Jean McConville was one of the most well-known of the 'Disappeared' - those abducted and killed by Republican paramilitaries during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Like the others who were murdered, Mrs. McConville was buried in an unmarked grave. Of the 16 victims, nine of their remains have been recovered.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army has admitted responsibility for 13 of the killings, while the Irish National Liberation Army has admitted carrying out one of them.
Efforts to find their remains were stepped up in 1999 when the British and Irish governments agreed to set up the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR).
Anyone with information on the location of victims can contact the commission confidentially. In recent years the commission has made a number of breakthroughs.
Charlie Armstrong, a married father-of-five, was on his way to collect a neighbour to go to mass in 1981 when he was abducted and killed.
In July 2010 the commission found his remains in Co. Monaghan.
Columba McVeigh (17) from Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone was abducted and killed in October 1975. He had been working as a painter in Dublin and had only returned to Northern Ireland a few days earlier.
Although extensive searches, based on information received, have been carried out in Co. Monaghan his remains have yet to be recovered.
Working as a painter in Dublin: Columba McVeigh
Gerard Evans, a painter (24), disappeared in 1979 as he was on his way home. His remains were recovered from a site in Carrickrobin, Co. Louth in October 2010 after new information was received.
No one has claimed responsibility for these murders.
Peter Wilson vanished from his west Belfast home in 1973 when he was 21. He was added to the list in 2009, and his remains were found at Waterfoot beach in Co. Antrim two years later, in November 2010.
Joseph Lynskey was a former Cistercian monk from the Beechmount area of west Belfast. He went missing during the summer of 1972 and his remains have yet to be located.
Missing since 1972: Joseph Lynskey
Seamus Wright (25) was from Belfast and was working as an asphalt layer. He was married when he went missing in October 1972. Despite extensive searches undertaken in the Coghalstown area, his remains have yet to be located.
Kevin McKee was also from Belfast and, like Seamus Wright, he also disappeared in October 1972. The ICLVR have carried out extensive searches in the Coghalstown area for his remains but to no avail.
Still missing: Kevin McKee
Eamon Molloy was abducted from his home in the Ardoyne area of Belfast in July 1975. He was named by the IRA as one of "the disappeared" in a statement issued by them in 1999. Following information received by the Commission that same year, his body was discovered in a coffin left in a cemetery near Dundalk, Co. Louth.
Captain Robert Nairac (29) was an officer with the Grenadier Guards on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was abducted in Co. Antrim in May 1977 and murdered. A man was convicted of his murder of in 1977, but his remains have yet to be recovered. Captain Nairac received a posthumous George Cross.
Posthumous George Cross for missing Robert Nairac
Brendan Megraw (23) was a married man from west Belfast. His wife was expecting their first baby when he was abducted from his own home in April 1978. Although extensive searches, based on information received by the Commission, have been carried out his remains have not been found.
Abducted from his own home: Brendan Megraw
John McClory (18) was from west Belfast and was abducted and killed, together with his friend Brian McKinney, in May 1978.
Following information received by the Commission in 1999 a search of the bogland at Colgagh, Iniskeen, Co. Monaghan was undertaken. After 30 days of searching, a double grave containing the remains of John McClory and Brian McKinney was discovered.
Danny McIlhone was from West Belfast and went missing in July 1981. Two searches for his remains in 1999 and 2000 proved unsuccessful.
However, following information received by the Commission, his remains were recovered in bogland near the Blessington Lakes in Co. Wicklow in 2008.
Eugene Simmons disappeared on New Year's Day 1981. His body was found three years later on May 24th 1984 in a bog in Knockbridge, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Seamus Ruddy (33), from Newry, was a teacher of English in Paris, France when he disappeared in May 1985.
In December 1995, the INLA admitted responsibility for his death. In February 1999 information emerged to suggest that his body was buried in Rouen, France - but despite searches having been carried out, his remains have not yet been recovered.
