The Murders and Locations
The four murders were committed between 1857 and 1908.
- The case against Madeleine Smith was found to be not proven that she laced her lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier's cocoa with arsenic (Blythswood Square).
- The Sandyford murder case, in which Jessie McPherson was brutally struck forty times with a meat cleaver by her former friend Jessie McLachlan (Sandyford Place).
- The serial killer Dr Edward William Pritchard, known as "The Human Crocodile". His three victims included his wife, whom he poisoned, then had the coffin lid unscrewed so that he could kiss her (Berkeley Street, Sauchiehall Street).
- Oscar Slater, who was the subject of a major miscarriage of justice in 1908 (West Princes Street).
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Famous quotes containing the word murders:
“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)