Beware Book

This is the concluding chapter of an investigation that has taken more than one year.   Join us as we finally sit down with police to ask the questions that have built up over the stacks of interviews, door knocks, calls and emails.  The questions that the families we’re working with have waited decades for answers to.  We ask two senior serving Police...

This is The Drag – a handful of streets in Glasgow city centre which made up the red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s. We make a visit with an experienced local crime reporter asking what life would have been like for the women who stood there on cold, dark nights all those years ago? Waiting to be picked up by one of the circling drivers, not knowing how the encounter might end. Heroin...

Iain Packer lived in freedom for almost 20 years after killing Emma Caldwell in 2005. Despite strangling her and discarding her body in remote woods about 40 miles outside Glasgow, he was able to live a seemingly normal family life. Also to attack dozens of other women. We explore the decisions taken during the initial police investigation which allowed him to escape justice for almost two decades...

Join us on the journey to the remote woods – about 40 miles outside Glasgow - where Emma’s body was found in May 2005. With us is the officer who first visited there with the man who would eventually be convicted of her murder. Her body was discovered by a dog walker more than a month after she’d gone missing from the city centre. It had been one of Scotland’s most high-profile unsolved murders, u...

“I think her last words would have been mammy” The words of Jacqueline Gallagher’s mum, during a heartbreaking interview with us in the family home – as she tries to describe a pain that took their breath away in 1996 and never gave it back.    A pain which started when Jackie was found dead, wrapped in a homemade curtain, near a bus stop in Bowling.  The 26-year-old from Paisley, s...

Marjorie’s case has been described as perhaps the cruellest of all.  The 34-year-old mother-of-three was found in the River Clyde, near Jamaica Bridge, in August 1995. But her death has never been treated as murder.  Police say "no criminality” has ever been established but CCTV footage showed her with a man next to the river, hours before she was found dead.  Weeks later, that same...

The body of the 23-year-old Diane McInally was discovered in Pollok Park, Glasgow, in October 1991. She had been beaten and strangled. Two men were charged with her murder in March 1992 but there was insufficient evidence to try them. There are also persistent rumours that Diane was murdered because she was due to be a key prosecution witness in a drug trial.  Hear from Diane’s auntie and cou...

The story of Glasgow’s unsolved murders.   Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious killings of young women which shocked the city between 1991 and 2005.   This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time.  Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserv...