WEBVTT - Stolen Sister 02: Missing 0:00:15.356 --> 0:00:15.836 Pushkin. 0:00:18.196 --> 0:00:20.796 Before we get into this episode, I want to let 0:00:20.836 --> 0:00:23.356 you know that you can hear more ad free episodes 0:00:23.396 --> 0:00:26.796 of Bad Women Present Stolen's Sister before they're released to 0:00:26.876 --> 0:00:30.516 the public by signing up for Pushkin Plus. In addition 0:00:30.556 --> 0:00:34.956 to supporting narrative storytelling, you'll also get bonus episodes, full 0:00:35.036 --> 0:00:38.756 audio books, and binges from your favorite Pushkin hosts and authors. 0:00:39.516 --> 0:00:42.556 Find Pushkin Plus on the Bad Women Present Stolen's Sister 0:00:42.636 --> 0:00:46.596 show page on Apple Podcasts, or a pushkin dot fm 0:00:46.676 --> 0:00:52.036 slash Plus. Let's get into it. A quick warning before 0:00:52.076 --> 0:00:56.476 we begin. This series contains descriptions of sexual violence and 0:00:56.556 --> 0:00:59.636 could be upsetting for some people, so please keep this 0:00:59.716 --> 0:01:05.436 in mind when listening. This is British Bay in County Wicklow. 0:01:07.036 --> 0:01:09.116 I'm just ready to ball my eyes out here. 0:01:09.196 --> 0:01:10.076 It's so sad. 0:01:12.796 --> 0:01:14.476 To think that this is the last place where she 0:01:14.636 --> 0:01:15.036 was alive. 0:01:15.076 --> 0:01:17.196 It is a bit very emotive. 0:01:18.436 --> 0:01:23.196 It's taken Bernie and Kathleen, Elizabeth Blunkett's sisters almost fifty 0:01:23.276 --> 0:01:24.116 years to come here. 0:01:25.156 --> 0:01:28.676 It's surreal to be back here. There was a day 0:01:28.756 --> 0:01:33.036 like today that Elizabeth left home to come here in 0:01:33.116 --> 0:01:37.236 seventy six, for it all to go terribly wrong. You know. 0:01:38.276 --> 0:01:41.916 Bernie and Kathleen are at McDaniel's Pub, the last place 0:01:41.956 --> 0:01:46.236 Elizabeth was seen alive on August twenty eighth, nineteen seventy six. 0:01:47.196 --> 0:01:51.036 It's only now, after all these years, that they feel 0:01:51.076 --> 0:01:54.396 able to come here to honor Elizabeth's memory in this place. 0:01:56.076 --> 0:02:00.036 No matter how many years go by, it's never the same, 0:02:00.116 --> 0:02:02.236 and she's still only twenty three years of age in 0:02:02.316 --> 0:02:06.236 our minds. Because we're mothers now we feel responsible for her. 0:02:07.476 --> 0:02:10.316 We'd never ever wanted to mention the word Brits baby, 0:02:10.316 --> 0:02:11.396 couldn't even say it. 0:02:13.516 --> 0:02:18.476 I'm Ro's purcel from Orte documentary on one This is 0:02:19.276 --> 0:02:24.556 Stolen's Sister, Episode two Missing. 0:02:27.596 --> 0:02:31.796 That weekend in British Bay like the place was buzzing 0:02:31.836 --> 0:02:33.156 with people from everywhere. 0:02:33.876 --> 0:02:36.876 Nicki Crennan was a Garda stationed in Wicklow Garda Station. 0:02:37.356 --> 0:02:40.196 It was around ten thirty pm on Saturday, the twenty 0:02:40.196 --> 0:02:43.516 eighth of August nineteen seventy six when Elizabeth Plunkett had 0:02:43.596 --> 0:02:47.596 left McDaniel's Pub in British Bay and Nicki Crennan remembers 0:02:47.596 --> 0:02:48.556 that weekend. 0:02:49.556 --> 0:02:54.116 McDonald's probably busting at the seems the hotel, which is 0:02:54.156 --> 0:02:58.516 no there any longer. Rockfield Hotel was only half a 0:02:58.596 --> 0:03:00.996 mile away from it, and there was a downce stairs 0:03:01.036 --> 0:03:01.716 that night as well. 0:03:01.796 --> 0:03:02.436 For the weekend. 0:03:03.996 --> 0:03:06.956 There was a lot of people around, But I'm wondering 0:03:06.996 --> 0:03:08.836 did Elizabeth go left or right? 