WARREN TWP. – Margaret Haddican-McEnroe, the mother of three, who has been missing since Tuesday,

Oct. 10, 2006, will turn 30 years old on Saturday, Aug. 25.

The disappearance case, now 10 months old, appeared dormant of fresh clues until a bevy of activity on

Saturday, July 28, on Dock Hollow Road.

Acting on an anonymous tip, an extensive search for Haddican-McEnroe was undertaken on that day,

involving search dogs, mounted patrol and more than 50 searchers, but again no new clues turned up,

according to Lt. Robert Glen of the Warren Police.

Dock Hollow Road connects Washington Valley Road and Mount Horeb Road. Just up from Washington

Valley Road, on the west side of the street, is a dug-out and unused quarry. The first third of the road,

closest to Washington Valley Road, and not far from Haddican-McEnroe’s home on Washington Valley

Road, is narrow and winding, and is bounded on either side by dense growth of vegetation and trees.

To the west of the road, the ground tends to rise higher than the road surface, and on the east, the ground

tends to dip lower than the road surface. There is also a stream running through the area.

For nine hours on July 28, search teams from Central Jersey Technical Rescue, Passaic County, from out of

state, and from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office took part in the search, according to Glen, but the

effort failed to turn up anything new about the disappearance of Haddican-McEnroe.

Haddican-NcEnroe, the mother of Sarah, 9, Emily, 2, and Melissa, 15 months, was last seen by her

husband, Timothy McEnroe, 34, at their home at 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10. Her husband said he left for

an errand and returned two hours later to find his wife missing and their then infant daughter home alone.

McEnroe reported his wife missing to the police two days later. At the time, he said he delayed telling the

police because he said his wife had left for short periods of time in the past. He said he thought she was

coming back.

Haddican-McEnroe is described as physically strong despite her 5 feet 2 inch stature. She had had boxing

training as a teen-ager, and did basic training for the Army in Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.

She was also a local volunteer firefighter. She won a Valor Award for her rescue and evacuation efforts as a

volunteer firefighter in 1999, when Hurricane Floyd flooded the section of Bound Brook along the Raritan

River. The flood trapped some residents in their homes, and she remained with some trapped residents until

they could be rescued.

More recently, she had been a member of the Mount Bethel Volunteer Fire Company.

Her husband and adoptive father, Patrick Haddican, had appeared on the Nancy Grace Show on Court TV

on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the hope that someone would see the show and call with information.

A crime scene investigation through the Haddican-McEnroe home at the very beginning of the case revealed

no evidence of damage to the home.

Haddican is described as 5 feet 2 inches, 110 pounds, brown eyes, brown hair and a light complexion.

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