Trevor Deely was born on August 15, 1978. His parents' names were Michael and Ann Deely. Trevor was the youngest of their four children. He had a brother, Marek, and two sisters: Michele and Pamela. The whole family lived in the Irish city of Naas, County Kildare. From an early age, the hero stood out from the crowd due to his characteristic red hair and specific gait.
Trevor wasn't a particularly gifted kid. He had no outstanding grades or sports achievements. However, he was good at science, especially math. For this reason, after graduating from high school, Deely decided to study economics at the Waterford Institute of Technology. At the time, he also worked part-time in a supermarket to earn a living. In the second year, however, he dropped out of school.
The man then decided that he would finish a computer course in Dublin. His sister Michelle talked him into this idea. It turned out to be a bull's eye. Trevor was doing great and he liked the job most of all. Shortly after completing the course in May 1999, Deely joined the IT department of the Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM). The 22-year-old still had offers from two other companies, but after suggestions from his father, he chose a job in a bank.
Colleagues from work described him as an ambitious and well-liked person. Despite his young age and lack of professional experience, he quickly became an important part of the local team. Trevor's supervisor Daragh Treacy later described him as a very diligent and trustworthy employee. He claimed that he could always rely on him. The boss also mentioned that Deely was a good and kind man. These words were also confirmed by Trevor's friends and family. In their opinion, he always took his work seriously and applied himself to it.
The man had two best friends, Glen and Conleth, who stayed in Naas. The town was about 35 kilometers from Dublin, where Trevor moved. However, the man often spent his free time with his friends and relatives from his hometown.
In late November 2000, just weeks before his disappearance, Trevor flew to the United States. However, he did not choose Los Angeles or New York like most tourists. His decision was quite surprising as he wanted to visit the coldest state, which is Alaska. However, it was not about admiring the landscapes, but about meeting a girl he had met a year earlier.
A 22-year-old friend of mine studied at the University of Anchorage. By the way, the hero of the previous post, Philip Fraser, was from this city. The woman visited Dublin during the holidays and met an Irishman there. After returning home, the two friends still kept in touch, despite the distance between them.
Trevor's friend, Glen Cullen, already mentioned, worked for Aer Lingus. As a result, he was entitled to discounts and free flights for friends and family. So the man suggested to his good friend that he would use the employee benefits. In doing so, he gave Trevor tickets for a free flight to Alaska and back. Deely traveled first from Dublin to Los Angeles. Then he flew from sunny California to Anchorage.
Exact information on what exactly happened in Alaska is difficult to find. The man was supposed to meet the American woman, but she supposedly didn't have much time for him. Most often it is said that Trevor was in love with the girl, but she did not reciprocate his feelings. Surely the boy must have cared for her, since he had flown half the world for her. On the other hand, according to relatives, Deely would not have decided to do so if it were not for the possibility of free travel.
Did this trip have any significance for further events? It can be assumed that it is rather unlikely. Anyway, on December 5, Trevor returned home. However, instead of going straight to his apartment in Dublin, he decided to visit his parents' home in Naas. Trevor told his relatives about the events that took place in Alaska. Apparently, he is fascinated by the local fauna and flora. The man, however, only stayed for a few hours because he had to show up at the office the next morning. Unfortunately, this was the last time the parents saw their son.
On December 7, 2000, there was a Christmas party for BIAM bank employees. Trevor's manager Daragh Treacy later recalled that the party started at the Copper Face Jacks club in Dublin. The staff then dined at the Hilton Hotel on Charlemont Place. Finally, the party moved to Buck Whaley's nightclub.
At the same time, Trevor's friends Glen and Conleth were having a good time as well. While at the Hilton, somewhere between 11:00 PM and 11:30 PM, Deely called Glen but they were unable to speak due to the noise around them. In the capital of Ireland, the events turned out to be more boisterous. Trevor left Buck Whaley's club around 3:25 am. His best friends were asleep at this hour.
