I had only been in there a couple of minutes when an old couple opened the basement door directly behind me. Police thought it was likely that she had been murdered because a burglary had gone wrong. Fred and Miriam Dunkley were battered to death with a hammer inside their home, which was then set on fire. Phyllis, who last visited the area five years ago, met with New York State Police and her own. The following day this lady was found dead in the woods. The Scottish Screen Archive collection has a clip of factory workers leaving Camperdown jute mill in Dundee, back in 1912. 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Someone brutally killed 49-year-old Sheila Farrow in Stockport town centre on 17 June. The 46-year-old mother-of-three's body was found in Bedgebury Forest on 11 June 1982 a little over two and a half years after the discovery in the same forest of the beaten body of a woman whose identity is still unknown. Whitfield Dundee woman is on murder charge A 37-YEAR-OLD Dundee Carol Bowman or Gibb. Police discovered her body there after forcing entry to the property on 23 May a week after she was last seen alive. [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. 71-year-old Joseph Hargreaves was beaten to death without the use of a weapon. Police collected a slew of evidence but struggled to find a suspect in the killings. Her husband was convicted of her murder but later released on appeal. [20], The reinvestigations of 2004 did, however, lead to the McCabe case being re-opened, and with advancements in DNA profiling (which had not yet been discovered at the time of the murder), items in the McCabe murder case were sent for DNA analysis in 2004. 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. Nothing had been stolen from the flat, she hadn't been sexually assaulted and there was no sign of forced entry, and Dimitri was found only lightly dressed on a chair, implying she had let her killer in willingly. Her body was found in a ditch on Winwick Lane, Lowton, near, Harry Howell, a 74-year-old former mechanic, was last seen alive outside his home at Ibbison Court, off Central Drive, Blackpool, on 5 November 1988. His cult, the NarcoSatanists, were responsible for over a dozen sacrificial murders in the 1980s. Ricky Beard, age 19 and Mary Leonard, age 18, Ritual Kidnap, Lover's Lane. Find Your Old School Photos. Her Olympus OM20 camera (serial number 1032853), as well as her bag, clothes and glasses, were stolen and have never been found. This little haven of 150 acres is a 15 minute drive from Dundee. A man was allegedly seen by a witness carrying a crossbow in the street, described as 19 or 20 and 5ft 8. Police believed the attack to have been due to a burglary having gone wrong. Her body was discovered in the kitchen there and had severe head injuries. Similarities between the cases have led to speculation that this murder is linked to that of. The old woman carried on screeching and was pulling my hair, and I went crazy. Research by the Evening Telegraph has unearthed a short story by the convicted killer, which describes the events which led to the horrific killing of Dr Alexander Wood and his wife Dorothy. The 58-year-old had picked up a fare at 8.35. 36-year-old David Short's assailant struck his head with an unknown hard instrument after spraying an incapacitant into his face as he stood at his doorstep on Thursday, 22 September. A witness saw her talking to a man in the early hours of the day she was murdered. Every time I thought about the old couple I saw their eyes staring into nowhere, not moving, and I had to rush to the toilet to be sick. 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. [27] The chances of the DNA found on the right hand side of the jumper's neck coming from someone other than Simpson were estimated at 1 in 320,000. 68-year-old Dale's corpse bore marks of a savage attack believed to have been inflicted some two days earlier. Her boyfriend said he entered the house and saw a tall, black man standing near her body with a knife before fleeing. The murder of Elizabeth McCabe was the infamous murder of a 20-year-old woman in Dundee, Scotland in February 1980. 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. His most recent credit listed on IMDB was playing Crocodile Dundee on "Reel . On Sunday 19 February 1984, 13-year-old Colin Maxwell left his home in Streatham and was never seen again. She had been run over by a red car. [4][18] Police therefore believe that the killer had a connection to this area. [4][6] Originally from Camberley, he had moved to Dundee in the 1970s after marrying a nurse from the city named Gillian, but the pair relocated back to Camberley soon after the murder of McCabe when Simpson's amateurish taxi business started to fail and since, he claimed, he had "problems" with police during the McCabe investigation. In 2007, a former taxi driver was arraigned for the crime, but he was found not guilty at the conclusion of the trial. She had two puncture wounds to the front of her neck and defence wounds on her hands, indicating she had fought with her attacker. The motive for his murder is believed to have been robbery: Thousands of pounds in cash and a gold watch were stolen, and Harry had let slip in his local pub that he kept his life savings at home. There was never a murder conviction for the heinous act, with Gallagher fleeing to England shortly after the crime. Date: 26 Feb 1980. 