Roz Purcell

Dad was at the table and I was assisting Mother with getting Dad's breakfast and she said, Dad, look what's on the paper, isn't it terrible?

And there was tears in her eyes and she said, isn't that awful?

Mary had no idea she'd soon come face to face with the two Englishmen herself and that by the following Sunday, tragically, her name will be in the newspapers too.

As the hunt for Sean Evans continued, Gardaí didn't know they were travelling under the identities of Ray Hall and David Ball and were by now in Galway, where they'd bought a caravan in Barna.

The next thing they needed was a car, and they stole one.

A Ford Cortina in Clifton, Geoffrey Evans explains in a statement taken later.

When Evan says they painted it, they just used ordinary paint.

It was far from a professional job.

They drove this car around, looking for houses to break into and also looking for more victims.

A member of the Garda murder squad at the time was Gerry O'Carroll.

In a 2012 interview on RTE's Liveline, Garda O'Carroll claimed that there was a young woman, a nurse, who had been given a lift by two Englishmen just outside Galway City.

Back on the roads in the west of Ireland, Sean Evans were continuing to hunt for their next victim.

It was now the 22nd of September, 1976.

This random stop off to get petrol at Mam Cross would end up being a very significant moment for the investigation.

Out in Connemara, there wasn't a lot of crime.

And people who were strangers would catch the eyes of locals, especially when they were driving a strangely painted car.

Garda Jim Boland was stationed in Salt Hill in 1976.

That day, 23-year-old Mary Duffy was doing the first of two jobs she did.

She was always a hard worker, even on her day off.

She'd be helping in the farm and, you know, she had two jobs.