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Sep 2024
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S08 Episode 4: Oh Darling, Make it Go

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In the late 1980s and early 90s, 14 women vanished within a 100km radius of Ireland's capital, Dublin. 

Former crime correspondent Geraldine Niland dubbed it the Vanishing Triangle... 

Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith

Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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