May 26, 2025 • 15 mins
This episode of Scottish Murders explores the harrowing case of 16-year-old Diane Graham, tragically murdered in Dundee in 1971. The host scrutinises the contrasting narratives between the Law Killers book and period newspaper reports, questioning the detective's unexpected empathy for the killer. Listeners are taken through Diane's life, her last night out, and the swift arrest of her murderer. The episode reveals chilling details of the crime and its devastating impact on Diane's family, including her mother's untimely death. This episode challenges perceptions of media portrayal and compassion in criminal cases, leaving listeners to ponder the complexities of justice and empathy.
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ES_Tudor - Bonnie Grace - epidemicsound
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to another episode of Scottish Murders, where I'll be
telling you about the murder of sixteen year old Diane Graham.
I came across the murder of Diane Graham when I
was reading The lock Killer's Book by Alexander MacGregor, but
I also used articles from the Sunday Post and The
Scotsman from the seventh, eighth and ninth of March, twenty
third of April and the sixth of June nineteen seventy one.
(00:23):
Diane's murder was solved pretty quickly, so it is only
a short story, plus there is very little information about Diane. However,
what caught my attention was that in The low Killer's Book,
the authors stated that the DCI working on the murder
inquiry admitted later that he felt considerable compassion for Dianne's murderer,
and from what was written in the Lockillar's book, I
(00:45):
could kind of see where he was coming from. However,
when I did a bit more research and found articles
from the time from the British newspaper archives, it may
be questioned not only why a lot of details had
been missing from The low Killer's Book, but also why
the felt considerable compassion for Diane's murderer and not Diane
(01:05):
after what you had done to her. That was just
my thinking, But I'd love to know what you think
after you'd listened to this week's episode. So let's get started.
(01:41):
Sixteen year old Diane Moira Graham lived with her mum
Moira and her stepdad Alexander, in a multi story block
of flats at Pittapen Court, cooper Angush Road in Dundee.
Dundee is the fourth largest city in Scotland and lies,
according to Wikipedia, within the eastern Central Lowland on the
north bank of the Firth of Tay, and is about
(02:02):
an hour and a half drive northeast of Edinburgh. The
Graham family had moved into the block of flats seven
years earlier when Moira had married Alexander, and Alexander had
soon after adopted the then nine year old Diane, as
well as changing her surname to Graham two, with a
friend of the family saying that they were a happy
family and that Diane was devoted to her mother. The
(02:26):
Graham family's life passed with little incident, with Moira working
in the NCR factory, which was one of the biggest
employers in Dundee, Alexander working as an engineer for the
General Post Office, and Diane attending Rockwell Secondary School until
nineteen seventy when she turned sixteen. As her adopted father
worked for the Post Office, he was able to secure
(02:47):
Diane a job as a telephonist at the Post Office
after Diane left school, which Diane enjoyed. By Friday, the
fifth of March nineteen seventy one, Diane had been enjoying
life all the more for almost two months as General
Post Office telephonists had been on strike since the twentieth
of January, meaning Diane had been thoroughly enjoying having lions
(03:08):
and lazy days for most of the time, other than
when she had to take her turn at the picket line.
An agreement had eventually been rooched, however, and the strikers,
including Diane, were due to start back at work on Monday,
the eighth of March nineteen seventy one, So Diane intended
to make the most of her last Friday night before
she had to start back at work again on the Monday,
(03:29):
and so she donned a red mini dress and knee
length black shiny boots and made her way to the
JM Ballroom in Dundee City Center, where she met her
friends and danced the night away, something she did every
Friday night. Diane's body was found on Saturday, the sixth
of March at five thirty am on the ground floor
laundrette area of her multi story block of flats at
(03:52):
putelp In Court by two women who, before going to
work as cleaners at Dundee University, had first gone to
use the laundry, one of which was the Graham family's
next door neighbor, Moira and Alexander, who assumed that Diane
had come home after they had gone to bed and
was safe and sound in her bedroom. First she knew
about their daughter not making it home when their next
(04:14):
door neighbor who had found Diane's body came to their
door and told them shortly after Diane's body had been found.
According to an article in The Scotsman on the sixth
of March, within minutes of Diane's body being discovered, teams
of CID men not women. Remembering this is back in
nineteen seventy one, the Scottish crime squad and tracker dogs
(04:35):
arrived in the area and that all CID leave that
day had been canceled and for all that it had
been less than twelve hours since Diane's body had been found.
The lead detective, Detective Superintendent William Melville, who was head
of Dundee CID, disclosed that they already had a significant
amount of information and leads, and that the public response
(04:56):
to their appeals for information door to door inquiries and
from police approaching people in the streets and showing them
Diane's photograph had been immense, with many people also calling
at the mobile police unit that was at the scene
of the murder to give information. The police were, however,
still appealing for more information, but first what information did
(05:17):
they have? While the detective superintendent disclosed Diane had been
seen traveling on a bus that left the GM ballroom
at one am and headed to the Lochey district of Dundee,
and that all passengers in this number two bus had
been traced, including a male youth who had been at
the GM ballroom along with Diane and had been on
the same bus home with her. He also advised that
(05:39):
everyone who had been at the ballroom on the Friday
night had also been traced and questioned. He revealed that
Diane's knee high black boots, described as having a hard
shoe type with soft stocking leggings and an ornamental buckle
on the sides, were missing, along with her shoulder type handbag,
which was black or navy plastic. The information police was
(06:01):
still appealing for. It was in connection with tracing the
owner of a car or van with side windows that
had been in Lansdowne Gardens, a street just off Petalpin Court,
between one thirty and two am when the morning Diane
was murdered. They were also appealing for the person who
had been picked up by a taxi driver in Cooper
Anguish Road outside a particular hotel at two am the
(06:23):
morning Diane had been murdered to also come forward. Cooper
Angush Road leads off the Lansdowne Gardens Road and was
a road Diane would have walked along as headed home
from the bus, which would have been no more than
a few minutes walk. An appeal was also being made
for people to come forward if they had seen a
youth traveling on foot from the area in which Diane
(06:44):
was murdered into Clement Park Road, a street about a
nine minute walk away from where Diane lived in the
early hours of the morning Diane was murdered, and police
were also keen to speak to a man who had
been seen walking near lock ups to the north of
Pittalpin Court between one forty five and two am again
on the morning Diane was murdered. It was still early
(07:05):
days into the murder inquiry and police were still looking
for that one bit of information that would lead them
to Danne's murderer, but so far their investigation wasn't leading anywhere.
Apparently no one in Puttaupin Court had heard or seen
anything suspicious, although the Law Killer's Book did report that
a girl in another block of flats nearby heard her
(07:26):
scream about one forty five am, but had not investigated,
so it couldn't give any more information. Police didn't know
it yet, but by Sunday, just over a day after
Diane's body had been found, a seventeen year old youth
would be arrested and charged with her murder. But this
youth wouldn't be found through any of the police's efforts.
But before I get to that, I'm going to tell
(07:47):
you first what the law Killer's book says about how
Diane was murdered and at the end of the story,
I'll tell you what was said in the newspapers at
the time. According to the law Killer's book, Diane had
been strangled with a ligature and her naked body bore
the marks of match burns. Diane's red dress lay beside her,
but her knee length black boots and her shoulder bag
(08:08):
were missing. Now, the book does go on to tell
you a wee bit more about the circumstances around Diane's
death after her murderer is arrested and charged, and I
tell you about that soon. So it seems that Diane
had made the twenty eight minute bus journey home after
leaving the GM ballroom with no problems. She appeared to
have made it from where the bus had dropped her
(08:29):
off and made the short walk to her block of flats,
and only then had she been murdered. So who had strangled, stripped,
and burned sixteen year old Dianne and why Well? His
name was James Mullody. He was seventeen years old, and
he lived in King's Cross Place, about a twenty minute
walk away from where Diane lived and where her body
(08:50):
was found, with him having to walk along road such
as Clement Park Road and Lansdowne Gardens Road after leaving
paup in Court. It was after he had I'd read
that many articles that were being printed about Diane's murder,
along with her photo. That on the Sunday, just over
a day after he had murdered Dianne, he made his
way to the mobile police unit parked up put up
(09:12):
in Court, walked inside and calmly said to Detective Chief
Inspector David Fotheringham again, according to the Law Killer's book,
I'm the guy you are looking for. I was on
the bus with her. Now. I'm not sure if this
James mullidy had already been spoken to by police, as
it was reported that they had truced and spoken to
everyone who had been on the bus with Diane and
(09:33):
at the ballroom that night, or whether they hadn't realized
that this James mullody had even been on the same
bus as Diane. That book isn't clear. What is clear, though,
is what Chief Inspector Fotheringham thought about Dianne's killer when,
according to the Law Killer's Book, he spent a short
amount of time with him at the main police station,
where Diane's killer appeared happy to disclose what had taken
(09:55):
place the night he murdered Dianne. The chief inspector found
him to be in a f and friendly. Initially, James
Mullody didn't confess to actually murdering Diane. He said that
he had been on the same bus as Diana on
the Saturday morning, after also being at the GM ballroom,
and that they both got off at the same stop.
