THE new series of a crime talk show will analyse the “complexity” of a Glasgow woman’s murder case.
Mary McLaughlin was killed in her flat in Crathie Court, Partick, in September 1984.
The crime was solved more than 36 years after the fact, thanks to advancements in forensic analysis.
Convicted rapist Graham McGill was caged for life for the brutal murder of the mum-of-11 in May 2021.
In a third series of ‘David Wilson’s Crime Files’, the professor, who is one of the UK’s leading criminologists, focuses primarily on Scotland’s numerous cold cases.
David is joined in the studio by forensic scientist Helen Meadows who examines the murder of Mary McLaughlin.
Meanwhile, Joanne Cochrane, who is part of a team that has worked with a new form of DNA analysis that could revolutionize solving a number of cold cases, breaks down the complexity of Ms McLaughin’s case, how DNA 24 works and why modern advancements in DNA are helping many cold cases to be solved.
We previously told how McGill followed 58-year-old Ms McLaughlin home into her flat where he viciously killed her by strangling her with the cord from her dressing gown.
Her body was found six days later when her son Martin Cullen went to visit.
Mary was lying on her back on her bed wearing a green dress and with the ligature tightly wound her neck three times.
She had been on a night out in the West End of the city and left a bar to go to a chip shop on the way home.
McGill was charged with murder in 2019 after a new investigation into the killing, under the direction of the procurator fiscal, matched his DNA to that found on items belonging to Ms McLaughlin.
Serial offender McGill was serving a prison sentence for another crime at the time of the killing but had been granted home leave in preparation for his release.
Also in the new series of the show, David travels to Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, to tell the story of Jean Milne, a wealthy spinster who was found murdered in her family mansion.
The twist is that the house was found to be locked up tight and one of her last sightings was with a mysterious German gentleman.
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David meets with Professor Niamh Nic Daéid from Dundee University. She and her colleagues were commissioned to re-examine the 1912 Jean Milne case through a modern forensic perspective.
Niamh talks David through their re-investigation and the ways in which forensic science has progressed.
The first episode airs on Tuesday, October 11, on BBC Scotland at 10pm.
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