Fiona Pender, the 7-month-old Pregnant Woman Who Mysteriously Disappeared Inside Her House

The woman in the pic was Fiona Pender, 25 years old at the time of her disappearance. Everyone says that she was a bright, outgoing and positive young woman who always had a smile on her face.

It is known that she was the daughter of Sean and Josephine and that she also had two little brothers named John and Mark, the latter who died in the summer of '95 after suffering a motorcycle accident. As you can imagine, the loss of her left the entire family devastated.

Fiona grew up in Tullamore, a beautiful town in Ireland, and left school when she was just 15 years old. She later became a hairdresser and model.

In October 1993, his brother Mark introduced him to John Thompson, a young man with whom he hit it off immediately due to their love of motorcycles.

Despite having this in common, Fiona and John's backgrounds were very different: To begin with, the boy came from a long line of Irish Merediths, a name given to numerous British families who settled in Ireland during the previous centuries and acquired important lands in the whole country.

The boy was the only heir to his family's farm and also that of his uncle, which in 2008 was valued at six million euros.

Thompson's family was also very successful in business so it can be said that they were rich, the complete opposite of Fiona whose background was much more humble.

As I have said before the young woman grew up in a suburban area of ​​Tullamore and had little or no experience in farming. Her father, Sean, was an artist and sometimes struggled to make money. She grew up in a happy environment and never wanted much more.

In '95 the couple moved to London to work at a Hilton hotel until in February '96 John told Fiona that they had to return to Ireland so he could take care of the family farm.

John not only missed his country but also felt that he had let his parents down as they depended heavily on him for the upkeep of the farm he would inherit after his death.

This decision caused several arguments between the couple but they still returned to Ireland and rented a small apartment on the main street of Tullamore that was close to the Penders' farm and home.

The situation between them did not improve until Fiona suddenly found out that she was pregnant and the news made her immensely happy. This was something that managed to calm things down at first glance until suddenly the young woman disappeared without a trace.

 Missing

August 22, 96 was Thursday and Fiona, who was already 7 months pregnant, spent the afternoon with her mother buying items for the baby in a shopping center in Tullamore.

After finishing shopping, the two women returned to the Penders' house in the Connolly Park area. The young woman stayed with her family for a while and she spoke with her father about a fishing-related trip that the man was going to take shortly. Then at 7 she decided to go back to her apartment because she was already very tired.

The parents said goodbye to their daughter but first agreed that the next day they would go to her apartment; what they could least imagine was that they would never see her again.

The next day in the afternoon Josephine went to her daughter's house, however when she saw the blinds on the windows closed she thought that the girl would be resting and instead of knocking on the door she left.

That same night Fiona's father passed by the apartment and to his surprise he saw that the blinds were still closed and that there was no light inside.

The man tried to downplay it and thought that his daughter was still resting or that she had simply gone out with her friends.

The real concern came on Saturday afternoon when neither Fiona's family nor friends had heard from her since Thursday the 22nd.

Because of this, Josephine decided to call John to see if he knew where the young woman was, and it must be said that his response left her quite shocked since according to the man, not only had he not seen Fiona but he thought she was with her parents.

John also told Josephine that the last time he saw his girlfriend was at 6 a.m. on Friday before he left the house to go to his parents' farm. To this he added that she stayed the night there and that was why he assumed that Fiona was at her family's house.

Once the missing person report was filed, the authorities began to investigate the case and it must be said that the first important clues came to them from two witnesses.

The first told the police that on Friday the 23rd at around 2 in the morning he was walking towards his house and passed by the couple's street. He suddenly saw two men placing a large, bulky object that was wrapped in a rug into the back of a 4x4 vehicle.

Despite appeals, the Garda, which is the Irish police, was never able to find these men or any information about what they were doing.

The second witness said that that same Friday morning he was driving on a small rural road in the mountains when a 4x4 vehicle with a single occupant approached him erratically and at an extremely fast speed.

This person was not able to see the driver's face well, but he did see that the vehicle had a large sticker on the windshield that said "Keep Her Lit." Despite all this information, they never found the car or the owner.

For months numerous searches were carried out, the most important being in the Grand Canal and the Tullamore River.

In addition to the Garda underwater units, Air Corps helicopters, members of the civil defense and sniffer dogs were also included.

On the other hand, all maternity units in Ireland and the United Kingdom were notified of Fiona's disappearance because she was pregnant at the time of her disappearance. All without success.

Fiona's disappearance was so strange that many thought she belonged to the already famous triangle of disappearances in Ireland and about which I have talked a lot on this channel.

Between 1993 and 1998 several women disappeared inexplicably in what the press called the triangle of disappearances in Ireland.

As you can see on the map, the places where they were last seen form a kind of triangle, hence their name.

On the channel I have already talked about Annie McCarrick, one of the first victims, then Jojo Dullard and also Deirdre Jacob.

The authorities believe that they were victims of the same serial killer, and although the press at some point included Fiona in this group, she was later discarded for what I will tell you later.

The detention

On April 24, 1997, John Thompson, along with his father Archie and three sisters were arrested in connection with Fiona's disappearance.

After twelve hours of interrogation, they were all released without charge, since there was no evidence linking them to the disappearance of the young woman.

John and his father strongly criticized the Garda and made several comments to the media:

"It's just not enough for them to suggest that we get rid of it and leave it at that," he suggested that it was impossible. for Fiona to disappear from the busy city center without being seen "I feel like someone might have seen something, but they're scared."

Police received several reports from neighbors that John and Fiona argued loudly a lot. Because of this, several forensic experts checked the couple's house but found no signs of a fight or any other type of crime.

In 2000, Sean, Fiona's father, left this world voluntarily when he could not overcome the loss of the young woman, the baby, and his son Mark.

8 years later someone found a makeshift cross in Monicknew Forest, in the Slieve Bloom Mountains, that said "Fiona Pender was Buried here, August 22, 1996."

This discovery led to new searches in the area that resumed in 2014 because although they found nothing, the detectives thought that the cross was no joke and that the young woman was buried somewhere there on the 22nd. area where one of the witnesses saw the 4x4 vehicle.

In 2014, shocking news came to light... According to several media outlets, the main suspect in Fiona's disappearance had been arrested in Canada and his wife was cooperating with the police.

Of this individual it was only published that he was known to the Pender family and was from Ireland. It appears that her wife stated that he had threatened to do the same thing to her that she did to Fiona. Unfortunately the Irish authorities were unable to question him and since he was released they were unable to reveal his name for legal reasons.

In 2022, during a press conference held in relation to the cases of Annie Mccarrick and Deidra Jacob, the police confirmed that Fiona's case had nothing to do with them.

 The most shocking thing came when they stated that they knew the identity of the killer and the reason that led him to end it but that they could not judge him due to lack of evidence.

About John Thomson we know that he married in 2004, he had 2 children and in 2012 he moved to Canada. With this information many things could be connected.

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