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. Murders in the Rue Morgue(144 in lower right corner) and The Outlaw(71 in lower right corner). Her husband was convicted of her murder but later released on appeal. Three people were each arrested in 1986 over the murder but not charged. He later identified the man to police and the man was tried but acquitted after he claimed he had an alibi. Her body was discovered in a. 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. 68-year-old Dale's corpse bore marks of a savage attack believed to have been inflicted some two days earlier. His godfathers were Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Simon Elliot, later brother-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales. [6] However, it was discovered that Sinclair definitely could not have committed the murders of Lannen and McCabe, since prison records show that he was imprisoned when both of the murders occurred. [1] She rarely drank or went on nights out, until about three or four months before her murder. [1] They went to several pubs but eventually ended up at Teazer's Disco in Union Street, Dundee. [8] Suspiciously, the man appeared to be driving with his wrists, as if he had dirty hands and didn't want to touch the steering wheel. The stairway was part of a block of flats located in Beaumont Gardens, off Chantry Road in. Widower Ralph McIntosh, 71, was battered to death in his house on 25 or 26 January. Police inquiries found that the killing had followed an argument he had been involved in at a public house. . She died at, The 45-year-old senior Customs and Excise man's body was found in a pool of blood in a dark alley near East Finchley tube station. We first came across mention of it when looking at unsolved dog walker murders. Lewis died on 28 April 1988 after slipping into a coma. US-born 33-year-old mother-of-two Shelley Morgan disappeared on 11 June 1984 while drawing and taking pictures of the Avon Gorge in Bristol. Murders and culpable homicides for 2004-05 totalled 137 - up 29 on the prevous year. He had been returning home from the city centre, and was attacked soon after he had left the tube station, at around 0:20. In 1996, a man walked into a police station and confessed to the murder, but he was acquitted at trial after it was heard that there were discrepancies between his account and what actually happened and that he was suffering from depression at the time. Police believed the attack to have been due to a burglary having gone wrong. The pair's estate was worth 250,000. He was aged about 25 and was wearing sunglasses. [23], Simpson, who was described as always smartly dressed and well-groomed, refused to give evidence at the trial. 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. Sylvester's body was hidden in the car's boot and then found four days later at the airport's car park. Speculation followed that the murder was over money he owed due to a gambling habit. [37] In 2013, Simpson, who had returned to living in Camberley and working as a window cleaner, spoke to the Daily Record, saying he did not fear the new investigation into the murder and saying "the cold case will go on and on. 28-year-old Keshmiri died after an arson attack on her home on 10 April 1982. [7] He protested that he did not have any convictions for violence or sexual crimes, but in an interview on 3 March 1980 he admitted to being a "peeping tom" who used binoculars to spy on courting couples in Templeton Woods. The 1987 murder of attorney Tim McNamee and the death of Thom McNamee from a brain tumor in 2009 still stirs the emotions of Gary Mueller, who was a close friend of the identical twins. The 58-year-old had picked up a fare at 8.35. We confirm that the owner/principal is not listed on the official state Sex Offender web site in the state in which the owner/principal of the company is located. 58-year-old Edmund Simpson's head was hit repeatedly with a blunt object at his workplace (a bookshop near. His skeletal remains were found on 14 June 1986 in a back garden on Polworth Road, Streatham. This little haven of 150 acres is a 15 minute drive from Dundee. 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The. In 2005, the finding of fingerprints and a hair on items from the crime scene, as well as DNA from under the victim's fingernails, led to a 54-year-old man being charged, but he was acquitted of murder and manslaughter at the end of his trial. Dr Woods was sitting in a chair and his wife was lying nearby. Two weeks after Ms Lannens body was discovered more of her property was uncovered. 