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. Gangster. My head was buzzing as I swung round and shoved him. Why has nobody ever been brought to justice? The attack took place on 7 November, and Youens was aged 51. 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. In 1988, Mulgeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian student, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by Kenneth Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steven Strasser. 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". [1] She rarely drank or went on nights out, until about three or four months before her murder. [6], Simpson's trial began in October 2007 in Edinburgh. 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. [15][20][21], In 1996, Tayside Police ordered a new review to take place of the murders of Elizabeth McCabe and Carol Lannen, following the reopening of the infamous Bible John case in Glasgow. Dr Alexander Wood was a very well-known and respected doctor within Dundee. [36] After the verdict, police said that they were not looking for anyone else in the case. One of the four youths was convicted of murder, the other three of perverting the course of justice, but appeals resulted in the overturning of all the verdicts in March 1982. McCabe had disappeared after a night out at Teazer's Disco in Dundee city centre, and was found strangled to death two weeks later in Templeton Woods on the outskirts of the city. 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. Elizabeth McCabe was a 20-year-old trainee nurse from Dundee, Scotland. The killer dumped her naked body in Templeton Woods. McCabe vanished after leaving the Teazer's club in Union Street (now the Bank Bar, seen in the first image). She had been strangled with her own bra in the early hours of 25 May 1984. 42-year-old John Gaspa was shot in his flat in Julian Court, Camden Road and found dead in the property on 10 November. The other man was robbed of money as well as beaten but did not die. Dr & Mrs Wood, 1980. A woman has been charged with murder following the death of a 33-year-old man in Dundee. Dundee. The Templeton Woods Unsolved Murders. He was attacked by at least two unidentified men. He was described as being white, about 25, of slim build and with spiky brown hair. The motive behind the killing has never been clearly determined. 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. Death from his injuries occurred five days later. 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. [14] Just like McCabe, she was strangled to death and found naked, and taxi drivers were also the key focus of the Lannen murder inquiry. Police investigating the murders of two young women in Dundee 25 years ago are making new inquiries into the cases following fresh leads from the public. The table was found to have been laid out for a meal, nothing had been stolen, and there was no sign of forced entry or any interference with the house whatsoever. The brutal murder of Helen Fleet has left a lasting legacy in Weston-super-Mare. 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. In 2004, both the Lannen and McCabe cases featured on the STV documentary series Unsolved, which focused on some of Scotland's most notorious unsolved murders. She was a widow who lived alone and still did some part-time nursing work. His skeletal remains were found on 14 June 1986 in a back garden on Polworth Road, Streatham. [2] On Sunday 10 February 1980 she left her home in Lyndhurst Avenue, Lochee for a night out with friends. One of her sons was the landlord of The Eastender, a pub on Sheerness High Street. He had been acquitted of Elizabeth McCabes murder. He also admitted being in the woods that night. The following day this lady was found dead in the woods. Police have not linked the two murders. The cause of death was under . Other than his murderer, the last person known to have seen Michael Williams alive was a colleague he was with on the London Underground late at night on Friday 26 August. Synopsis. He was half in and half out of the bathtub, and around his neck was a ligature. [27] The chances of the DNA from the back of the jumper coming from anyone other than Simpson were 1 in 105,000. She was previously said to be shy and reserved, but started socializing and going to pubs and clubs when she started going to university. They got nowhere. petition alleging murder 2023 Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited - Proudly presented by Findmypast in partnership with the British Library, A Findmypast company - also visit: A post-mortem revealed that she had died of strangulation. 