0:03:09.676 --> 0:03:13.476 Standing outside McDaniel's pub. Bernie and Kathleen are trying to 0:03:13.556 --> 0:03:16.236 understand what their sister might have been thinking when she 0:03:16.316 --> 0:03:17.236 was last seen alive. 0:03:17.996 --> 0:03:20.476 Was she going to come back to Dublin? Was she 0:03:20.516 --> 0:03:23.236 going to wait out at the caravan? I know, if 0:03:23.276 --> 0:03:25.476 I had a real I'd go outside night, huff and 0:03:25.476 --> 0:03:28.876 puff outside, night light, smoke night, go back in. That's 0:03:28.876 --> 0:03:31.156 such a beautiful rural place, you think you'd be a 0:03:31.236 --> 0:03:32.876 safe as anything. 0:03:33.476 --> 0:03:36.716 Elizabeth was seen leaving the pub, and we know this 0:03:36.796 --> 0:03:38.996 by statements taken by guardee at the time. 0:03:39.636 --> 0:03:42.116 I remember Saturday night, the twenty eighth of August nineteen 0:03:42.116 --> 0:03:44.996 seventy six, I left home with my husband, Albert Green. 0:03:45.916 --> 0:03:48.796 Mary Anne Green lived near British Bay and her son 0:03:48.916 --> 0:03:52.716 was working in McDaniel's pub that night. After eleven pm, 0:03:52.996 --> 0:03:55.796 she drove with her husband to McDaniel's pub and saw 0:03:55.836 --> 0:03:56.876 Elizabeth on the road. 0:03:58.116 --> 0:03:59.796 We'd only just parked the car when I saw a 0:03:59.796 --> 0:04:01.436 girl coming from the direction of the pub. 0:04:01.956 --> 0:04:05.396 Mary Ann's statement, like all the statements in this episode, 0:04:06.036 --> 0:04:07.236 is being read by an actor. 0:04:07.876 --> 0:04:09.836 She passed in front of our car, came down the 0:04:09.836 --> 0:04:12.876 steps onto the rough surface on my left hand side. 0:04:13.556 --> 0:04:16.436 This girl looked about eighteen or nineteen years slim build 0:04:16.516 --> 0:04:20.796 and medium height, fairly brownish complexion. The girl passed by 0:04:20.836 --> 0:04:22.916 her car on the left hand side and passed behind 0:04:22.956 --> 0:04:25.396 other cars on my left. I don't know which way 0:04:25.476 --> 0:04:28.436 she went after that. She was wearing white slacks and 0:04:28.476 --> 0:04:30.836 a T shirt. The T shirt was white and a 0:04:30.916 --> 0:04:33.596 dark color. The word santra Pe was on the front 0:04:33.596 --> 0:04:36.996 in dark letters, either black or dark blue. I passed 0:04:36.996 --> 0:04:39.396 a comment to my husband, it's getting good when they 0:04:39.396 --> 0:04:41.116 are putting Saints' names on T shirts. 0:04:41.716 --> 0:04:45.236 That distinctive Santa Pe T shirt mary Anne saw was 0:04:45.236 --> 0:04:48.316 the one Elizabeth's boyfriend Damien described her buying when she 0:04:48.396 --> 0:04:49.996 was on holidays the month before. 0:04:50.996 --> 0:04:53.076 When she left, she was wearing a dark navy blue 0:04:53.156 --> 0:04:55.836 jumper with the word sentro Pei and white lettering across 0:04:55.836 --> 0:04:59.396 the entire breast. White jeans with stitch pockets at the rear, 0:04:59.676 --> 0:05:04.436 navy sandals with wedge shaped heels, silver watch wearing small 0:05:04.436 --> 0:05:05.916 imitation Pearlier Lance. 0:05:06.916 --> 0:05:10.116 Damien had had that argument with his friend Joe, and 0:05:10.196 --> 0:05:13.156 Joe remembered how it was quickly dealt with after Elizabeth 0:05:13.236 --> 0:05:13.796 left the pub. 0:05:14.516 --> 0:05:17.956 About five minutes after Elizabeth walked away from some McDaniels, 0:05:18.036 --> 0:05:20.516 Damian and I went out to Damion's car. We both 0:05:20.596 --> 0:05:22.196 leaned on the side of the car and made up 0:05:22.196 --> 0:05:24.596 our dispute about the motor car that was the cause 0:05:24.596 --> 0:05:27.236 of the argument between me and Damion. After a couple 0:05:27.236 --> 0:05:29.436 of minutes, not more than ten minutes, Damion and I 0:05:29.516 --> 0:05:32.156 went into the pub and looked around for Elizabeth. We 0:05:32.236 --> 0:05:33.956 got a bit alarmed, and I noticed that Damon was 0:05:33.956 --> 0:05:34.796 getting a bit worried. 