Stolen Sister: 02 - Missing

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RTÉ

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.5 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday, August 28th, 1976, Elizabeth Plunkett walked out of a pub in Brittas Bay - and vanished without a trace. Over the following week, her distraught family and friends launched a frantic search, desperate for any sign of her. Though they didn’t find Elizabeth, a series of puzzling clues began to emerge. And at the same time, two suspicious men were seen lurking in the area, but within days, they too had disappeared.

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Credits: Stolen Sister is written and produced by Nicoline Greer with production assistance from Shauna McGreevy. Roz Purcell is the host. Original music soundtrack performed and composed by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, together with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Sound design and orchestra recording by Ciarán Dunne. The executive producer is Liam O’Brien. Audio Product Support by Nigel Wheatley. Marketing by Maria Buckley and Christopher Hayes. Design and creatives by Darragh Treacy. Publicity by Sarah Neville. Sales by Graeme Bailey and additional online editorial content by Anna Joyce. Publishing weekly.

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0:00.0	A quick warning before we begin.
0:02.9	This series contains descriptions of sexual violence
0:05.7	and could be upsetting for some people.
0:08.4	So please keep this in mind when listening.
0:12.8	This is British Bay in County Wicklow.
0:16.4	I'm just ready to bawl my eyes out here.
0:18.9	It's so sad to be here.
0:22.1	I think that this is the last place where she was alive.
0:25.7	It's very emotional.
0:28.0	It's taken Bernie and Kathleen, Elizabeth Plunkett's sisters,
0:32.0	almost 50 years to come here.
0:34.8	It's surreal to be back here.
0:37.8	There was a day like today that Elizabeth left home to come here in 76 for it all to go
0:44.5	terribly wrong, you know?
0:47.7	Bernie and Kathleen are at McDaniel's pub.
0:50.7	The last place Elizabeth was seen alive on August 28, 1976.
0:56.5	It's only now, after all these years, that they feel able to come here
1:01.5	to honour Elizabeth's memory in this place.
1:05.3	No matter how many years go by, it's never the same
1:09.7	and she's still only 23 years of age
1:11.8	and her minds.
1:12.9	Because we're our mothers now,
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