Stolen Sister: 07 - A Chance for Justice
Pirate Predator
RTÉ Documentary on One
4.4 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
As this series has been publishing, we’ve been contacted by many listeners, including about a dozen contacts from people who are new witnesses to events around Ireland in September 1976 - and who it appears could have been potential victims of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. Even after all these years, new information is still out there on Elizabeth’s story - and with new witnesses stepping forward, the pressure now increases on the authorities to hold a cold case review, maybe even finally put John Shaw on trial for Elizabeth’s murder…
If you have any information or knowledge about the actions of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans please email us documentaries@rte.ie
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 | Throughout this series, we've been telling the stories of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy, |
| 0:07.8 | victims of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. But there are other victims too, other families who never |
| 0:15.4 | got justice. Remember, when the two men first came to Ireland, they were on the run from charges relating to three women in the greater Manchester area. |
| 0:26.9 | Now we know that true crime podcasts are hugely popular and the makers of a brand new one from Ireland need your help. |
| 0:36.2 | Producer Liam O'Brien |
| 0:37.7 | recently appeared on BBC Radio Manchester |
| 0:40.6 | seeking new information around Shaw and Evans. |
| 0:45.1 | They actually got to know each other in prison. |
| 0:47.3 | Once they got out, they kind of went on a rampage |
| 0:50.2 | around the Greater Manchester area |
| 0:52.9 | through October 1974 and they raped three young women, |
| 0:58.3 | a 15-year-old girl near Macclesfield, a 31-year-old lady near Ince and then a 17-year-old girl |
| 1:06.5 | near Atherton. |
| 1:07.7 | I actually quite a huge manhunt for them. |
| 1:10.1 | We don't know the lifelong trauma that these women and their families may have endured. |
| 1:15.6 | Those women never got justice. |
| 1:18.6 | They never got what they deserved, which is the men who had tacked them to face the courts |
| 1:24.6 | for what they had done to them. |
| 1:26.6 | We're hopeful that these women are alive and that they may still want... |
| 1:30.8 | And in the six weeks, since we began this podcast, |
| 1:34.5 | we've discovered that there were yet more lives touched by Shaw and Evans. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm Roz Purcell from RTE Documentary on One. |
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