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thirteen-year-old scottish girl janet anderson hurried along the footpath she had gone home over her lunch break
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which was due to end shortly as she neared her school janet passed a small black car parked to the side of
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the road its bonnet was up and the tall man in overalls was peering down at the car's
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engine noticing janet he called out to her and asked if she could help him by holding
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the bonnet up for a minute while he looked under the vehicle for signs of a fold
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janet had been brought up to respect her elders and the man looked pleasant enough so she agreed
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the car's bonnet was heavy janet had to use both hands to keep it raised while the man crawled under the
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car before long janet was startled by something the man had reached out from below and
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was groping her beneath her skirt janet screamed let go of the bonnet and fled after running a short distance janet
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realised that she should take down the license plate of her attacker's vehicle so he could be identified a later
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she turned and looked back at the car memorizing the mix of letters and numbers stamped onto its license plate
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before rushing off to the safety of her school the moment she arrived she jotted down
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the plate's details then went to inform a teacher of what had happened the police were notified and school
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administrators warned students to travel in pairs as a bad man was lurking in the
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neighborhood the assault couldn't have happened at a worse time janet and her family were already
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dealing with the terrible trauma just a few weeks earlier on a regular saturday afternoon
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janet's sister had vanished without a trace [Music] [Music] a blizzard hit the small town of
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copebridge scotland on saturday february 23 1957. that late afternoon moira anderson
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trudged through the fallen snow towards laird street the 11 year old had been sent by her
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uncle to purchase some butter needed for her grandmother's dinner that night moira was happy to oblige
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she often ran errands for her family and made a little pocket money doing the same for an elderly neighbour
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the second of three daughters moira was industrious and mature she even had a part-time job delivering
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milk which was hard work she had to push a heavy cart stacked with milk bottles door-to-door
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she had become a recognizable and much-loved presence within her close-knit community
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the walk to the co-op store on the corner of laird street was only about 500 yards from moira's grandmother's
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home but she had to move quickly as the shop was due to close in less than half an hour
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her blue coat was buttoned up tightly to protect against the icy air while a dark
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blue scarf and a navy blue wool pixie style hat with red bands kept her neck and head warm
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the streets were silent and deserted due to the terrible weather with very few vehicles on the road
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by that night the anderson family was overcome with worry parents andrew and maisie had spent the
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past few hours making enquiries as to the whereabouts of their daughter moira no one had seen or heard from her since
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she left for the co-op at around 3 50 pm she hadn't wound up at a friend or relative's house
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nor could she have gotten lost on the short journey as she knew the local streets like the back of her hand
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the bad weather also made it unlikely that she'd grown distracted and was playing outside somewhere
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the local library was checked in case moira had gone there and lost track of time reading which she had a habit of
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doing but she wasn't there either moira had missed the 5 pm screening of the film guys and dolls at a local
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cinema that she had planned to see with two of her older cousins it was an outing that she was very
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excited about but her cousins assumed she had chosen to do something else entirely when she failed to meet with
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them and didn't raise the alarm hours passed before anyone realized something was seriously amiss
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as the streets grew darker and colder any plausible explanation for moira's absence seemed less and less likely
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just before midnight andrew anderson contacted copridge police to report his little girl as
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missing the following day was maisie anderson's 40th birthday celebrations were cancelled as she spent
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it desperately looking for her daughter the search grew in size and scope over the next few days with local volunteers
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helping to check abundant buildings yards and sheds rumors that moira was a difficult child
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led police to consider the possibility that she'd had an argument with her parents or sisters and ran away
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some thought the 11 year old might have traveled as far as london a family thought they had seen moira at
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a fun fair in the nearby city of glasgow other sightings arose in west scotland and the north of england
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while police considered it probable that moira had vanished willingly and would turn up sooner or later her family felt
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very differently maisie anderson told the daily record newspaper i know my daughter has been taken away
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against her will she would never speak to strangers andrew echoed his wife's thoughts
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stating i fear she has been picked up in a car and taken away somewhere but moira never liked to leaving the
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town even to go to glasgow she spent almost all her spare time playing around the house
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a woman came forward with a story that seemed to support andrew and maisie anderson's belief that their daughter
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had been taken she lived in the area of moira's last known whereabouts and recalled hearing
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the sound of screeching breaks on that saturday afternoon she said that when she looked out her
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window she saw a car speeding away the woman suspected that the motorist had accidentally hit moira as she was
