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On 30th October 1969 Helen Puttock went out dancing with her sister in Glasgow. Her body was discovered the next morning in a backcourt near the family home. Her murder sparked widespread panic across the city. And launched the longest running manhunt in Scotland’s history. It was to become a case that would grip the national imagination for decades. The Hunt for Bible John I, BBC 2020
Friday 23rd February 1968: Police are called to an address in the south side of the city. ibid.
Despite the press attention no significant witnesses came forward. All that is known is that Patricia Docker went to a dancehall the night she was killed. ibid.
Hunt goes on for nurse’s clothing: The hunt went on today for clothing belonging to murder victim Mrs Patricia Docker found naked in a lane in Langside, Glasgow, 11 days ago. ibid.
Saturday 16th August 1969: 18 months after the murder of Patricia Docker: Jemima MacDonald. ibid.
Helen’s murder is front page news. And quickly becomes the priority for Glasgow’s already overstretched police force. The Hunt for Bible John II
Four decades ago while the rest of the world celebrated the swinging sixties, flower power and free love, fear gripped Glasgow. It seemed that one man, one monster, had made this place – the Barrowland Ballroom – his hunting ground. David Hayman, The Bible John Mystery ***** CI 2011
The newspapers soon gave this killer a name – Bible John. ibid.
Then the murders stopped and no-one knows why. ibid.
We investigate new information which links Bible John’s crimes to Scotland’s most vicious serial killer – Peter Tobin. ibid.
Was there more than one killer at large? ibid.
Peter Tobin was convicted of Angelika’s murder in 2007 and sentenced to twenty-one years. But monsters like Tobin don’t usually start killing at the age of sixty. ibid.
One such case was the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Vicky Hamilton in 1991. ibid.
The police discovered Tobin had moved from Bathgate to the seaside town of Margate just before Dinah went missing. ibid.
Forensic tests revealed that Tobin had drugged, raped and strangled Vicky in his Bathgate home. Later he cut her body in two, transported her remains to his new house in Margate and buried her. But Tobin’s horrors didn’t end with Vicky. ibid.
Is Peter Tobin Bible John? ibid.
A woman recently told police she had met Tobin at the Barrowland in 1968 and he raped her shortly after they left. ibid.
There are other victims of his out there. ibid.
In 1991 student Dinah McNicol vanished on her way home after a music festival in Hampshire. Her remains were found in 2008 in the garden of a house that once belonged to convicted murderer Peter Tobin. Peter Tobin, Crime Channel
His brutal assaults on young women continued. ibid.
The two girls aged fifteen and sixteen were plied with alcohol and pills before Tobin raped, stabbed and sexually assaulted them. ibid.
When did Peter Tobin first kill? ibid.
Between 1968 and 1969 three women were raped and murdered following nights out dancing in Glasgow ... The so-called Bible John killings remain unsolved. ibid.
You stand convicted of the truly evil abduction and murder of a vulnerable young girl in 1991 and thereafter of attempting to defeat the ends of justice in various ways over an extended period ... Yet again you have shown yourself to be unfit to live in a decent society. It is hard for me to convey the loathing and revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done ... I fix the minimum period which you must spend in custody at 30 years. Had it been open to me I would have made that period run consecutive to the 21 year custodial period that you are already serving. Lord Emslie, HMA v Tobin
Peter Tobin is a brutal and frightening serial killer. Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story s1e2: Peter Tobin, Channel 5 2012
He could be responsible for a multitude of other crimes. ibid.
He may be one of the most prolific serial killers of the last century. ibid.
In 1991 a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl goes missing from the Scottish town of Bathgate. Just six months later and hundreds of miles away in the south-east of England an eighteen-year-old student would also simply disappear. Despite tireless investigations by police the whereabouts of both girls remained a mystery until sixteen years later when the brutal murder of a Polish student living in Glasgow would lead to a national manhunt. Crimes that Shook Britain s7e5, CI 2017
Tobin was born in 1946 near Glasgow. He had a troubled childhood spending time in a young offenders’ institute. He would go on to marry three times and have two children. Over the years his various ex-wives would claim Tobin subjected them to physical and mental abuse. ibid.
He received life sentences for both murders with the judge recommending he should never be released. ibid.
Peter Tobin has been convicted of his third murder and is now officially a serial killer but the police and people who knew him well suspect he may have killed many times before, so how many victims were there and could he be Britain’s worst serial killer? Real Crime with Mark Austin s9e1: Tobin: Portrait of a Serial Killer, ITV 2010
The disappearance of 18-year-old Dinah McNichol in August baffled police for 16 years. It was a mystery that was only solved when her remains were found buried in the garden of a Margate house that once belonged to the convicted murderer Peter Tobin. ibid.
The murder of Angelika Kluk was so callous and so brutal it shocked the country. ibid.
He kept her [Margaret] locked up to satisfy his depraved demands. ibid.
His appetite for cruelty showed no signs of mellowing with age. ibid.
Operation Anagram was set up in 2006 to examine the life of convicted murderer Peter Tobin. ibid.
On 29th September 2006 police in Glasgow made an horrific discovery under the floor of a local church: the mutilated body of 23-year-old student Angelika Kluk who had been missing for almost a week. The last person seen with Angelika was 60-year-old church handyman Peter Tobin, a man with a history of violent sexual abuse. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s1e10: Peter Tobin, Pick TV 2017
A history of shocking crimes dating back as far as the early 1990s. ibid.
A case that horrified a community. And investigating whether its perpetrator was born to join this most diabolical of clubs. Born to Kill? Class of Evil s1e1: Charmed to Death, Really 2018
It would be four days before Angelika’s whereabouts were discovered: she was still at the church … As well as being subjected to a sadistic rape Angelika had been stabbed sixteen times in the chest and her head repeatedly bludgeoned. ibid.
‘He was put into some sort of approved school when he was seven years old.’ ibid.
Tobin had a history … Tobin served ten years in prison for the twisted attack but then the convicted sex offender disappeared off the police’s radar. ibid.
Found guilty on all counts, Peter Tobin was revealed as a serial killer. ibid.
‘He’s gone from being someone who beat me up and mentally abused me to viciously attacking two 14-year-old girls to now murdering a young girl. The belief that there’s other girls he’s killed before is almost a certainty now. It never rends. The Murderer & Me: Peter Tobin, Sky Crime 2021
‘He was convicted for brutally sexually assaulting two teenagers in 1993.’ ibid. US rozzer
The discovery [knife] provides a direct link between Peter Tobin and Vicky Hamilton. ibid.