Trevor Deely

In the early morning hours of 8 December 2000, 22-year-old Trevor Deely was walking back to his flat in Dublin after attending an office Christmas party. CCTV footage would capture him on two occasions - once outside of his workplace and a second time near the Baggot Street Bridge. In both instances, a mysterious man in dark clothing can be seen talking to and/or following Trevor…

In the early morning hours of December 8th, 2000, 22-year-old Trevor Deely was out-and-about in the streets of Dublin.

At the time, Trevor was working at the Bank of Ireland Asset Management (BIAM) building on Leeson Street. That night, he was attending his office's Christmas party at Buck Whaley's nightclub, located a bit further down on Leeson Street in Dublin's City Centre. Despite the heavy rain and wind that Thursday evening, the local pubs and clubs were full of people getting into the Christmas spirit themselves.

After attending this party, Trevor left the club at around 3:30 AM.

The rain was still not letting up and without an umbrella, Trevor decided to head down to his office not too far away to grab one . The local taxi drivers were on strike at the time, and without the advent of Uber or Lyft - still years away at this point in December of 2000 - Trevor decided to just walk.

CCTV footage showed Trevor arriving at the BIAM office a short time later. A man dressed in what's believed to be a black hooded sweatshirt was seen in the footage standing outside of the office, having been there for approximately half an hour. When Trevor arrives at the office, the two seem to chat for a moment, before Trevor walks inside. There, inside the Bank of Ireland Asset Management office, Trevor made himself a cup of tea and then chatted up a colleague of his, Karl Pender, who was working the night shift that fateful Friday.

A few minutes later, two more men arrive at the office gates but leave just a moment later. These two men were later identified as colleagues.

After a few minutes inside the office, Trevor grabs an umbrella and heads out once again, likely headed toward his apartment on Serpentine Avenue, located in the neighborhood of Ballsbridge. The time is just after 4:00 AM, and the same surveillance cameras that capture Trevor walking into the office capture him walking out, into the rainy streets of Dublin.

At the time Trevor leaves the office, the man who had been standing outside of it - seen wearing dark-colored clothing - was gone. However, a short time later, another CCTV camera along Haddington Road would capture Trevor walking... but he wasn't alone. A suspicious man in dark clothing can be seen following Trevor from afar, and Gardai (a member of the Garda, Ireland's police force) believe that this is the same man spotted outside of the BIAM office a short time prior.

After this, Trevor disappeared without a trace. The man seen walking behind him remains unidentified today.

Many years have passed, but no one knows what happened to Trevor, nor the identity of the man who was seen walking behind him... who we can presume was likely following him. The only thing we know is that the moment this young man walked away from the CCTV cameras on Dublin's Baggot Street Bridge he was never seen again.

This is the story of Trevor Deely.

Trevor Deely was born on August 15th, 1978 to his parents, Michael and Ann Deely. The youngest of four children, Trevor would grow up with one brother (Mark) and two sisters (Michele and Pamela). There, in the Irish city of Naas, County Kildare, Trevor took a while to grow into his lean frame, standing approximately 6'3" at the time of his disappearance with reddish hair and a distinctive walk.

Described as a friendly kid, many remember Trevor taking a while to figure out what he was going to do for a living. Like his older siblings, Trevor was not particularly gifted - academically or athletically - but over time, he began to express an affinity for math.

After finishing school, Trevor decided to study business at the Waterford Institute of Technology, working a part-time supermarket job in order to support himself. However, during his second year, he dropped out. This, however, led to an abrupt career change into an emerging market: computers.

After dropping out of business school, Trevor was admitted to a computer program in Dublin, which he had been introduced to through his sister, Michelle. She later recalled:

"He took to it like a duck to water. It was like turning a key in a lock and he finally found what he really enjoyed, and he seemed to be really good at it as well."

Shortly after completing this course in May of 1999, Trevor accepted a position in the Bank of Ireland Asset Management's IT department. At the time, Trevor was contemplating positions with at least two other companies, but his father Michael advised him:

"Take the bank. Banks are safer than any of the others."