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walking then bundled her body into the car in a panic officers followed up on the report by
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visiting the woman's home after peering out of the window that she'd indicated they dismissed her
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theory almost immediately it wasn't possible for her to have seen the street from that location
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they also noted that the amount of snow on the day in question would have muffled the noise from any vehicles
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passing outside despite copridge's relatively close proximity to scotland's largest city of
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glasgow the town's small and safe community felt worlds away nobody was a stranger least of all moira
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anderson who was often recognized wherever she went her trip to the co-op store had been no
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exception mrs twycross was clearing away a heavy layer of snow outside her house on the
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afternoon of february 23 when she spotted moira anderson walking past on her butter buying mission
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she called out a greeting to the little girl who shouted one back in return mrs twycroft thought she heard moira ask
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is the bus away yet as moira continued on her way mrs twycroft went back inside her home
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moira anderson was next sighted boarding a bus near the co-op store it was unclear why she decided to catch
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a bus or where she was heading but a man waiting at the stop recognised the girl
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as he knew her family from a window of a nearby residence an elderly woman also spotted moira at the
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bus stop moira had been playing in the snow when suddenly she slipped and fell she seemed fine and quickly got back up
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then began rummaging through her pockets bag in the snow as though she dropped something
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the elderly woman thought moira might have lost money for her bus fare as she kept glancing up as though checking for
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the bus's arrival the bus appeared moments later and when it drove off again the woman saw that
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moira was gone when moira boarded the bus she took a seat at the front of the vehicle as the
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driver greeted her she locked eyes with a woman she knew and the pair exchanged a smile
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the woman carried on down the aisle towards the back she thought moira was still on the bus
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after she herself disembarked via the rear door the bus was bound for kirkwood a
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neighborhood on the outskirts of town there was no reason for moira to go there as she didn't know anyone who
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lived in the area but one local resident did raise police suspicions they wondered whether moira had crossed
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paths with a mentally disabled man named ian simpson he lived in kirkwood but his sister owned a house next to the
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laird street co-op that moira was headed to police questioned simpson and discovered
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he had a solid alibi for the afternoon of the 23rd [Music] he'd been away that weekend with the
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territorial army the british army's volunteer reserve force despite this at least one coatbridge
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inspector remained suspicious of simpson [Music] others felt that the answers they sought
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were closer to home prompting them to search a holiday property on scotland's east coast which
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was owned by the anderson family nothing of significance was found suspicion also fell on moyra's uncle jim
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who had sent her to buy butter on the afternoon she went missing as the last person to see her alive and
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an unmarried man some investigators considered him suspect police questioned him repeatedly but he
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stuck to his story and adamantly denied harming his niece despite the lack of any evidence against
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him rumors of his involvement persisted moira's disappearance was discussed endlessly at shops pubs and other
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meeting places throughout town coat bridge residents waited for news that might explain what had happened
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believing that investigators must be making progress behind the scenes but no news came
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fear kept children from staying out late as they constantly worried that whatever
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happened to moira anderson might happen to them as well janet anderson missed her younger sister
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terribly although she and moira were two years apart they looked so alike that they
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were often mistaken for twins moira confided in janet much as a twin would telling her things that she
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wouldn't tell anyone else one such story shared with the janet occurred a week before moira vanished
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moira had been walking alone in the same area she later disappeared from when a young man stopped her
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he held a knife and threatened moira with it demanding she go with him in exchange for money
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terrified moira fled janet questioned whether this encounter was significant to what later happened
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to moira but it couldn't be proven janet soon had her own frightening experience with a stranger
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weeks after moira vanished janet had been returning to school after spending a lunch break at home when she was
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sexually assaulted by a man who'd asked her for help to fix a car janet ran away from the man but
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remembered to take down his car's license plate details which she later passed on to authorities
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she was interviewed by two female police officers but her family never heard anything more about what was being done
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to catch the man who had attacked her andrew anderson was devastated one of his daughters was missing and the
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other had been assaulted in public in broad daylight he no longer had any faith in local law
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enforcement to protect his family the andersons believed the copebridge police lacked the necessary experience
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to handle a case like moira's people let alone children almost never went missing from cowbridge and the
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local police force weren't equipped to deal with it eventually the anderson's campaigning
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led to glasgow's criminal investigation department taking on the case glasgow detectives turned their
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attention to a man named peter manuel it was believed manuel had murdered seven people across southern scotland