0:05:35.156 --> 0:05:38.556 And now Damien started to look everywhere for Elizabeth. He 0:05:38.596 --> 0:05:40.036 went to find his sister Mela. 0:05:40.476 --> 0:05:42.556 Damion came to me and and he said, do you 0:05:42.596 --> 0:05:46.276 know where Liz is? And I said no. He said, 0:05:46.476 --> 0:05:48.076 will you have a look at the ladies toy list 0:05:48.116 --> 0:05:49.756 and see if she's in there? So I went in 0:05:49.996 --> 0:05:51.716 and I said come out, and I said, no, she's 0:05:51.716 --> 0:05:54.996 not in there. So he says, well, she's gone. He says, 0:05:54.996 --> 0:05:57.956 she's disappeared. I don't know where she is. So we 0:05:57.996 --> 0:06:00.316 immediately went out and started looking for her. 0:06:00.796 --> 0:06:04.156 But out on the roads in the dark night, Elizabeth 0:06:04.196 --> 0:06:07.916 had no chance against two men with bad intentions. 0:06:09.116 --> 0:06:12.756 There's all sorts of things happened with its way, so 0:06:13.156 --> 0:06:15.356 they fitted in nicely in a lot of ways. 0:06:15.116 --> 0:06:15.356 You know. 0:06:16.196 --> 0:06:19.236 They The two men guard and Nikki Crennan is talking 0:06:19.236 --> 0:06:23.516 about were John Shaw and Jeffrey Evans, who had fled 0:06:23.636 --> 0:06:26.876 England from rape charges, come to Ireland and spent a 0:06:26.956 --> 0:06:31.356 year in prison for various robberies. They were now driving 0:06:31.636 --> 0:06:33.156 on the Wicklow Country roads. 0:06:34.316 --> 0:06:38.516 We drove down to Britis Bay. We turned left onto 0:06:38.596 --> 0:06:42.116 the sea Front Road, where we were going towards McDaniel's Pub. 0:06:43.196 --> 0:06:46.356 A man called David James McDonald was driving in the 0:06:46.356 --> 0:06:49.396 same area at the time and later gave a statement 0:06:49.396 --> 0:06:50.116 to Guardee. 0:06:51.196 --> 0:06:54.236 About two hundred yards at the Wicklows side of Staunton's Supermarket, 0:06:54.716 --> 0:06:56.836 coming towards me, I saw a girl walking on her 0:06:56.916 --> 0:06:59.556 right hand side. This girl had her head tilted down 0:06:59.636 --> 0:07:01.876 and appeared to cover her eyes with her hand, as 0:07:01.916 --> 0:07:03.796 if to shield them from the glare of my headlights. 0:07:04.876 --> 0:07:07.396 She had black hair to her shoulders and she was 0:07:07.436 --> 0:07:10.996 wearing a blue T shirt and white slacks. After passing 0:07:11.036 --> 0:07:13.356 her by, I drove to the roundabout beyond the beach 0:07:13.396 --> 0:07:17.876 club and turned around and came back again. I then 0:07:17.916 --> 0:07:20.436 saw the girl again and she seemed to have moved 0:07:20.436 --> 0:07:24.236 about fifty yards. The girl was walking slow enough and 0:07:24.356 --> 0:07:25.836 was definitely not drunk or stumbling. 0:07:26.756 --> 0:07:30.276 It was around this time that Sew and Evans also 0:07:30.396 --> 0:07:31.356 noticed Elizabeth. 0:07:31.676 --> 0:07:33.876 We saw the girl some of the lift. She was 0:07:33.916 --> 0:07:36.916 walking down towards Dark Club. Jeffrey said, she'll do. 0:07:37.316 --> 0:07:39.676 The two men had a tactic they used to get 0:07:39.716 --> 0:07:42.116 women into their car. They were to go black and 0:07:42.116 --> 0:07:42.756 they were hunting. 0:07:44.876 --> 0:07:45.716 They're predatory. 0:07:46.076 --> 0:07:48.316 Sew would get out of the car as one man 0:07:48.396 --> 0:07:49.756 driving looked less threatening. 