Sunday, May 19, 2024

Disappearance of Sister Jacinta Bracken (Christina Nuala Bracken)

In 1979, 38-year-old Sister Jacinta Bracken was a nun who based at the Stella Maris convent in Swansea, Wales. She was from Ballacolla, Ireland. She was working as a music teacher for the Ursuline of Jesus Convent. She was well-liked and was known to like to walk, shop, and give children guitar lessons. 

On May 19, 1979, it was seemingly a normal day for Sister Jacinta. She did communal prayer and spent the morning grading papers. After lunch, she helped wash the dishes and headed to the city center to buy tights/stockings for her mother's birthday.

She asked another nun at the convent if she wanted to walk with her into town. The other sister was unable to, but the two promised to walk that evening. However, that wouldn't happen.

Two children that Sister Jacinta taught last seen her near the city's Quadrant multi-story car park.  She was known to often walk along the sand and mudbanks of the old docklands on her way back home from the shopping center. Someone stated that they may have seen her praying at St. Davids that day, but they were unsure because they didn't see her face. 

Her handbag was found on the shore 30 feet from the West Pier inside were stockings she bought for her mother's birthday and a small amount of money. When her room was searched officers found among her small number of personal possessions a ferry ticket to Ireland. 

Sister Jacinta is a white female and was 38-years-old at the time. She has blue eyes. 

SOURCES:
Tipperary Live Jan 13, 2012

No comments:

Post a Comment

Murder of Heidi Marie Cummings

On December 18, 2007, 51-year-old Heidi Cummings was found dead in her home in the 3500 block of Cutter in Fort Worth, Texas. It's beli...