Just 22 years old, Trevor started working at BIAM, after following up on his father's recommendation. There, his colleagues described him as a hard worker, who was ambitious, reliable, and popular amongst his coworkers. He quickly became an integral part of the team there, and his manager, Daragh Treacy, would later describe him as both "very trustworthy" and a "good guy." In more detail, Treacy stated:

"He was almost the perfect employee: he was reliable, nothing was too much trouble, he was hungry to learn and he mingled well with everyone in the company. He was a very happy guy.

"He was one of the nice guys to be around. He never bitched about other people... He had a very good work ethic and he was very trustworthy. I'm not just saying this because of the situation, but Trevor was really a good guy."

Glen Cullen, one of Trevor's childhood friends, remained close with him throughout their early adulthood, having originally met during their first year of secondary school in Naas. Later talking about their friendship in an interview, Glen remembered:

"We did practically everything together. I never had an argument with him, in any shape or form. Not about girls, not about anything."

Conleth Loonan, another one of Trevor's close friends, later recalled:

"Trev was a jovial character. He was always in good form... He had a good head on his shoulders as well: he was doing very well at work, so he had a serious side to him. He always took work seriously."

In their early twenties, Trevor, Glen, and Conleth used to hit up the local pubs and clubs together. They spent a lot of time on the weekends together, and all even had the same type of cell phone, Nokia 1610s (which were fairly common at the time). Trevor used to smoke either Marlboro Lights or Benson & Hedges, in a time before most places banned smoking indoors. He often used a zippo, not matches, to light his cigarettes. Conleth later stated:

"We were all ale drinkers, which was quite unusual for that age group. But it was never falling around the place."

While both of his best friends still lived in Naas - approximately 35 kilometers southwest of Dublin - Trevor lived in an apartment in Dublin. While he liked to spend his weekend with his friends, he wasn't known to be involved in anything criminal or suspicious. As far as anyone knew, he was just a normal 22-year-old that liked to work hard and spent his free time hanging out with friends and family.

Approximately two months before his disappearance - on the first Saturday of October 2000 - Trevor's brother Mark Deely traveled to Dublin to attend a football final with a group of friends. Trevor went with him, and Mark later recalled the two having a great time, during what would later become his final memories with Trevor:

"It was a time when I was really getting to know him. He was no longer my little brother by then but more of a peer. His working life was just starting; he was starting to have his own money. We might as well have been the same age then."

In late November 2000 - just weeks before his disappearance - Trevor flew to the U.S., specifically Alaska, to meet up with a girl that he had met the prior year. She had traveled to Dublin during her summer vacation, and the two had kept in touch throughout the rest of the year.

At the time, Trevor's friend Glen Cullen worked for Aer Lingus as a long-haul flight attendant. As an employee of the airline, Glen was entitled to discounts and free flights for friends and family. So through his job, Glen offered to arrange transportation for Trevor to fly the thousands of miles to Alaska for free. He later recalled:

"I'm nearly positive he wouldn't have gone to Alaska if I hadn't arranged the free flight for him."

Glen Cullen later stated:

"Trevor travelled from Dublin to Los Angeles and then as far as I am aware he got a connecting flight straight on up to Anchorage. This girl was at university in Anchorage. He went by himself, to see this girl up in Anchorage that he had met in Dublin that summer. I never met her. She wasn't here for long."

On Tuesday, December 5th, Trevor returned home from Alaska. Instead of going immediately home to his apartment in Dublin, however, he decided to visit his parent's home in Naas. Michael Deely, Trevor's father, later remembered:

"He had only got into Dublin Airport that morning and came down on a bus to Naas, and he was yawning all the time with tiredness, I remember him sitting on the couch at home and Ann was cooking a big steak for him."