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between 1956 and his arrest in 1958 while most of his victims were older he did kill a ten-year-old boy
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most of his murders were shootings carried out during break-ins but he did stalk rape and murder a 17-year-old girl
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whose body he buried in a field it was believed he also did the same to another 17 year old but this murder
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charge was dropped due to insufficient evidence manuel was active around alanacha the
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county where cobridge lay and hadn't yet been apprehended when moira anderson vanished
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the glasgow crd thought they might be able to link manuel to her disappearance but soon discovered he was imprisoned
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for another offence at the time the lead reached a dead ant just like every other one that investigators had
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pursued months turned into years and soon decades had passed without moira anderson's family ever learning what had
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happened to her on the afternoon of february 23 1957 sandra brown was eight years old and
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living in coat bridge when the town was rocked by moira anderson's disappearance
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as sandra was three years younger and attended a different school she hadn't known moira well but she was familiar
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with her like other children in cobrage sandra was permitted fewer freedoms after moira
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vanished she avoided play areas that had previously felt safe and began looking over her shoulder frequently fearful of
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whatever forces had taken moira away sandra was also dealing with a rocky home life
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her father was staying in hospital due to illness leaving sandra her mother and her two younger brothers to fend for
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themselves sandra helps her mother carry out cleaning jobs to support the family and
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also assisted in raising the two boys the absence of sandra's father alexander garchor was felt throughout town
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he was a constant presence in the day-to-day lives of coatbridge residents and he knew many of them by name
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just before christmas in 1956 some men had arrived at the garth shaw house and taken alexander away
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after that the other adults in the family would whisper to one another in hushed tones
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always stopping when sandra walked into the room one day sandra's paternal grandfather
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explained to her that her father had been hospitalized for mental illness the significant stigma around mental
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illness at the time meant that sandra couldn't visit her father and his situation was rarely spoken of
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when her father finally returned home in 1959 he settled back into the community
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and resumed his position behind the wheel of the bus he drove for the baxter's coach company
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alexander's treatment was shrouded in mystery sandra didn't understand the extent of
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it whatever it entailed she came to find it hadn't changed him much once back home he returned to his old
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bad ways he continued cheating on his wife with multiple women including a lengthy
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affair with a co-worker half his age this was the catalyst that led to sandra's parents separation and eventual
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divorce in 1965 alexander started a new family and a new life in leeds england effectively ending his relationship with
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his daughter sandra many years passed sandra eventually married and had two children of her own while also pursuing
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a successful career in teaching in the early 1980s sandra and her family relocated to the scottish highlands
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sandra immersed herself in her new neighborhood by participating in community theatre productions
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at an after party for one such production sandra was surprised to run into a former neighbor from coat bridge
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the two began to chat and the neighbor told sandra how she particularly remembered sandra's father
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his height good looks and dark hair meant that he'd been easy to notice before sandra could explain that her
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parents had divorced the neighbor remarked i always felt sorry about what happened
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to him as her former neighbour continued speaking it became clear to sandra that
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she had been lied to her father had never had an extended stay in a mental health hospital during
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her childhood between 1957 and 1959 alexander garchor had been in prison for raping his children's 13 year old
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babysitter sandra remembered her old babysitter well she was the sister of one of her
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father's colleagues sandra had never liked the way her father looked at the bubbly blond-haired
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young teen the discovery that her father was a convicted rapist rattled sandra to the
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core although his crime had been covered in the local papers at the time sandra had
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been too young to read the articles and her family had withheld the truth sexual assault was a taboo subject
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and alexander's positive reputation in the community shielded him from backlash many co-bridge locals rallied behind
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alexander believing he was being unfairly charged and laid some of the blame on his 13 year old victim
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this mentality carried on into subsequent court proceedings the victim claimed alexander had coerced
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her into having sex with him then paid her so she wouldn't talk about it the two had met repeatedly over a
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six-month period in dunbath park a large public reserve popular with children the defense worked to paint the ongoing
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abuse as something more like a love affair while depicting the victim as mature for her age and promiscuous
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they claimed that their client only continued seeing the teen because he was scared that if he ended things she would
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tell his wife about his infidelity the judge was unconvinced by the defense's attempt to victimize their
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client saying nothing could minimise the seriousness of alexander gartshaw's offences
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he was sentenced to 18 months in prison the news that her father was a rapist was shocking to sandra but she had
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always felt something wasn't right about him she remembered how he would leer at
