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Scotland’s Oldest Missing Persons Case: Man Found Guilty of Murder
As the culprit is sentenced for one of the country’s most notorious crimes, will the bodies of his two victims ever be found?
A man has been sentenced to life in prison after a judge found him guilty of committing one of Scotland’s most notorious double murders. As he prepares to start a jail term, police are now imploring him to reveal the location of the remains of Renee MacRae and her three-year-old son Andrew.
A secret rendezvous ends in disaster
It was November 12th 1976, and 36-year-old Renee MacRae from Inverness in Scotland was preparing to take a trip. She had told her estranged husband Gordon that she was planning to visit her sister in nearby Kilmarnock and would be taking their three-year-old son Andrew along for the weekend.
Gordon was concerned about the inclement weather as Renee packed the car and offered to book her a train ticket instead, but she insisted she would be fine as she loaded Andrew’s pushchair into the boot along with an overnight bag.
However, it wasn’t just confidence in her winter driving that led Renee to turn down the offer of alternative transport: she had a secret that meant she had no…