That evening, a violent storm raged outside with strong gusts of wind. Probably most of you, after an eventful night, would order a taxi to return home as soon as possible. Unfortunately, however, it was not possible. There was a taxi driver strike in Dublin.
Fortunately, Trevor was not too far from home and was able to walk the distance. There was, however, a problem. The man did not have an umbrella with him, which made it difficult to travel even a short distance in the pouring rain. So Deely decided to go to his office to borrow an umbrella from there.
Ten minutes after leaving the nightclub, Trevor arrived at the scene. At work, the 22-year-old made himself a cup of tea to warm up a bit. He also spoke for a while with his colleague Karl Pender, who was working the night shift that night. The man, therefore, did not participate in the corporate Christmas party and the subsequent party. There was no one else in the office except Karl and Trevor.
According to Pender's account, Deely sat down at his company computer and checked something on it for a while. It is not clear whether it was a business or personal matter. He could browse the latest e-mails from clients, or he might just be looking for something on the Internet. Today we would probably say that he wanted to check Facebook or Instagram. In 2000, these portals did not exist yet. In any case, it is not known what the man was doing on the computer and whether it mattered to subsequent events. It is also difficult to say whether the investigators checked this thread at all.
At 4:02 the mates said goodbye and Trevor walked outside into the rainy streets of Dublin. He started toward his apartment, located in the Renoir Complex on Serpentine Avenue in Ballsbridge. Then it turned out that just before or shortly after leaving, he was trying to contact his friend Glen again. He failed to reach Cullen, so he made a voice mail.
The next morning, Deely's colleague checked his cell phone and listened to the recorded message. According to Glen's account, Trevor told him that he was just coming home. In the end, he added that they would discuss the details the next day. After checking voicemail, Cullen deleted its contents. He did not know at the time that this recording could have been important evidence in the case. Investigators later tried to retrieve this message. Due to the technological limitations of that time, it was not possible to do so.
It is also not known exactly when the 22-year-old recorded the voice mail. It is assumed that this probably happened between 3:55 am and 4:05 am. According to Sergeant Michael Fitzgerald, who worked on the case from the start, the last activity on Trevor's phone was at 4:06 on Friday 8 December.
What makes this case so puzzling and famous is probably the surveillance footage. Unfortunately, in 2000, the number of cameras was much smaller than today. The quality of these films also left a lot to be desired at the time. One of the cameras noticed a man in front of the bank building where he worked. Moments after Trevor reached the office gate, two more men showed up. After a few seconds, however, they moved away from this place. These men were later identified as Trevor's associates. What were they doing so late at night in the same place? Did they accidentally stumble upon a colleague from work? It is hard to say how it was actually. Even stranger than these two men is the third mysterious figure. We see her on the surveillance footage about half an hour before Trevor arrives at the office, which is around 3:00 AM. It is a man in dark clothing, waiting for something (or someone) outside. When Trevor arrived at the office at 3:35 am, he had a brief conversation with him, then went inside.
What makes this case so puzzling and famous is probably the surveillance footage. Unfortunately, in 2000, the number of cameras was much smaller than today. The quality of these films also left a lot to be desired at the time. Let's get down to business. One of the cameras noticed a man in front of the bank building where he worked.
Moments after Trevor reached the office gate, two more men showed up. After a few seconds, however, they moved away from this place. These men were later identified as Trevor's associates. What were they doing so late at night in the same place? Did they accidentally stumble upon a colleague from work? It is hard to say how it was actually.
Even stranger than these two men is the third mysterious figure. We see her on the surveillance footage about half an hour before Trevor arrives at the office, which is around 3:00 AM. It is a man in dark clothing, waiting for something (or someone) outside. When Trevor showed up at the bank's gates at 3:35, he had a brief conversation with him, then went inside.
On Friday, December 8, Trevor did not show up for work. As the celebration lasted late, the man's absence was not treated as something very surprising. It is true that such behavior was dissimilar to him, but even the most conscientious people sometimes fall asleep to work. This can happen especially after a party night. At least, that's what the 22-year-old's colleagues thought. Besides, everyone was probably thinking about two days off.
