Timeline of events in Tina Satchwell's disappearance

Timeline of events in Tina Satchwell's disappearance

Tina Satchwell.

March 20, 2017: Tina Satchwell’s husband, Richard Satchwell, returns home to their house on Grattan Street in Youghal following a shopping trip to find his wife gone.

March 24, 2017: The gardaí are alerted to the disappearance of Tina Satchwell by her husband.

May 15, 2017: Gardaí issue a public appeal for information in relation to Tina Satchwell’s disappearance.

June 7, 2017: Gardaí conduct a technical examination of the Satchwell’s home on Grattan Street.

June 26, 2017: Tina Satchwell’s family appear on RTÉ’s Crimecall to appeal for information.

June 30, 2017: In an appearance on RTÉ Primetime, Richard Satchwell says that Tina took more than €26,000 in cash when she left home in Youghal and that the money was the proceeds from the sale of a house in Fermoy.

August 19, 2017: Garda water unit and search dogs, along with the Coast Guard and army, conduct simultaneous search operations in Youghal focusing at low tide on Youghal harbour, close to the Satchwells’ house.

September 20, 2017: Gardaí renew their appeal for information from the public, six months to the day since the last reported sighting of Tina.

November 30, 2017: Richard makes an emotional appeal on what would have been their 26th wedding anniversary for his wife to make contact.

March 4, 2018: Garda search begins in a 40-acre site of woods close to Castlemartyr. The woods in Bridgetown, near the Castlemartyr Resort, has been identified by gardaí from 220 lines of inquiry.

March 16, 2018: Garda search in woods ends and a number of ‘items of interest’ are sent to the forensic laboratory for further analysis.

December 15, 2018: Richard Satchwell says that he still buys Christmas, birthday, and anniversary presents for his missing wife.

March 19, 2019: Two years after her disappearance, gardaí issue an appeal for information about the whereabouts of Tina Satchwell.

October 20, 2019: Tina Satchwell’s sister, Teresa Dingivan, spoke from her home in the UK of the family’s determination to find her. “You can’t just vanish from the face of the Earth,” she said.

March 19, 2020: Gardaí say they are pursuing 370 lines of enquiry relating to the disappearance of Tina Satchwell as they issue a fresh appeal for information.

December 1, 2020: Family makes fresh appeal for information about the whereabouts of Tina Satchwell.

January 18, 2021: Gardaí recover skeletal remains near railway line in Midleton. They are later revealed to be remains of a female. Tests on the remains show they are not those of Tina Satchwell.

October 11, 2021: The sister of missing Tina Satchwell vows she will never stop looking for her.

March 18, 2022: Hope of finding Tina Satchwell, five years on from her disappearance, are fading, her sister says.

March 15, 2023: Time has stood still in the six years since the disappearance of Tina Satchwell, her sister says.

October 10, 2023: Gardaí begin searching house at Grattan Street in Youghal. The search for Tina Satchwell, now missing almost six and a half years is declared to be a murder investigation.

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