Stolen Sister: Bonus - Petition and Witness Accounts

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Gillian was thrown into a ditch in Brittas Bay and later found hospital records confirm Loughlinstown Hospital.

1. Documentary on One Podcast's Stolen Sister bonus episode collects witness accounts about Elizabeth Plunkett and the movements of John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans in 1976. 2. Nicolene Greer produces the episode, Bernie and Kathleen Plunkett speak for the family, and James McGill is named as the family solicitor who receives statements. 3. The episode exists to gather every witness account not included in the main series and to support a petition for a cold case review. 4. The first witness recalls two men with English accents chasing her and a friend from Barrow Street and Pear Street to Mackin Street in Dublin 2. 5. A second witness in Blackrock says a car stopped at a bus stop and the men tried to coax her into a lift, which she refused. 6. A boy leaving karate class in Bray remembers Geoffrey Evans asking about CB radios, demonstrating karate kicks, and repeatedly inviting him for tea, cake, or cinema. 7. A woman in Arklow describes a public phone box on Harbour Road where two men tried to pull a young local woman into a car while she screamed and fought back. 8. Julie and her cousin in Brittas Bay describe a white van, two English men asking for tea at a mobile home, and later a car circling the field and banging on the door at midnight. 9. Another Brittas Bay witness working outside McDaniel's pub remembers a young woman wearing a Saint-Tropez T-shirt walking through the car park on the night Elizabeth Plunkett was abducted. 10. Gillian recalls being hit by a car near Brittas Bay, thrown into a ditch, taken to Loughlinstown Hospital, and later seeing the hospital record and red stain noted by investigators. 11. A woman walking home near Feathered says two men in a red car ran at her on a country road and she escaped by jumping a large garden wall. 12. A Clonmel witness says his mother heard a passenger tell the driver, 'Leave her, she's only an old hag,' while walking a dog near the old bridge and Dennis Burke Park. 13. In County Cavan, two girls ran back to friends after men in a dark Morris Oxford-type car tried to force them into the back seats. 14. A Navan hotel worker says two Northern English men in tweed jackets asked her to show them a fishing spot near the River Blackwater and were interrupted by a Garda car. 15. Two seventeen-year-olds in Cong say two men followed them after a chip van stop, waited by a garden wall, and were later recognized from a Sunday World article. 16. A Galway City driver says a green car chased her, forced her to stop, and one man said 'you' before she locked herself inside a house and fainted. 17. A nine-year-old walking to mass in Firbo remembers two dirty-looking men pointing toward the seashore near Udairos na Gaeilge, later linked on RTÉ news to the Barna campsite capture. 18. The tone is matter-of-fact and retrospective, with many witnesses speaking in detailed memories shaped by fear and later recognition. 19. Listeners interested in cold cases, witness recollections, and Irish true-crime history will follow this closely. 20. Listeners wanting a tidy resolution or light listening may want to skip it.

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A restrained case update where witness memory and family appeal do the heavy lifting.

Stolen Sister: Bonus - Petition and Witness Accounts widens the case by gathering witness accounts tied to Elizabeth Plunkett's disappearance, while Bernie and Kathleen press for a petition and a cold-case review.

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A bonus episode built around witness accounts and a family's appeal for a Garda cold-case review.

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