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young women and make crass jokes while grabbing at or stroking their bodies sometimes he'd pin them to the ground if
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they struggled then lift their clothing and rub his stubbled face all over their
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skin he dubbed this the beardy game and insisted that women loved it his inappropriate behaviour wasn't
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limited to adults alexander liked to take sandra and her friends out in his black baby austin car
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on one particularly hot day he drove them to a remote lake when they arrived he gave sandra some
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money and asked her to go and buy ice creams for the group [Music] sandra got out of the car and headed
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back to an ice cream van they had passed on the way it was a fairly long walk and the ice
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creams were melting by the time sandra returned to her father's car [Music] she noticed its windows were fogged up
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and the doors were locked peering inside sandra saw some items of her friend's clothing scattered about
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she wondered if the group had been playing the beardy game on another occasion sandra watched her
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father lean over from behind the wheel to tickle and pinch her friends in the back seat
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sandra had been sitting beside him in the front passenger seat and when she turned to see what he was doing to her
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friends she saw he had pulled their underwear down and was touching their chests
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he also liked to join in on their games of hide and seek telling the girls that he knew of excellent hiding spots if
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anyone ever wanted to hide with him eventually sandra's friends began telling her that they couldn't play with
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her anymore when she asked why they replied just not to and we're not allowed to say why
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then there was the incident when sandra was seven years old tasked with delivering her father his
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lunch while he worked sandra headed to a nearby bus stop on main street that she
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knew he pulled into every 30 minutes the bus was already waiting there when sandra arrived so she boarded with
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sandwiches in hand her father and three other adults were seated in the back as sandra moved down the aisle towards
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them she sensed something wasn't right her father was grappling with the young woman who worked on his bus as a
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conductor a pair of women's underwear was sticking out of his trouser pocket next to them was one of the company's
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other drivers who was likewise engaged with another female employee sandra struggled to process the scene in
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front of her she spoke to them all announcing her arrival and the four adults scrambled to
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cover themselves in a furious voice her father bellowed get the hell out of here
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sandra fled from the bus and ran to the home of her aunt who comforted her as she sobbed
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sandra was terrified that her father would be angry at her a leather belt that he wore around his
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waist doubled as a weapon if he thought his children had misbehaved then alexander would remove
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the belt and whip them with the buckle and he also thought it was funny to punish
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sandra by dipping a teaspoon in freshly made tea before pressing it against her bare leg or arm leaving burns on her
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skin then he'd tell her mother that sandra had hurt herself by carelessly spilling
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the hot drink as the head of the household his word wasn't to be questioned sandra's aunt reassured her that she
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wouldn't be in trouble but also cautioned her against telling her mother what she'd seen
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it would be best if sandra forgot the whole thing her father took the same approach and
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never mentioned the incident instead he started to dode on his wife more taking her out on dates
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despite alexander's sudden shift into becoming a kinder person sandra struggled to trust her father
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at the theatre production after party many years later she finally came to learn that her feelings had been
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entirely justified it would take another decade after learning her father was a convicted
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rapist before sandra could address the matter with her family head on in 1992 following the death of a
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relative sandra made her way to their house to help with funeral arrangements to her shock her father was there
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it was the first time she had seen him in decades by now sandra was in her mid-40s and
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alexander garcia was almost 71. taking the opportunity to confront him about what she had since discovered
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sandra asked to speak to her father in private the two went to a bedroom and sat side
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by side on the bed alexander was smiling but his expression fell as sandra began to tell him how
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disgusted she was by him when she brought up his conviction for rape alexander became defensive
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he insisted that he tried to improve himself following his release from prison but struggled when he found not
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everyone was willing to forgive him although his wife and mother had given him a second chance his father never
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trusted him again after a tense moment of silence sandra asked why wouldn't your father forgive you
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her father waited a long time before speaking finally he said he wouldn't forgive me for the moira
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who was responsible his own son [Music] he was well aware that in the previous month alexander had been arrested and
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charged with carnal knowledge of a minor for raping his children's babysitter alexander had been quickly released on
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bail and the company he worked for allowed him to resume his bus driving job while awaiting trial
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[Music] when news broke that 11 year old moira anderson had vanished alexander mentioned to his father how the girl had
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boarded his bus on the afternoon she went missing witnesses had placed moira on his bus
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with one female passenger recalling how alexander had said hello moira when she boarded
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he'd been the last person to see or speak to her that day sunny was instantly suspicious
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he knew about his son's fixation with little girls as evidenced by his recent charge for raping one
