Since March 1993, mystery has surrounded the murder and disappearance of an American woman, Annie McCarrick, who vanished under suspicious circumstances.
Marking the first arrest in this case, a man has been arrested in Dublin for the murder of the 26-year-old woman who went missing more than 32 years ago.
The man, who is in his 60s, was arrested by detectives from Irishtown this morning in connection with the murder.
The man, who has not yet been named, is being detained under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and can be questioned for up to 24 hours.
Gardaí are also currently searching a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin as part of the investigation.
Originally from New York, Annie lived in St Cathryn's Court in Sandymount in Dublin, and on March 26, 1993, she left her apartment block as normal.
The last confirmed sighting of her was captured on CCTV shortly before 11am that day at the AIB bank on Sandymount Road close to where she lived.
There are reported sightings of her in the Sandymount Green area and of her boarding the number 44 bus bound for Enniskerry in Co Wicklow.
However, she was last seen in the town of Enniskerry and at Johnnie Fox's pub in the Dublin mountains, before she vanished without a trace.
She was reported missing by a friend two days later on 28 March 1993. The case was initially treated as a missing persons case, but in 2023 it was upgraded to a murder investigation.
The investigation is being led by the Dublin South Central Serious Crime Unit supported by the National Serious Crime Review Team.
Numerous searches by gardaí have yielded no results in the intervening years, but some believe she was murdered by a serial killer involved in the disappearance of other women in the 1990s.
Convicted rapist Larry Murphy remains a key suspect in relation to her disappearance.
Former FBI agent Kenneth Strange, who is a private investigator in California and a family friend of the McCarricks, previously spoke about the case and his hope that the murderer will be found.
Kenneth said: 'I've followed cases like this and even after many, many years, something can come up. Somebody recalls something, somebody reveals something or maybe a body is discovered in a field - some hunter's dogs finds bones or something like that. So, I like to keep the faith. I hope something positive will come and I think it will.'