Despite suffering from pretty serious jet lag, Trevor told his parents about the many fascinating things he had seen on his trip to and from Anchorage. Sadly, though, his father Michael was a bit rushed - having to plan for a business meeting outside of Dublin - so he wasn't able to spend much time with his youngest son that day. Michael left for his meeting later that day - making plans to hear more about this trip the next time they saw - and Trevor only stayed for a few more hours before heading back to Dublin, with his bosses expecting him back in the office the next morning.

Sadly, that was the last time that Trevor Deely's parents ever saw him.

The Christmas Party for Trevor's office was scheduled for Thursday, December 7th, 2000. If you recall, this would end up being the night that Trevor disappeared.

Daragh Treacy, Trevor's manager, later recalled the party starting at a Dublin nightclub called Copper Face Jacks. After that, Trevor and his colleagues gathered for a meal at the Hilton Hotel on Charlemont Place, and then the party moved onto Buck Whaley's nightclub.

Back in the city Naas, Trevor's friends Glen and Conleth were in the midst of a night out themselves. Whilst at the Hilton with his colleagues, sometime between 11:00 and 11:30 PM, Trevor called Glen but they had a hard time hearing each other because of the background noise around them. Glen later recalled:

"I said to him, 'Trev, I'll call you back.' Then he called me back. I missed the call."

Trevor left Buck Whaley's nightclub at approximately 3:25 AM. At the time, a heavy storm was brewing outside - with gusts as high as 60 to 70 miles per hour - and if you recall from the intro, Dublin's taxi drivers were on strike. With the rain lashing down, Trevor decided to head to his office building nearby to grab an umbrella.

Ten minutes after leaving the nightclub, Trevor arrived at his office and was let in after calling security. After heading inside he made a cup of tea and then spoke to his colleague, Karl Pender, who was working the overnight shift that evening.

Karl was the only employee in the office that night until Trevor arrived rather unexpectedly. A computer operator at Bank of Ireland Asset Management, Karl had not been at the office Christmas party and had only taken on the responsibilities of the overnight shift after his shift partner fell ill earlier that week and ended up in the hospital. In an interview, Karl later recalled:

"When Trevor came in he asked me did I have time for a cup of tea. I said, 'Yeah, sure.' I just had something to do at that immediate time, and he said, 'Grand. I just need to log on for a minute.'"

Trevor logged onto his computer at a desk nearby and likely spent a moment checking his emails or something like that - possibly scheduling his tasks for the following day, which he had to do. Karl stated later on:

"I'm not sure if he was doing something to do with work or sending an email. I never asked him."

Before leaving the office, Trevor and Karl had a cup of tea together. Then, at 4:03 AM, they two bid adieu and Trevor headed out, into the blustery streets of Dublin. Armed with an umbrella, he headed off in the direction of his apartment, located in the Renoir complex on Serpentine Avenue in the Ballsbridge neighborhood.

At around this time, Trevor tried calling his pal Glen Cullen again, leaving him a voicemail. Glen was already asleep at this point and had his phone charging downstairs in his kitchen, so he wouldn't see the message until hours later.

The following morning - December 8th, 2000 - Glen picked up his phone and discovered the voicemail message, which he recalled saying something along the lines of:

"Hi, Glen, I've missed you there. Just on my way home, all going good. I'll talk to you tomorrow."

After listening to the voicemail, Glen deleted it, not believing it to be significant at the time. Investigators would later attempt to retrieve the voicemail, but because of the technological limitations at the time, were not able to. So all we have from this voicemail is the paraphrased version that his friend remembered after a night out on the town... which likely got the gist, but may have missed something (maybe something in Trevor's tone or inflection, or even noises in the background).

Glen also doesn't remember exactly when the call had been made but speculated that it came into his phone somewhere between 3:55 and 4:05 AM.

According to Det. Sgt. Michael Fitzgerald, who worked the case from its inception, the last activity in Trevor's phone records came at 4:06 AM on the morning of Friday, December 8th, 2000. From this point forward, he had no known contact with anyone.