He said he then caught up with Diane and they
(10:17):
walked together, talking towards Diane's block of flats. He said
the pair had then gone into the laundry area of
Diane's block of flats and had briefly kissed and cuddled
before James said he then climbed over the wall at
the back of the block of flats and made his
way home. However, after only a short time and now
seeming to be very anxious, James Mullody finally disclosed the
(10:40):
truth about what happened in the ground floor laundry area
that fateful night. He said that when he had gone
to Diane to give her a kiss, she had pushed
him away, laughed and said he smelled, with James telling
detectives that it was my feet. I have always smelly feet,
and she said I was stinking feeling slighted by being mocked,
he said. He then pushed Diane back and she'd fallen down.
(11:02):
Now this next book doesn't quite make sense to me.
Apparently James had then said that he wasn't sure what
had happened next, but as he looked down at Diane
on the floor, he realized that she was dead, but
that the fact Diane was dead had been a terrible accident.
I took it that when he said he wasn't sure
what followed, he meant he couldn't remember attacking Diane, strangling her,
(11:25):
burning her, and removing her clothes. But then he went
on to say that her death had been the result
of a terrible accident. So he doesn't know what happened,
but he knows enough to know it was a terrible
accident that confused me. Remember this is all coming from
the law Killer's book, not the newspaper article yet. So
James then admitted that he had stolen Diane's boots, handbag,
(11:48):
and her gloves, saying that he took everything shiny because
he thought that they might have his fingerprints on them.
Now you'll remember the match burns that had been on
Diane's body, while James explained this by saying that he
had lit the matches to locate the items that he
was removing from Diane's body and presumably he had burnt
Diane in that process and so happy with this confession,
(12:10):
the police then accompanied James to a drain near Pittalpen
Court where he had hidden the boots and bag he
had taken from Diane, and apparently a metal comb that
had been in Diane's handbag that had her name scratched
on it was found under James's mattress when his home
was searched. Seventeen year old James Mullody was charged with
Dianne's murder and briefly appeared in court on Tuesday, the
(12:32):
ninth of March, where he was officially charged with Jeanne's
murder and committed for further examination. On the twenty second
of April nineteen seventy one, seventeen year old James Mullody
appeared in the High Court in Edinburgh for no more
than two minutes, where he pleaded guilty to the murder
of sixteen year old Diane Graham, with a judge saying
(12:53):
that he had no option with regard to his sentence. Annoyingly, though,
I couldn't find anywhere what his sentence had actually been,
as both newspapers from back then and the Lacullar's book
only said that he was ordered to be detained during
Her Majesty's pleasure and that this was apparently the equivalent
of a life sentence for someone his age. Diane's mum
(13:14):
Moira and stepdad Alexander were devastated by Diane's murder, and
despite both returning to work shortly after the sentencing, Diane's
mum was said to still be in utter shock and
under doctor's orders. Diane's mum, Moira, was rushed to hospital
in early June, three months after Diane's murder, but sadly
(13:35):
Moira died many saying that it was due to the
shock of her beloved daughter Dianne been taken from her
that had killed her. Her husband Alexander wasn't there when
his wife died, as he was attending a course for
the post office in Birmingham in England at the time.
He had lost everything and I couldn't find out what
happened to Alexander after this, but I hope he got
(13:56):
the support he needed. Oh yes, I was going to
tell you what the papers said happened to Dianne after
her postmortem, as opposed to what was disclosed in the
law killer's book. So here goes. Keep in mind, though,
that Chief Inspector David Fotheringham felt considerable compassion for Dianne's
murderer after he assaulted Diane, compressed her throat with his hands,
(14:17):
stripped her, compressed her throat with a ligature, burnt her
on the breasts and private parts with matches, and that
he did murder her. Do you feel considerable compassion for
Dianne's murderer. Diane was sixteen years old, had just had
a fantastic night out dancing, had made it almost all
the way home. Thanks for listening to another episode of
(14:39):
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So until then I've been your host. Don. Scottish Murders
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Welcome to another episode of Scottish Murders, where I'll be
telling you about the murder of sixteen year old Diane Graham.
