World's Most Evil Killers - Season 6, Episode 8 - John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[music playing] NARRATOR: September 22, 1976, Ireland. 23-year-old Mary Duffy finished working the late shift
at the Wimpy Bar Restaurant in the town of Castlebar in County Mayo. Mary lives six miles away, and she
would normally get a lift home. But tonight, her ride was late, so Mary left a message, saying,
she'd start walking. She had no idea that two English killers were watching her as she headed home.
They were literally poachers prowling for prey. NARRATOR: Three weeks earlier, another young woman,
Elizabeth Plunkett, her body now lying at the bottom of the Irish Sea. They spoke openly about killing her
in front of the poor, unfortunate victim. NARRATOR: Geofrrey Evans and John Shaw
knew what happened if they let their captives live. Remember what happens in England.
We have to make sure that we don't leave any witnesses. We have to kill the victims.
NARRATOR: When the law finally caught up with them, they very nearly got away with murder.
NARRATOR: John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were a deviant duo, driven by their own selfish desires.
Women were merely objects to use and discard. Mary Duffy and Elizabeth Plunkett were two of those women, who couldn't be left
alive to identify John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans as two of the world's most evil killers.
[theme music] August the 28th, 1976, Ireland. John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were driving back from Dublin
and thought they'd stop at the seaside resort of Brittas Bay and rob a few caravans.
It was a boiling hot summer with loads of tourists about. The caravans were an easy, lucrative target.
Then they saw Elizabeth Plunkett walking along the road. In the 1970s, it would have been easier
to operate as a sexual predator because you had easier access to victims. There were more opportunities for you to engage with victims
because there wasn't this fear of stranger danger back at the time. NARRATOR: The two men abducted Elizabeth Plunkett
and subjected her to a horrifying ordeal before killing her and dumping her naked body
in the Irish Sea. NARRATOR: Three weeks later, another dark road, this time on the west coast of Ireland.
23-year-old Mary Duffy met the same fate. I know this sounds extraordinary, but this was--
this is opportunistic murder. This is opportunistic rape. This is not pre-planned.
This is not carefully orchestrated. It is opportunistic in every way. These were two men who weren't planners.
They were-- they did it by instinct. And unfortunately, the instinct was one in the end
which led to rape and murder. JEROME REILLY: Their stated aim was that they were going to abduct, rape, and murder a woman
a week. And if they hadn't been stopped, they would definitely have claimed more victims.
When you attack somebody and you don't kill them, you have a living witness. You have somebody who can identify you.
You have somebody who can provide evidence against you in court. NARRATOR: Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw
were eventually caught and confessed to their crimes. But a procedural mistake by the Irish police
almost set them free. These killers' stories begin in the north of England. Geoffrey Evans was born on June the 12th, 1943.
And John Shaw was born two years later, on July the 6th, 1945. GEOFFREY WANSELL: Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw
were both born in Lancashire, in England. One came from a mining background. That was Shaw.
And Evans was a carpenter. Evans was brought up in Manchester, and Shaw, well, around Wigan.
NARRATOR: By the time both men were in their 30s, they'd each racked up considerable number
of criminal convictions and served time in prison. Shaw's convictions tended to be for violent crime,
for sexual crime. Evans's convictions were more for property crimes like burglary.
But these were two individuals who had those those intentions to do harm to other people
in order to get what they wanted. So when they met in prison, it was only going to get worse from there.
They weren't master criminals. They were two pretty average, pretty dim people. I mean, Shaw could barely write.
Evans was a little bit more eloquent, but not much. But I think they became partners in depravity because
in the end, with Shaw and Evans out of jail, they committed-- or it's believed they committed-- three
rapes in Lancashire, one of which was the 16-year-old daughter of a Manchester police officer.
And it was that rape and the furor that it created that saw them leave Lancashire for Ireland.
NARRATOR: In 1974 and on the run from police in Manchester, England, Evans and Shaw arrived in Ireland.
Neither had any means of supporting themselves, so they continued with their criminal ways.
I think the choice of Ireland is an interesting one. It makes sense on quite a lot of levels.
It's of close proximity to the UK, but it's a completely different legal system.
