21. Cross Country Killers: The Murders of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy

<p>During the record-breaking summer heatwave of 1976, two English fugitives arrived in Ireland evading UK rape charges—carrying out a terrifying pact to abduct and murder "a woman a week." What followed was the most complex multi-county police pursuit in modern Irish history.</p><p>In this episode of <em>Shadows of Éire</em>, we examine the harrowing 1976 spree of Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw and pay tribute to the lives of 23-year-old Elizabeth Plunkett, abducted from Brittas Bay, County Wicklow, and 24-year-old Mary Duffy, taken from Castlebar.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>#IrishTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ShadowsOfEire #ColdCase #ElizabethPlunkett #MaryDuffy #EvansAndShaw #Garda #Connemara #LoughInagh #IrishHistory #LegalPrecedent #UnlawfulKilling</p>