Barry Thomas Stuart (21). Edward Smith 14 Alfred Evans 13 Ritual Kidnap Murder 1979, August 24, 1979. Sheila was a mother of eight and her murderer has never been found. In 2007, the verdict of his trial was ruled unsafe and Raymond was released after spending twenty years in prison. Paint chips were recovered from her body. I had only been in there a couple of minutes when an old couple opened the basement door directly behind me. [1] Three months before this McCabe had got into a car that she had mistaken for a taxi after a night out. The two Dundee death: boys on murder charge TWO SCHOOLBOYS appeared in private at Dundee Sheriff Court yesterday accused of murder. [29][23] However, his defence argued that the DNA evidence must have been contaminated. [30] The defence asserted that police had wrongly focused on taxi drivers, claiming that they had done so because they feared that McCabe's killer had also killed Carol Lannen and that police wrongly feared a serial killer was on the loose (police had actually never linked the murders and had previously said that there was no apparent connection). . Gallagher said: I was born in Dundee on April 3 1951 of a mother who was not meant to bear more children and a father who had long before disappeared. Afterwards, police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder. The shopkeeper aged 76 was struck on the head three times at her Bulstrode Road premises on 9 January 1982, but did not succumb to her injuries until 6 July. 1981 Schmidt & Carew all stars. A workmate said that she was heading out to meet a new boyfriend that night, and a man had been seen entering her flat. The couple were shot dead in Terry's Mercedes three days before Christmas after leaving their flat in, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 20:29. Two men were charged in 1990 over the 45-year-old businessman's murder, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided against putting either of them on trial. John Greenwood and Gary Miller were both eleven years old when they were found beaten and hidden in a disused quarry in Whiston. She had then been assaulted by the driver. Police discovered her body there after forcing entry to the property on 23 May a week after she was last seen alive. The Scottish Screen Archive collection has a clip of factory workers leaving Camperdown jute mill in Dundee, back in 1912. Her head injuries were awful yet she survived. [6][4] 18-year-old Dundee prostitute[12][13] Carol Lannen was found in Templeton Woods in March 1979 after last being seen getting into what was believed to be a Ford Cortina estate car taxi in Exchange Street, the city's red light district, at 8pm on 20 March 1979. The man admitted knowing her. Dr. Anthony Garcia was motivated by revenge after being fired, say prosecutors. They were found dead in their garage after a fire started at 6pm. [4] The defence also ridiculed the fact that the DNA analysis had cost "1m", and challenged Whittaker on this. [33] He added that contamination was also not necessarily a problem, if the source of the contamination was known. Neck and facial injuries she had when discovered in the burning building early on 1 September would appear to the pathologist to have been caused by kicking and stamping. Close to the section of the M50 motorway near, Wilks, aged 22 and seven months pregnant, was driving the family's. He died in hospital five days later. On 25 July 1982, 32-year-old Eileen Scally waved goodbye to her husband and daughters as they left the family home before going upstairs to her bedroom, where she was strangled whilst taking an afternoon nap. Anthony Garcia was convicted in the . Erie Pennsylvania. Murder petition FOUR YOUNG Dundee men appeared in private before Sheriff Green yesterday on a petition alleging .. Dundee murder trial draws to a conclusion, Closing statements in Dundee murder trial. Shortly after his blood-splattered exploits in Dundee, he fled to Kent and committed yet another double-murder, this time targeting an elderly monk and his defenceless housekeeper, both of whom were battered so badly that the murder scene was described as resembling an "abattoir". Bludgeoned to death after disturbing burglars at her cottage on 6 May 1988 (her 81st birthday). Barry Thomas Stuart (21). Knowing we got it right at the time gives me a great deal of satisfaction., Mr Cameron added: Im also delighted to know that he would still appear to be in Broadmoor. [7] Simpson had a criminal record dating back to when he was a child and admitted having a heavy gambling addict, but when shown a picture of McCabe who police had been widely appealing for information on, he claimed he did not recognise her. She was found dead 16 days later naked in the wood on 26 February 1980. The 24-year-old barmaid was raped and beaten to death in a school playground on 9 December. The Templeton Woods Unsolved Murders. Dr Alexander Wood was a very well-known and respected doctor within Dundee. It has finally closed this case for me. Smith was also the third taxi driver to be killed in London in three months. I put my hand on her arm, trying to get her to calm down. The police have got no avenues to go down". Kenny Roberts) and Richard Duddie. [28] Together, the combined odds of the DNA coming from someone other than Simpson were 1 in 40 million (Scotland had a population of around 5 million in 1980), and Dr Jonathan Whittaker who conducted the DNA tests testified under oath: "In my opinion, these DNA profile results provide extremely strong support for the assertion that the DNA recovered from the hair and blue jumper has originated from Vincent Simpson". Witnesses reported seeing him in a scuffle with a young man in a toilet block some time previously, and Bryne may have torn the man's jacket. He was believed to have been wearing a light grey jacket and looked scruffy. PHOTOFIT OF THE MAN POLICE WERE SEEKING FOR THE MURDER OF DUNDEE GIRL CAROL LANNEN. He said: I had seen a lot as a senior police officer but this scene stays in my mind. In this case it was dumped at three sites around Dundee. [1] She rarely drank or went on nights out, until about three or four months before her murder. Police collected a slew of evidence but struggled to find a suspect in the killings. A beautiful building stands on the corner of the intersection between Perth Road and Roseangle. The pair's estate was worth 250,000. Similarities between the cases have led to speculation that this murder is linked to that of. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly determined. Although her body has never been found and little clues exist as regards to her fate, the disappearance of 18-year-old Louise Kay has been investigated by police as a suspected murder. [27] Forensic expert Whittaker had previously given evidence at hundreds of trials across Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia. He was attacked by at least two unidentified men. 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Dr Woods was sitting in a chair and his wife was lying nearby. Reviews of the case in 2002 and 2004 turned up new information but no killer, and in 2009 it was announced that the investigation would cease until and unless new information surfaced. The 37-year-old mother of four was found beaten and strangled inside the sex shop she managed, which was locked up. A witness said the man who was kicking him was wearing working boots with steel-capped toes, and his bloody footprints were left on the path. Her remains were found on 14 October 1984 in a copse off Long Lane, in Backwell. The attacker was said to have then found a piece of wood and then chased Byrne before beating him to death. Robbie McIntosh was out on parole. Martin Broom, 29, was fatally beaten at his home in Sussex Close. Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as "America's little brother" on "Eight is Enough," has died, his publicist said in a statement Sunday. Investigators said Garcia fatally stabbed 11-year-old Thomas Hunter and 57-year-old Shirlee Sherman at the family's home in an upscale Omaha neighborhood. The 51-year-old former British spy had been stabbed and mutilated with a knife when his body was discovered at his flat in Cathcart Road on 28 February. [4][6], The BBC described the McCabe case in 2007 as one of Scotland's most notorious unsolved murders. He wrote: One weekend I broke into a house in Dundee. Arrowsmith,William,,1888-28-March,Murder Of His Uncle,Shrewsbury Arthur,Thomas Alias "Harry",,1778,For The Murder Of Joan Watkin,Cardiff Arthur,Thomas,,1778,Murdered By Joan Watkin A.K.A. Also her property was dumped in another location 17 miles (27 km) away. [6] In 2004, detectives from three police forces in Scotland announced that there were "strong links" between the then-unsolved murders of seven young women, including the murders of McCabe and Lannen, as well as the infamous World's End murders. [6], Two witnesses reported seeing a Ford Cortina with a taxi sign on it emerge from a road which led to Templeton Woods on the night McCabe disappeared. I was violently sick. November 1976 - Mone and McCulloch break out of Carstairs and embark on killing spree. A possible motive for it was robbery (watches, jewellery and Connie's pension book were missing). The cause of death was under . 73-year-old widow Constance Aris, known for short as Connie, died from several axe blows to the head in her house at 32 Roman Road. Published: Tuesday 05 March 1996 Newspaper: Dundee Courier County: Angus, Scotland The appearance of the 14- year-old and 12-year-old was in connection with the death of a man in a fire in Strathaven Terrace. County: Angus, Scotland. being a teenager at that time was brilliant . HomeAdvisor uses 3rd party data sources to conduct a criminal search for any relevant criminal activity associated with the owner/principal of the business. The case went cold in the following years. [22] Detective Chief Inspector Ewen West said that he was disappointed for the McCabe family at the verdict. That is a distance of only five miles (eight kilometres) away from where she was last seen. Police investigating the fraud made a search of the grounds of Heath House for missing gold bullion said to be worth some 10 million, but none was found. Hiding In Plain Sight: The Murder Of Peter Thurgood and Lindy Benstead. The third victim of the blaze, seven-year-old Stacey Darlington (Florence's granddaughter), died later in hospital. Dundee Murders - Gordon Dunbar Scottish Murders True Crime TRIGGER WARNING - This episode contains gruesome details that some listeners may find disturbing, so listener discretion is advised. [1] They went to several pubs but eventually ended up at Teazer's Disco in Union Street, Dundee. Jamaican by birth and aged 27, Fitzroy Johnson died on Wednesday 2 September after a bullet or bullets fired by an unknown person struck his head in Coldharbour Lane. A short while later, she died of a heroin overdose. [3] Her mother later said that she would normally have taken a bus or a taxi home after a night out. [7][11] He also reportedly admitted to other "unpleasant and embarrassing" things in interviews. 