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sonny feared that his son had abducted and killed moira and demanded that alexander tell the police where he had
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put the little girl's body he was so certain of this that he used a crowbar to tear up alexander's kitchen
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which had recently been renovated sunny pulled up the floorboards and broke through the false paneling behind
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the brand new sink just to check that moira hadn't been placed under there then he stormed through the rest of the
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house searching every room he didn't find any sign of the little girl but his niggling instincts remained
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in the days that followed sunny examined the vehicles his son drove and other areas where someone could conceivably
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hide a small body these efforts also failed to uncover anything two months later in april alexander was
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convicted and sentenced for rape at which point he left his family for what his children were told was an extended
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hospital stay for the rest of his life sunny continued to believe that his son was responsible
00:38:49
for moira anderson's disappearance [Music] now decades later in 1992 alexander spoke of his father's
00:39:01
suspicions to his own daughter sandra brown he didn't confess to having done anything to moira but sandra knew he was
00:39:11
fully willing and able moira anderson was exactly the type of little girl alexander used to pay
00:39:19
attention to her family had described her as a tomboy and she'd been slender and lively with a
00:39:26
striking and mischievous smile in an effort to discover the truth sandra spoke with other family members
00:39:35
to see if they could recall anything from the afternoon of saturday february 23 1957.
00:39:43
sandra had been just 8 years old at the time and was home sick with the flu her mother mary had been looking after
00:39:51
her while her father worked an afternoon shift from 2 till ten yet he didn't return home until midnight
00:40:02
mary noted how exhausted her husband looked and attributed it to long hours driving the bus coupled with the bad
00:40:09
weather the following afternoon a relative visited the guard shaw home and informed
00:40:16
the family that moira anderson was missing the next week alexander arrived home to
00:40:23
find his wife chatting with her sister who had stopped by for a visit he told the two women that he had to
00:40:31
head back out again to speak with the police as he was already out on bail for raping
00:40:37
the family's 13 year old babysitter this news upset mary and she demanded to know
00:40:43
what was going on alexander explained that someone had mistakenly reported that moira anderson
00:40:51
had boarded his bus on the day she went missing and heard him greet her by name he had to tell the police that it was
00:40:59
all a mix-up the young passenger he'd picked up that afternoon was another little girl named
00:41:06
moira liddell gutshaw left for the police station and was back home within an hour
00:41:16
a short while later mary received an anonymous letter crafted from letters cut out of newspapers
00:41:24
the author warned that the babysitter wasn't alexander's only rape victim and told mary she should take her children
00:41:31
and move away to australia the letter concluded why don't you go if you know what's good
00:41:39
for you you think you know what he's done but you don't know the half of it he won't stop with the lassie anderson
00:41:51
mary took the letter to the copridge police when no one followed up on the matter
00:41:57
mary disregarded the letter and forgot about it all together curious to know if her father had been
00:42:06
ruled out of the investigation into moira anderson's disappearance sandra reached out to an old friend who worked
00:42:13
as a police inspector he put her in touch with a colleague who worked near coke bridge
00:42:21
within a few days two plainclothes detectives visited sandra at home one of them who introduced himself as
00:42:29
detective inspector jim mcewen was carrying a large file filled with case documents
00:42:36
detective mcewen informed sandra that there was no record of any interview with her father in relation to moira's
00:42:43
disappearance he's claimed that he had driven a girl called moira liddell not moira anderson
00:42:51
on the afternoon of february 23 1957 was also disputed as there was no child living in the area
00:43:00
by that name at the time surprisingly despite having been on bail for sexually assaulting a child when
00:43:09
moira disappeared alexander gartshaw's name didn't appear once in her entire case file
00:43:17
there was a line that made reference to a bus driver refuting the sightings of moira on his bus
00:43:24
it read the driver indicated that neither he nor the conductress were aware of any child
00:43:32
answering moira's description the buses female conductor had not been spoken to at all
00:43:42
although it had been 35 years since moira anderson disappeared her case was only ever classified as a
00:43:50
missing person file it had never been upgraded to a murder investigation meaning that it received fewer resources
00:44:01
although it had never been closed it wasn't being actively investigated either detective jim mcewen was genuinely
00:44:10
interested in everything that sandra brown had to say about her father he was convinced that moira had met with
00:44:18
foul play and alexander garcia was a promising person of interest detective mcewen began looking further
00:44:26
into garth shaw's history after his release from prison gartsol hadn't been charged with any further
00:44:34
sexual assaults however after moving to england he was arrested for trying to obtain a mortgage
00:44:42
under false pretenses [Music] detective mcewan tracked down retired police inspector john mcdonald who had
00:44:52
overseen the original investigation into moira anderson's disappearance mcdonald had a clear memory of alexander
00:45:00
garchor as a local bus driver but no recollection of his conviction for raping a minor
00:45:07
when detective mcewen raised the possibility of garth shaw's involvement in moira's case mcdonald replied
00:45:15
it couldn't have been him he stopped his bus for all the old ladies and dropped them at their gates
00:45:22
and the kitties all gave him sweets instead macdonald still suspected ian simpson the mentally disabled kirkwood
00:45:32
resident who'd had a strong alibi for the day in question detective mcewan didn't get much further
00:45:40
with most of the other rex officers who'd been involved in the moira anderson investigation either
00:45:46
but one did confirm that gartshaw had a reputation for predatory behavior and lots of complaints had been filed
00:45:53
against him he was suspected of being a flasher who exposed himself to children in dunbath
00:46:00
park and the nearby area though this was never proven garchor was also well known to local
00:46:09
cinema owners he had a habit of going to film screenings and sitting next to children
00:46:15
or young women harassing them throughout the show the women would often move to another
00:46:22
seat but the children typically stayed where they were too scared to do anything
00:46:29
some parents like those of sandra brown's friends told their children they weren't to go near guard shore
00:46:36
but social mores at the time meant they didn't really discuss why detective mcewen stayed in touch with
00:46:45
sandra brown over the following months with the two updating one another on new information that came to light
00:46:53
sandra revealed that she had started speaking about her father to her six female cousins some of whom had some
00:47:00
very troubling things to share rebecca not her real name was six years old in 1962 when she went to a family
00:47:12
tea party at her grandparents house it was a warm summer's day and everyone was sitting in the garden enjoying the
00:47:20
sunshine everyone except rebecca's uncle alexander gartshaw he was alone in the garage working on
00:47:30
his baby austin car rebecca was playing with her four-year-old sister when her attention
00:47:37
turned to her uncle who was summoning her to the garage garcho was sitting behind his black car
