tried to highlight concerns that someone she knew had struck her before she went missing.

But gardai involved in the original investigation tell the programme the information was not brought to their attention at the time of her disappearance.

Annie's mother Nancy McCarrick tells the documentary: "We found out from her friends that she had been having quite a bit of difficulty with someone she knew. We were totally unaware of that. She hadn’t let us know about it.