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, until Iain Packer was eventually convicted of the crime 19 years later. It was also the case that would be the catalyst for our investigation - but who was the girl behind the headlines? We speak to those who knew her to be kind, gentle and family orientated – even in the grips of a drug addiction brought on by the tragic death of her sister. We also hear from another of Packer’s victims, one whose striking similarity to Emma would see her become caught up in the police investigation. She thinks she only narrowly escaped a similar fate, thanks to a nagging feeling about the man with the dark eyes who kept trying to get her into the back of his van. Also hear from the first officer to interview Packer. Why was mounting evidence against this violent rapist repeatedly ignored by senior officers? How was he able to evade justice for almost two decades?

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Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle

Presented and produced by Callum McQuade

Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison

Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan

Designer - Ben Watkins

Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls

Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared

Head of Production - Cat Moran

Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave

Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead

Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media