Ros Purcell

Something you'll hear throughout the podcast.

And the other voices you might hear throughout are producers Nicolene and Liam.

And one other thing I should tell you is that this story includes details of sexual violence.

It could be difficult for some listeners, so please keep that in mind and take care.

but because of what didn't happen to the two men who confessed to brutally kidnapping, raping and murdering her.

I thought all these things were taken care of.

I never thought I'd see myself at 62 years of age dealing with this.

Everything they thought they knew about what happened after Elizabeth's murder, they only recently found out it's all wrong.

When somebody's murdered, the only people they have to speak for them are their family.

We're being denied any sort of justice.

We're Elizabeth's voice now.

I'm Ros Purcell, and from RTE Documentary on 1, this is Stolen Sister.

Episode 1, Elizabeth.

This is Pembroke Cottages now where we used to live, where Elizabeth lived.

There's the house there.

This little street of terrace cottages is in Ringsend, on the banks of the Liffey in Dublin City, where the river meets the sea.

Do you see the river wall?

When we were kids, this is where we played.

Ringsend is busy today, with traffic from the East Link toll bridge.

But back in the 1960s and 70s, when Elizabeth and her sisters were growing up here, Ringsend was a much quieter, tight-knit community, full of working families.