I came across the murder of Diane Graham when I
was reading The lock Killer's Book by Alexander MacGregor, but
I also used articles from the Sunday Post and The
Scotsman from the seventh, eighth and ninth of March, twenty
third of April and the sixth of June nineteen seventy one.
(00:23):
Diane's murder was solved pretty quickly, so it is only
a short story, plus there is very little information about Diane. However,
what caught my attention was that in The low Killer's Book,
the authors stated that the DCI working on the murder
inquiry admitted later that he felt considerable compassion for Dianne's murderer,
and from what was written in the Lockillar's book, I
(00:45):
could kind of see where he was coming from. However,
when I did a bit more research and found articles
from the time from the British newspaper archives, it may
be questioned not only why a lot of details had
been missing from The low Killer's Book, but also why
the felt considerable compassion for Diane's murderer and not Diane
(01:05):
after what you had done to her. That was just
my thinking, But I'd love to know what you think
after you'd listened to this week's episode. So let's get started.
(01:41):
Sixteen year old Diane Moira Graham lived with her mum
Moira and her stepdad Alexander, in a multi story block
of flats at Pittapen Court, cooper Angush Road in Dundee.
Dundee is the fourth largest city in Scotland and lies,
according to Wikipedia, within the eastern Central Lowland on the
north bank of the Firth of Tay, and is about
(02:02):
an hour and a half drive northeast of Edinburgh. The
Graham family had moved into the block of flats seven
years earlier when Moira had married Alexander, and Alexander had
soon after adopted the then nine year old Diane, as
well as changing her surname to Graham two, with a
friend of the family saying that they were a happy
family and that Diane was devoted to her mother. The
(02:26):
Graham family's life passed with little incident, with Moira working
in the NCR factory, which was one of the biggest
employers in Dundee, Alexander working as an engineer for the
General Post Office, and Diane attending Rockwell Secondary School until
nineteen seventy when she turned sixteen. As her adopted father
worked for the Post Office, he was able to secure
(02:47):
Diane a job as a telephonist at the Post Office
after Diane left school, which Diane enjoyed. By Friday, the
fifth of March nineteen seventy one, Diane had been enjoying
life all the more for almost two months as General
Post Office telephonists had been on strike since the twentieth
of January, meaning Diane had been thoroughly enjoying having lions
(03:08):
and lazy days for most of the time, other than
when she had to take her turn at the picket line.
An agreement had eventually been rooched, however, and the strikers,
including Diane, were due to start back at work on Monday,
the eighth of March nineteen seventy one, So Diane intended
to make the most of her last Friday night before
she had to start back at work again on the Monday,
(03:29):
and so she donned a red mini dress and knee
length black shiny boots and made her way to the
JM Ballroom in Dundee City Center, where she met her
friends and danced the night away, something she did every
Friday night. Diane's body was found on Saturday, the sixth
of March at five thirty am on the ground floor
laundrette area of her multi story block of flats at
(03:52):
putelp In Court by two women who, before going to
work as cleaners at Dundee University, had first gone to
use the laundry, one of which was the Graham family's
next door neighbor, Moira and Alexander, who assumed that Diane
had come home after they had gone to bed and
was safe and sound in her bedroom. First she knew
about their daughter not making it home when their next
(04:14):
door neighbor who had found Diane's body came to their
door and told them shortly after Diane's body had been found.
According to an article in The Scotsman on the sixth
of March, within minutes of Diane's body being discovered, teams
of CID men not women. Remembering this is back in
nineteen seventy one, the Scottish crime squad and tracker dogs
(04:35):
arrived in the area and that all CID leave that
day had been canceled and for all that it had
been less than twelve hours since Diane's body had been found.
