The World's End Murders The Inside Story - Tom Wood - Bog

Fromthe author of best seller, Ruxton: The First ModernMurder, comes another deep dive into one of the most notoriouscases in Scottish Criminal History. TomWood's TheWorld's End Murders: The Inside Story is a new look at awell-known story. Inthis book, Wood offers the detailed analysis only one of the originalinvestigators could give, and reveals how over nearly four decades, detectivesand scientists struggled to deliver justice. Thehorrific killing of two Edinburgh teenagers in October 1977 sparked anationwide manhunt that turned into one of Britain's longest and most famousmurder investigations. Thebook tells the story of two innocent young girls, Helen Scott and ChristineEadie, and of the extraordinary police investigation over almost four decadesthat eventually led to the discovery of links to their deaths with AngusSinclair, one of Scotland's most notorious murderers and sex offenders. Acquitted after a controversial trial in 2007, changes in the law and new,cutting-edge forensic evidence meant that Sinclair found himself in the courtagain, and in 2014 he was finally held to account for the notorious World's Endmurders. Butthis is not a gruesome tale of violent death - the families of Helen andChristine have suffered long enough. It is a story of heroes - of the familiesof the two girls who, with quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burdendown the years, and of the police officers, the support staff and thescientists who persisted in their investigations and never gave up. This is theinside story of the World's End murders."