Remains Recovered
As part of the peace process the IRA passed information on the location of six graves containing eight bodies to the Commission. Using this information the bodies of John McClory and Brian McKinney were recovered on 29 June 1999 in County Monaghan. The body of Eamon Molloy had been left in a graveyard in Dundalk the previous month.
Jean McConville was discovered by accident on Shelling Hill beach near Carlingford in County Louth in August 2003. The IRA had previously said that Templeton beach, a short distance away, was the place of burial.
The remains of Danny McIlhone were discovered near Ballynultagh in the Wicklow Mountains in November 2008 and formally identified using DNA analysis the following month. There had been previous unsuccessful attempts to find McIlhone's remains in 1999 and 2000.
In 2010 the remains of Peter Wilson, Gerry Evans and Charlie Armstrong were exhumed, meaning that nine of the sixteen disappeared have now been recovered
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