However, that is not the last place he was seen alive.

Back in 2000, there were far fewer CCTV cameras than there are today. So sadly, only two known cameras captured Trevor walking from the nightclub to his office and then on from there, wherever he ended up.

If you recall from the episode introduction, one of those surveillance cameras spotted him outside of his office building; the other spotted walking him outside of a local bank, located on the corner of Baggot Street Bridge and Haddington Road (a space now occupied by a pizza joint). The time for this second sighting was 4:14 AM - approximately 8 minutes after Trevor's last recorded phone activity.

Approximately half an hour before Trevor arrived at his office building - close to 3:00 AM - a man dressed in dark clothing showed up outside and seemed to lurk around for quite a while. When Trevor arrived at 3:35, he had a brief conversation with the man before going inside to grab an umbrella, chat with his colleague Karl Pender, and have a cup of tea.

Two minutes after Trevor arrived at the office gates, two more men arrived at the office gate but were gone within seconds. As I mentioned earlier, these two men were later identified as coworkers of Trevors and were believed to have coincidentally been there.

By the time Trevor left his office, the man in the dark jacket or hoodie was no longer waiting outside. But... in the CCTV footage recorded a bit later, at approximately 4:14 AM, Trevor is seen walking past AIB Bank near the corner of the Baggot Street Bridge and Haddington Road in the direction of his apartment. However, approximately 30 seconds later, another figure stepped into frame - a man dressed in dark clothing, possibly a hoodie. Authorities believe that this is the same man who briefly spoke to Trevor outside of his office gates, who remains unidentified to this day.

Despite numerous appeals by the Irish Garda, this man has failed to come forward over the past 22 years. A uthorities believe he is the same man who had been spotted talking to Trevor outside of his office, and he remains unidentified to this day.

This last little snippet of CCTV footage represents the last known sighting of Trevor Deely.

On the morning of Friday, December 8th, 2000, Trevor did not show up for work. Because he and his colleagues had been out rather late the night before, his absence wasn't seen as overly suspicious, even though this behavior was very unlike him.

To make matters even more complicated, Trevor's flatmates were away that weekend, so at this point, nobody was aware he was even missing. He had made loose plans with both his friends and family that weekend, but because nobody was able to get in touch with him, they both just assumed that he was with the other.

On Monday, December 11th, Trevor was a no-show for work yet again. This is when his manager got concerned. Worried, Daragh Treacy started asking other employees if they had heard from Trevor since the evening of the Christmas party, but nobody had seen or spoken to him since then. Treacy alerted the bank's HR department, informing them:

"We have a problem here. This guy is not to be found. We can't get hold of him and we don't know where he is. What should we do?"

After confirming that nobody had spoken to or seen Trevor in several days, the bank reported him as a missing person and alerted his family back in Naas. From here, his family began to branch out throughout Trevor's network of acquaintances via telephone, with Trevor's mom, Ann, asking her husband Michael to check out the apartment that Trevor shared with two others. She also called Trevor's friends but discovered that none of them had seen him since the previous Thursday.

Trevor's father Michael went to his son's apartment but didn't have a key. He tried ringing the doorbell repeatedly, but nobody responded.

With no other option - and no clue pointing them to their youngest son's whereabouts - Trevor's parents had to report him missing that evening. Glen Cullen and other friends of Trevor's accompanied them to the Garda station in Naas, where they handed over all of the information available to them to the authorities.

Trevor's older brother, Mark Deely, had been informed of his brother's disappearance at approximately 10:30 on Monday morning. He was at work in Castlebar - in western Ireland, more than 200 kilometers away - but decided to leave for Dublin right away. His wife, who was at home and pregnant with their first child, stayed behind at home.

