Carol Lannen was found dumped and partly covered by snow in Dundee’s Templeton Woods.The part-time sex worker was last seen getting into a car in the city’s red light district.Less than a year later, trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, 20, was found dead 100 yards from where Carol’s body had been left.
She too was near-naked and had been strangled.Fear gripped the city. Was Elizabeth’s murder the work of a copycat, or was a deranged serial killer stalking and murdering young women?Both Carol and Elizabeth had been picked up in the city centre.
Both had been stripped and strangled, both had been tied up, and the possessions and clothes of both had been found miles from where they were dumped.When those details became public, their deaths.
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