Bible John: The Ballroom Killer
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Bible John: The Ballroom Killer
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Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald, and Helen Puttock were murdered between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland after meeting their killer at the Barrowland Ballroom. The unsolved homicide investigation spawned one of Europe's most notorious cold cases when a witness described the suspect quoting scripture and condemning adultery, giving birth to the nickname Bible John. Police interviewed 5,000 people, created Scotland's first composite sketch of a murder suspect, and conducted DNA testing on exhumed bodies, yet the serial killer has never been identified.
This case has everything that makes a cold case absolutely maddening. You've got three women strangled with their own stockings after nights at the same dance hall. You've got a witness who rode in a taxi with the killer and lived to describe him in disturbing detail. You've got a composite sketch that became Scotland's most infamous image. And you've got decades of botched DNA testing, suspected police cover-ups, and theories that keep piling up while the actual killer's identity remains a mystery. The Barrowland Ballroom murders happened over fifty years ago, and new suspects are still emerging, podcasts are forcing police to reopen investigations, and that eerie composite drawing still stares back from cold case files, waiting for science to finally catch up with justice.
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