When Mark arrived in the Dublin area later that afternoon, both of his parents were at home. After arriving he headed towards Trevor's apartment, hoping to ask around and see what he could find. He reportedly looked around Trevor's neighborhood, checking nearby alleyways and garbage bins, even asking local security guards and business employees if they had seen Trevor. One of the guards in front of the nearby U.S. embassy told him that due to the expected visit of then-U.S. President Bill Clinton the next day, all of the garbage bins and dumpsters in the area had been emptied over the weekend. The local government had even taken the step of checking and sealing the manhole covers, meaning that both avenues - the garbage and sewers - would be a dead-end for Mark's search.

Meanwhile, Trevor's older sister Michele Deely was in London when her mother gave her the bad news. She hadn't seen Trevor since Easter but had been in recent contact with him through email. The two had emailed just earlier that week, and she had asked him his shirt size. That weekend - unbeknownst that her brother was missing - Michele had bought Trevor a shirt, which she intended to give him in a couple of weeks for Christmas.

Later, recalling the moment that she learned of her brother's disappearance, Michele stated:

"There was an instant realization that this was bad. I couldn't think straight. I knew it was bad. I knew it was awful. It's like a flash of light; it just blanks everything else out."

Michele came back home on the first flight she could find, and headed straight to her parent's home, where she stayed for the foreseeable future. Pamela, Trevor's other sister, joined them shortly thereafter. Soon, the entire Deely family - joined by Trevor's friends - started searching for him in earnest.

Trevor Deely's family and friends began going door-to-door throughout the area near his apartment in Dublin, hitting up every pub, club, and restaurant they could find in the hopes of finding out where he had gone. They began putting up hundreds of posters with his name and photo and even distributed countless amounts of leaflets with the same information. When they weren't doing that, they were likely hitting the streets and asking if someone - anyone - had seen or heard Trevor since he had gone missing on the morning of December 8th.

That December, residents of Dublin and the surrounding area became accustomed to seeing Trevor's face all over the city. His family and friends did what they could all day every day to spread awareness of his disappearance, and some of the posters they hung up remained there for months to come; in certain cases, even years.

Det. Sgt. Michael Fitzgerald, who worked Trevor's case from the very beginning, stated:

"The Deelys set the standard for what families do when someone got missing. They were very proactive. The town was postered before we got out of the door. I've never worked on a case where the family was so proactive."

The CCTV footage from AIB Bank - which captured Trevor walking by at 4:14 on the morning of December 8th - was not discovered by police, but was actually obtained by Trevor's friends through their dogged, persistent effort. While they were grateful to have the footage, by the time they received it, they discovered that four entire days had been lost.

On Tuesday, December 12th, members of the Garda Sub-Aqua Unit (now known as the Garda Water Unit) searched the Grand Canal, located between the Baggot Street Bridge and Leeson Street Bridge, as well as the River Dodder. Sadly, though, they did not find anything. Not only was Trevor nowhere to be found in these bodies of water, but there was no trace of him found within. In fact, the items he had with him at the time of his disappearance - his coat, phone, wallet, and umbrella - have never been recovered.

Tosh Lavery, a senior Gardai who worked for 30 years in the Sub-Aqua Unit, was one of the people who dove into the Grand Canal during the search for Trevor Deely. He later remembered:

"The canal is an easy place to search; it's like a swimming pool."

This statement - along with others made by various members of Trevor's family and the Garda - has led many to think that Trevor never went into the water. And while it's impossible to tell what happened in the days between Trevor disappearing and these numerous searches, the lack of any evidence indicating he went into the water seems to indicate just that... right?

Regarding this, Trevor's brother Mark Deely stated:

"I'm absolutely certain today that Trevor, or anything belonging to Trevor, is not in the Grand Canal... What I cannot be certain of is that he is not in the Grand Canal basin or something belonging to him is not in the Grand Canal basin."

For a time, authorities briefly considered draining the Grand Canal basin in their search for Trevor but discovered that doing so would affect the structure of the surrounding buildings. Searches of the basin would be facilitated but were also unable to find any trace of the missing 22-year-old.

