Inspector John Fitzgerald joined Clem Ryan on Monday's edition of Kildare Today.
https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/144728237Kildare Gardai will conduct searches of wooded areas in the county as part of separate murder investigations in to the cases of Deirdre Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard.
Independent.ie reports that this operation will take place close to Usk Little, and that "Detectives do not believe the murders of the two young women are directly linked but are carrying out the searches as part of both inquiries."
18 year old student teacher, Deirdre Jacob, was last seen on the afternoon of July 28th, 1998, close to her home in Roseberry, Newbridge.
Gardaí to search woodland as part of probe into murders of Deirdre Jacob and Jo Jo Dullard https://t.co/ZWsCOkIY28
— Irish Independent (@Independent_ie) October 10, 2021
Jo Jo Dullard, then 21, was last seen in Moone, having made a phone call while hitching lifts from Dublin to her home in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, on November 9th, 1995.
Independent.ie has learned that “significant” information was recently passed to the team investigating the murder of Ms. Jacob, relating to suspicious activity in the wooded area near the Kildare/Wicklow border at the time of her disappearance, which has only recently been reported to Gardai.
Reporter with the Irish Independent, Robin Schiller, says gardaí do not believe the cases of the 2 women are linked:
Image: Inspector John Fitzgerald addressing the media in Usk Little this morning/RollingNews
The cold case searches will be extensive and are likely to take weeks involving teams from the Garda Technical Bureau, Forensic Science Ireland, & the garda dog unit.
Stephanie Rohan sent this report on Monday morning:
Inspector John Fitzgerald joined Clem Ryan on Monday's edition of Kildare Today.
He says the search in Usk Little will be painstaking, and could take up to 20 days.
Gardaí investigating the 20 year mystery of the disappearance of Deirdre Jacob will begin a dig at a site later today in Kildare.
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) October 11, 2021
Deirdre Jacob was last seen on 28 July 1998 near her home in Newbridge, Co Kildare.https://t.co/2p5FMBhpgU
Stephanie Rohan, reporting from Usk Little on Tuesday afternoon, says Gardai are searching for Deirdre's remains, following analysis of new information
Image: Gardai searching at Usk Little, 11/10/21 - RollingNews
Gardai say it's a big step for them to start the search.
Inspector John Fitzgerald says they don’t want to get people’s hopes up
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