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Speaker 2: in mind when listening. This is British Bay in County Wicklow.
Speaker 3: I'm just ready to ball my eyes out here.
Speaker 2: It's so sad.
Speaker 3: To think that this is the last place where she
Speaker 3: was alive.
Speaker 1: It is a bit very emotive.
Speaker 2: It's taken Bernie and Kathleen, Elizabeth Blunkett's sisters almost fifty
Speaker 2: years to come here.
Speaker 1: It's surreal to be back here. There was a day
Speaker 1: like today that Elizabeth left home to come here in
Speaker 1: seventy six, for it all to go terribly wrong. You know.
Speaker 2: Bernie and Kathleen are at McDaniel's Pub, the last place
Speaker 2: Elizabeth was seen alive on August twenty eighth, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: It's only now, after all these years, that they feel
Speaker 2: able to come here to honor Elizabeth's memory in this place.
Speaker 1: No matter how many years go by, it's never the same,
Speaker 1: and she's still only twenty three years of age in
Speaker 1: our minds. Because we're mothers now we feel responsible for her.
Speaker 1: We'd never ever wanted to mention the word Brits baby,
Speaker 1: couldn't even say it.
Speaker 2: I'm Ro's purcel from Orte documentary on one This is
Speaker 2: Stolen's Sister, Episode two Missing.
Speaker 4: That weekend in British Bay like the place was buzzing
Speaker 4: with people from everywhere.
Speaker 2: Nicki Crennan was a Garda stationed in Wicklow Garda Station.
Speaker 2: It was around ten thirty pm on Saturday, the twenty
Speaker 2: eighth of August nineteen seventy six when Elizabeth Plunkett had
Speaker 2: left McDaniel's Pub in British Bay and Nicki Crennan remembers
Speaker 2: that weekend.
Speaker 4: McDonald's probably busting at the seems the hotel, which is
Speaker 4: no there any longer. Rockfield Hotel was only half a
Speaker 4: mile away from it, and there was a downce stairs
Speaker 4: that night as well.
Speaker 5: For the weekend.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of people around, But I'm wondering
Speaker 1: did Elizabeth go left or right?
Speaker 2: Standing outside McDaniel's pub. Bernie and Kathleen are trying to
Speaker 2: understand what their sister might have been thinking when she
Speaker 2: was last seen alive.
Speaker 3: Was she going to come back to Dublin? Was she
Speaker 3: going to wait out at the caravan? I know, if
Speaker 3: I had a real I'd go outside night, huff and
Speaker 3: puff outside, night light, smoke night, go back in. That's
Speaker 3: such a beautiful rural place, you think you'd be a
Speaker 3: safe as anything.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth was seen leaving the pub, and we know this
Speaker 2: by statements taken by guardee at the time.
Speaker 6: I remember Saturday night, the twenty eighth of August nineteen
Speaker 6: seventy six, I left home with my husband, Albert Green.
Speaker 2: Mary Anne Green lived near British Bay and her son
Speaker 2: was working in McDaniel's pub that night. After eleven pm,
Speaker 2: she drove with her husband to McDaniel's pub and saw
Speaker 2: Elizabeth on the road.
Speaker 6: We'd only just parked the car when I saw a
Speaker 6: girl coming from the direction of the pub.
Speaker 2: Mary Ann's statement, like all the statements in this episode,
Speaker 2: is being read by an actor.
Speaker 6: She passed in front of our car, came down the
Speaker 6: steps onto the rough surface on my left hand side.
Speaker 6: This girl looked about eighteen or nineteen years slim build
Speaker 6: and medium height, fairly brownish complexion. The girl passed by
Speaker 6: her car on the left hand side and passed behind
Speaker 6: other cars on my left. I don't know which way
Speaker 6: she went after that. She was wearing white slacks and
Speaker 6: a T shirt. The T shirt was white and a
Speaker 6: dark color. The word santra Pe was on the front
Speaker 6: in dark letters, either black or dark blue. I passed
Speaker 6: a comment to my husband, it's getting good when they
Speaker 6: are putting Saints' names on T shirts.
Speaker 2: That distinctive Santa Pe T shirt mary Anne saw was
Speaker 2: the one Elizabeth's boyfriend Damien described her buying when she
Speaker 2: was on holidays the month before.
