Ros Purcell

That's John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.

They're the men who came to Ireland in the mid-1970s and set out to murder one woman a week.

As Elizabeth grew up in the safe surroundings of Ringsend, John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans racked up multiple convictions for burglary, assault, possession of heroin and attempted rape.

In between prison sentences, Evans worked as a labourer and Shaw as a coal miner.

They both married and had children.

They actually only met each other in prison when they were serving time for robberies and assault.

All of this was a million miles from the life Elizabeth and her sisters knew in Dublin.

There was a colourful time then, the beginning of the 70s.

After coming through the 60s, there was a big kind of change then for women.

There was more independence, there was more work and there was more money.

So they were saying, don't stick back in the old-fashioned way like their parents.

You got married, you had children, you stayed at home.

This wasn't going to be a life that Elizabeth wanted.

When Elizabeth was about 16, she got a job in a local factory called Thomas Delarue, a company that printed foreign currency.

I started to work with her in Delarue.

We were in the social club there together.

It was a great place to work.

If she got her mind set on something, she was going to do it.

Headstrong, you'd call it.

And with having brothers, she would stand up to them because my father would say, oh, it's only the girls now wash the dishes.