It's a completely different jurisdiction. And back in the 1970s, there wasn't the degree
of cooperation and communication between police forces internationally. So I think that was all part and parcel of the planning here.
NARRATOR: They adopted the fictitious names of Geoffrey Murphy for Evans and John Murphy for John Shaw.
In the first instance, they carried out a series of robberies, mostly in the area of Wicklow, which is just south
of Dublin, a picturesque area. They robbed caravans and houses and basically lived
off their criminal proceedings. NARRATOR: It wasn't long before they were caught by the Irish police and given
a two-year prison sentence. They spent the first part of their sentence in Cork prison
before being transferred to Mountjoy prison in Dublin, where they became friends with another Englishman
called Cliff Outram. The police back in England discovered that Evans and Shaw were incarcerated in Ireland.
They applied for an extradition order so the two men could face justice for the sex crimes committed in the Greater Manchester area.
Relations between Ireland and Britain were poor. It was the height of the troubles.
Extradition hearings, which were usually used by the British authorities to seek the extradition of INLA
and IRA suspects to answer charges for offenses caused in mainland Britain, were notoriously difficult.
The Irish courts demanded castiron evidence before they would extradite any citizen from the Republic
to Britain. And I think perhaps there was an awareness of this on the part of Evans and Shaw, Evans in particular, in terms
of realizing that those relationships between the two countries were not in a particularly good state,
and that that would be something that would work in their favor. NARRATOR: Both men were coming close
to the end of their two-year sentence in Ireland and, with time off for good behavior,
were due to be released. The evidence presented by the English police was substantial, but proved not to be enough.
The Irish court demanded further evidence be submitted before an extradition application would be granted.
Despite objections from both the Irish and English police, Evans and Shaw were released in August 1976.
JEROME REILLY: While the British were getting this new evidence together, Evans and Shaw saw that this was an opportunity
to make a bid for freedom. And so once they received bail, they basically disappeared
into the countryside. NARRATOR: August the 28th, 1976. With nowhere to live, Evans and Shaw
stayed with Cliff Outram, the Englishman they'd met in Mountjoy prison, who lived in the town of Fethard.
A friend of Cliff's agreed to lend them a car. The summer of 1976 was blisteringly hot,
attracting many visitors to Ireland's beautiful coastal resorts. A group of six young people arrived at Brittas Bay,
50 miles south of Dublin, for the weekend, where they'd booked a caravan. The focal point of the resort was the beach
and McDaniel's Pub and Restaurant. At 9:00 PM, after booking into their caravan,
they headed for the pub. NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw were returning from Dublin in their borrowed car.
They stopped off for a drink before continuing south, where they knew of a caravan park that might
provide some easy pickings. To pass the time, the men talked about women. JEROME REILLY: So, on the night of August
the 28th, 1976, Shaw and Evans, having had a few drinks in [inaudible],, which was en route to Brittas Bay,
arrived in Brittas Bay. NARRATOR: The group from Dublin were now in McDaniel's Pub,
enjoying their evening. Sometime during the night, during the evening, as they socialized in the pub, Ms. Plunkett
with her boyfriend and some other friends, there was a spat. It's unclear whether it was a spat with her boyfriend
or a spat with some of the girls who were in the group. But either way, Elizabeth Plunkett left the pub in a huff
after this minor disagreement. But she is in the middle of pretty much nowhere. It's extremely dark.
We do not have masses of street lights. And she sets off down the road. NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw pass Elizabeth Plunkett
walking along the road. JEROME REILLY: Evans was the driver. And he continued on past Elizabeth
Plunkett a short distance away and let John Shaw out of the car. He then turned the car around, pulled in
beside Elizabeth Plunkett, and offered her a lift. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So she gets into the car with him.
And looking at this from a 21st century perspective, we think, wow, this is quite a risky, dangerous thing to do.
But this was the 1970s, when hitchhiking, when thumbing a lift was something that
was very normal, especially in rural places in Ireland and in the UK. I mean, she thought she could look after herself.
He didn't look particularly frightening. And she's a strong woman. I mean, she's done swimming, and she's done judo.
And she's, you know, strong and capable of standing up for herself, she thinks. But of course, that's based on the fact
there's only one man in the car. NARRATOR: August the 28th, 1976, on a dark country
road in Brittas Bay Island, 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett had accepted a lift from Geoffrey Evans.
