'Bible John' the Serial Killer Probably Never Existed: Police
David Lister
Times Online, UK
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Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK):
A notorious serial killer said to have quoted from the Bible as he went about murdering young women probably never existed, police have concluded. “Bible John”, widely blamed for the murder of three women after meeting them at Glasgow dance halls, is a mythical figure whose “existence” owes more to popular imagination than reality, according to Strathclyde Police.
Detectives leading a review into the murders, which occurred within a 20-month period in the late 1960s, believe that the original inquiry into the killings was too narrowly focused and that each victim may have been murdered by a different killer. The spectre of a Bible-quoting serial killer stalking Glasgow’s dance halls four decades ago, filling the city’s women with fear, sparked one of the biggest police investigations in Scottish history.
The murders bore striking similarities: the women were all murdered after spending a night at the Majestic or Barrowland dance halls in Glasgow; they were raped and strangled with their stockings or tights; they were all found naked or semi-naked; and all had been menstruating. Dec15, 2005
David Lister
Times Online, UK
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Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK):
A notorious serial killer said to have quoted from the Bible as he went about murdering young women probably never existed, police have concluded. “Bible John”, widely blamed for the murder of three women after meeting them at Glasgow dance halls, is a mythical figure whose “existence” owes more to popular imagination than reality, according to Strathclyde Police.
Detectives leading a review into the murders, which occurred within a 20-month period in the late 1960s, believe that the original inquiry into the killings was too narrowly focused and that each victim may have been murdered by a different killer. The spectre of a Bible-quoting serial killer stalking Glasgow’s dance halls four decades ago, filling the city’s women with fear, sparked one of the biggest police investigations in Scottish history.
The murders bore striking similarities: the women were all murdered after spending a night at the Majestic or Barrowland dance halls in Glasgow; they were raped and strangled with their stockings or tights; they were all found naked or semi-naked; and all had been menstruating. Dec15, 2005