The lead detective, Detective Superintendent William Melville, who was head
of Dundee CID, disclosed that they already had a significant
amount of information and leads, and that the public response
(04:56):
to their appeals for information door to door inquiries and
from police approaching people in the streets and showing them
Diane's photograph had been immense, with many people also calling
at the mobile police unit that was at the scene
of the murder to give information. The police were, however,
still appealing for more information, but first what information did
(05:17):
they have? While the detective superintendent disclosed Diane had been
seen traveling on a bus that left the GM ballroom
at one am and headed to the Lochey district of Dundee,
and that all passengers in this number two bus had
been traced, including a male youth who had been at
the GM ballroom along with Diane and had been on
the same bus home with her. He also advised that
(05:39):
everyone who had been at the ballroom on the Friday
night had also been traced and questioned. He revealed that
Diane's knee high black boots, described as having a hard
shoe type with soft stocking leggings and an ornamental buckle
on the sides, were missing, along with her shoulder type handbag,
which was black or navy plastic. The information police was
(06:01):
still appealing for. It was in connection with tracing the
owner of a car or van with side windows that
had been in Lansdowne Gardens, a street just off Petalpin Court,
between one thirty and two am when the morning Diane
was murdered. They were also appealing for the person who
had been picked up by a taxi driver in Cooper
Anguish Road outside a particular hotel at two am the
(06:23):
morning Diane had been murdered to also come forward. Cooper
Angush Road leads off the Lansdowne Gardens Road and was
a road Diane would have walked along as headed home
from the bus, which would have been no more than
a few minutes walk. An appeal was also being made
for people to come forward if they had seen a
youth traveling on foot from the area in which Diane
(06:44):
was murdered into Clement Park Road, a street about a
nine minute walk away from where Diane lived in the
early hours of the morning Diane was murdered, and police
were also keen to speak to a man who had
been seen walking near lock ups to the north of
Pittalpin Court between one forty five and two am again
on the morning Diane was murdered. It was still early
(07:05):
days into the murder inquiry and police were still looking
for that one bit of information that would lead them
to Danne's murderer, but so far their investigation wasn't leading anywhere.
Apparently no one in Puttaupin Court had heard or seen
anything suspicious, although the Law Killer's Book did report that
a girl in another block of flats nearby heard her
(07:26):
scream about one forty five am, but had not investigated,
so it couldn't give any more information. Police didn't know
it yet, but by Sunday, just over a day after
Diane's body had been found, a seventeen year old youth
would be arrested and charged with her murder. But this
youth wouldn't be found through any of the police's efforts.
But before I get to that, I'm going to tell
(07:47):
you first what the law Killer's book says about how
Diane was murdered and at the end of the story,
I'll tell you what was said in the newspapers at
the time. According to the law Killer's book, Diane had
been strangled with a ligature and her naked body bore
the marks of match burns. Diane's red dress lay beside her,
but her knee length black boots and her shoulder bag
(08:08):
were missing. Now, the book does go on to tell
you a wee bit more about the circumstances around Diane's
death after her murderer is arrested and charged, and I
tell you about that soon. So it seems that Diane
had made the twenty eight minute bus journey home after
leaving the GM ballroom with no problems. She appeared to
have made it from where the bus had dropped her
(08:29):
off and made the short walk to her block of flats,
and only then had she been murdered. So who had strangled, stripped,
and burned sixteen year old Dianne and why Well? His
name was James Mullody. He was seventeen years old, and
he lived in King's Cross Place, about a twenty minute
walk away from where Diane lived and where her body
(08:50):
was found, with him having to walk along road such
as Clement Park Road and Lansdowne Gardens Road after leaving
paup in Court. It was after he had I'd read
that many articles that were being printed about Diane's murder,
along with her photo. That on the Sunday, just over
a day after he had murdered Dianne, he made his
way to the mobile police unit parked up put up
(09:12):
in Court, walked inside and calmly said to Detective Chief
Inspector David Fotheringham again, according to the Law Killer's book,
I'm the guy you are looking for. I was on
the bus with her. Now. I'm not sure if this
James mullidy had already been spoken to by police, as
it was reported that they had truced and spoken to
everyone who had been on the bus with Diane and
(09:33):
at the ballroom that night, or whether they hadn't realized
that this James mullody had even been on the same
bus as Diane. That book isn't clear. What is clear, though,
is what Chief Inspector Fotheringham thought about Dianne's killer when,
according to the Law Killer's Book, he spent a short
amount of time with him at the main police station,
where Diane's killer appeared happy to disclose what had taken
(09:55):
place the night he murdered Dianne. The chief inspector found
him to be in a f and friendly. Initially, James
Mullody didn't confess to actually murdering Diane. He said that
he had been on the same bus as Diana on
the Saturday morning, after also being at the GM ballroom,
and that they both got off at the same stop.