00:47:45
wearing a pair of navy blue overalls over the top of his regular clothes the car's bonnet was up but gutshore was
00:47:54
focused on something else a one bar electrical heater that was lying across his lap
00:48:02
it looked as though he was repairing got shaw called out to rebecca to come closer but she was hesitant to venture
00:48:10
further into the dark garage something just didn't feel right sensing her hesitation garchor said
00:48:22
come here hen there's something i want you to hold for me here rebecca moved to her uncle's side
00:48:32
he spoke again stating come on hold it just for a minute that's all you have to do
00:48:40
it's a cable rebecca looked down at her uncle's lap to see what he was referring to
00:48:49
when she saw that his penis was exposed through his overalls she froze in shock suddenly rebecca heard her four-year-old
00:48:58
sister behind her she had followed rebecca into the garage curious about what she was doing
00:49:06
rebecca grabbed her hand and cried run the two girls fled back outside to where the rest of their family was gathered
00:49:16
when rebecca quietly told her mother what had happened she was warned not to tell lies
00:49:23
but rebecca's mother never let her daughters have much contact with their uncle after that
00:49:33
another cousin told sandra that garcho repeatedly molested her when she was seven or eight years old
00:49:40
he had shoved her into a cupboard that he used as a workspace in his home and assaulted her in the dark
00:49:48
her sister was also assaulted between the ages of seven and ten though sandra was never sexually abused
00:49:56
by her father of her six cousins at least four and possibly five had been garcho offered money and sweets as a way
00:50:06
to bait his victims other times he used his car not many people in coat bridge could
00:50:14
afford a vehicle in the 1950s and going out for a ride in one was a rare treat garth shaw would offer to entertain his
00:50:23
nieces by taking them for a drive and their parents happily accepted this abuse impacted sandra's cousins
00:50:32
well into their adult years resulting in depression anxiety and traumatic flashbacks
00:50:40
some of sandra's school friends spoke of being tormented by her father as well once when he took a group of girls out
00:50:48
on a fishing trip he cornered one child by a riverbank and pressed his weight on
00:50:53
top of her while reaching under her dress she avoided garth shaw after that refusing to even catch a bus in case she
00:51:02
saw him but one day she went looking for sandra at home and her father answered the door
00:51:11
sandra was out so garchor invited the girl inside to wait for her he pushed her into a bedroom and locked
00:51:19
the door behind them then molested her before leaving he handed the girl some money
00:51:27
then told her she could earn some more if she stopped by again when no one else was home
00:51:36
by mid-march of 1993 detective mcewen felt he finally had enough information to interview alexander garchor
00:51:45
he and his superior travelled to leeds to speak with garth shaw in person they showed the elderly gusher a
00:51:53
photograph of a young girl smiling broadly from behind a desk when she was reading a book
00:52:00
when asked if he recognized the girl garchor looked shaken and began to tremble in a halting voice he said
00:52:11
moira then he added she looks a lot older there got shaw said he'd first learned that
00:52:22
moira was missing when he overheard passengers on his bus talking about it that very evening
00:52:29
despite the fact that moira's father hadn't reported her missing until almost midnight
00:52:36
she was a regular passenger garth shaw explained but he insisted he had nothing to do with her outside of that
00:52:45
this was contradicted by a friend of moires who'd reported that garchor had once called out to moira while the two
00:52:52
of them were playing in dunbath park and he was working on his car when the two girls approached garshore
00:53:00
he exposed himself to them gutshaw eventually admitted to police that moira had boarded his bus the
00:53:09
afternoon she vanished their interaction had gone beyond a simple hello with moira explaining her intention to
00:53:19
go to a larger supermarket in town because the co-op had been closed early due to the bad weather
00:53:26
she told garth shaw that it was her mother's birthday the next day and she wanted to buy her a card as a surprise
00:53:34
garth shaw told detectives that he had made an unofficial stop at the supermarket moira wanted to visit she
00:53:42
disembarked the bus waved to him and then he drove off garth shaw was correct february 24 had
00:53:52
in fact been moira's mother's 40th birthday but this was the first time police had
00:53:59
heard of moira's plan to buy her mother a birthday card as she hadn't told anyone else about it
00:54:06
the only person who knew this information was alexander gartshaw detective mcewan was more convinced than
00:54:15
ever that the man held many more secrets in the meantime news had spread that investigators were interviewing a man in
00:54:26
relation to the decades-old moira anderson case word of the update was relayed to
00:54:33
moira's sister janet who had since relocated to sydney australia where she built a new life for herself
00:54:41
cobridge held too many painful memories all of which were now being dredged back
00:54:46
up while janet was pleased progress was finally being made it was also bittersweet
00:54:56
moira's parents had longed to know what happened to her but had since died janet and moira's other sister marjorie
00:55:05
still awaited closure over the enduring painful mystery upon learning that a person of interest
00:55:12
had recently emerged janet contacted scottish police to find out more as it happened detective jim mcewen was
00:55:23
in sydney visiting family he made plans to meet janet at her home to speak with her directly
00:55:32
during their conversation janet spoke of her disturbing encounter she had with a
00:55:37
sex past weeks after her sister disappeared thirteen-year-old janet had been walking
00:55:43
to school when a tall man in overalls called her over to his car under the guise of needing help
00:55:51
he got janet into position telling her to hold up the car's bonnet while he crawled underneath to look for a fold
00:55:59
he then groped her janet ran to school in a panic but remembered to look back at her
00:56:07
attacker's black car and take mental note of its license plate number the car was a black baby austin
00:56:17
it belonged to alexander garchor when janet laid eyes on a picture of godshaw she recognized him immediately
00:56:28
the man being questioned about her little sister's disappearance was the very person who had sexually
00:56:35
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deliver quality content despite alexander garchar having been established as a serial predator who had
01:00:30
interacted with moira at the time she disappeared in circumstances that he was being deceptive about
01:00:36
there was no concrete evidence that he had harmed her the focus turned to trying to find
01:00:43
moira's remains if gart shaw was her killer then detectives speculated that he wouldn't
01:00:50
have driven far to dispose of her body the blizzard that consumed coat bridge that day would have made traveling
01:00:57
difficult and dangerous most likely gartshaw had dumped moira's body somewhere close to his bus route
01:01:08
there were any number of places he might have chosen lennox had been the center of scotland's
01:01:15
coal industry and copridge was dotted with old mine shafts there were ponds lakes marshy areas and
01:01:23
canals that cut right through the town during their search efforts detective mcewen drove around town with a psychic
01:01:32
named william who found himself embroiled in the case after being visited by sandra brown
01:01:40
he knew nothing about moira's disappearance but had told sandra he believed the girl's body was lying near
01:01:46
a quarry not far from her former home in cobrage detective mcewen was willing to explore
01:01:54
this unconventional lead and as he drove with william around town the psychic revealed more information
01:02:04
he said moira had trusted her killer because he wore a uniform then suddenly asked
01:02:11
where is a bus involved in all this i'm clearly picking up that she got on a bus
01:02:19
william then led detectives to a remote area with old mine pits and quarries and
01:02:25