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: [inaudible] was quite a small, not particularly intimidating-looking man.
So I think she made that risk assessment. But I think what she didn't account for was that she was in the grasp of a killing team here.
And just up the road was Shaw, who Evans would pick up on the way. GEOFFREY WANSELL: Evans drives a little further
along with Elizabeth in the passenger seat and then stops and picks up Shaw, who gets
into the back seat of the car. Now, there are two men in the car and Elizabeth Plunkett.
And perhaps, for the first time, she begins to wonder and worry about what might be going to happen.
She has every right to worry because they are about to attack her. NARRATOR: To stifle her screams, they
repeatedly punched her and stuffed paper tissues into her mouth. They took her to a nearby wood, just a short distance
away from McDaniel's Pub, called Castletimon Wood. They climbed over a fence. Basically, they frogmarched poor, fortunate Elizabeth
Plunkett into the woods and demanded that then she lay down. There then followed a litany of horror for this young woman.
She was raped repeatedly. NARRATOR: Elizabeth's ordeal continued throughout the night,
with the two men coming and going from the woods. Evans and Shaw discussed whether or not
they should kill Elizabeth, a debate she could hear. Evans kept reminding Shaw, remember what happened
in England, where they'd let their victims live to identify them. So, again, you must take your own judgment
about who exactly said what and to whom, because we do not know. Sadly, tragically, Elizabeth Plunkett
was not simply raped repeatedly, but was eventually strangled by Shaw with the sleeve of a shirt.
He wrapped it around her neck and garroted her. And now they have a dead body on their hands.
And they don't quite know what to do. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Elizabeth left the pub.
And where she went after that was a mystery to those who she'd been with in the pub.
Her boyfriend, Damien, later traveled to Dublin to see whether she'd actually arrive there, and it
was clear that she hadn't. So when she left that pub, to them, she had disappeared off the face of the Earth.
NARRATOR: The search continued throughout the night and into the next morning and through the following day.
NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw left Elizabeth's body in the woods and broke into some sheds not far from McDaniel's Pub,
looking for heavy implements. They returned and placed Elizabeth in the car and drove to the beach, where they stole a rowing boat.
Ever resourceful, if you take that word ironically, they weight her body with a lawnmower
so that she's not going to bob up back to the surface in no time at all. So here we have the dead of night.
It's pitch black. Two men in a rowing boat and the now naked body of Elizabeth Plunkett between them on a rowing boat,
being rode out to sea. They get a suitable way out. And they pour poor Elizabeth Plunkett
into the Irish sea, weighted down with the lawnmower. I think they believe this was a failsafe way of ensuring
her body wasn't discovered. They thought they were more clever than they actually were.
And I think the reason they did this, rather than bury her body somewhere, is because when a body is buried,
there is always the potential that somebody will come along and find it. But this gives them control over their victim's body.
They're the only ones who know where she is. And they think that they're the only ones who will ever know.
They think she's gone forever now. NARRATOR: Back on the shore, Evans and Shaw lit a campfire by the side of the road
and tried to burn Elizabeth's clothes. By chance, a Garda police detective, Joseph [inaudible] unaware of Elizabeth's disappearance,
came across the two men. He asked them who they were. Evans quickly gave the false name, Geoffrey Murphy.
Shaw played along with the deception. He said he was Geoffrey's brother, John. But for whatever reason, decided to take
the registration number of the car and other particulars of the details. NARRATOR: After a whole weekend had passed,
the search for Elizabeth intensified. 31st of August, 1976. On Monday morning, Elizabeth was officially
reported missing to the Gardaí. The search was widened to the roads leading out from McDaniel's and a dirt road
at the back of the pub that led to some woodland. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: When the police detectives were
searching the area around the McDaniel's Pub where Elizabeth had gone missing from,
they found several items that were later connected to her. So there was a watch and some underwear,
which her parents identified as being hers. And they also found a green shoe, which was identified by her boyfriend's sister, who
was also her best friend, as a shoe that she'd been wearing on that particular evening.