Speaker 7: When she left, she was wearing a dark navy blue
Speaker 7: jumper with the word sentro Pei and white lettering across
Speaker 7: the entire breast. White jeans with stitch pockets at the rear,
Speaker 7: navy sandals with wedge shaped heels, silver watch wearing small
Speaker 7: imitation Pearlier Lance.
Speaker 2: Damien had had that argument with his friend Joe, and
Speaker 2: Joe remembered how it was quickly dealt with after Elizabeth
Speaker 2: left the pub.
Speaker 8: About five minutes after Elizabeth walked away from some McDaniels,
Speaker 8: Damian and I went out to Damion's car. We both
Speaker 8: leaned on the side of the car and made up
Speaker 8: our dispute about the motor car that was the cause
Speaker 8: of the argument between me and Damion. After a couple
Speaker 8: of minutes, not more than ten minutes, Damion and I
Speaker 8: went into the pub and looked around for Elizabeth. We
Speaker 8: got a bit alarmed, and I noticed that Damon was
Speaker 8: getting a bit worried.
Speaker 2: And now Damien started to look everywhere for Elizabeth. He
Speaker 2: went to find his sister Mela.
Speaker 9: Damion came to me and and he said, do you
Speaker 9: know where Liz is? And I said no. He said,
Speaker 9: will you have a look at the ladies toy list
Speaker 9: and see if she's in there? So I went in
Speaker 9: and I said come out, and I said, no, she's
Speaker 9: not in there. So he says, well, she's gone. He says,
Speaker 9: she's disappeared. I don't know where she is. So we
Speaker 9: immediately went out and started looking for her.
Speaker 2: But out on the roads in the dark night, Elizabeth
Speaker 2: had no chance against two men with bad intentions.
Speaker 4: There's all sorts of things happened with its way, so
Speaker 4: they fitted in nicely in a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: They The two men guard and Nikki Crennan is talking
Speaker 2: about were John Shaw and Jeffrey Evans, who had fled
Speaker 2: England from rape charges, come to Ireland and spent a
Speaker 2: year in prison for various robberies. They were now driving
Speaker 2: on the Wicklow Country roads.
Speaker 10: We drove down to Britis Bay. We turned left onto
Speaker 10: the sea Front Road, where we were going towards McDaniel's Pub.
Speaker 2: A man called David James McDonald was driving in the
Speaker 2: same area at the time and later gave a statement
Speaker 2: to Guardee.
Speaker 11: About two hundred yards at the Wicklows side of Staunton's Supermarket,
Speaker 11: coming towards me, I saw a girl walking on her
Speaker 11: right hand side. This girl had her head tilted down
Speaker 11: and appeared to cover her eyes with her hand, as
Speaker 11: if to shield them from the glare of my headlights.
Speaker 11: She had black hair to her shoulders and she was
Speaker 11: wearing a blue T shirt and white slacks. After passing
Speaker 11: her by, I drove to the roundabout beyond the beach
Speaker 11: club and turned around and came back again. I then
Speaker 11: saw the girl again and she seemed to have moved
Speaker 11: about fifty yards. The girl was walking slow enough and
Speaker 11: was definitely not drunk or stumbling.
Speaker 2: It was around this time that Sew and Evans also
Speaker 2: noticed Elizabeth.
Speaker 10: We saw the girl some of the lift. She was
Speaker 10: walking down towards Dark Club. Jeffrey said, she'll do.
Speaker 2: The two men had a tactic they used to get
Speaker 2: women into their car. They were to go black and
Speaker 2: they were hunting.
Speaker 3: They're predatory.
Speaker 2: Sew would get out of the car as one man
Speaker 2: driving looked less threatening.
Speaker 10: We passed her out and Jeffrey stopped. I got out,
Speaker 10: and he turned the car and went back and picked
Speaker 10: up the girl.
Speaker 2: Without knowing what he was seeing, David James MacDonald saw
Speaker 2: the scene unfold before him.
Speaker 11: Just as I passed the girl, I saw a car approaching.
Speaker 11: The car seemed to slow down as I passed by.
Speaker 11: I could see the rear lights of the car come
Speaker 11: to a stop through my rearview mirror near where the
Speaker 11: girl was.