Trevor wanted to spend the weekend with people close to him, but he had not made an appointment with anyone beforehand for a specific time. For this reason, friends and family were also not particularly concerned that they could not call him. They just thought that he was spending time with other friends during these contact attempts. To make matters worse, Trevor's roommates are away for the weekend. In this way, no one knew that the man had disappeared from Thursday to Friday night and since then he has not given any sign of life.
On Monday, December 11, Trevor once again missed work. While Friday's absence could be justified by a hangover, Monday's absence was already disturbing. It was definitely not Deely's style. So the man's boss began asking the other employees if they had had any contact with Trevor recently. It turned out that no one had seen or spoken to him since the corporate event.
Bank employees notified the Trevor family in Naas of the situation. The man's mother asked her husband to check the apartment where their son lived with two other people. Ann also called friends of the 22-year-old. She then learned that none of them had had contact with him since last Thursday.
Michael Deely went to his son's apartment but did not have a key. He tried ringing the doorbell many times, but no one answered. Ultimately, that evening, Trevor's parents decided to report him missing. Glen Cullen and other friends accompanied them to the Garda Station (Irish Police) in Naas.
Trevor's older brother Mark worked at Castlebar in Western Ireland, more than 200 kilometers from Dublin. When he found out about his brother's disappearance, he decided to go straight to the capital of Ireland. His wife, who was pregnant with their first child, stayed at home.
After arriving in Dublin, Mark headed toward his brother's apartment. He hoped he could find any clues that would help determine what happened. The man checked various nooks and crannies, and also looked into the trash cans. He also talked to people he met, hoping that some of them might have seen Trevor.
One of the guards outside the nearby US embassy told Mark about the planned visit of then US President Bill Clinton. For this reason, all litter bins in the area were emptied over the weekend. So Brother Trevor's plan was doomed to failure. If, for example, Trevor's personal belongings were in the trash, it was too late to check them out.
Trevor's older sister, Michele Deely, was in London when her parents gave her the bad news. She hadn't seen her brother since Easter but had contacted him by e-mail shortly before his disappearance. The woman returned to Ireland on the first flight she could find. She decided to stay at her parents' house. Soon after, Pamela, Trevor's second sister, joined the rest of the family. The relatives of the missing person joined forces and began a large-scale search.
The family and friends of the 22-year-old visited other local pubs, clubs and restaurants. They hoped to meet someone there who might have known Trevor's fate. They also hung hundreds of posters with his likeness all over the city and handed out countless leaflets with information about the missing person. They also accosted passers-by by asking about the man.
In December, Dubliners grew used to seeing Trevor's face. His family and friends did their best to spread the word about his disappearance, and some of the posters remained there for months. One of the detectives who worked on the case from the very beginning stated later that during his career he had never encountered such commitment from his relatives.
It is also worth adding that the last surveillance video that captured Trevor on December 8 at 4:14 a.m. was not discovered by the police. It was Trevor's friends who, through their persistent efforts, found this important evidence. Unfortunately, four days had passed since the beginning of the investigation, and each subsequent hour kept relatives away from the possibility of knowing the truth. It is always emphasized in such cases that the first few hours after your disappearance are crucial.
On Tuesday, December 12, members of the special police unit Sub-Aqua Unit searched the Grand Canal. The canal was also located between Baggot Street Bridge and Leeson Street Bridge. Local authorities checked the drains. The divers combed the Dodder River. The man's body and no traces of his disappearance have been found. In fact, the items he was carrying when he disappeared - his coat, phone, wallet, and umbrella - were never recovered.
It later turned out that on the weekend shortly after Trevor's disappearance, his sister Michele had tried to call him several times. She didn't know her brother was missing on Friday, so she just assumed he was hanging out with friends or family. The woman claimed she heard a normal call sound. According to experts, this would not be the case if the cell were in the water. Given all of this, it is fair to assume that the man did not fall into or be thrown into a nearby river.