38-year-old Keith Burgess was found brutally murdered at his home on Duchess Road, Clifton, on 17 December 1989. In 2007, the verdict of his trial was ruled unsafe and Raymond was released after spending twenty years in prison. She had been on a night out on 11th February 1980. Gallaghers story said he broke into the house through the basement window before bludgeoning them to death with a slaters hammer. [26] The judge rejected these claims, saying that while the passage of time since the murder had caused some disadvantage, he was not convinced that any trial would not be fair. 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. It was believed he had invited the attacker into his home and a man of scruffy appearance was seen near his flat. It was a scene of carnage very disturbing. Eleven people were arrested but no one was charged over his murder. A father of eight, Mr Landa had gone to Peel Street at about 4am to pick up a passenger called 'Shelton', who had rung from a phone box. Mabel Crandell, 89, was killed at her bungalow on 30 or 31 August 1986. West Dundee police released photos of the three suspects on Saturday, July 31, 2021. The 27-year-old sex worker was strangled and her body left on waste ground in Shepherd's Bush towards the end of January. He had been attacked with a blunt instrument in a "vicious attack" and was found lying in a pool of blood. Elizabeth McCabe had been on a night out with friends in Union Street in Dundee. The dumpster was loaded on to the. Then his body was placed on the back seat of his own red Lancia and taken to docks between Bristol Bridge and Redcliffe Bridge, where it was dumped into the water. Adam Rich, an actor who rose to fame as a child playing the youngest Bradford family member, Nicholas, on the TV drama "Eight Is Enough," has died, according to the Los . [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. The murder of Mulgeta Seraw is one of Portland's most notorious hate crimes. There was no known motive for the murder. At trial the police claimed partial DNA linked him to the crime scene. [7] He claimed in a statement that the reason he had gone back was to try to steal from a car he had seen in the woods before. Hiding In Plain Sight: The Murder Of Peter Thurgood and Lindy Benstead. [24], At the end of the trial, the judge told the jury that they must not convict Simpson on the basis of DNA evidence alone (Scottish law requires at least two separate sources of evidence for a conviction[34]). Jack Christian, 74, was battered to death on 89 June at his home. I hope he never gets out. Her diaries and personal belongings were missing from the scene, and her white, 14-year-old Lisa Hession was attacked and strangled to death on Saturday 8 December 1984 after being snatched as she walked home alone from a party. Julie was a sex worker and kept diaries of her clients; police used these in their investigation, which resulted in three men being arrested and then released. The cause of death was under . [27] The chances of the DNA from the back of the jumper coming from anyone other than Simpson were 1 in 105,000. Newspaper: Dundee Courier. A CS canister was also found at the scene, believed to have been used by either Miller or his killer during a struggle. Dimitri was a heroin addict and her previous boyfriend was in prison at the time of the murder. 96 Balunie Avenue: Stewart Anderson Kidd (18), 57 Ballindean Road: Craig George Stuart (18). When discovered she was naked and had been strangled to death. 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. 24-year-old Rosalia Jones was murdered at her home on Layham Drive on 14 February 1986. Taxi driver George Murdoch was found fatally injured on Pitfodels Station Road on the evening of 29 September 1983. 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. [23] The murders of Carol Lannen and Elizabeth McCabe started one of Scotland's biggest ever manhunts. 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. I howled with laughter and sobbed at the same time. His body was found on Saturday 20 February in St Antony's Road. A workmate said that she was heading out to meet a new boyfriend that night, and a man had been seen entering her flat. Dundee woman charged with attempted murder Violet Francis (25), waitress, 28 Bernard Street, appeared before .. Man on murder charge BRIAN REILLY NELSON (32). The perpetrator also ransacked the property and stole over 200 in cash. Her mother, Christine, reported her missing when she failed to return home, and within a short space of time, the police called at her house in Bonnywell Road to ask her to make her way to Leigh Infirmary to identify a body discovered just before midnight in an alleyway near the house. [1] Three months before this McCabe had got into a car that she had mistaken for a taxi after a night out. [42], In 2005, a dossier was reportedly given to Tayside Police by American police, sensationally claiming that the unidentified Zodiac Killer in California could have been responsible for the murders, saying that the killer had fled to Scotland and that the "Zodiac's last act" was the Dundee murders. [23] However, the jury did not hear of these previous convictions as Scottish law prevents previous convictions being heard in court. PHOTOFIT OF THE MAN POLICE WERE SEEKING FOR THE MURDER OF DUNDEE GIRL CAROL LANNEN. [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). 