On the night of the 24th of August 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl left a housing estate in a small Scottish town and walked alone toward a river in the dark. The investigation into what happened to her would remain unsolved for twenty-seven years, sustained by one mother’s refusal to stop asking, and finally cracked by the memory of a four-year-old boy.
Sources:
The Daily Record, 27 August, 1996 – “No-Ones Going to Hurt Me”
Irish Times, 27 August, 1996 – “Body of Teenage Girl”
The Daily Record, 28 August, 1996 – “Caroline Lived in Fear”
The Daily Record, 28 August, 1996 – “£10,000 to End Silence”
The Daily Record, 6 September, 1996 – “Caroline, 14, was Drowned”
The Daily Record, 2 September, 1996 – “Caroline Murder Cops”
The Daily Record, 8 September, 1996 – “Shadow of Death”
The Daily Record, 19 September, 1996 – “I Gave my Son”
The Daily Record, 27 November, 1996 – “TV Appeal”
The Daily Record, 20 February, 1997 – “Caroline Laid to Rest”
The Daily Record, 27 February, 1997 – “Murdered Girl”
The Daily Record, 7 May, 1997 – “My Caroline Knew Killer”
The People, 13 July, 1997 – “Who Killed The Bonnie Lass?”
The Daily Record, 21 September, 1997 – “The Bride of Tears”
Daily Mail, 8 April, 2000 – “Crusade for Caroline”
The Sun, 26 August, 2014 – “I’ve Suffered”
The Daily Record, 24 January, 2016 – “Mystery Man”
The Daily Record, 23 August, 2016 – “Detectives Probe”
The Daily Record, 29 August, 2016 – “Caroline Glachan Murder”
Glasgow Times, 25 August, 2017 – “Caroline Glachan”
Edinburgh Evening News, 25 November, 2021 – “Caroline Glachan Case”
The Sun, 26 November, 2021 – “Cops Couldn’t Have”
The Daily Record, 27 November, 2023 – “Scots Mum”
The Daily Record, 28 November, 2023 – “Murder Trial Hears Scot”
The Daily Record, 29 November, 2023 – “Caroline Glachan Murder”
The Express, 29 November, 2023 – “Girl, 14”
The Daily Telegraph, 1 December, 2023 – “Four-Year-Old”