0:07:51.076 --> 0:07:54.076 We passed her out and Jeffrey stopped. I got out, 0:07:54.716 --> 0:07:56.436 and he turned the car and went back and picked 0:07:56.516 --> 0:07:56.996 up the girl. 0:07:57.196 --> 0:08:01.036 Without knowing what he was seeing, David James MacDonald saw 0:08:01.076 --> 0:08:02.916 the scene unfold before him. 0:08:03.236 --> 0:08:05.836 Just as I passed the girl, I saw a car approaching. 0:08:06.836 --> 0:08:09.116 The car seemed to slow down as I passed by. 0:08:09.156 --> 0:08:11.076 I could see the rear lights of the car come 0:08:11.196 --> 0:08:13.716 to a stop through my rearview mirror near where the 0:08:13.756 --> 0:08:14.236 girl was. 0:08:14.796 --> 0:08:17.116 Evan's pulled up beside Elizabeth. 0:08:17.156 --> 0:08:19.116 She said, are you going to Dublin? And I said, 0:08:19.116 --> 0:08:21.956 were going to Dublin, but we could still give it 0:08:21.996 --> 0:08:25.476 a lift. She got into from passenger seat. 0:08:26.076 --> 0:08:30.516 Elizabeth's good friend Mela believes Elizabeth would not have gotten 0:08:30.516 --> 0:08:31.596 in the car that easily. 0:08:31.836 --> 0:08:34.196 I know Liz, she would never have got into a 0:08:34.276 --> 0:08:36.996 car without knowing who would they were. I know she 0:08:37.036 --> 0:08:39.836 wouldn't because she was a friend and we used to 0:08:39.916 --> 0:08:42.236 talk about things like that. We were always terrified of 0:08:42.916 --> 0:08:43.716 anything like that. 0:08:44.196 --> 0:08:48.396 What happened next must have haunted David James McDonald because 0:08:48.436 --> 0:08:51.436 in his gut he knew something was off, and he 0:08:51.516 --> 0:08:53.716 turned to his friend sitting in the passenger seat. 0:08:54.836 --> 0:08:56.596 I put it near the supermarket and said to my 0:08:56.636 --> 0:08:59.156 friend should I go back and see if everything is 0:08:59.196 --> 0:09:01.236 all right? And my friend advised me to go home, 0:09:01.716 --> 0:09:03.796 as you might be sticking our noses into something that 0:09:03.876 --> 0:09:05.036 didn't concern us. 0:09:05.756 --> 0:09:08.036 It was at this point that Evans went back up 0:09:08.076 --> 0:09:09.476 the road to get john Shaw. 0:09:10.156 --> 0:09:13.276 He then picked me up. I sat in the back 0:09:13.796 --> 0:09:16.116 and the girl was in the front seat. She was 0:09:16.156 --> 0:09:18.636 wearing hants and a jumper. We were writing on it. 0:09:18.996 --> 0:09:22.796 Back at McDaniel's pub, Elizabeth's friends couldn't find her anywhere, 0:09:23.436 --> 0:09:26.956 and we're all confused as to what was happening. Mary 0:09:26.956 --> 0:09:29.356 Anne Green, the woman who was waiting for her son 0:09:29.396 --> 0:09:32.236 to finish work, was sitting outside McDaniel's pub. 0:09:32.756 --> 0:09:35.236 Ten minutes after the girl passing, the people started to 0:09:35.276 --> 0:09:37.636 leave the pub. I remember a voice of a man 0:09:37.676 --> 0:09:41.516 calling Elizabeth about four times, but he was one of 0:09:41.556 --> 0:09:44.356 about four people. The thought ran through my mind that 0:09:44.396 --> 0:09:46.396 the girl who had passed down the steps earlier was 0:09:46.396 --> 0:09:47.356 the girl he was calling. 0:09:47.796 --> 0:09:51.516 Elizabeth's friends were not going to find her because by 0:09:51.516 --> 0:09:54.516 this stage she was in the car with John Shaw 0:09:54.676 --> 0:09:56.116 and Jeffrey Evans. 0:09:56.436 --> 0:09:58.796 She told us she'd had a row with her boyfriend. 0:09:58.996 --> 0:10:01.996 We were talking about normal things for a while in 0:10:02.036 --> 0:10:04.516 the car that we started messing with the girl. 0:10:06.076 --> 0:10:08.796 I find it really distressing to imagine what Elizabeth was 0:10:08.836 --> 0:10:12.156 going through now, and she must have been really beginning 0:10:12.156 --> 0:10:12.636 to panic. 