The family of Trevor Deely, who disappeared 18 years ago on Saturday, say their next step will be to see if modern DNA extraction technology could be used to generate some leads which would finally help trace his whereabouts. His sister Michele Deely said new technology could be applied to previously unidentified human remains. The new technology was successfully used last year to identify the partial remains of Gussie Shanahan, who went missing from Limerick in 2000. Case filesThe cold case review, which was instigated at the behest of the Deely family, involved a team of six detectives re-interviewing dozens of people and reviewing all the old case files. Trevor is a missing person so his case is always open, but it’s now completely reactive to anything incoming.

Source: The Irish Times December 08, 2018 00:56 UTC