51 - Rampage: The murders of Elizabeth Plunkett & Mary Duffy

Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

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🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In 1976, there was a crime spree in Ireland. Houses and caravans were burgled, cars were stolen, and then two women went missing. Elizabeth Plunkett disappeared in Brittas Bay in Wicklow, and a month later, across the country in Castlebar, Mary Duffy went missing without a trace. The gardai discovered that all these crimes were related, and had been committed by two men who had only arrived into the country a year before from England, where they were wanted in relation to a number of sexual assaults. John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans would go on to be some of the longest serving prisoners in Ireland. ******* Head to www.hellofresh.co.uk and enter the code MENSREA at checkout for £60 off! That’s £15 off your first four boxes! Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! ******** Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music: Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “BossaBossa” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Tom Connolly, Detective: A life upholding the law (Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2015) Purchase here Stephen Rae, Killers: Murders in Ireland (Dublin: Blackwater Press, 1998) Purchase here Crimes that Shook Ireland: Part One: Serial Killers (TV3, 2012) here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6zu3ij Crimes that Shook Ireland: Part Two: A Trail of Bloodshed (TV3, 2012) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LcwspG3O20&list=PLdWT38WOXNebh2AJOBn2Ew-tjMgtnC_0n&index=6&t=0s People v Shaw [1982] IR 1 Christina Finn, “When life means life: 'God help me. The Devil made me do it” from TheJournal.ie https://www.thejournal.ie/irelands-longest-serving-prisoners-2542447-Jan2016/ (17 January 2016) Conor Lally, “English duo were State's first serial killers” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/english-duo-were-state-s-first-serial-killers-1.1167586 (23 November 2004) Ruadhri Giblin, “State's longest serving prisoner continued legal bid for temporary release” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/state-s-longest-serving-prisoner-continues-legal-bid-for-temporary-release-1.3782676 (5 February 2019) Gareth Naughton, “Serial Killer Geoffrey Evans who planned a murder a week died of infection” in The Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/serial-killer-geoffrey-evans-who-planned-murder-a-week-died-of-infection-29396613.html (5 July 2013) Noel Baker, “Death of an 'abomination'” in The Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/icrime/death-of-an-abomination-194707.html (22 May 2012)

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0:00.0	You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy. The Oh, In the summer of 1976, Elizabeth Plunkett was 23 years old.
0:49.0	As recounted in an episode of the TV 3 documentary show, Crimes that Shook Ireland, Elizabeth
0:56.0	worked as a foreign currency clerk at a bank note printing company called Deleru
1:01.6	in Dublin City. She and her family were from Rings and. Elizabeth
1:06.8	was a happy young woman living her life to the fullest and by August of that year she had
1:12.2	just returned from a holiday of a lifetime.
1:16.0	She and her best friend Mela Bush had saved and saved for the Sun Holiday at the stylish beach
1:21.8	resort town of Santropay in France.
1:26.2	On Saturday the 28th of August, 1976, Elizabeth and her friends decided to make use of another
1:32.4	friend's holiday caravan in British Bay in Wicklow.
1:36.5	Author Stephen Ray wrote about that night in his book, Killers in Ireland.
1:42.1	The seaside town was only about an hour's drive from their homes in Dublin,
1:46.4	and Elizabeth arrived with her boyfriend, Damien Bush, and his sister and Elizabeth's friend and
1:52.1	colleague Mela Bush, and two other friends.
1:56.3	They arrived in Wicklow at about nine that night, but when they got to the caravan,
2:01.2	they realized they'd forgotten to bring the key with them.
2:04.6	Damien Bush left the four others at McDaniel's pub, still in a merry holiday mood,
2:10.8	despite the hiccup in their plans, and went to ring the owner of the caravan
2:15.1	Iris Turner up in Dublin. When he returned to the pub there was a pint waiting for
2:20.8	him and he brought the good news that Iris was on her way. She'd agreed to
2:25.2	drive down and drop off the key. But just after things seem to finally work themselves out and
2:31.8	the holiday weekend was about to kick off
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