Roz Purcell
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Then around midnight, the van came into the field, started circling the caravan and shouting and banging on the door and wanted to come in.
And my aunts, you know, were shouting at the window.
So I think when they realised it wasn't the two girls, they realised and they left then.
The reports we've been getting match the places and the timeline of Sean Evans in Ireland.
We know that after they murdered Elizabeth they left Wicklow and went back to Feathered in County Tipperary which they used as a base borrowing cars from locals to travel around the country and commit crimes.
We received a report as far north as County Cavan.
This man shared a vivid memory of an incident at the end of the summer of 1976 when he was a teenager and had just said goodbye to two female friends.
We then have a series of accounts from the west of Ireland, Galway and Mayo.
A woman who was in touch with us remembers a Saturday night in September 1976 when,
After Dancing Kong, near the Galway-Mayo border, not far from where Mary Duffy was abducted.
Myself and my friend went to the local chip van on the street and we were both aged 17 years old at the time.
Two men pulled up in their car behind us.
We got our chips and we began walking up the street.
These men followed us up the street driving very slowly behind us and after a few minutes we got really spooked and began running.
We ran towards a friend's house and as quick as we could we jumped over her garden wall and hid behind it.
We crouched down inside the wall and could hear the car stop.
at the other side of the wall we could hear them saying something in English accents and walking around.
After a few minutes they drove away.
It was only a number of years later when a full page article appeared in the Sunday World that the penny dropped.
The photographs in that newspaper article were of the two men who followed us that night in Cong John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.