0:10:13.476 --> 0:10:15.796 She jumps out to a car I was struggling with Jaunt. 0:10:15.796 --> 0:10:18.516 She started to scream in the car and we stuffed 0:10:18.516 --> 0:10:21.756 tissues into her mouth. I drove along until I came 0:10:21.796 --> 0:10:25.676 to McDaniel's pub at left there. Drove along that road 0:10:25.836 --> 0:10:30.636 for a couple of mile. I'm not sure I parked 0:10:30.716 --> 0:10:33.716 in an opening on the left. It's an opening to 0:10:33.876 --> 0:10:36.996 Wood in a bit from the road where there's a 0:10:37.036 --> 0:10:41.356 wire fence across its opening. It's like a lane. The 0:10:41.396 --> 0:10:44.556 three of us then got out of the car. When 0:10:44.556 --> 0:10:46.836 we got to Woods, we dragged her out of the car. 0:10:47.836 --> 0:10:50.036 We climbed over a wire fence that was across the 0:10:50.116 --> 0:10:53.036 road there, and then we all got over the wire fence. 0:10:53.276 --> 0:10:57.076 As we were walking down the lane. She got frightened. 0:10:57.436 --> 0:10:58.596 She didn't want to go down. 0:10:59.516 --> 0:11:02.756 Meanwhile, Joe and his girlfriend Ants drove around the local 0:11:02.796 --> 0:11:04.996 area to see if they could spott Elizabeth. 0:11:06.156 --> 0:11:08.916 Joe and I drove to Wicklow Ratne and around by 0:11:08.956 --> 0:11:12.716 Joe White Cross. In spite of searching for that Saturday night, 0:11:13.036 --> 0:11:14.356 we failed to find Elizabeth. 0:11:14.476 --> 0:11:17.396 After midnight, Mary Anne Green was driving home with her 0:11:17.436 --> 0:11:20.636 husband and son, who had just finished work. They passed 0:11:20.716 --> 0:11:23.716 castle time in Woods, the place where the men had 0:11:23.756 --> 0:11:25.436 described bringing Elizabeth. 0:11:25.876 --> 0:11:28.556 At about twelve forty five am. When we drove home, 0:11:28.716 --> 0:11:30.956 we were passing by an opening into the plantation on 0:11:30.996 --> 0:11:32.596 the left hand side of the road, about a mile 0:11:32.596 --> 0:11:35.956 from McDaniel's pub. A vehicle was in the opening. It 0:11:36.076 --> 0:11:37.876 was parked on the right hand side of the opening 0:11:37.916 --> 0:11:40.476 with the back face in the road. The inside was 0:11:40.516 --> 0:11:40.996 lit up. 0:11:41.716 --> 0:11:44.596 The following twenty four hours of Elizabeth's life in those 0:11:44.636 --> 0:11:47.796 woods was horrible. The detail would only come to light 0:11:47.916 --> 0:11:51.116 through the Guardian investigation over the following few months and years. 0:11:52.116 --> 0:11:55.316 But right now, in the early hours of the last 0:11:55.356 --> 0:11:59.236 Sunday in August in nineteen seventy six, as Elizabeth's friends 0:11:59.276 --> 0:12:01.956 went to sleep in a caravan in British Bay and 0:12:02.036 --> 0:12:05.396 her family went to sleep in rings End, nobody knew 0:12:05.396 --> 0:12:10.756 where she was and what was happening to her. The 0:12:10.796 --> 0:12:12.596 next morning was a Sunday morning. 0:12:13.076 --> 0:12:15.156 It's the part that never leaves my mind. 0:12:15.556 --> 0:12:18.756 And at home and Ring's End, Elizabeth's then fourteen year 0:12:18.796 --> 0:12:20.316 old sister Kathleen was baking. 0:12:21.116 --> 0:12:23.956 I was in the kitchen with my mom making Sunday dinners. 0:12:23.676 --> 0:12:26.236 And we always made apple tarts on a Sunday morning. 0:12:26.396 --> 0:12:28.796 Did you know these routines that were setting stone with 0:12:29.476 --> 0:12:32.396 you know, the jelly being made, and this Maratha paid 0:12:32.436 --> 0:12:34.636 to be steeping from the night before, and you'd be 0:12:34.756 --> 0:12:37.556 washing cabbage, and then while the other wasn't sure, you 0:12:37.636 --> 0:12:39.396 might as well throwing a few apple tarts. 