52-year-old Anstey was stabbed several times in the chest by apparent burglars at the Pennycross Sports and Social Club on 29 September 1988. He was aged about 25 and was wearing sunglasses. Sarah had lived in the area all her life and worked in the nearby cotton mills. Two men were charged with his murder, but one of them had the charge dropped when he agreed to testify against his co-defendant, who was convicted in August 1989 but had his conviction quashed in July 2006 after it was accepted that police statements showing that an important witness was unreliable should not have been kept from the 1989 trial's defence team. Six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered by a trio of prison escapees, on May 14, 1973. Her body was discovered in a. Police released an e-fit of him in July 1988. Sheila Anderson, 27, was last seen alive outside Lindean House on Commercial Street, Edinburgh at 11:25. Elaine had died from compression to the neck. A nurse walking to work discovered his body close to Berkeley Square. RETRO DUNDEE: DUNDEE SHOPPERS #1 - 1984 Tuesday, 15 June 2010 DUNDEE SHOPPERS #1 - 1984 You may be able to have a bit of fun playing "Where's Wally" over the next few days, trying to spot someone you recognise in the crowd, in the next batch of photos coming up from the 80's. Starting with the top one of the Cowgate, taken on 4th Feb 1984. His ex-wife, Baroness de Stempel (ne Susan Wilberforce), stood trial in July 1989 for the murder of her former husband (earlier charges of murder against two of the Baroness's children, Marcus and Sophia Wilberforce, had been dropped); she was found not guilty. [37], Tayside Police continued to separately appeal for information on the murder of Carol Lannen in 2008, with police believing members of the public hold information key to solving the case. At 78 and in ailing health, Dr Wood and his wife Dorothy were brutally . Her body was found in Rannoch Woods, close to her home. A SUSPECT appeared in court today charged with murdering missing mum Bennylyn Burke by bludgeoning her to death with a hammer. going to the Marryat on a Saturday night was the highlight of the week. Unfortunately, restrictions mean I can't display the image link here. It has been suggested that Pamela could have been a victim of serial killer Peter Tobin or, Dolphus Smith, Sidney Hickling and Susan Ovens. [6] Simpson had several previous convictions, mostly for dishonesty and petty crime, having been convicted of larceny in 1967, going equipped to steal in 1970, theft in 1974, burglary and theft in 1977, and fraud and making a false statement to police in 1981. June 1977 - Mone is moved to Perth Prison, while McCulloch is sent to Peterhead. At the High Court in. Beverly Hills Buntz 1 9 8 7 - 1 9 8 8 (USA) This NBC show was a spin-off from the much-honoured Hill Street Blues.; Eddie Dodd 1 9 9 1 (USA) 6 x 60 minute episodes Eddie Dodd (Treat Williams) was a tough private practice defence attorney; Conceptions of Murder 1 9 7 0 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Playwright Clive Exton provided six stories based on sensational murder cases The murder is now officially unsolved, then, although the police have decided not to hunt the killer anymore. Mr Simpson had been interviewed within five days of Ms McCabe going missing. Why has nobody ever been brought to justice? The killer dumped her naked body in Templeton Woods. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-unsolved-murders-40-years-22216742, Carol Lannen: Dundee unsolved murder hunt exploded to life again 40 years ago, https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/suspect-two-notorious-unsolved-scots-23500708, Something Needs Updating? Police investigating the murders of two women in Dundee 25 years ago have appealed to four men to come forward. Elizabeth McCabe was a 20 year old nursery nurse. Whether Michael Fahey had died there or somewhere else was indeterminable. A motive behind the killing has never been clearly established. Tayside detectives are investigating. Rich died Saturday at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Lieutenant Aimee Earl of the Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner's office. Shortly after his blood-splattered exploits in Dundee, he fled to Kent and committed yet another double-murder, this time targeting an elderly monk and his defenceless housekeeper, both of whom were battered so badly that the murder scene was described as resembling an "abattoir". Someone brutally killed 49-year-old Sheila Farrow in Stockport town centre on 17 June. I told them both that I didnt want to hurt them, and the old man struck me again. . ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_unsolved_murders_in_the_United_Kingdom_(1980s)&oldid=1132214765, Short description with empty Wikidata description, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Elizabeth McCabe, a trainee nursery nurse aged 20, was strangled after parting company with a friend and leaving a nightclub on Monday, 11 February. 45-year-old Peter Smith was stabbed on 11 April near public toilets in central Glasgow. The Haunting of the Tallman Family. But in the short story, which was found in a book shop in London, Gallagher writing under the pen name Henry John Read described breaking into the house before being confronted by Mrs Wood. Student-teacher Caroline Harris-Reed was murdered in the flat she was sharing with a 22-year-old nurse. [7] As a result, Simpson was immediately questioned by police, and he admitted being in the woods on the night McCabe disappeared, claiming he had taken his dog for a walk there at about 10pm and saying he had returned to the woods after midnight on his way to collect a fare in Dundee. [6], Only 11 months prior to the discovery of McCabe's body in Templeton Woods, another woman had been found dead only 150 yards away in the same forest. The body of Yvonne Coley, a 28-year-old sex worker, was discovered hidden under a hedge on the edge of Cocks Moors Woods Golf Course at Warstock Lane, Kings Heath. The 33-year-old was fatally injured on Saturday, 19 September during an altercation in High Town Road in which he was knocked to the ground. 35-year-old Heron was stabbed in the back while queueing for information at London Waterloo station on the evening of 9 December 1988. They got nowhere. The only significant evidence against him was a claim that he had confessed to the murder in a pub. Police have not linked the two murders. She had been stabbed three times in the neck and face but had no defence injuries and there were no signs of a break-in, suggesting she had known her murderer(s) and let them in. A dog walker found the injured boys at 7.20, The 39-year-old was murdered by having his head struck repeatedly with a sand-filled traffic cone and being kicked. On 12 January 1986, 24-year-old restaurant owner Parvez Akhtar was strangled to death and then had his throat cut before being left in his car, where he was discovered by a cousin. [27] On the DNA from the jumper's neck, Whittaker said: "This result is of particular significance since the DNA profile result is what I would expect to find if Vincent Simpson had grabbed the jumper in the area of the neck, thus transferring his DNA to this area". The body of 52-year-old Irish builder Pat McCluskey was found under a mattress on waste ground in, 35-year-old Jackie Waines, a sex worker and mother-of-three also known as Linda Guest, was stabbed to death on the night of 21/22 April 1985. Dimitri was a heroin addict and her previous boyfriend was in prison at the time of the murder. When arresting Andrew Hunter for murder, the cops found him in the company of his junkie girlfriend. [11], Despite a large and widely publicised manhunt for the killer, police failed to charge anyone with the murder of McCabe and late into 1980 the investigation was wound down, but left open. ", "The Missing Teen Whose Cold Case Was Revived With the Probe of a 'Warlock' Paedophile Ring", "Unsolved murders in Kent: Four cases - including Margery Wren, Sheila Martin and David Short - which bamboozled police detectives", "This man disappeared 30 years ago. Teenager Raymond Gilmour confessed to Pamela's murder and was jailed, but he maintained that he was coerced into confessing. Mark and Leslie died from smoke inhalation; three other children who were in the house managed to escape. A man was charged with her murder in July 1996, but legal action against him was discontinued. From mysterious murders to dead-end disappearances, find details of each case below. Harry Ashcroft,,,1817-08-Sept,Murder Of Father & Sons,Lancaster Ashcroft,David,,1817 (Summer A. When discovered she was naked and had been strangled to death. One of her sons was the landlord of The Eastender, a pub on Sheerness High Street. This was on Exchange Street in Dundee. In August 2017 a woman was walking her hound in those woods when she was attacked by a man wielding a dumbbell. A 50-year-old app designer has appeared in court charged with double murder after allegedly beating a 25-year-old mother-of-two to death with a hammer and killing her two-year-old daughter. A former chief police officer has said apparent proof of a confession from Henry Gallagher gives him a great deal of satisfaction. Lewis died on 28 April 1988 after slipping into a coma. Homeless Jillian Matthews, a 37-year-old with, Pamela Hastie, 16, went missing on her way home from school in November 1981. [101], Connie was last seen alive when she was returning home from a community centre on the evening of 27 February 1985. 37-year-old Trendall was stabbed through the heart in her flat on Halloween in 1984. The murder of Elizabeth McCabe was the infamous murder of a 20-year-old woman in Dundee, Scotland in February 1980. Most likely his killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver in the same area: Pardeep Sangha. [27] A hair found on the black plastic sheeting used to transfer McCabe's body to the mortuary in 1980 was also found to match Simpson's DNA, with the test indicating the chances of it not belonging to him were 1 in 1,300. 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