Speaker 2: Evan's pulled up beside Elizabeth.
Speaker 5: She said, are you going to Dublin? And I said,
Speaker 5: were going to Dublin, but we could still give it
Speaker 5: a lift. She got into from passenger seat.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's good friend Mela believes Elizabeth would not have gotten
Speaker 2: in the car that easily.
Speaker 9: I know Liz, she would never have got into a
Speaker 9: car without knowing who would they were. I know she
Speaker 9: wouldn't because she was a friend and we used to
Speaker 9: talk about things like that. We were always terrified of
Speaker 9: anything like that.
Speaker 2: What happened next must have haunted David James McDonald because
Speaker 2: in his gut he knew something was off, and he
Speaker 2: turned to his friend sitting in the passenger seat.
Speaker 11: I put it near the supermarket and said to my
Speaker 11: friend should I go back and see if everything is
Speaker 11: all right? And my friend advised me to go home,
Speaker 11: as you might be sticking our noses into something that
Speaker 11: didn't concern us.
Speaker 2: It was at this point that Evans went back up
Speaker 2: the road to get john Shaw.
Speaker 10: He then picked me up. I sat in the back
Speaker 10: and the girl was in the front seat. She was
Speaker 10: wearing hants and a jumper. We were writing on it.
Speaker 2: Back at McDaniel's pub, Elizabeth's friends couldn't find her anywhere,
Speaker 2: and we're all confused as to what was happening. Mary
Speaker 2: Anne Green, the woman who was waiting for her son
Speaker 2: to finish work, was sitting outside McDaniel's pub.
Speaker 6: Ten minutes after the girl passing, the people started to
Speaker 6: leave the pub. I remember a voice of a man
Speaker 6: calling Elizabeth about four times, but he was one of
Speaker 6: about four people. The thought ran through my mind that
Speaker 6: the girl who had passed down the steps earlier was
Speaker 6: the girl he was calling.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's friends were not going to find her because by
Speaker 2: this stage she was in the car with John Shaw
Speaker 2: and Jeffrey Evans.
Speaker 5: She told us she'd had a row with her boyfriend.
Speaker 5: We were talking about normal things for a while in
Speaker 5: the car that we started messing with the girl.
Speaker 2: I find it really distressing to imagine what Elizabeth was
Speaker 2: going through now, and she must have been really beginning
Speaker 2: to panic.
Speaker 5: She jumps out to a car I was struggling with Jaunt.
Speaker 10: She started to scream in the car and we stuffed
Speaker 10: tissues into her mouth. I drove along until I came
Speaker 10: to McDaniel's pub at left there. Drove along that road
Speaker 10: for a couple of mile. I'm not sure I parked
Speaker 10: in an opening on the left. It's an opening to
Speaker 10: Wood in a bit from the road where there's a
Speaker 10: wire fence across its opening. It's like a lane. The
Speaker 10: three of us then got out of the car. When
Speaker 10: we got to Woods, we dragged her out of the car.
Speaker 10: We climbed over a wire fence that was across the
Speaker 10: road there, and then we all got over the wire fence.
Speaker 10: As we were walking down the lane. She got frightened.
Speaker 10: She didn't want to go down.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Joe and his girlfriend Ants drove around the local
Speaker 2: area to see if they could spott Elizabeth.
Speaker 12: Joe and I drove to Wicklow Ratne and around by
Speaker 12: Joe White Cross. In spite of searching for that Saturday night,
Speaker 12: we failed to find Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: After midnight, Mary Anne Green was driving home with her
Speaker 2: husband and son, who had just finished work. They passed
Speaker 2: castle time in Woods, the place where the men had
Speaker 2: described bringing Elizabeth.
Speaker 6: At about twelve forty five am. When we drove home,
Speaker 6: we were passing by an opening into the plantation on
Speaker 6: the left hand side of the road, about a mile
Speaker 6: from McDaniel's pub. A vehicle was in the opening. It
Speaker 6: was parked on the right hand side of the opening
Speaker 6: with the back face in the road. The inside was
Speaker 6: lit up.
Speaker 2: The following twenty four hours of Elizabeth's life in those
Speaker 2: woods was horrible. The detail would only come to light
Speaker 2: through the Guardian investigation over the following few months and years.