Evans and Shaw were on the run on the double. They were on the run from the British authorities
for the sexual assaults in the Greater Manchester area. Now they were on the run also for the murder
of Elizabeth Plunkett. NARRATOR: The Irish police force, the Gardaí, had an elite investigative unit in their crime
branch based in Wicklow that covered serious crime nationwide. When called into service, the unit brought in assistance
from across the country. Detective Tom Connolly was one of the officers recruited
to assist the investigation into the disappearance of Elizabeth Plunkett. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And this was the name that one of the men
had given to the police detective who would come across those two men burning clothes
in the Brittas Bay area. So the pieces started to come together at this point in time.
There was a trail of evidence that would lead right back to Evans and Shaw. NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw had fled Brittas Bay
and returned to Cliff Outram's in Fethard. They gave the car back. And on September the 10th, two weeks
after the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett, Cliff gave them a lift to Limerick. They decided to lay low in Galway City
and moved out to the seaside resort called Salthill. They came up with a cunning plan to keep
themselves out of the public eye to a certain extent. They bought a caravan, paying 380
pounds at the time for the caravan in the village of Barna. NARRATOR: They move their caravan to a quieter
part of the park and laid low. After a few days, they traveled 60 miles to the prosperous market town of Clifden,
another tourist hotspot, and stole a fern green Ford Cortina car. They brought the car back to the caravan park,
changed the number plates, and hand-painted the car black. They now had wheels. They now had the means to travel around the country
to carry out their evil plan. NARRATOR: And that evil plan was to abduct, rape, and murder a woman each week until they were caught.
September the 10th, 1976. The Gardaí's serious crime unit called a briefing about the disappearance
of Elizabeth Plunkett. As the team were discussing the items found in the woodland,
including the name tag of Geoffrey Murphy, Joseph [inaudible] who was new to the team,
informed them of the two suspicious Englishmen he'd encountered by a campfire on the night of August
the 29th, the day after Elizabeth had gone missing. The police now had two names, Geoffrey and John Murphy.
They also had a car registration number that Detective [inaudible] had taken note of.
NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw, hiding out in their caravan, were feeling confident they'd got away with murder.
They decided to explore further west and went across the county border to the town of Castlebar
in County Mayo. 23-year-old Mary Duffy was working in the Wimpy Bar Restaurant in Castlebar on the evening of September the 22nd,
1976. She lived in the village of Belcarra, six miles from Castlebar, with her parents and six siblings.
In 1976, Mary's brother, John, was 19 years old. NARRATOR: Mary's shift at the Wimpy Bar
Restaurant in Castlebar ended around 11:00 PM. The Wimpy Bar is shut. She goes to a phone box.
She phones her brother, Michael, but he's out, just giving someone else a lift. And she'll know.
And she says to whoever takes the message, look, I'll walk. I'll just tell him to catch up with me.
NARRATOR: As Mary made her phone call, she had no idea that she was being watched.
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And this is when Shaw attacks. So Shaw, on foot, goes up to her and slammed straight into her,
knocks her to the ground with such force that her dentures fall out. So Shaw was absolutely determined that Mary Duffy was
going to be their next victim. And Evans, once again, brings the car back. And the two, Shaw and Duffy engaged
in a full-scale struggle. Evans was in the front seat, opens the door, the back door
behind the the driver's seat. And they try and pull her into the car. Eventually, Shaw manages to get her into the car
and tells Evans to drive off. It's the same modus operandi as Elizabeth Plunkett.
Shaw is now in the back with the young woman. Evans is driving. NARRATOR: Mary's screams were heard by local residents,
but no one thought it was anything to be alarmed about. Detective Tom Connolly and his colleagues
were following up on the lead given to them by Detective Joseph [inaudible] They'd
identified the owner of the car he'd seen at the campfire. The owner confirmed the car had been borrowed
and returned by two Englishmen. And he pointed them in the direction of Cliff Outram
in Fethard. NARRATOR: The Gardaí now had the names of Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw and were able to identify them as individuals
wanted in England for a series of sexual offenses, giving them a full description of the men,
fingerprints, and photographs. All police stations nationwide were alerted. And the identity of the two wanted
men was given to the media. You can imagine the shock to the community of Southern Ireland.
