
MISSING: Trevor Deely
A 22-year-old IT worker attends his company holiday dinner party in downtown Dublin… and then vanishes into the night, setting off one of the most infamous missing persons cases in Irish history.

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CCTV footage of the man who was supposedly following Trevor on the night of his disappearance.
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Episode Source Material
- Sunday World (Dublin, Ireland): Friends baffled as banker goes missing by Declan Power via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Help Me Find My Lost Son by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (1)
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Help Me Find My Lost Son by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (2)
- Donal Macintyre: Unsolved (season 1, episode 8) (documentary episode). Directed by Charlotte Blennerhassett via Prime Video.
- Sunday World (Dublin, Ireland): Gardai Quiz Street Girls Over Sightings Of Missing Trevor by Damien Lane via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Gardaà need witness ‘from eight to 80’ via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Family believe missing Trevor is still alive by Nicola Tallant.Â
- Sunday World (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor’s Family Pin Final Hopes On Couple In Video by Declan Power via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Deeley: Water Theory Grows by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): The disappearance of Trevor Deely, part 1 by Rosita Boland.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): The disappearance of Trevor Deely, part 2: the search by Rosita Boland.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): The disappearance of Trevor Deely, part 3: living with loss by Rosita Boland.
- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Appeal in search for missing people via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Sunday Tribune (Dublin, Ireland): Father’s appeal for missing son via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Video trio may hold answer to mystery by Geraldine Niland.
- The Times (Dublin, Ireland): ‘Nothing about my brother’s disappearance makes sense’ by Niamh Lyons.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): ‘Ring me’ plea on lost Trevor by Michael Lavery via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): ‘Please Find My Missing Trevor’ by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (1)
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): ‘Please Find My Missing Trevor’ by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (2)
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor Deely: The search ends, and continues by Rosita Boland.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Mystery man holds key in Trevor probe by Ann O’Loughlin via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Garda Press Office: CCTV Footage of Missing Person Trevor Deely.Â
- An Garda SÃochána (Dublin, Ireland): Missing Person – Trevor Deely.
- Irish Examiner (Cork, Ireland): €100,000 reward for information about man missing since 2000.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Missing Trevor CCTV probe gives us new hope – dad by Nick Bramhill.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): ‘Foul play’ probe in mystery case of missing man Trevor Deely by Tom Brady and Ken Foy.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Anne hopes to provide missing link by Michael Mulqueen via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Enhanced images a ‘significant’ advance in Trevor Deely case by Ciarán D’Arcy and Conor Lally.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Good response to Trevor Deely TV appeal by Kitty Holland.
- Sunday World (Dublin, Ireland): Garda DNA Bid To Identify Body Washed Up on Beach by Neil Leslie via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor mystery agony goes on via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): We’ll have Trevor back alive and well by Joanne Hegarty via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (1)
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): We’ll have Trevor back alive and well by Joanne Hegarty via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. (2)
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): ‘I believe my poor Trevor is still alive’ by Cormac Looney via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Age-enhanced photo of man missing since 2000 produced by Alison Healy.
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Ireland): ‘We search on for our missing Trevor.’ via BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Eight years on, Trevor Deely’s family refuse to give up hope of finding their son alive by Michael Lavery.
- The Journal (Dublin, Ireland): Do you know this man? Footage shows last known movements of missing Trevor Deely by Michelle Hennessy.
- The Times (Dublin, Ireland): Gardai probe missing man’s ‘mystery meeting’ by John Mooney.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor Deely ‘may have been murdered by known criminal’ by Sorcha Pollak and Conor Lally.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Feared Crumlin gangster ‘shot and murdered missing Trevor’ gardai told by Ken Foy and Robin Schiller.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor Deely dig: Gardaà find gun as search for body on derelict site gathers pace by Ken Foy.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Gun found at Trevor dig site as gangster link is probed by Ken Foy and Tom Brady.
- Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor Deely dig: Criminal with a ‘guilty conscience’ led to tip-off by Ken Foy and Robin Schiller.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Garda water unit to help in search for missing Trevor Deely by Seán Dunne.
- The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland): Trevor Deely case: Gardaà end search at Chapelizod site by Sean Dunne.
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