Roz Purcell

There was a phone call from a guy called Alex Stone.

He was the owner of McDonagh's at that time and they also owned the caravan park opposite.

He reported two guys down in the caravan park at an old dump.

There was an old marl hole in the middle of the field and we went out to check him out.

The two men Garda Nicky Crennan was about to meet were John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans, less than 24 hours after they had murdered Elizabeth.

So these two guys were there drying their clothes.

It was wet the day before.

They told us to come from Tipperary.

And I remember they gave their names to me as John and Geoffrey Murphy from Burnskill, Feathered in County Tipperary.

I wrote it in the back of a brown envelope I had in my pocket.

Garda Nicky Crennan and his colleague had no idea Sean Evans were actually burning some of Elizabeth's clothes.

But something didn't feel right about these two men.

My colleague remarked to him when they told us they were John and Geoffrey Murphy, they were brothers.

They were brothers.

And he remarked to him, you don't look like brothers.

And then he said, stepbrothers.

Because one was small, and that was Evans.

Small and, you know, a light little fella.

The other guy, Shaw, was a big, rougher type, and I suppose he could say shifty now.

News of Elizabeth being officially missing hadn't yet emerged and Nicky Crennan and his colleague weren't too concerned about the two men.