Marie Garrity

Marie Garrity went missing on the night of 7 September 1995.

She had been a prostitue and vanished after going out for work.

She had left a baby-sitter with her three children at her home in Bretts Close, Hillfields, but never returned.

She was last seen at at the junction of Bretts Close and Harnall Lane East at about 10.30pm. Her babysitter called the police at 9am after she failed to return home.

Marie Garrity had been of mixed race and had moles on her right cheek and the name Chalky tattooed on her arm. She was described as:

• 5ft 3in tall.
• Slightly built.
• Dark brown hair, shaved at the back.
• Wearing long black boots, a short, black, denim, button up shirt, a white blouse and a light blue denim jacket.

The police scaled back their investigation a month after she vanished, stating that they believed she had started a new life elsewhere in the country, possibly under a false identity, and would not be returning.

The police said:

They added that they were confident that Marie Garrity had not come to any harm. They added:

It was noted that she wa the third person to have dissapeared in Coventry in recent years, the other two being Nocola Payne and Barbara Finn.

Appeals from Marie Garrity's mother and children failed to bring fresh news.

Police divers carried out a search of Swanswell Pool in Hillfields.

It was later suggested that she might have been murdered by a man that was convicted of two murders in 2000.