It was later learned that the weekend that Trevor had gone missing, his sister Michele attempted to call him several times - "probably four times," per her recollection - but didn't know he was missing at the time so just assumed he'd been held up by friends or other family members. She believes that she heard his phone ring during these calls, which - according to senior research fellow Dr. Phillip Perry, who worked for the radio and optical communications lab at Dublin City University - wouldn't have happened if Trevor had gone into the water. While explaining how a phone in 2000 would have gone dead within seconds of falling into the water, Dr. Perry recalled to The Irish Times in 2015:

"The radio signals would not penetrate more than a few inches of water. So it couldn't ring. If a phone has been in the water since 2000, there may still be a slim chance of getting the sim out of it and getting phone numbers off it, but that's really all you could get from it now."

Although technology in 2000 was not nearly as advanced as it is today, it was still the mobile phone era. Sadly, though, while Trevor's cell phone may have provided a lot of clues to help solve his disappearance, authorities were not able to locate any trace of it - nor could his network provider.

Hoping to discover if there was a link between Trevor's disappearance and his trip to Alaska just weeks prior, two members of the Garda traveled to Alaska to interview the girl that Trevor had visited. Trevor's sisters Michele and Pamela would make a similar trip on their own, separately traveling to Anchorage to speak to the girl to discover if she potentially knew anything. Sadly, though, neither of these trips seemed to rouse any leads.

Trevor's brother Mark remained in Dublin for two months, but eventually returned home, telling reporters:

"I came back because I couldn't do any more. I just ran out of ideas. I made the decision to come home because I said, 'If I keep going the way I'm going, I'm going to drive myself absolutely mad; and it's time for life to move on.'"

Michael Deely, Trevor's father, did not resume his job for more than six months following Trevor's disappearance. His office on Lower Mount Street, overlooking the canal where his son had last been seen, became a daily reminder of his tragic loss. He later said:

"It couldn't have been worse from that point of view. You were reminded every day and every hour when you went out."

In 2016, the Garda investigation into Trevor Deely's mysterious disappearance was re-opened. They announced a €100,000 reward for anyone that provided significant information regarding the case.

At that time, footage and images from the two CCTV cameras that captured footage of Trevor were sent to Britain, where they were to be enhanced digitally with new software. This enhanced footage finally emerged publicly in April 2017, and Gardai announced that the man dressed in black - seen walking behind Trevor at 4:14 AM - was the same man he had spoken to outside of his office.

To this day, this man remains unidentified - as does his rationale for waiting outside of Trevor's office and later walking behind him. While one might think that this is merely a coincidence, authorities do not believe so, and this unknown subject is believed to be the primary person of interest in Trevor's still-unsolved case.

In August of 2017, an informant came forward and told Gardai that Trevor had been murdered by a well-known criminal operating out of the Dublin suburb of Crumlin. This criminal - a member of a local gang - was well-known to authorities and immersed in the drug and prostitution trade, which peppered the area near Baggot Street where Trevor was last seen alive.

This informant claimed that the person spotted on CCTV cameras following Trevor was a part of this gang, and wanted to gain access to the Bank of Ireland Asset Management building on the morning that Trevor disappeared. Trevor had a chance encounter with the man that morning, and this individual then hoped that Trevor might provide access to the bank.

According to this informant - whose identity remains unknown to the public - this chance encounter led to Trevor's murder. They believed that he might have been buried in the Chapelizod area, which is about eight kilometers away from where Trevor had gone missing, near Phoenix Park.

Acting on this information, a massive Gardai search began in Chapelizod, a suburb on the western outskirts of Dublin. They kept digging in the area for approximately six weeks, but no human remains were recovered during their search... nor was any trace of Trevor Deely. After two months, the search was called off and Gardai declared that a thorough search of the area had not uncovered any fruitful information or evidence. Despite that, authorities believe that the informant they spoke to may have had valid information, but without any evidence to support their claims, it made them little more than theories.

By the end of 2019, the Irish Prison Service - along with Crimestoppers and the Garda - began displaying posters in prisons, appealing for information in this case. While this has yet to yield any workable leads, authorities remain hopeful that they can one day locate Trevor Deely and return to his family with some kind of resolution.

