Jun 6, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
Dive into the chilling untold story of Fiona Pender, a pregnant woman who vanished without a trace in 1996, leaving behind an unsolved mystery that time has nearly forgotten. In this gripping true…
August 23rd, 1996.
A young woman, 25 years old, seven and a half months pregnant, disappears without a trace.
She wasn't running errands.
The last time she was seen alive, she was in bed, inside the small flat she shared with her partner, John Thompson, right in the center of town, just minutes from the Garda station.
Just one day before she vanished, Fiona was picking out baby clothes at the shopping center with her mother, preparing for the birth of her first child.
Hours later, she said goodbye to her mother outside her flat, not knowing it would be the last time.
No signs of struggle, no confirmed sightings, no answers.
Nearly three decades later, the question remains, what happened to Fiona Pender? Welcome to Crimes That Haunt Us.
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