Ireland · Disappearance / Suspected Homicide

The Disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard

Twenty-one-year-old Jo Jo Dullard disappeared while traveling home from Dublin in 1995 after missing her bus and hitchhiking part of the route.

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What happened

Twenty-one-year-old Jo Jo Dullard disappeared while traveling home from Dublin in 1995 after missing her bus and hitchhiking part of the route.

The investigation

Her last known contact was a phone call from Moone, County Kildare. Gardaí later reviewed her disappearance alongside other cases involving missing women in eastern Ireland.

What the courts or investigators concluded

Her body has not been recovered and no one has been convicted. The case has been treated as a murder investigation.

Why the case remains significant

Jo Jo’s disappearance is central to the group of cases often called Ireland’s “Vanishing Triangle,” though authorities have never established that one offender was responsible for all of them.

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