96 Balunie Avenue: Stewart Anderson Kidd (18), 57 Ballindean Road: Craig George Stuart (18). Mr Cameron said the scene that greeted him on the evening he was called to attend at Roseangle will never leave him. Dundee. A man jailed in 1982 for the murder of Eric Carver had his conviction quashed in 2006 because appeal judges ruled that lack of evidence against him together with heavy-handed tactics used by the police to get him to confess to the crime meant that his conviction was not safe. [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. The man was a said to be early 30s, well spoken and had brown hair and moustache. 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. Gallagher went on to describe the aftermath of the murder, as he realised what he had done. Her body was found under a hedge in Shanks Crescent about half a mile from her home; she had been beaten and strangled. made before Sheriff Eccles in no plea or declaration and Dundee yesterday on a was remanded in custody. The intruder beat Sarah about the head and opened some drawers in her home but police were unable to establish if anything was stolen. In 1981, Brown raped and strangled 17-year-old Kimberley Stevens while she was walking a mile to her friend's house. At 78 and in ailing health, Dr Wood and his wife . [1] It was believed that McCabe had attempted to get home by taking a taxi, since at that time of night she would not have been able to get to her home in Lochee by any other means. Brownlow, Nick (2005). Elizabeth McCabe had been on a night out with friends in Union Street in Dundee. He said: I had seen a lot as a senior police officer but this scene stays in my mind. [3] Her friend Sandra Niven said that McCabe had been crying in the disco toilet that night because she thought no-one liked her. [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). [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". 133 Hilltown. Murder petition FOUR YOUNG Dundee men appeared in private before Sheriff Green yesterday on a petition alleging murder. 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. [26], At the trial it was heard that DNA found on the jumper draped over McCabe where she was dumped very likely came from Simpson. A group of teenagers found the 26-year-old's strangled corpse in a ditch beside the Avon Causeway after she had been out the night before to celebrate a new job she was due to start soon. Police believe that when 36-year-old Ricky Haywood was shot five times in the flat above the jewellery shop he owned, it was probably by a hired killer acting on behalf of someone whom Ricky had got on the wrong side of. Lewis died on 28 April 1988 after slipping into a coma. Choked to death with a ligature at the age of 14 after she mysteriously left her school during the lunch break. 64-year-old Gormeley was reported missing in. The attacker was said to have then found a piece of wood and then chased Byrne before beating him to death. The police re-opened the case in August 2012. SEAMAN ACCUSE OF MURDERING DUNDEE MAN A 23-year-old Pathan seaman ' r , North-West Frontier app ea e Dundee Police Court yester He was charged with the Andrew Patterson Drury, P 0 21a Carnegie Street, whose body was found on morning near Grassy Beach- Dundee murder trial draws to a conclusion THE TRIAL of a 24-year-old Dundee man accused of murdering his wife by strangling her and then stabbing her 23 times with a kitchen knife drew to a close yesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh. 24-year-old Rosalia Jones was murdered at her home on Layham Drive on 14 February 1986. Kristin O'Connell's body was found in an Ovid cornfield Aug. 16, 1985, a day after she was murdered. [10] A professor who was asked to review the evidence again when the case was re-opened in 2005 concluded that her death would have been quite sudden due to vagal inhibition in her neck, and that she had possibly been killed during a struggle or during a sex act. 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. Carol Lannen. Police inquiries found that the killing had followed an argument he had been involved in at a public house. As was the case in the murder of Carol Lannen, Ms McCabe had been strangled to death. Three men were tried for and found guilty of her murder, but attempts to get the convictions against them quashed met with success. [41] The trial of Simpson made front-page news in Scotland. William Youens' killer beat him with a blunt instrument and stabbed him. 57-year-old Peter Hurburgh had a fatal heart attack when, along with another man, he was dragged out of his parked car and given a beating in the early hours of 16 December. For more information, read about our Shelley was sexually assaulted and stabbed 14 times in the back. The body of Simon Dale, a near-blind recluse and former architect, was found on Sunday 13 September at Heath House, an isolated 17th century mansion close to Herefordshire's border with Shropshire. The 24-year-old was found stabbed in his kitchen by his brother. He was 54. He had been returning home from the city centre, and was attacked soon after he had left the tube station, at around 0:20. 