Crimestoppers has offered a reward of €10,000 for new information leading to the conviction of the killers of any of three women who were found buried in Dublin and Laois in the late eighties and early nineties.
The group, a national freephone crime-fighting service, has also launched an appeal in the case of five women who went missing between 1993 and 2003.
In July 1987, 27-year-old mother-of-two Antoinette Smith disappeared after attending the David Bowie concert at Slane Castle, Co Meath. She returned to Dublin after the concert and went to a disco on Parnell St with a friend.
Her body was found in a shallow grave in the Dublin mountains in April 1998. She had been raped and strangled.
Patricia Doherty (30) a mother of two from Tallaght went missing on December 23rd, 1991 after she left home to do some last minute Christmas shopping.
A leaflet released by Crimestoppers today
The following June her body was found by a man cutting turf near the spot where Ms Smith's body was uncovered in the Dublin Mountains. Ms Doherty had also been strangled.
Marie Kilmartin (36) went missing from her Portlaoise home on December 16th, 1993. Her body was found in a bog off the Mountmellick-Portarlington road, six months later. She had been strangled and a concrete slab had been placed on top of her.
All three cases have been kept open by gardaí in the intervening years but are now being re-examined due to advances in DNA technology and database analysis tools. Anyone with information or suspicions can call Crimestoppers in confidence on 1800 250025.
In a separate appeal Crime Stoppers is looking for information in relation to five women who went missing over a ten year period.Claire Boylan (36), from Terenure, Dublin 6 was last seen on Sunday March 2nd, 2003. She is five foot four inches high, of thin build with a pale complexion, with short curly brown hair.
Ciara Breen has been missing from her home in Batchelors Walk, Dundalk, Co Louth since the early hours of Thursday, February 13th, 1997. She is five foot five high, with long dark brown hair and blue eyes. She was 18 years old when she went missing.
When last seen she was wearing a black leather jacket, dark blue jeans, wine coloured sweatshirt and a white t-shirt with a picture of her own face superimposed on it.
Josephine (Jo Jo) Dullard is missing since 11.30 pm on Thursday, November 9th, 1995. At that time Jo Jo phoned her friend from a phone box in Moone, Co Kildare. She told her friend that she was hitching a lift from Moone to her home in Callan, Co Kilkenny.
She is described as being 5'4", medium build with dark shoulder length hair. When last seen, she was wearing a dark jacket zipped at the front, blue jeans, black boots and carrying a black rucksack. She was 21 years when she went missing.
On January 3rd, 1994, Imelda Keenan went missing. Originally from Mountmellick, Co Laois, she was 22 at that time she disappeared. She had been staying in rented accommodation at Lombard Street, Waterford. She is described as being five foot three inches tall, of thin build, with long brown hair and blue eyes. When last seen, she was wearing leopard-skin ski pants, a white jumper, blue denim jacket and black shoes.
American national Annie McCarrick has been missing from her home in Sandymount, Dublin 4, since Friday March, 26th 1993. On that day she left her house to go walking in Enniskerry. When last seen Annie was wearing a grey/green tweed, thigh-length jacket and brown cowboy boots. She is described as being five foot eight in height, 10 stone, with long brown hair. She speaks with a soft Irish-American accent.
Uniformed Gardai will be distributing leaflets today in relation to the two appeals. Crimestoppers was set up by the Garda and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It can be contacted anonymously at: 1800 250025.