made them stop at a pond he got out of the car and walked towards a marshy area where he became visibly
01:02:33
sick he spoke of sensing moira all around and asked to leave the location was near a bus terminal
01:02:43
that alexander garcia was familiar with investigators had the pond searched but nothing was found
01:02:55
although he hadn't succeeded in finding moira's body detective jim mcewan remained certain she had been murdered
01:03:03
he'd accumulated seven boxes full of documentation relating to the case including new statements provided by a
01:03:11
range of people who knew alexander garchar from former colleagues to his ex-wife
01:03:19
on may 18 1993 more than 36 years after moira vanished detective mcewen arrested
01:03:28
garth shaw on suspicion of murder he was also charged with five counts of lewd and libidinous behavior for abuses
01:03:37
against four of his nieces garchor was immediately released on bail while scotland's crown office reviewed
01:03:45
all the evidence to determine whether the case would go to trial they reached a decision
01:03:54
they wanted the abuse charges dropped stating that it wasn't in the public interest to pursue them
01:04:01
a reason as to why wasn't given without these charges investigators had no way of forcing guard shaw to return
01:04:11
to scotland the crown office also advised that further investigation needed to be
01:04:17
carried out before any murder charges could be laid in the words of the public prosecutor
01:04:25
known in scotland as the debut procurator fiscal there is no murder without a body
01:04:33
the moira anderson case is still officially a missing person's inquiry pure and simple
01:04:41
he noted that while alexander gartshaw had said some incriminating and suspicious things
01:04:47
the police aren't much further forward than in 1957 the moira anderson case remained open
01:04:58
but without a body and with alexander garchar living in england there was little that scottish detectives could do
01:05:07
sandra brown was devastated to learn that her father wouldn't be held accountable for his crimes against her
01:05:13
cousins the fact that moira's case had stalled as a result compounded the blow but she wasn't done with him
01:05:25
sandra arrived in leeds accompanied by a journalist from the sunday mail named marion scott
01:05:33
the pair visited alexander gartshaw's home and he welcomed them both in accepting sandra's word that marion was
01:05:41
just her friend the women then questioned garth shaw about moira anderson he maintained that he had left her at
01:05:51
the supermarket but this time he insisted she was with a friend whose name he didn't know
01:05:58
he added that he had gotten off the bus at the same time as moira new and incriminating detail he hadn't
01:06:06
shared before sandra pressed him on this which led to her father quickly correcting himself
01:06:14
he disembarked so he could go home for an hour-long break in the middle of his double shift
01:06:21
a relief driver had taken over his bus during his absence however sandra knew that her father never used
01:06:30
to return home between double shifts no matter how many different ways sandra pushed him garcho would not admit to
01:06:39
killing moira but he did confess to abusing one of his nieces stating i admit that i did touch her but it was
01:06:50
never the full thing everything else like but she was a relative and i liked her
01:06:58
marampa so it wasn't the whole hog he began to rant about how he'd been cast as a black sheep his entire life
01:07:09
he was sick of police looking for things to pin on him and children accusing him
01:07:14
of things he hadn't done he had kept count of all the times investigators had questioned or
01:07:21
interviewed him over the years in total he had been suspected of committing sexual offenses against
01:07:30
122 children unbeknownst to garchor marion scott had hidden a tape recorder in her bag and
01:07:41
recorded their entire encounter she wrote a full page article about the visit and what gartshaw had revealed
01:07:50
this still wasn't enough for sandra so she began to write a book detailing her experiences with her father and the case
01:07:58
against him over the years she had come to suspect that copebridge police in 1957
01:08:07
might have actively covered up for her father garcia was a member of the freemasons
01:08:14
organization as were most of the town's policemen and they all attended the same
01:08:19
lodge sandra's childhood home had also been just across the street from the police
01:08:26
station and she had observed how her father seemed to know all the officers in 1999 sandra's book was published
01:08:38
she titled it where there is evil in reference to a biblical passage which states that where evil resides it must
01:08:46
be cast out following its publication new witnesses began to contact sandra to share
01:08:53
information one woman who was a teenager in 1957 recalled how she had disembarked to
01:09:02
garth shaw's bus in the town center on the day of moira's disappearance she began walking along an isolated road
01:09:11
to a family friend's farmhouse trudging through the snow as the road gradually became an unpaved track
01:09:19
as she walked she noticed footprints in the snow she also heard a scream the area was remote and there shouldn't
01:09:29
have been anyone else out there so when the girl reached her friend's house she told them what had happened
01:09:37
they didn't think it was anything to worry about and told her not to bother reporting it to the police
01:09:45
a different witness said they'd seen a man in what looked like a baxter's bus uniform dragging a little girl into a
01:09:53
field near a pond the girl was wearing clothes similar to what moira had been wearing when she was
01:10:00
last seen another individual contacted the authorities to report something a now
01:10:08
deceased family member had seen on the night in question a farmer who lived near the neighboring
01:10:15
town to cowbridge had noticed an empty bus parked in a way that was partly blocking the road
01:10:22
its engine and lights were off but the farmer noticed condensation on its windows
01:10:28
the following day the bus was gone the farmer had reported the sighting to police however they never followed up on
01:10:38
it the initial investigation into moira anderson's disappearance was marred by many instances such as this in which
01:10:49
police work was lackluster or botched from the outset there was an unwillingness to take the case seriously
01:10:57
with police more willing to suspect the 11 year old girl had fled all the way to
01:11:02
london than believe she met with foul play alexander garchor was completely overlooked despite his previous
01:11:12
interactions with moira anderson and the fact he was out on bail for raping a 13
01:11:18
year old girl any clues that led to garchor as a suspect were disregarded or never
01:11:25
pursued search efforts were sometimes lazy and in other instances non-existent the town's canal wasn't searched not
01:11:36
because police had deemed it irrelevant or unnecessary but because there were too many weeds
01:11:44
although televisions had been used in scotland since 1952 investigators didn't initially bother
01:11:51
making a televised appeal until three months after moira went missing witnesses who'd provided tip-offs waited
01:11:59
in vain for police to contact them and arrange follow-up interviews one such person mrs twycross had seen
01:12:09
moira walking on the afternoon of her disappearance and overheard her talking about the bus
01:12:16
mrs twycross assumed investigators would door knock all the homes in the neighborhood as a part of their
01:12:22
enquiries which would provide her the opportunity to tell them what she had seen
01:12:28
when they never stopped to buy she concluded that they must have known more than she did and carried on with her
01:12:34
life multiple witness accounts that placed moira on garth shaw's bass were dismissed after investigators spoke to
01:12:44
one of the company's drivers presumably gutshaw himself while the sightings did end up in police
01:12:52
reports they were never shared publicly preventing others from coming forward with additional information that could
01:13:00
shed further light on moira's final movements in 2012 moira anderson's missing person
01:13:09
case was finally reclassified as a murder inquiry scotland's newly formed cold case unit
01:13:17
took over the investigation and two years later prosecutors publicly named alexander gartshaw as the prime suspect
01:13:25