We're not talking about Dublin here. We're talking about rural Ireland. It's a shock to the communities that they could
actually have been hiding two men who were prepared to rape and kill. You know, it was deeply, deeply shocking
and a sense, too, that it was completely against everything that Catholic Ireland stood for.
NARRATOR: Shaw and Evans drove Mary Duffy to a forest and attacked her. Evans went back to their caravan and returned
with some sleeping pills, which they forced Mary Duffy to take. At this time, she must have been at her wit's end.
She's been held by two men, both dangerous, both vicious. She's been raped repeatedly.
And now, what are they going to do? Well, one can only shed a tear for Mary Duffy.
She must have known, she must have realized that she wasn't going to escape these two.
At some point, during that ordeal, I'm sure she begged to be-- let me go. I won't tell anyone.
But they didn't. They weren't going to. And in the end, Shaw smothers her with a cushion from the car.
NARRATOR: The following day on September the 23rd, when Mary Duffy failed to return home to Belcarra after work,
her family began to worry. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: Mary's sister reported her missing because she hadn't turned up for work.
And when Mary didn't come home on the evening that she was expected to, she was quite a gregarious, quite
an outgoing person with a lot of friends, and her family assumed that she'd stayed over at a friend's house, and she'd
gone on to work from there. But when that didn't happen, that's when her sister reports her missing.
NARRATOR: After Mary Duffy was reported missing, the police caught a lucky break.
Around four hours before Mary had gone missing, the owner of a petrol station about
40 miles south of Castlebar had encountered two suspicious men. NARRATOR: The petrol station owner
reported the two men to the police the following day. Mary Duffy had now been missing for over 24 hours.
Evans and Shaw now had another dead body to deal with. JEROME REILLY: Nearby was the beautiful Lough
Inagh, the heart of Connemara. Again, they stole some heavy implements, rowed out into the middle of the lake, and dumped Mary's body.
NARRATOR: Having disposed of Mary Duffy's body, Evans and Shaw returned to their caravan in Barna.
In Castlebar, the police were conducting house to house inquiries and searching the local area
for any sign of Mary Duffy. A portion of her dentures had been found near the phone
booth, and residents had reported hearing screams around 11 o'clock and a car driving rapidly away.
No one had thought it was suspicious at the time. A description of the hand-painted black Cortina
stolen by Evans and Shaw had by now been widely circulated. On the evening of September the 26th,
Evans and Shaw, hiding out in their caravan near Salthill, decided to go out for a drink at the nightclub
of the Ocean Wave Hotel. NARRATOR: Driving along the promenade of Salthill around 2:00 PM, the two policemen
spotted the tail of a badly painted Ford Cortina sticking out. JEROME REILLY: It was decided that Gardaí Cochrane would go
on foot back to their station to seek reinforcements, while Gardaí Boland would stay behind.
Almost immediately after Gardaí Cochrane had left, Shaw and Evans emerged from the Ocean Wave Nightclub.
It seems pretty clear now that they were looking for their next victim. NARRATOR: Gardaí Boland watched the two
men get into the Ford Cortina. He revved up the engine of his patrol car, put his headlights on full beam, and called
for immediate assistance. They couldn't move until he had passed them by. And they couldn't see there was a police
car because of the headlights. NARRATOR: Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw were taken into custody initially for possession
of a stolen vehicle. They were brought to Gardaí HQ at Eglinton Street Station in Galway.
While Geoffrey Evans was being processed into custody, the police found a receipt for a caravan purchase
from Barna House Caravan Park. He believed that there was still the possibility that Mary Duffy was very much alive
and that she may be in that caravan. And so he immediately went to Barna and entered the caravan
and searched it. NARRATOR: Geoffrey Evans was first to be interviewed by the police.
He claimed they'd arrived in Brittas Bay on Sunday, the 29th of August, the morning after Elizabeth
Plunkett had gone missing from McDaniel's Pub. NARRATOR: Late at night on September the 27th,
1976, Geoffrey Evans confessed and signed a written statement admitting to the murder, rape, and abduction of both Elizabeth
Plunkett and Mary Duffy. He also implicated John Shaw as his partner in crime. In the early hours of the following morning,
John Shaw was brought out of his cell and interviewed. NARRATOR: Evans and Shaw agreed to take the police
to the locations of where they disposed of the bodies of Mary Duffy and Elizabeth Plunkett.