0:12:39.636 --> 0:12:42.076 So much of the detail in this series has never 0:12:42.116 --> 0:12:46.156 been publicly told. Before concluding what was going on inside 0:12:46.156 --> 0:12:47.356 Elizabeth's family home. 0:12:47.836 --> 0:12:50.836 Was a knock on the door and I went out 0:12:50.876 --> 0:12:53.636 to answer the door and this girl said, it's Alizabeth there, 0:12:54.076 --> 0:12:55.756 and I said, no, she gone away for the weekend. 0:12:56.436 --> 0:12:58.956 Tut no more off it. And I came back out 0:12:58.956 --> 0:13:01.236 to the kitchen with masterid who was that? And I said, 0:13:01.236 --> 0:13:05.436 somebody looking for Liz And immediately my math's instinct, now 0:13:05.476 --> 0:13:07.716 that I look back on it, she walked out and 0:13:07.756 --> 0:13:09.716 I remember trying to wipe her hand to a flower, 0:13:09.836 --> 0:13:11.956 and she walked out to the hall door. She walked 0:13:11.956 --> 0:13:14.756 out into the footpath and said who was that? 0:13:14.876 --> 0:13:17.116 Who was that? Sorry if she'd go away with her friends? 0:13:17.796 --> 0:13:18.556 I said, I don't know. 0:13:18.636 --> 0:13:22.916 Some guy and whoever it was had disappeared up the 0:13:22.916 --> 0:13:23.636 top of the street. 0:13:24.876 --> 0:13:27.836 It later emerged it was Annette McLaughlin who knocked at 0:13:27.876 --> 0:13:32.356 the door. When Annette, along with Elizabeth's group of friends, 0:13:33.116 --> 0:13:36.276 woke up in British Bay that Sunday morning and realized 0:13:36.276 --> 0:13:39.196 there was still no sign of Elizabeth, they all came 0:13:39.196 --> 0:13:42.396 back to Dublin, hoping they'd find her there. 0:13:42.596 --> 0:13:44.556 Damien was in the car up to the top of the street, 0:13:44.596 --> 0:13:47.076 and it sent this young one down to see had 0:13:47.076 --> 0:13:48.276 Elizabeth made it home. 0:13:48.836 --> 0:13:52.316 She wasn't there, so he really, really, really, you know, 0:13:52.836 --> 0:13:55.116 got very anxious and very upset. 0:13:55.676 --> 0:13:59.036 At this stage, the Plunkets were totally oblivious to what 0:13:59.196 --> 0:13:59.756 was going on. 0:14:00.236 --> 0:14:03.116 That was a Sunday morning and we had our dinner 0:14:03.276 --> 0:14:06.476 and she wasn't due back home. I went to I 0:14:06.596 --> 0:14:09.316 was to see why abbect of whatever disco was on. 0:14:09.436 --> 0:14:10.996 I went on the Sunday night. 0:14:11.076 --> 0:14:14.676 And Damien in the meantime was frantic, where is she? 0:14:14.996 --> 0:14:17.596 So the thoughts of him when eventually he did have 0:14:17.676 --> 0:14:20.436 to come to the house and say what had happened, the. 0:14:20.396 --> 0:14:24.436 Fear of Elizabeth being missing was beginning to mount. Elizabeth's 0:14:24.436 --> 0:14:27.716 big sister, Joan lived nearby with her husband Jimmy, and 0:14:27.836 --> 0:14:30.836 Damien had checked was Elizabeth there, So. 0:14:30.796 --> 0:14:33.556 I think they drove back up to Joan and Jimmy 0:14:33.636 --> 0:14:36.796 to say, look, Elizabeth's not in her mom's she's not 0:14:36.916 --> 0:14:39.996 with jo We have a serious situation here. They both 0:14:40.076 --> 0:14:43.596 came down to the house and started to tell my 0:14:43.636 --> 0:14:46.556 mom and Jamien came in. He told her that they 0:14:46.596 --> 0:14:50.116 had a row and that Elizabeth said she was going 0:14:50.196 --> 0:14:52.196 home and We've searched for her, and we kind of 0:14:52.276 --> 0:14:52.756 find her. 0:14:53.316 --> 0:14:56.276 Kathleen came back from her disco to find a panicked scene. 