Roz Purcell
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Throughout this series, we've been telling the stories of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, victims of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.
But there are other victims too, other families who never got justice.
Remember, when the two men first came to Ireland, they were on the run from charges relating to three women in the Greater Manchester area.
Producer Liam O'Brien recently appeared on BBC Radio Manchester seeking new information around Shaw and Evans.
We don't know the lifelong trauma that these women and their families may have endured.
And in the six weeks since we began this podcast, we've discovered that there were yet more lives touched by Shaw and Evans.
I'm Ros Purcell from RT Documentary on One.
This is Stolen Sister.
Episode 7, A Chance for Justice.
In the month Sean Evans murdered Elizabeth and Mary, we can see they moved around the country a lot, constantly looking to break into houses, pubs and caravans.
While doing this, they were also looking for victims.
We've been asking you to get in touch if you've any information on the actions of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.
We hoped for some new witnesses to come forward, but we've been taken aback by just how many people got in touch.
We're going to share some of the accounts of these new witnesses in this episode, mostly voiced by actors.
We've put these new witnesses in touch with James McGill, the Plunkett family's solicitor.
So these new witnesses are critically important to the hopes of the Plunkett family to get GardaΓ to open a cold case review, which could potentially lead to the DPP finally putting John Shaw on trial for murdering Elizabeth.
If we go back to where the series began, on the 28th of August 1976,
Elizabeth and her friends were making their way to British Bay, and Shaw and Evans were also travelling from Dublin to Wicklow.
I was at the bus stop in Blackrock.
This is Dolores, and in 1976, she was a young mother who had a brief but troubling encounter in South County Dublin with two men in a car with English accents.