Speaker 2: But right now, in the early hours of the last
Speaker 2: Sunday in August in nineteen seventy six, as Elizabeth's friends
Speaker 2: went to sleep in a caravan in British Bay and
Speaker 2: her family went to sleep in rings End, nobody knew
Speaker 2: where she was and what was happening to her. The
Speaker 2: next morning was a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: It's the part that never leaves my mind.
Speaker 2: And at home and Ring's End, Elizabeth's then fourteen year
Speaker 2: old sister Kathleen was baking.
Speaker 1: I was in the kitchen with my mom making Sunday dinners.
Speaker 3: And we always made apple tarts on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: Did you know these routines that were setting stone with
Speaker 3: you know, the jelly being made, and this Maratha paid
Speaker 3: to be steeping from the night before, and you'd be
Speaker 3: washing cabbage, and then while the other wasn't sure, you
Speaker 3: might as well throwing a few apple tarts.
Speaker 2: So much of the detail in this series has never
Speaker 2: been publicly told. Before concluding what was going on inside
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's family home.
Speaker 3: Was a knock on the door and I went out
Speaker 3: to answer the door and this girl said, it's Alizabeth there,
Speaker 3: and I said, no, she gone away for the weekend.
Speaker 3: Tut no more off it. And I came back out
Speaker 3: to the kitchen with masterid who was that? And I said,
Speaker 3: somebody looking for Liz And immediately my math's instinct, now
Speaker 3: that I look back on it, she walked out and
Speaker 3: I remember trying to wipe her hand to a flower,
Speaker 3: and she walked out to the hall door. She walked
Speaker 3: out into the footpath and said who was that?
Speaker 1: Who was that? Sorry if she'd go away with her friends?
Speaker 2: I said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Some guy and whoever it was had disappeared up the
Speaker 3: top of the street.
Speaker 2: It later emerged it was Annette McLaughlin who knocked at
Speaker 2: the door. When Annette, along with Elizabeth's group of friends,
Speaker 2: woke up in British Bay that Sunday morning and realized
Speaker 2: there was still no sign of Elizabeth, they all came
Speaker 2: back to Dublin, hoping they'd find her there.
Speaker 3: Damien was in the car up to the top of the street,
Speaker 3: and it sent this young one down to see had
Speaker 3: Elizabeth made it home.
Speaker 9: She wasn't there, so he really, really, really, you know,
Speaker 9: got very anxious and very upset.
Speaker 2: At this stage, the Plunkets were totally oblivious to what
Speaker 2: was going on.
Speaker 3: That was a Sunday morning and we had our dinner
Speaker 3: and she wasn't due back home. I went to I
Speaker 3: was to see why abbect of whatever disco was on.
Speaker 3: I went on the Sunday night.
Speaker 1: And Damien in the meantime was frantic, where is she?
Speaker 1: So the thoughts of him when eventually he did have
Speaker 1: to come to the house and say what had happened, the.
Speaker 2: Fear of Elizabeth being missing was beginning to mount. Elizabeth's
Speaker 2: big sister, Joan lived nearby with her husband Jimmy, and
Speaker 2: Damien had checked was Elizabeth there, So.
Speaker 1: I think they drove back up to Joan and Jimmy
Speaker 1: to say, look, Elizabeth's not in her mom's she's not
Speaker 1: with jo We have a serious situation here. They both
Speaker 1: came down to the house and started to tell my
Speaker 1: mom and Jamien came in. He told her that they
Speaker 1: had a row and that Elizabeth said she was going
Speaker 1: home and We've searched for her, and we kind of
Speaker 1: find her.
Speaker 2: Kathleen came back from her disco to find a panicked scene.
Speaker 3: When I came home, the house was falled. Joan and
Speaker 3: Jimmy were there. You could feel the tension in the house.
Speaker 3: But I remember and everything, what's wrong that Elizabeth got missing?
Speaker 3: And I'm like what, and my mom being I don't
Speaker 3: know whether it's mother or instinct, but immediately she said, well,
Speaker 3: why wouldn't she be able to make our way home
Speaker 3: from Wicklow? This young one had been all around like
Speaker 3: she knew her stuff, like there'd be nothing to stop
Speaker 3: for from getting from A to b.
Speaker 13: Am.
