56 - Predator: The deaths of Patricia McGauley & Mary Cummins

1990 was a decade of missing women. We remember the names of the unfound - Annie McCarrick, Eva Brennan, Jo Jo Dollard, Deirdre Jacob. 

The names Patricia McGauley and Mary Cummins were once on that list. These two women disappeared from Dublin in the space of a year, and it wasn't until a large scale review of cases of missing women from Dublin that a startling link was discovered between the two women. 

Both of them had unknowingly spent time with a predator: Michael Bambrick.

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