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. They were wanted for the investigation of a fatal road rage incident that ended in the parking lot of Casey's gas station and convenience store at 700 South 8th Street (Route 31) kitty-corner from the West Dundee Police Department headquarters at Route 31 and Willow Lane / Strom Drive. [3][4][5][6] Niven looked for her and checked a nearby taxi rank, but couldn't find her friend and assumed she had gone off on her own. Phillip ran a newsagent's kiosk at, Elsa Hannaway, 37, was beaten, raped and left for dead in, Cyril Fensome, Florence Pennell and Stacey Darlington. linked to the murders of Lannen and McCabe together with five murders across Scotland, previous convictions being heard in court, requires at least two separate sources of evidence for a conviction, "Templeton Woods murders 'can still be solved' 40 years on", "Investigation reveals that notorious unsolved murder case has remained in cold storage for past four years", "Father learns of girl's murder 26 years on Shock as police tell estranged parent that girl died in 1979", "Cleared cabbie Vincent Simpson says he's not worried about cold case investigation into Templeton Woods murder", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Murder_of_Elizabeth_McCabe&oldid=1133653473, Acquittal for one of Scotland's most notorious unsolved murders, Acquitted of McCabe murder, previous convictions for larceny (1967), going equipped to steal (1970), theft (1974), burglary and theft (1977), fraud and making false statement to police (1981), This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 22:00. It was thought that up to three other people had been at the bungalow on the night of his death, but none of them has ever been traced or come forward. The 25-year-old drug dealer was discovered stabbed and beaten to death in woods at Brightling, near. Her body was not discovered until a month later when her mother became concerned about her lack of contact. A woman came forward to say she had got into a red car in Seaton Park. [22] Detective Chief Inspector Ewen West said that he was disappointed for the McCabe family at the verdict. by Alexander McGregor. 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. At 78 and in ailing health, Dr Wood and his wife Dorothy were brutally . Two brothers were wrongly convicted and spent seven years behind bars before their 1992 release, after which police apologised for investigational failings. This was only 11 months after another woman, 18-year-old prostitute Carol Lannen, had been found dead only 150 yards away in the same woods, leading to the killings being labelled the Templeton Woods murders in the press and causing many to fear that there was a serial killer was at large in the city at the time, although police have not linked the murders. The two never married, even though the man was my mothers one affair of the heart. The last of those three options means that you might be innocent or guilty but the system has to let you go because the evidence is not strong enough to convict. 24-year-old Rachel Applethwaite was found dead in Sumner Place the day after Marina Monti was in Shepherd's Bush, A murder hunt began on 30 January 1987 following the death the previous day of, Daniel Morgan was found dead with an axe wound to the head in the car park of the Golden Lion pub. [27] Swabs taken from three different parts of the jumper all matched the DNA profile of Simpson. The Evening Telegraph . Smith's murder was linked to a number of other taxi murders in London and across the country, such as John Landa in 1982, Derek Brann on 6 November 1988 and Sarfraz Ahmed on 15 November 1988. Royalbroil/Wikimedia. Although he had links to convicted criminals Andrew Hall and James Ventham, his murder was not linked to either of them. Prime suspect Albert Newman was cleared of his murder at the, By the A30 road close to the southern perimeter fence of Heathrow Airport, In the early hours of 31 March 1984, Indian minicab driver Pardeep Sangha was stabbed to death while on duty. 