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. The mystery of the Templeton Woods murders has hung over Dundee since March 21, 1979, when the naked body of 18-year-old Dundee woman charged with attempted murder Violet Francis (25), waitress, 28 Bernard Street, appeared before Bailie Gillies at Dundee Police Court on Saturday on a charge of attempted murder. We first came across mention of it when looking at unsolved dog walker murders. Unemployed 28-year-old Hayles from Jamaica was found dead in her flat on 29 August 1986 after neighbours reported seeing a swarm of flies by her window. [6] The murder led to fears that there was a serial killer at large in the city at the time, and the two cases became known as the "Templeton Woods murders". This mirrors the real-life abduction and murder of American pre-med student Mark Kilroy. West Dundee police released photos of the three suspects on Saturday, July 31, 2021. A motive behind the killing has never been clearly established. Sheila Anderson, 27, was last seen alive outside Lindean House on Commercial Street, Edinburgh at 11:25. [7][11] He also reportedly admitted to other "unpleasant and embarrassing" things in interviews. Firefighters called to a blaze at a holiday cottage in. Id Dronley Avenue. Barbara Pinder, a 76-year-old pensioner, was beaten, strangled and then stabbed 35 times in her flat at 24A Prince of Wales Mansions in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, at some point between 26 and 28 October 1984. Buy Dundee Final Football Scottish Fixture Programmes (1980s) and get the best deals at the lowest prices on eBay! [14] In 2005 police arrested Vincent Simpson, the taxi driver who had been a suspect in the original investigation, at his home in Camberley, Surrey. Templeton Woods. When Thom . Diane Jones vanished outside the house she shared with her husband in, In the summer of 1983, 23-year-old Eila Karjalainen, a Finnish nursing student, was on holiday in England, and probably hitch-hiking, when she was murdered by an unknown perpetrator. The murder weapon, which the killer would have taken out with him, was never found. But the jury. Royalbroil/Wikimedia. Murder 1979, August 30th. The location the property was found is close to the Scottish city of Aberdeen in a spot called Westhill. The 62-year-old Italian banker and chairman of. Keith had last been seen at the Alma Tavern pub at lunchtime that day. She was accused of hiring hitmen to kill him and ensuring that neither of her pet dogs would be in a place where it could interfere with their mission, but the jury at her trial found her not guilty. What did not help Mr Simpson was he admitted spying on courting couples in the woods, had walked his dog there the night Ms McCabe went missing and he had a Ford Cortina taxi. Taxi driver George Murdoch was found fatally injured on Pitfodels Station Road on the evening of 29 September 1983. [23] The murders of Carol Lannen and Elizabeth McCabe started one of Scotland's biggest ever manhunts. To hear that he finally confessed is amazing. A 100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction for his murder was still on offer as of October 2009. A horrific 22-page story detailed his life and the crimes he carried out. [22], The BBC reported after that the trial that "There now seems little hope of closure for the McCabe family, or for Templeton Woods to shed its association with unsolved murder. Witnesses saw a white man about 20 years old running from the scene. It had been dumped not far from Westhill at a place called Kintore. The assailants then went on to target people in other parts of Surrey, stabbing a man in. Aristos Constantinou, co-founder of the fashion label. 56-year-old Phyllis Smith-Millward was attacked with a blunt instrument at her Hope Street flat. Murders and culpable homicides for 2004-05 totalled 137 - up 29 on the prevous year. Deborah Sweets home is ravaged by fire. 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. Despite the flat's thin walls, the sound of gunshots did not attract neighbours' attention reportedly due to a fireworks display outside the building at that time. A CS canister was also found at the scene, believed to have been used by either Miller or his killer during a struggle. At almost 8 pm on 20th March 1979 an 18 year old woman called Carol Lannen got into a red Ford Cortina. The 87-year-old's killer had assaulted her before setting fire to her bed. Dundee reporter Graeme Strachan has re-opened a 20-year-old unsolved murder case - and claims that Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe was not responsible. The 25-year-old drug dealer was discovered stabbed and beaten to death in woods at Brightling, near. Afterwards, police said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the murder. The only significant evidence against him was a claim that he had confessed to the murder in a pub. The case is one of Scotland's most notorious unsolved murders, and led to one of Scotland's largest manhunts. It has been uploaded to YouTube by the National Library of Scotland. Edward Smith 14 Alfred Evans 13 Ritual Kidnap Murder 1979, August 24, 1979. Pregnant Mary Budworth and her twin toddler sons Mark and Leslie died at their home in Hindley Walk, Speke, on 22 April 1985. The woman had allegedly been making anonymous phone calls to Maw before the murder and confessed to having followed Maw around. 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