0:14:56.796 --> 0:14:59.476 When I came home, the house was falled. Joan and 0:14:59.516 --> 0:15:02.236 Jimmy were there. You could feel the tension in the house. 0:15:02.596 --> 0:15:06.036 But I remember and everything, what's wrong that Elizabeth got missing? 0:15:06.156 --> 0:15:09.476 And I'm like what, and my mom being I don't 0:15:09.516 --> 0:15:13.876 know whether it's mother or instinct, but immediately she said, well, 0:15:14.476 --> 0:15:16.116 why wouldn't she be able to make our way home 0:15:16.116 --> 0:15:19.036 from Wicklow? This young one had been all around like 0:15:19.116 --> 0:15:21.316 she knew her stuff, like there'd be nothing to stop 0:15:21.396 --> 0:15:22.596 for from getting from A to b. 0:15:23.276 --> 0:15:23.476 Am. 0:15:23.476 --> 0:15:26.156 I massive, my Elizabeth's dead, or why she'd be here 0:15:26.636 --> 0:15:31.036 and we're all going but she was. She just knew, 0:15:31.396 --> 0:15:32.636 And of course my dad. 0:15:32.516 --> 0:15:33.116 Was going mad. 0:15:33.196 --> 0:15:35.356 Then you can't be saying that, and she said, I'm 0:15:35.396 --> 0:15:35.956 telling you. 0:15:36.116 --> 0:15:38.396 It was less than twenty four hours since Elizabeth had 0:15:38.476 --> 0:15:42.356 last been seen alive. But everyone who knew her, including 0:15:42.396 --> 0:15:45.556 her dad Tommy, knew this was not right. 0:15:45.996 --> 0:15:48.876 My father said immediately, report or missing. 0:15:49.516 --> 0:15:51.996 So Bernie and Damon went to the nearest guard, the station, 0:15:52.556 --> 0:15:53.236 Irish Town. 0:15:53.596 --> 0:15:55.836 There was one guard there, but they said she was 0:15:55.876 --> 0:15:59.556 over twenty one and it hadn't been twenty four hours, 0:15:59.956 --> 0:16:02.156 and we said no, but she would not do that. 0:16:02.276 --> 0:16:05.156 She would never do that. She would never stay out 0:16:05.156 --> 0:16:08.036 and have us worried like this. So they said we'll 0:16:08.036 --> 0:16:10.476 come back. I think it was the following day before 0:16:10.516 --> 0:16:11.636 it would have been official. 0:16:12.236 --> 0:16:14.756 While the local guardye said they couldn't do much about 0:16:14.796 --> 0:16:17.596 the case, Bernie and Damien knew there was no way 0:16:17.676 --> 0:16:18.876 that they could just leave it at that. 0:16:19.476 --> 0:16:23.316 Damien was agitated. He couldn't have sat around. He couldn't 0:16:23.356 --> 0:16:25.996 have not gone back and see did she show about 0:16:25.996 --> 0:16:28.796 the caravan? Or see did she show up at the pub? 0:16:29.236 --> 0:16:31.916 So honestly, I'd say we were there till it started 0:16:31.916 --> 0:16:34.276 to get dark, and then we would have come back 0:16:34.316 --> 0:16:37.116 to Dublin, back to the house. Some people were waiting 0:16:37.156 --> 0:16:39.956 for to see what you show up. We waited up 0:16:39.996 --> 0:16:40.516 all night. 0:16:40.956 --> 0:16:45.036 The next morning was Monday, August thirtieth, nineteen seventy six. 0:16:45.556 --> 0:16:49.356 Elizabeth had now been missing for about thirty six hours. 0:16:49.596 --> 0:16:53.516 The Monday came. That's the panic then, and that's when 0:16:53.996 --> 0:16:56.716 ma'am said, I'm going to look for my child. And 0:16:56.836 --> 0:16:59.556 she did go with my dad. We went over the 0:16:59.636 --> 0:17:02.796 dunes I could see her walking around the dunes and 0:17:02.836 --> 0:17:05.716 looking in the grass and looking for any sign of her. 0:17:10.076 --> 0:17:13.316 Elizabeth's two brothers, Eddie and Thomas, were living down in 0:17:13.396 --> 0:17:14.076 County Cork. 0:17:14.836 --> 0:17:18.716 My brother Thomas and I were lobster fishermen out of Cove. 0:17:18.996 --> 0:17:26.716 That faithful phone call to say that Elizabeth is missing, 0:17:26.956 --> 0:17:29.996 Thomas and I jumped the car drove to Dublin. It 0:17:30.236 --> 0:17:38.076 was only then that we realized that the chaos. Barnie 0:17:38.116 --> 0:17:42.396 told me that from the minute my mother got word, 0:17:43.276 --> 0:17:45.476 she said problems. 