Speaker 3: I massive, my Elizabeth's dead, or why she'd be here
Speaker 3: and we're all going but she was. She just knew,
Speaker 3: And of course my dad.
Speaker 13: Was going mad.
Speaker 3: Then you can't be saying that, and she said, I'm
Speaker 3: telling you.
Speaker 2: It was less than twenty four hours since Elizabeth had
Speaker 2: last been seen alive. But everyone who knew her, including
Speaker 2: her dad Tommy, knew this was not right.
Speaker 1: My father said immediately, report or missing.
Speaker 2: So Bernie and Damon went to the nearest guard, the station,
Speaker 2: Irish Town.
Speaker 1: There was one guard there, but they said she was
Speaker 1: over twenty one and it hadn't been twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: and we said no, but she would not do that.
Speaker 1: She would never do that. She would never stay out
Speaker 1: and have us worried like this. So they said we'll
Speaker 1: come back. I think it was the following day before
Speaker 1: it would have been official.
Speaker 2: While the local guardye said they couldn't do much about
Speaker 2: the case, Bernie and Damien knew there was no way
Speaker 2: that they could just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: Damien was agitated. He couldn't have sat around. He couldn't
Speaker 1: have not gone back and see did she show about
Speaker 1: the caravan? Or see did she show up at the pub?
Speaker 1: So honestly, I'd say we were there till it started
Speaker 1: to get dark, and then we would have come back
Speaker 1: to Dublin, back to the house. Some people were waiting
Speaker 1: for to see what you show up. We waited up
Speaker 1: all night.
Speaker 2: The next morning was Monday, August thirtieth, nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth had now been missing for about thirty six hours.
Speaker 1: The Monday came. That's the panic then, and that's when
Speaker 1: ma'am said, I'm going to look for my child. And
Speaker 1: she did go with my dad. We went over the
Speaker 1: dunes I could see her walking around the dunes and
Speaker 1: looking in the grass and looking for any sign of her.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's two brothers, Eddie and Thomas, were living down in
Speaker 2: County Cork.
Speaker 13: My brother Thomas and I were lobster fishermen out of Cove.
Speaker 13: That faithful phone call to say that Elizabeth is missing,
Speaker 13: Thomas and I jumped the car drove to Dublin. It
Speaker 13: was only then that we realized that the chaos. Barnie
Speaker 13: told me that from the minute my mother got word,
Speaker 13: she said problems.
Speaker 10: We didn't.
Speaker 13: We were going up to sort it out.
Speaker 1: You failed, you'd find her.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The glorious summer weather had turned and it was now raining.
Speaker 2: Dan and Wicklow local guard and Nikki Crennan had heard
Speaker 2: about some strange behavior in British Bay.
Speaker 4: There was a phone call from a guy called Alex Stone.
Speaker 4: He was the owner of my Towns that time and
Speaker 4: they also owned the caravan park opposite. He reported two
Speaker 4: guys down in the caravan park at an old jump.
Speaker 4: There was an old marrit hole in the middle of
Speaker 4: the fielding. We went out to check them out.
Speaker 2: The two men garden. Nikki Crennan was about to meet
Speaker 2: with John Shaw and Jeffrey Evans, less than twenty four
Speaker 2: hours after they had murdered Elizabeth.
Speaker 10: We stayed in British Bay. That day Monday, we went
Speaker 10: to a pit in the field behind the caravans.
Speaker 5: There was a fire going there meant working.
Speaker 10: The police came along spoke to us.
Speaker 4: So these two guys were there drying their clothes. It
Speaker 4: was a whist the day before and you told us
Speaker 4: the camp from Tipperary, and I remember the guy for
Speaker 4: their names to me is John and Jeffrey Murphy from
Speaker 4: Bournskilled feathered in County Tipperary a road in the bag
Speaker 4: of a brown out of the lover head in the
Speaker 4: pocket garden.
Speaker 2: Nicki Crennan and his colleague had no idea Sean Evans
Speaker 2: were actually earning some of Elizabeth's clothes John Baird.
Speaker 5: The girl slacks and T shirt in a quality in
Speaker 5: that field.
Speaker 2: But something didn't feel right about these two men.
