Ros Purcell

Because their intention was to kidnap, rape and kill at least one woman a week for as long as they could get away with it.

It would make them Ireland's first serial killers.

There must be something wrong with me.

When we did this, I know it wrong, but I never thought it would finish up like it did.

Back inside McDaniel's pub, Elizabeth's boyfriend Damien was arguing with his friend Joe about that car they'd bought, as Damien later outlined to Gardaí.

Joe's girlfriend Annette was talking to Elizabeth as all of this was going on.

No one could have imagined that what happened next would set in train a sequence of events that would see Elizabeth's life being savagely taken from her.

By this stage, John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were driving around outside McDaniel's pub and they were on the lookout.

They were hunting women.

That's what they were doing.

And I've admitted that.

That young woman had no idea of the fate she had just escaped.

Gardaí never managed to trace or speak with this woman.

And tragically, her lucky escape was a sliding door moment for Elizabeth.

Over one argument that if hadn't happened, life would be so completely different today for our family.

This argument would change all of these friends' lives in some way.

Most of all, Elizabeth's.

She said to him, that's it, you're ruining the evening, I'm gone.

With that, Elizabeth Plunkett walked out alone into the dark night in British Bay.

If you were in British Bay on the 28th of August 1976 and have any further information on Elizabeth Plunkett, please contact us in confidence at documentaries at rte.ie.