0:17:46.076 --> 0:17:47.076 We didn't. 0:17:47.436 --> 0:17:50.516 We were going up to sort it out. 0:17:51.116 --> 0:17:52.156 You failed, you'd find her. 0:17:52.356 --> 0:17:53.836 Yeah. 0:17:54.236 --> 0:17:57.276 The glorious summer weather had turned and it was now raining. 0:17:58.116 --> 0:18:01.476 Dan and Wicklow local guard and Nikki Crennan had heard 0:18:01.516 --> 0:18:03.476 about some strange behavior in British Bay. 0:18:03.676 --> 0:18:07.076 There was a phone call from a guy called Alex Stone. 0:18:07.476 --> 0:18:09.556 He was the owner of my Towns that time and 0:18:09.596 --> 0:18:13.676 they also owned the caravan park opposite. He reported two 0:18:13.756 --> 0:18:17.556 guys down in the caravan park at an old jump. 0:18:17.756 --> 0:18:19.796 There was an old marrit hole in the middle of 0:18:19.836 --> 0:18:21.996 the fielding. We went out to check them out. 0:18:22.516 --> 0:18:25.556 The two men garden. Nikki Crennan was about to meet 0:18:25.756 --> 0:18:29.596 with John Shaw and Jeffrey Evans, less than twenty four 0:18:29.596 --> 0:18:32.076 hours after they had murdered Elizabeth. 0:18:32.316 --> 0:18:35.116 We stayed in British Bay. That day Monday, we went 0:18:35.156 --> 0:18:37.556 to a pit in the field behind the caravans. 0:18:37.636 --> 0:18:40.196 There was a fire going there meant working. 0:18:41.436 --> 0:18:43.636 The police came along spoke to us. 0:18:44.196 --> 0:18:46.236 So these two guys were there drying their clothes. It 0:18:46.356 --> 0:18:49.676 was a whist the day before and you told us 0:18:49.676 --> 0:18:52.956 the camp from Tipperary, and I remember the guy for 0:18:52.996 --> 0:18:56.236 their names to me is John and Jeffrey Murphy from 0:18:56.276 --> 0:19:01.036 Bournskilled feathered in County Tipperary a road in the bag 0:19:01.076 --> 0:19:03.436 of a brown out of the lover head in the 0:19:03.476 --> 0:19:04.396 pocket garden. 0:19:04.476 --> 0:19:08.076 Nicki Crennan and his colleague had no idea Sean Evans 0:19:08.436 --> 0:19:11.996 were actually earning some of Elizabeth's clothes John Baird. 0:19:11.756 --> 0:19:14.036 The girl slacks and T shirt in a quality in 0:19:14.036 --> 0:19:14.596 that field. 0:19:14.716 --> 0:19:16.996 But something didn't feel right about these two men. 0:19:17.636 --> 0:19:20.476 My colleague remarked him when the toads there were John 0:19:20.516 --> 0:19:23.836 and Jeffrey Murphy, they were brothers, brothers, and even marked 0:19:23.836 --> 0:19:25.516 to him he don't look like brothers. 0:19:25.596 --> 0:19:28.156 And then he said step brothers because. 0:19:27.956 --> 0:19:31.996 One was small, that it was Evans small, and I 0:19:32.116 --> 0:19:35.396 was in nice lightly fellow the other guys show was 0:19:35.436 --> 0:19:38.876 a big rougher type, and I suppose he could say shifty. 0:19:38.956 --> 0:19:43.556 No news of Elizabeth being officially missing hadn't yet emerged, 0:19:44.116 --> 0:19:47.036 and Nikki Krennan and his colleague weren't too concerned about 0:19:47.036 --> 0:19:47.556 the two men. 0:19:48.996 --> 0:19:54.636 We found nothing, just took to address their naims. They 0:19:54.796 --> 0:19:57.436 don't boog all on his tresperson and I suppose we 0:19:57.516 --> 0:19:59.436 told him doing pavate property, shouldn't be here. To get 0:19:59.436 --> 0:20:01.156 out of this, said the wood. 0:20:01.916 --> 0:20:02.756 We left him there. 0:20:03.636 --> 0:20:06.076