Speaker 4: My colleague remarked him when the toads there were John
Speaker 4: and Jeffrey Murphy, they were brothers, brothers, and even marked
Speaker 4: to him he don't look like brothers.
Speaker 5: And then he said step brothers because.
Speaker 4: One was small, that it was Evans small, and I
Speaker 4: was in nice lightly fellow the other guys show was
Speaker 4: a big rougher type, and I suppose he could say shifty.
Speaker 2: No news of Elizabeth being officially missing hadn't yet emerged,
Speaker 2: and Nikki Krennan and his colleague weren't too concerned about
Speaker 2: the two men.
Speaker 4: We found nothing, just took to address their naims. They
Speaker 4: don't boog all on his tresperson and I suppose we
Speaker 4: told him doing pavate property, shouldn't be here. To get
Speaker 4: out of this, said the wood.
Speaker 5: We left him there.
Speaker 2: Sean Evans didn't leave immediately, though.
Speaker 10: We stayed around the caravan park until sometime late that
Speaker 10: night or Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5: On that night we're broke into a top five caravans
Speaker 5: in the next wield. We got a television, one record player,
Speaker 5: transistor radio and a few shillings. We then returned to fetid.
Speaker 2: Sean Evans left the area and headed back to the
Speaker 2: house they had stayed in previously, their friend Cliff Autram's
Speaker 2: house in Tipperary, near where I grew up in Feathers.
Speaker 2: Back in Dublin, Elizabeth was officially becoming a missing person.
Speaker 4: It wasn't taken that serious for a few days. I think,
Speaker 4: but the family were all concerned, and her family were
Speaker 4: down here and our friends searching. I think that was
Speaker 4: going on for three or four days.
Speaker 1: For the first week, all the searchers were done, the
Speaker 1: Civil Defense were there, Elizabeth's colleagues and work were there.
Speaker 1: Everyone that was so helpful. The neighbors swam wings end
Speaker 1: looking for evidence, looking for anything that would help us
Speaker 1: find Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's family then got an appeal into the.
Speaker 14: Papers Evening Herald Wednesday, first of September nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 14: Family appeal to daughter Elizabeth Plunkett of twenty four Pembroke Cottage,
Speaker 14: as Irish Town went to British Bay for the weekend
Speaker 14: and by early today still had not returned. She is
Speaker 14: of medium build, five feet five inches in height, has
Speaker 14: brown eyes and shoulder length black hair.
Speaker 15: I remember my dad's brother Willie from Donnybrook. Him and
Speaker 15: his sons came.
Speaker 2: This is Thomas, Elizabeth's younger brother who would come up
Speaker 2: from Cork to search for her.
Speaker 15: And we all meant to go to British and start
Speaker 15: searching for some clues. It was a strange atmosphere. You know,
Speaker 15: on the one hand that you were searching display and
Speaker 15: it's a beautiful place British and then you're just hoping
Speaker 15: that you don't find anything, but on the other hand
Speaker 15: you want to find something.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to understand how Elizabeth's siblings were all now feeling,
Speaker 2: including her sister Bernie.
Speaker 1: It's desperation you feel, and you're confused and you're like, no,
Speaker 1: who could where could she have gone? You can't just
Speaker 1: disappear off the face of the earth. Somebody has to know.
Speaker 1: So you're going and asking back into the pub in
Speaker 1: McDaniel's to say, did anybody say looking through the sand
Speaker 1: dunes wherever we thought we could.
Speaker 13: When days were moving, we thought there might have been
Speaker 13: the chance that she was still alive. We spent hours
Speaker 13: and hours from day to dusk looking quite a bit
Speaker 13: of a blurd, to be very honest with you.
Speaker 2: One week after Elizabeth's disappearance, on Saturday, fourth of September,
Speaker 2: a large scale methodical search by GUARDI took place with
Speaker 2: everybody joining in.
Speaker 13: The garden pointed to a search area and it was
Speaker 13: undergrowth and scrubs and rough to ry rough rough.
Speaker 2: Land, and then the search party found something near Castle
Speaker 2: Timon Woods, the location where a park car had been
Speaker 2: seen in the hours after Elizabeth had walked out of
Speaker 2: McDaniel's pub in British Bay. It was one of Elizabeth's friends,
Speaker 2: Joe McCoy, who made the discovery.
