Gardaí told Jón's siblings that two anonymous notes pointed to a burial site in Dublin.
1. Documentary on One Podcast's "Where is Jón? - 06. The Notes" focuses on Jón Þröster Jónsson's disappearance in Dublin and the notes that changed his case.
2. Liam O'Brien and Anna Marsipil-Klausen present the series, and their reporting matters because they track the Dublin investigation, Reykjavik street reactions, and family testimony.
3. The episode asks what happens when a missing-person case disappears from the media and then reappears through two anonymous notes.
4. In late November 2023, Liam and Anna ask people on Løygavegur, Reykjavik's main shopping street, whether they remember Jón's story.
5. Several people describe Jón as the man who went for a walk, may have been gambling, and was never heard from again.
6. The narration says coverage of Jón's case largely vanished from the end of 2020 until the fifth anniversary in February 2024.
7. Jana, Jón's ex-partner, says she chose to call herself his ex-girlfriend because she has not decided he is dead.
8. Jana says the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021 was a "blessing in disguise" because it stopped her traveling back and forth to Ireland.
9. Nina says Jón's daughters are "the children of a long-term missing person" and that they are not the same people they were before.
10. Nina also says the family has lost trust in the world and that Jón had been their "safety net" and "safety zone."
11. The Garda investigation stalled after officers in Ireland and Iceland moved on, and Detective Chief Inspector Einar Gvudberg Jónsson later died from cancer.
12. Jón's mother Hanna says the family kept waiting for "some answer" and had to accept that many cases never receive one.
13. By the end of 2021, the man called Alex was back in prison in another country after another conviction.
14. In January 2024, Gardaí declined to join the documentary, saying the disappearance remained an "active and ongoing missing persons investigation."
15. Davíð and Anna Hildur met Gardaí at the Bonnington Hotel on 8 February 2024 and were told about two anonymous letters.
16. One note, written on a computer, said Jón was deceased, and the handwritten note said his remains were buried in a certain part of Dublin.
17. The priest who received the second note had moved parish, and Gardaí later confirmed the note had been handed in on 30 August 2023, not in late November.
18. Sergeant Damien Beakey says the two notes now make Gardaí treat the case as a criminal investigation with added powers for search, arrest, and questioning.
19. The tone is procedural and reflective, with interview clips, archive-style narration, and updates delivered as the search unfolds in real time.
20. Listeners who follow long-form investigative reporting on missing persons will likely stay with it, while people wanting a self-contained mystery may skip it.