NARRATOR: A team of divers was brought in from the local area to search the loch.
19-year-old John Duffy, Mary's brother, was there with a friend, who'd volunteered to dive.
NARRATOR: On October the 10th, 1976, divers found Mary Duffy's body in Loch Inagh.
On September the 28th, the same day as both men confessed, Elizabeth Plunkett's body
washed ashore south of Brittas Bay, 31 days after she was last seen alive. Evans and Shaw individually led the police
to the scenes of their crimes. ELIZABETH YARDLEY: And it was important that they did this
separately so that they could ensure that these two were not colluding with each other and that they
could compare the accounts that each of them gave. NARRATOR: What should have been an open and shut case
didn't turn out that way. NARRATOR: It was almost a year later that John Shaw was brought to trial.
His defense team argued that his constitutional rights had been infringed. They argued he'd been arrested without a warrant,
and that he should have been brought before a court the morning after his arrest.
Therefore, he'd been held in custody unlawfully. And his statements, including the confession
and accompanying the police to the crime scene, were all inadmissible in court. The counter argument made by the prosecution
was compelling in its defense of the police. They believed that Mary Duffy was possibly
still alive on that Monday morning when they first started to question Shaw, and that that was the reason why he was not brought
to court as soon as possible. It was also argued that the search of the caravan was also illegal because it was carried out without a warrant.
Again, the argument put forward by the defense was that Mary Duffy, who may still have been alive,
and her constitutional rights were also valid and superseded those of a person suspected of involvement
in her abduction. NARRATOR: The trial judge declared that any statements, including the confessions made by Evans and Shaw,
were inadmissible in court. The only hope for a conviction lay with a jury. NARRATOR: The jury could not agree on a verdict.
And there was a retrial. During the second trial of John Shaw, the prosecution had their ducks in a row
and argued forcibly, cogently, and with great authority, that the delays in bringing the two
men to court after their arrest were perfectly valid. NARRATOR: The case against Geoffrey Evans ran
into the same legal hurdles, but as with Shaw, the prosecution prevailed and both men were eventually
found guilty of false imprisonment, rape, and the murder of Mary Duffy. Following the successful conviction
for the crimes committed against Mary Duffy, the state did not pursue a further conviction
for the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett. Both men were sentenced to life in prison.
NARRATOR: In 2008, following a heart bypass operation, Geoffrey Evans suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma.
He never regained consciousness and died in 2012 of sepsis. John Shaw remains in prison and is now Ireland's longest
serving prisoner. Over the years, he's made many applications to be granted at least two days of escorted temporary release
per year. To date, his applications have been unsuccessful. MELLA NESBITT: I'm so sorry, but it's too upsetting
for me to talk about this. Even after 45 years, I still miss her and often think of her life was taken from her by two evil men.
Liz was my best friend, full of life, a warm-hearted and lovely friend, who had so much to give to this world.
Her kind heart will be with me forever. I thank God for the lovely memories I do have and treasure them.
Till we meet again. Rest in peace, Liz. Yours faithfully, Mella Nesbitt. NARRATOR: John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans's
petty criminal offending escalated to a horrifying level of depravity. They escaped extradition to answer for their vicious crimes
in England and went on to brutally torture and murder two young women in Ireland because they remembered what
happened in England and vowed never to leave one of their victims alive again, making them two of the world's most evil killers.
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Brief Summary

Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw murdered Mary Duffy and Elizabeth Plunkett in 1976 Ireland, evading justice until their eventual capture and trial.

Key points

Mary Duffy's Last Shift. Mary Duffy left work unaware she was being watched by her future killers.
The Predatory Duo. John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans were opportunistic killers, targeting women without remorse.
The Killers' Intentions. Evans and Shaw planned to abduct, rape, and murder women weekly until caught.
The Abduction of Elizabeth Plunkett. Elizabeth Plunkett accepted a lift from her abductors, leading to her tragic fate.
The Shocking Identity Revealed. The community is stunned to learn about the two wanted men.
Mary Duffy's Ordeal. Mary Duffy is brutally attacked and held captive by two men.

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