Apart from the theories that Trevor Deely had been murdered by a random stranger or gang member, multiple other theories have come and gone over the years.

One - which I briefly mentioned earlier in the episode - is that Trevor had somehow ended up in a body of water, where he was potentially washed out to sea. With Dublin being a port town, this is a real possibility, but in the absence of any evidence, it remains just a theory. Some have theorized that Trevor was drunk enough to the point of stumbling into the Grand Canal or River Dodder and drowning, but I personally find that hard to believe.

I'm sure after a night of partying, Trevor was undoubtedly intoxicated at the time he was going home. But he was well aware that he had to work the next morning and made the decision to leave home in the middle of a monsoon... it's clear that he still had some of his faculties remaining in those early morning hours. He even went as far as heading to his office to grab an umbrella nearby and was set to walk the couple of kilometers home to his apartment. I just find it hard to believe that he would have drunkenly fallen into a river when there's no evidence pointing to that. Maybe if his coworkers had described him as overly drunk or something, I might buy into it, but no one seemed to talk about him that way.

Some have speculated that Trevor may have decided to take his own life in those early morning hours... but this is another theory without any credible evidence pointing towards it. Those that knew Trevor believe that he had no reason to take his own life, and was reported as acting happy and sociable in his final known hours. He had not shown any sign of depression in the months or years beforehand and had well-documented plans for his future. If he had been depressed enough to take his own life, he had done an outstanding job of shielding that from the outside world. It's possible, I guess, but without any evidence supporting it, it's just another baseless theory.

Others have theorized that Trevor's disappearance might be linked to his prior voyage to Alaska, which had taken place just weeks before he went missing, in November of 2000. Some think he might have gotten caught up in something in his travels to America - perhaps a love triangle of sorts - which followed him home. Despite these rumors, though, his family dismiss these theories as little more than noise; with them believing that his trip had nothing to do with his disappearance.

A final theory that has made some rounds in online circles is that Trevor had been involved in a banking scam with the individuals who killed him... likely tied to the informant who came forward in August 2017. To this, Trevor's sister Michele stated:

"He was a simple guy... he was an entry level IT worker. And [yet] people have him caught up in this banking scam... [or] that he was involved in some crazy scheme, and that's why he was taken. It's crazy."

Trevor's family has battled through a lot of heartache and adversity to get the right facts out, with countless theories and rumors regarding his case coming up over the years. Sadly, though, they still don't know which one might be true, with Michael Cryan, the family's Garda liaison officer, telling the press:

"The unfortunate thing for the family is that we just don't know what happened. If you can find a body, people can grieve. They have acceptance. They have a place to go. And the longer it goes on, the harder it gets."

After two decades, this remains a story that is still very much unsolved. However, in this case, at least one thing seems crystal clear... someone, somewhere, knows something.

It has been nearly 22 years since Trevor Deely disappeared. If he was still alive, he'd be almost exactly twice the age he was when he went missing. His family remains just as committed to finding him as they were when they first heard the heartbreaking news, and have worked tirelessly over the years to keep the mystery fresh in peoples' minds. They are continuously producing new posters, hoping to emphasize the €100,000 reward that still exists for anyone with information in this case.

"We're entirely reliant on the public. We're entirely reliant on that person or persons who knows what happened to Trevor and where he is. That's all we're interested in, where he is. It's not even what happened. It's where he is... We are appealing to those, who, for whatever reason, have not been in a position to come forward to date to reconsider contacting us."

Anyone with information in this case can contact any Garda station to help this struggling family find the truth. They remain hopeful that someone, somewhere can recall one tiny piece of information about where they were - maybe what they saw or heard - on the morning of December 8th, 2000. If so, they can help resolve the mystery of what happened to this family's missing son, brother, and friend.

Until such a time, the story of Trevor Deely will remain unresolved.