1 00:00:15,356 --> 00:00:15,836 Speaker 1: Pushkin. 2 00:00:19,716 --> 00:00:26,156 Speaker 2: We were a very united, large Dublin working class family. 3 00:00:26,476 --> 00:00:29,276 Speaker 1: This story has been waiting a lifetime to be heard. 4 00:00:29,596 --> 00:00:32,396 Speaker 1: It's the summer in nineteen seventy six, the best summer 5 00:00:32,396 --> 00:00:36,236 Speaker 1: we had for years, and every weekend was a sunny weekend. 6 00:00:36,316 --> 00:00:39,436 Speaker 1: Everybody wanted to go to a beach. A group of friends, 7 00:00:39,596 --> 00:00:43,676 Speaker 1: including a young woman named Elizabeth Plunkett, left their homes 8 00:00:43,676 --> 00:00:46,156 Speaker 1: in Dublin for a night away to mark the end 9 00:00:46,476 --> 00:00:49,476 Speaker 1: of our brilliant summer weekends at that time. 10 00:00:49,756 --> 00:00:51,516 Speaker 2: Would like that weekend. 11 00:00:51,796 --> 00:00:54,916 Speaker 1: The place with buzzing with people from everywhere. No one 12 00:00:55,356 --> 00:00:58,116 Speaker 1: could have imagined what was going to happen to Elizabeth. 13 00:00:58,676 --> 00:01:01,116 Speaker 1: They beat the car and my mom and Aunte Lilly 14 00:01:01,196 --> 00:01:05,996 Speaker 1: waved her off have a good time. Just hours later, 15 00:01:06,556 --> 00:01:09,716 Speaker 1: on the last Saturday of that summer, twenty three year 16 00:01:09,716 --> 00:01:12,356 Speaker 1: old Elizabeth Plunkett walked out of a rural pub in 17 00:01:12,396 --> 00:01:16,916 Speaker 1: Wicklow and within minutes was kidnapped by two men. 18 00:01:17,636 --> 00:01:22,236 Speaker 2: These are two drifters, English drifters, career criminals underrun want 19 00:01:22,356 --> 00:01:23,236 Speaker 2: for rape in Britain. 20 00:01:23,596 --> 00:01:27,636 Speaker 1: Johnshaw and Jeffrey Evans had come to Ireland to kill 21 00:01:27,796 --> 00:01:29,356 Speaker 1: one woman a week. 22 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:32,436 Speaker 2: And in County Wicklow, Gordie are still starting for Elizabeth 23 00:01:32,476 --> 00:01:35,116 Speaker 2: Plunkett from rings Anne Dublin, who disappeared in near British 24 00:01:35,156 --> 00:01:36,876 Speaker 2: Bay on August the twenty. 25 00:01:36,636 --> 00:01:39,156 Speaker 1: Ninth, Ireland's first serial killers. 26 00:01:40,276 --> 00:01:44,036 Speaker 2: That was a rite alert out tint for those two 27 00:01:44,436 --> 00:01:46,596 Speaker 2: people traveling and this car. 28 00:01:47,036 --> 00:01:50,436 Speaker 1: A nationwide manhunt led to their capture, but not before 29 00:01:50,516 --> 00:01:54,316 Speaker 1: they killed a second Irish woman. Been graceful, appeared and 30 00:01:54,356 --> 00:01:58,516 Speaker 1: to be honest, he's a very issue, you know. A 31 00:01:58,556 --> 00:02:02,156 Speaker 1: month after disappearing, Elizabeth's body washed up on a beach 32 00:02:02,236 --> 00:02:08,036 Speaker 1: in County Wexford. The two murderers received life sentences. But 33 00:02:08,276 --> 00:02:12,036 Speaker 1: fast forward to twenty twenty four and the Plunkett family 34 00:02:12,116 --> 00:02:17,196 Speaker 1: learn that Elizabeth never got justice. Dear mister Plunkett, since 35 00:02:17,236 --> 00:02:20,596 Speaker 1: we received your submission, we have become aware of an 36 00:02:20,676 --> 00:02:25,276 Speaker 1: error in the victim details provided to us. Despite both 37 00:02:25,316 --> 00:02:28,876 Speaker 1: men confessing no one was ever convicted for the murder 38 00:02:28,916 --> 00:02:32,276 Speaker 1: of Elizabeth Plunkett. We went to the DPP, they said no. 39 00:02:32,476 --> 00:02:34,516 Speaker 1: We went to the Guarded Commissioner. 40 00:02:34,676 --> 00:02:34,716 Speaker 2: No. 41 00:02:35,036 --> 00:02:37,436 Speaker 1: We went to State's Solicitor's office. 42 00:02:37,596 --> 00:02:37,756 Speaker 2: No. 43 00:02:38,596 --> 00:02:42,516 Speaker 1: This is our last resort. Now Elizabeth's family are breaking 44 00:02:42,556 --> 00:02:46,916 Speaker 1: the silence that they've held for almost fifty years, They're 45 00:02:46,956 --> 00:02:49,316 Speaker 1: determined to get some kind of justice for her. 46 00:02:50,116 --> 00:02:54,396 Speaker 2: This afternoon, a verdict of unlawful killing was returned at. 47 00:02:54,276 --> 00:02:57,156 Speaker 1: An inn and restore some dignity to Elizabeth's memory. 48 00:02:57,276 --> 00:02:59,316 Speaker 2: This was an inquest into the death of a young 49 00:02:59,356 --> 00:03:03,116 Speaker 2: woman called Elizabeth Plunkett, whose family had been waiting forty 50 00:03:03,196 --> 00:03:06,716 Speaker 2: nine years for this inquest to take place. 51 00:03:07,396 --> 00:03:11,316 Speaker 1: Iarmra's purcel. The more I learned about Elizabeth's story, the 52 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:14,996 Speaker 1: more I wonder what justice really looks like. We're being 53 00:03:15,036 --> 00:03:19,156 Speaker 1: denied any sort of justice. If you've any information on 54 00:03:19,236 --> 00:03:24,076 Speaker 1: the case of Elizabeth's Plunket, please email us Documentaries at 55 00:03:24,196 --> 00:03:28,196 Speaker 1: RTE dot i E. Listen to Bad Women Present Stolen 56 00:03:28,236 --> 00:03:31,876 Speaker 1: Sister anywhere you get your podcasts and binge. The full 57 00:03:31,956 --> 00:03:36,476 Speaker 1: season now ad free with a Pushkin Plus subscription. Head 58 00:03:36,516 --> 00:03:39,516 Speaker 1: to The Bad Women Present Stolen Sisters show page on 59 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:43,756 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts or Pushkin, dot FM, Slash Plus to sign up.