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Stolen Sister 02: Missing

April 6, 2026·28 min·2 clips

Kathleen was baking apple tarts on Sunday morning when a knock at the door revealed Elizabeth had not come home from Wicklow.

Castle Tymon Woods becomes the place the episode keeps returning to. A family is driving home past the plantation after a husband and son have finished work, about a mile from MacDonald's pub. At about 12.45am, they see a vehicle parked in an opening on the left-hand side of the road. The inside is lit. The host links that sighting to what men later said about taking Elizabeth there, but she does not hurry the listener into the worst of it. Those details came through Garda work over months and years. For now, it is still the early hours of the last Sunday in August in 1976. Elizabeth's friends are asleep in a caravan in British Bay. Her family is in Ringsend. Nobody there knows what has happened. The episode sets those ordinary places against the woods, and the gap is awful: what witnesses saw, what Elizabeth was going through, and what the people who loved her had not yet been told. Castle Tymon Woods, the road opening, the parked vehicle, and the lit interior are the solid pieces in the dark. There is no neat answer yet. The story stays with time, place, witness memory, and the slow arrival of Garda detail.

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A grave missing-person story that lets witness detail and place do the heavy lifting.

This episode treats Elizabeth's disappearance as a careful investigation, not a dramatic reveal. It stays with the road near Castle Tymon Woods, the parked vehicle at the start, and the details that mark the last known trail, while the distance between British Bay and Ringsend…

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