The killer had placed sanitary napkins or tampons either on the bodies or near them. Of note, each of the women killed was menstruating at the time of their murder. There was also a human bite mark on one of her legs. She had grass stains on her feet, which showed she most likely tried to get away from her killer. This time her handbag had been upended nearby, the contents scattered, but the bag itself was missing. Helen had been raped and strangled, just like the others. Jean was dropped off at her home in Knightswood and the taxi headed for the direction of Helen’s home in Scotstoun. According to Jean, the man was very well-spoken and liked to quote from the Bible, which is why the killer ended up being called ‘Bible John’. When they left the ballroom, John went off to catch a bus, and the other man joined Helen and Jean in getting a taxi. The other man didn’t disclose who he was or where he was from. They had met two men there, one of who was called John who said he was from Castlemilk. Like the others, she had also attended the Barrowland Ballroom on the night she was killed, along with her sister Jean. The third known victim was Helen Puttock, 29, who was found in her own back garden on October 31, 1969. Witnesses came forward saying they had seen Jemima leaving the Barrowland around midnight that Friday with a young man who was slim, tall, and had red hair.įurther investigations uncovered a witness who claimed she had heard screaming coming from the old building the night Jemima was killed, but she was unable to say what time she had heard it, so the police didn’t consider it important. Her autopsy showed she had been raped, beaten and strangled. Inside the building she found the fully clothed body of her sister Jemima. The next day, her sister Margaret had heard children talking about a body they had seen in an old building, but at first she didn’t pay too much attention.īy Monday, and with no sign of her si ster, Margaret decided to investigate the rumors she had heard from the children.
Jemima McDonald was a 32-year-old mother of three children, who had gone to the Barrowland Ballroom on Friday, August 15, 1969. How the next victim’s body was found is truly t ragic.
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