for the first time they stated that he should have been charged with moira's murder back in 1957
01:13:33
but clarified that they were not labeling him as guilty they were merely saying there was enough
01:13:40
evidence against him to warrant an indictment and a likely conviction this declaration came eight years too
01:13:49
late alexander garcia had died in 2006 at the age of 85. he had lived in leeds for the remainder
01:14:00
of his life and passed away in one of the city's hospitals there have been repeated searches for
01:14:08
moira anderson's remains in recent years the grave of one of alexander gartshaw's
01:14:14
friends was exhumed as he had previously made reference to the friend having done
01:14:19
him a big favor the friend was laid to rest three weeks after moira vanished leading to the
01:14:27
belief that garcho stashed moira's body beneath his friend's coffin before the grave was filled in
01:14:35
this theory like many others proved false as of early 2022 moira's remains have not been found
01:14:49
in august 1997 40 years after alexander garchar was jailed for raping his children's babysitter news broke that
01:14:58
another pedophile had been convicted in coke bridge sixty-six-year-old james gallagher was a
01:15:05
retired lorry driver and church elder found guilty of abusing four girls over a 12-year period
01:15:13
in one case he'd assaulted a girl in his bedroom after holding up a bible and telling her it is god's way
01:15:23
the truth of these abuses only came to light decades later after gallagher was accused of assaulting another child
01:15:32
following these revelations parents in the coat bridge area asked their now adult children if they'd ever been a
01:15:39
victim of gallagher and two sets of sisters admitted that they had james gallagher was an old friend of
01:15:48
alexander garchor the two men were colleagues at baxter's bus company and gallogly was
01:15:56
responsible for introducing garchor to his sister the 13 year old babysitter who got shaw
01:16:03
went on to rape gallogly was finally convicted of his own crimes in 1997 and given a 10-year prison sentence
01:16:14
gallogly didn't spend long behind bars he was diagnosed with cancer and died in prison a little over 18 months later in
01:16:24
1999 six months after his death another convicted pedophile named alexander kill
01:16:33
came forward claiming to have knowledge of further crimes fifty-eight-year-old keel said he'd been
01:16:41
cellmates with gallagher and that he'd confessed to being part of a pedophile ring named the untouchables
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other members of the ring included police officers politicians and notorious criminals such as english
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serial killer fred west and the perpetrator of the dunblane school massacre hill had penned a 26-page dossier
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detailing supposed admissions from gallagher amongst them was a reference to moira
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anderson gallagher had said that he and alexander garchor abducted and sedated the 11 year
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old before assaulting her on garth shaw's bus back at the depot the men had left moira on the bus
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overnight and she died from exposure after discovering her lifeless body the next day
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gutshaw dumped her in an area of parkland called the witchwood ponds keel tried to sell his dossier to the
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sunday mail newspaper for 20 000 pounds before suddenly handing it over without any payment at all
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when moira's family first learned of this dossier they held high hopes that her case would be solved
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but after looking into the claims more closely investigators dismissed the entire document as a cruel hoax by keel
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as he'd provided no evidence to support any of his accusations sandra brown hasn't given up hope that
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moira anderson's case will one day be officially solved in the year 2000 she launched the moira
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anderson foundation using proceeds from her book sales as a legacy to moira and her family
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the charity provides support to children and adults who have been impacted by child sexual abuse
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sandra has received an order of the british empire for her services to child protection
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moira's sister janet has expressed her gratitude to sandra for establishing the foundation telling a bbc journalist
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children now have a voice and someone who will listen just over a month after she disappeared
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on march 31 moira anderson would have celebrated her 12th birthday she had been asking for the board game
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monopoly as a gift after she disappeared maisie anderson honored her daughter's request and
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purchased the game telling the press that she wouldn't give up hope that moira would one day play it
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on each birthday in the years that followed maisie would buy her daughter another gift and set a place for her at
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the dinner table still holding on to the hopes she had in 1957 and until her death 20 years later
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speaking of her beloved sister janet told the scottish sun newspaper i still think of her every day i pray
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each night that she's found and i still have nightmares although not so often now
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all we want is closure [Music] in 2016 case file covered the disappearance of 22 year old shano
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callahan all you can see is headlights of a car flashing it's blatantly obvious that she got in that car whoever had
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taken her had done it for criminal purposes now hear firsthand from loved ones and
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lead investigator steve bulcher as we unravel how the case unfolded and the minefield of legal and ethical dilemmas
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encountered along the way therefore there's only one way to do this it was at that point that steve
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fortune decided to take an extraordinary gamble her life is my responsibility all
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i could do was plead with him for her life when a killer confesses do you listen he said you and i should
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have a chat the fact of his guilt was unequivocal but what if one interpretation of the law
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says you shouldn't accept the confession when he got taken to swindon he got a lawyer all that conversation
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those vital confessions disappeared of no value what they were doing what were they doing
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what happens to the cop who believes he's making the right choice the whole reason we were there
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was losing sight what was wrong in getting a confession from a murderer it obviously rehearsed
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this line that you ended with which was it was a pleasure to ruin your career you corrupt bastard if it had been your
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loved one steve fulcher was looking for what would you have wanted him to do to crucify somebody
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for trying his best to get closure for two families doesn't make a lot of sense case file presents the detective's
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dilemma available for free on march 14 only on spotify