Although the technology in 2000 was not as advanced as it is today, it was still the era of cell phones. Unfortunately, while Trevor's cell may have provided many clues to solving his disappearance, it did not. Investigators were unable to locate the phone, and neither was the network operator.
Hoping there was a link between Trevor's disappearance and his trip to Alaska a few weeks earlier, the two detectives decided to check it out. They managed to interview a girl who was visited by the missing person at the time. Trevor's sisters, Michele and Pamela, made the trip on their own. Unfortunately, none of these attempts has brought a breakthrough in the case.
In 2016, the Garda investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Trevor resumed. A prize of € 100,000 was then announced for anyone who provided relevant information about Deely. In addition, CCTV videos were sent to UK experts to be digitally enhanced with the latest software. The improved recordings were made public in April 2017.
Irish police also announced that the man following Trevor (last video at 4:14) was the same man the missing person had spoken to earlier in front of his office. To this day, the identity of this person and his behavior remain unclear. It's hard to believe that the appearance of the same man on both recordings was merely a coincidence. For this reason, he remains the prime suspect in the case.
In August 2017, an informant reported to the police. He alleged that Trevor was murdered by a known criminal operating in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin. The alleged perpetrator is reportedly well known to investigators. He was involved in drug trafficking and pimping. This practice was to take place in the Baggot Street area, where Trevor was last seen.
The informant claimed that the person following Trevor in the video belonged to a gang. She reportedly wanted access to the Bank of Ireland Asset Management building on the day Trevor went missing. This morning, Deely allegedly met this man by accident, who was hoping Trevor would let him into the building.
The identity of the person who reported to the police with all this information remains unknown. According to her, this chance meeting led to Deely's murder. The 22-year-old was to be buried in Chapelizod. It is a village outside Dublin about eight kilometers from the place where the man disappeared.
Acting on this circumstance, investigators began a massive search in the area indicated. Excavations were conducted there for about six weeks. Unfortunately, no human remains or other evidence were found during the search. The work were stopped after two months. Investigators announced that a thorough search of the area did not bring the expected results. Nevertheless, the police believe that the informant may have had important information but had no evidence to back up his words.
In late 2019, the Irish Correctional Service began putting up posters in prisons calling for information about Trevor. Unfortunately, it also did not bring any breakthrough in the case. To this day, the disappearance of the man, despite all these hints, still has not been clarified.
One theory is that Trevor somehow ended up in a body of water. His body was supposed to go on downstream and all the way to the sea. In Dublin, which is a port city, it is possible. Some say that Trevor was drunk enough to fall into the canal or the Dodder River and drowned. However, there is no evidence supporting such a hypothesis. This is an unlikely scenario in my opinion. Witness accounts did not indicate that Deely was intoxicated enough to be subjected to such an accident.
It has also been speculated that Trevor may have chosen to take his own life. Those who knew the missing person believe that he had no reason to commit suicide. He reportedly showed no signs of depression then or ever before. He also had a job he liked and a good relationship with family and friends. His life seemed successful. Of course, Deely could wear the mask of a cheerful person and actually be unhappy. Such situations happen, but if that was the case, the 22-year-old must have been hiding it very well.
Others believe that Trevor's disappearance may have been related to his earlier trip to Alaska. Let me remind you that this expedition took place only a few weeks before his disappearance, in November 2000.
A recent theory that has surfaced on internet forums is that Trevor was involved in some sort of banking fraud. Eventually, something was going to go wrong. Or on the contrary - after all the criminals were no longer needed by criminals, so he was killed because he knew too much. This hypothesis stems from the words of an informant who claimed that the gang members had some kind of plan related to the bank where the 22-year-old worked.
The most likely, in my opinion, is that Deely was murdered by a man captured in the surveillance tapes. It could be a random stranger or a member of a local crime group. Until we know the identity of this mysterious person, we may never know Trevor's real fate.
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