Pushkin Industries
59 episodes listed below
A sister remembered beyond the case file.
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister returns to the last weekend of summer in 1976, when Elizabeth Plunkett vanished after a night away in Wicklow. The series moves through family memory, Garda evidence, survivor testimony, and the later reckoning around John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans.
PRESS PLAY
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister is built around absence, but it begins with presence. Elizabeth Plunkett is remembered as a sister, a friend, a young woman in Dublin with routines, jokes, work, romance, and authority in the family home. The series lets those details stand. They matter. Mela remembers working beside her and going everywhere with her. Family members recall Damien arriving in his Capri, Abba playing, and Elizabeth making sure younger sisters did what she asked. Then the summer closes. A group heads to Brittas Bay, the beach is busy, and a night away becomes the beginning of a murder investigation. The reporting follows Elizabeth from the rural pub in Wicklow into the evidence that later emerged: Castle Tymon Woods, sightings, statements, timelines, and the search that ended when her body washed up in County Wexford. John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans are presented through their actions, their flight, and the investigation that caught them. The series is direct about the violence, but it does not turn cruelty into performance. It keeps returning to the people left behind. A sister’s hesitation in 2024, a friend’s memory from youth, and a witness describing escape from two men on a country road all become part of the same record. There is procedural detail here, including Garda reports, fake driving licences, locations, and the movements of the accused. There is also a strong sense of how old cases remain alive inside families. The feed includes promotional material and bonus episodes from related true-crime projects, but the Stolen Sister identity is clear: a limited, serious account of one woman’s life, murder, and delayed public reckoning. Its strength is restraint. It trusts testimony, geography, and time. It asks listeners to stay with the facts without losing sight of Elizabeth herself.
Made for: For listeners drawn to serious investigative true crime, family testimony, Irish cases, and documentary storytelling that values restraint over shock. It fits those who prefer careful reconstruction to rapid-fire case chatter.
What sets it apart: The series gives sustained space to family memory before moving into evidence and prosecution history. Elizabeth Plunkett is not treated as an opening hook; her life remains the center of the reporting.
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister, a special limited series from RTÉ. The story of Elizabeth Plunkett—a 23 year old woman from Dublin who was murdered by Ireland’s first serial killers. On the last weekend of summer in 1976 Elizabeth Plunkett went on a night away with friends, to Brittas Bay in county Wicklow before she was abducted by John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans. Now, almost 50 years later, Elizabeth’s family are finally trying to get their sister some justice. Binge all episodes of Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister early and ad-free with a Pushkin+ subscription. Sign up at pushkin.fm/plus or...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes investigations legible through documents, witness accounts and the social histories surrounding a case.
Bad Women Presents Stolen Sister reconstructs investigations through the records, testimony and social conditions surrounding them. In "Stolen Sister 02: Missing," the account of Elizabeth's disappearance follows reported sightings and a witness statement before turning toward…
A Chinatown heroin case tangles belonging with prosecution, while the case file closes in around you.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A restrained chapter that turns witness memory into evidence.
The chapter of Stolen Sister follows Elizabeth Plunkett's disappearance with a steady chronology and witness memory at its center. It is strongest when it stays close to the account of an 18-year-old woman walking home near Featherton, a car stopping, two men running at her, and…
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…
A quiet, detail-rich portrait of Elizabeth built from memory, family tension, and close witness accounts.
Stolen Sister opens in hesitation rather than spectacle: in July 2024, two sisters are working up the courage to send an email, and the episode slowly turns toward Elizabeth through the people who knew her best. Its strength is patience.
A careful legal-history episode that makes old immigration fights feel immediate.
Lydia Jean Cott uses a bonus Chinatown Sting chapter to track how the Chinese Exclusion Act shaped policy and the people caught in its reach. The episode stays close to a San Francisco case involving Chinese women, a $500 bond demand, and a fight that made its way to the Supreme…
A patient legal chase where small contradictions do the heavy lifting.
The chapter tracks Beryl Howell as she tries to tighten the case against Johnny Yang after Wah and Fox agree to cooperate. Its best stretch sits in the legal work: witness statements, small discrepancies, and the uneasy sense that Tina may be holding back.
Chinatown history gives this patient, place-driven true-crime story its strongest pull.
The episode uses Chinatown history to frame the case through the Tong organizations that helped protect residents when government support fell short.
A heroin sting becomes a careful study of belonging, pressure, and who gets trapped.
A 1988 Customs call at JFK opens into a heroin sting moving from Hong Kong to the United States, but the episode keeps its focus on the people caught in the paperwork.
A clear-eyed wartime conversation that looks past Blitz shorthand to the risks women faced.
This episode of wartime Britain works because it stays close to the lived texture of London at night. Hallie Rubenhold and Julia Laite join James Holland to talk through blackout streets, understaffed policing, smog, and the ordinary danger of being out after dark.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
A survivor runs.
At about 12.45am, a family passed Castle Tymon Woods and noticed a vehicle lit from inside, pulled into an opening off the road.
Bernie and Kathleen Plunkett speak publicly for the first time about their sister Elizabeth Plunkett, one of the victims of Ireland’s first serial killers, John Shull and Geoffrey Evans.
This episode recounts the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by serial killers John Shaw and Geoffrey Evans in Ireland, marking the country's first serial killer case.
Judge Denny Chin describes his grandfather as a paper son who entered the United States illegally in 1916 and later became a citizen in 1947.
This bonus episode features an interview with CB, a former member of the Flying Dragons gang, discussing his harsh life in the gang, how it recruited kids, and how his involvement ended.
This episode revisits the 1992 Chinatown Sting case, focusing on the trial of Johnny Yang and the jury deliberation that followed.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, focusing on her family's quest for justice.
Beryl Howell is running short.
The episode introduces the case of Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers, and her family's quest for justice decades later.
Three shipments of heroin open the trail.
February 9th, 1988 starts with a phone call.
The episode recounts the 1988 heroin sting in New York City that caught low-level drug couriers, mostly women from Chinatown.
A special limited series about Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers, as her family seeks justice decades later.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, as her family seeks justice decades later.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, focusing on her family's quest for justice.
Alice sets this up as a bonus conversation.
This episode of Case by Case explores a mysterious true crime story involving a woman's dangerous encounter with an airman, based on redacted police reports.
A limited series about the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, exploring the case and her family's quest for justice.
This episode recounts the abduction and murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers in 1976.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, focusing on her family's quest for justice.
This episode explores a series of unsolved murders of women in London during a period of darkness, delving into the historical true crime case.
This episode introduces the case of Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers, and her family's quest for justice.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, focusing on her family's quest for justice.
The episode recounts the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, beginning with the discovery of a victim's body.
The episode introduces the story of Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers in 1976, and her family's quest for justice.
A limited series investigating the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, nearly 50 years later.
This episode introduces the story of Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers, and her family's quest for justice.
A limited series investigating the murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, seeking justice for her family.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers, focusing on her family's quest for justice.
This episode introduces the story of Elizabeth Plunkett, a young woman murdered by Ireland's first serial killers in 1976, and her family's quest for justice.
A limited series investigating the 1976 murder of Elizabeth Plunkett by Ireland's first serial killers.