Speaker 8: There was a lane way leading from the roadway into
Speaker 8: the forest. While searching around the area, I saw bra
Speaker 8: hanging on the browers and a scarf.
Speaker 2: Then another of the searchers found a shoe. They went
Speaker 2: back to Joe's girlfriend in Nette to take a closer
Speaker 2: look at it.
Speaker 12: I looked at the shoe and said, that's a shoe.
Speaker 2: I had no doubt about a net showed the shoe
Speaker 2: to Liza's good friend Mela God.
Speaker 9: I just held in my arms and I just said, oh,
Speaker 9: please let her be alive or letter, you know, please
Speaker 9: let us find her.
Speaker 2: Everyone's heart sank. They knew this was not good and
Speaker 2: that most likely something bad had happened to Elizabeth.
Speaker 15: Remember looking at the pair of shoes and the worst thing,
Speaker 15: and this is really difficult for me to talk about,
Speaker 15: is when she was being dragged, the dirt was on
Speaker 15: the back of the heels of the shoe.
Speaker 2: By now, Elizabeth's disappearance had become national news on both
Speaker 2: ort E TV and radio.
Speaker 16: Gordi at Wicklow, supported by detectives from Dublin Castle, have
Speaker 16: intensified their search for the Dublin Girl, Elizabeth Plunkett, who's
Speaker 16: missing for ten days. Clothing and shoes belonging to the
Speaker 16: girl were found about two miles from a public house
Speaker 16: outside Wickcloton. Today Gordy are using tracker dogs in the
Speaker 16: search and are systematically combing woods and fields.
Speaker 5: In the area.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth's shoe, her underwear a silver watcher father had given
Speaker 2: her for her twenty first birthday were all found, but
Speaker 2: not Elizabeth.
Speaker 1: We never found her.
Speaker 2: By now, Guardy were talking to local people and holidaymakers
Speaker 2: and the picture was beginning to emerge.
Speaker 1: I saw two people we pass by.
Speaker 7: They had a dirty appearance and very suspicious.
Speaker 2: I would describe one as the stockybilled, dirty appearance overgrown
Speaker 2: blackbeard wild.
Speaker 11: I saw of two men a stave near the dump
Speaker 11: in sleeping bags.
Speaker 14: When I pulled up alongside my caravan, I noticed a
Speaker 14: strange car was parked beside it.
Speaker 2: But what had happened to Elizabeth and where was she now?
Speaker 1: I went to look at my boat and discovered it
Speaker 1: was missing from its moorings. Now had it been broken
Speaker 1: into by forcing the bolt off the door.
Speaker 16: I found a lawn more missing.
Speaker 2: And could Evans and Shaw be stopped from continuing to
Speaker 2: destroy lives?
Speaker 1: Why Elizabeth? Why our Sister?
Speaker 2: If you've any further knowledge of the actions of John
Speaker 2: Shaw and Jeffrey Evans in Ireland, please email us a
Speaker 2: documentaries at Orte dot Ie. Join us in our next
Speaker 2: episode as serial killers Johnshaw and Jeffrey Evans remain at
Speaker 2: large in Ireland.
Speaker 10: We were in Castle Bar one night we saw the
Speaker 10: girl on the road walking along.
Speaker 2: They were on the hunt again.
Speaker 4: Mary was on the road at eleven o'clock at a
Speaker 4: lovely young twenty three year old after finishing or shift
Speaker 4: in a local cafe.
Speaker 2: Stolen's Sister is narrated by me ros Percell. The music
Speaker 2: is by Oscar winning composer Stephen Warbeck and performed by
Speaker 2: the Ortie Concert Orchestra. Readings in this episode were by
Speaker 2: Hillary Bell, Keen Cleary Hand, Patrick Dunn, Shane Hartney, Jade Hill,
Speaker 2: Trevor Keegan, Kenny Mcgillifredrick and Jessica Feelon.
Speaker 4: And sound design and orchestra recordings are by me Kiren Dunn.
Speaker 2: Production assistance is by me Sean A. McGreevy and The
Speaker 2: series is written and produced by me Nicoline Greer. The
Speaker 2: executive producer is Lim O'Brien. If you've been affected by
Speaker 2: any issues raised in this episode, please visit or T
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Speaker 2: for listening,