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. The case is one of Scotland's most notorious unsolved murders, and led to one of Scotland's largest manhunts. [28] It was also heard at court that Simpson's taxi business in Dundee was amateurish and disorganised, and that he would often turn a blind eye when his drivers breached strict regulations on picking up fares. Read on for a few of the unnerving tales linked to the Badger State. The corpse of Olive Wilkinson was found in her home on 10 August with stab wounds and injuries caused by someone having beaten her with a weapon. [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". Dr. Anthony Garcia was motivated by revenge after being fired, say prosecutors. Fred and Miriam Dunkley were battered to death with a hammer inside their home, which was then set on fire. She was found to have died from forcible asphyxia. Eila was last seen alive on Sunday, 7 August 1983 in London. They issued the Photofit, they went looking for witnesses and registered keepers of such vehicles. I travelled all over the south coast for a few days and sold the jewellery Id stolen.. It is opposite what is now the Trades House Bar (second image). The 33-year-old Nottingham taxi driver died in the early hours of Saturday 14 August, having been stabbed 87 times. Most likely his killer is also responsible for the murder of another taxi driver in the same area: Pardeep Sangha. Elizabeth McCabe was a 20 year old nursery nurse. He evaded local police for 10 years until forensics linked him to a woman he tried to dump off an Interstate 5 overpass. 44-year-old Ann Lee and 65-year-old Margaret Johnson were stabbed to death on Monday, 10 May while out walking their dogs on Aldershot Common. However, the case was re-opened many years later and brought to the Appeal Court in 2003, when the jury overturned the conviction and McPhee was released. Prison bosses have also confirmed Gallagher is not detained at facilities in Scotland or England, while there are no death records for the killer, who would now be 69. A man was charged with her murder in July 1996, but legal action against him was discontinued. Polish GP Danuta Kaczmarska was 52 years old when she was found dead in the kitchen of her home on Coniston Close. Though the flame on the wick went out before it had burnt down enough of it to reach the petrol, a huge explosion was nonetheless triggered by fumes from the petrol causing an automatic dehumidifier in the cellar to come on and spark in the process. I sat there on the floor in a daze for a long time, and eventually realised it was seven in the evening. Esme Hoad was 85 and was killed in her Havelock Road house with a sharp instrument. Very little evidence of theft from the building and nothing suggestive of a break-in there would be found. 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Edna Harvey's body was found in her ground-floor flat after concerned neighbours had seen smoke coming out of its front door. A former chief police officer has said apparent proof of a confession from Henry Gallagher gives him a great deal of satisfaction. [7][11] He also reportedly admitted to other "unpleasant and embarrassing" things in interviews. Around 100 officers from the Strathclyde, Lothian and Borders and Tayside forces have begun trawling through all the information gathered in the cases from the 1970s and early 1980s, including. On 11 March 1989, a white man between 20 and 28 was seen going up to 44-year-old Patrick Byrne and hitting him with a wooden plank in broad daylight. Eleven-year-old Thomas Hunter was found . The victim's body was discovered two days later by his father after he failed to turn up for work at the family's wastepaper business. Jim Cameron, who investigated the murder in 1980, was told about the short story written by Gallagher, who also went by the name Henry John Reid, by the Tele and said it was pleasing to know he had finally confessed publicly. [1][31] However, police revealed that they had questioned the casino doorman at the time and the man told them he hadn't remembered seeing Simpson that night, and the casino doorman also testified at trial that Simpson had in fact phoned to pressurise him into claiming to police that he had been there at 1am that night. Great Savings & Free Delivery / Collection on many items Dundee Final Football Scottish Fixture Programmes (1980s) for sale | eBay However, such hypothesis was strongly disputed by his father. The person who stabbed Mrs Simpson was probably one of two or three distraction burglars and might not have been planning to go as far as killing someone. He continued: I couldnt stop shaking. [30] The defence alleged that the fact that the hair found that matched Simpson's DNA had not been found in an earlier examination of the sheet in 2003 was significant. Help organising your research by adding bookmarking your articles. Aberdeen is a centre for the oil and gas industry. In 2007, a former taxi driver was arraigned for the crime, but he was found not guilty at the conclusion of the trial. The below image was compiled using a process called Photofit. The explosion destroyed the building, killing 34-year-old pub chef Clifford Howes and seriously injuring the bar manager as well, and a likely motive for setting fire to it is something that investigators have never been able to come up with.
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