He said he then caught up with Diane and they
(10:17):
walked together, talking towards Diane's block of flats. He said
the pair had then gone into the laundry area of
Diane's block of flats and had briefly kissed and cuddled
before James said he then climbed over the wall at
the back of the block of flats and made his
way home. However, after only a short time and now
seeming to be very anxious, James Mullody finally disclosed the
(10:40):
truth about what happened in the ground floor laundry area
that fateful night. He said that when he had gone
to Diane to give her a kiss, she had pushed
him away, laughed and said he smelled, with James telling
detectives that it was my feet. I have always smelly feet,
and she said I was stinking feeling slighted by being mocked,
he said. He then pushed Diane back and she'd fallen down.
(11:02):
Now this next book doesn't quite make sense to me.
Apparently James had then said that he wasn't sure what
had happened next, but as he looked down at Diane
on the floor, he realized that she was dead, but
that the fact Diane was dead had been a terrible accident.
I took it that when he said he wasn't sure
what followed, he meant he couldn't remember attacking Diane, strangling her,
(11:25):
burning her, and removing her clothes. But then he went
on to say that her death had been the result
of a terrible accident. So he doesn't know what happened,
but he knows enough to know it was a terrible
accident that confused me. Remember this is all coming from
the law Killer's book, not the newspaper article yet. So
James then admitted that he had stolen Diane's boots, handbag,
(11:48):
and her gloves, saying that he took everything shiny because
he thought that they might have his fingerprints on them.
Now you'll remember the match burns that had been on
Diane's body, while James explained this by saying that he
had lit the matches to locate the items that he
was removing from Diane's body and presumably he had burnt
Diane in that process and so happy with this confession,
(12:10):
the police then accompanied James to a drain near Pittalpen
Court where he had hidden the boots and bag he
had taken from Diane, and apparently a metal comb that
had been in Diane's handbag that had her name scratched
on it was found under James's mattress when his home
was searched. Seventeen year old James Mullody was charged with
Dianne's murder and briefly appeared in court on Tuesday, the
(12:32):
ninth of March, where he was officially charged with Jeanne's
murder and committed for further examination. On the twenty second
of April nineteen seventy one, seventeen year old James Mullody
appeared in the High Court in Edinburgh for no more
than two minutes, where he pleaded guilty to the murder
of sixteen year old Diane Graham, with a judge saying
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that he had no option with regard to his sentence. Annoyingly, though,
I couldn't find anywhere what his sentence had actually been,
as both newspapers from back then and the Lacullar's book
only said that he was ordered to be detained during
Her Majesty's pleasure and that this was apparently the equivalent
of a life sentence for someone his age. Diane's mum
(13:14):
Moira and stepdad Alexander were devastated by Diane's murder, and
despite both returning to work shortly after the sentencing, Diane's
mum was said to still be in utter shock and
under doctor's orders. Diane's mum, Moira, was rushed to hospital
in early June, three months after Diane's murder, but sadly
(13:35):
Moira died many saying that it was due to the
shock of her beloved daughter Dianne been taken from her
that had killed her. Her husband Alexander wasn't there when
his wife died, as he was attending a course for
the post office in Birmingham in England at the time.
He had lost everything and I couldn't find out what
happened to Alexander after this, but I hope he got
(13:56):
the support he needed. Oh yes, I was going to
tell you what the papers said happened to Dianne after
her postmortem, as opposed to what was disclosed in the
law killer's book. So here goes. Keep in mind, though,
that Chief Inspector David Fotheringham felt considerable compassion for Dianne's
murderer after he assaulted Diane, compressed her throat with his hands,
(14:17):
stripped her, compressed her throat with a ligature, burnt her
on the breasts and private parts with matches, and that
he did murder her. Do you feel considerable compassion for
Dianne's murderer. Diane was sixteen years old, had just had
a fantastic night out dancing, had made it almost all
the way home. Thanks for listening to another episode of
(14:39):
Scottish Murders. If this case has captivated you, then don't
forget to tell a friend to listen or check out
Scottish Murders dot com so together we can share more
Scottish murders. Join me next week for a Scotland then
episode from nineteen seventy one, and you'll not believe just
how many murders are were around the time of Dyang's murder.
(15:01):
So until then I've been your host. Don. Scottish Murders
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