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SCOTLAND Unsolved 1979: Why detectives believed a serial killer was at large

Dec
14
2007

u1 UK UK/Scotland/Tayside – Twice in less than a year, the frozen conifers of Dundee’s Templeton Woods shrouded the naked bodies of young women who died violently.

Tayside Police were already trying to track down the killer of teenage prostitute Carol Lannen when two rabbit hunters stumbled on the remains of trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, covered only by debris from the trees and a blue jumper draped over her shoulders. It was the eve of her 21st birthday.

For a time detectives thought both girls had died at the hands of a serial killer – and they had been told that Ms Lannen was last seen talking to a taxi driver. But the trail soon went cold.

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