Mary McLaughlin’s death was a mystery for more than three decades until modern DNA testing helped solve the cold case. A DNA match was discovered hidden in the knot of the dressing gown cord used to kill the 58-year-old mother-of-eleven in her Glasgow flat in 1984. At the time, the prime suspect was a prisoner in Edinburgh, which initially baffled cold case detectives. Serial sex offender Graham McGill was the perpetrator, and he was confirmed to have been on parole during the time of the murder.
McLaughlin spent her last evening at the pub, drinking and playing dominos in the Hyndland Pub, which now operates as the Duck Club and overlooks Mansfield Park. She left the pub at around 10:15-10:30 pm by herself to walk less than a mile home. She joked with the workers at Armando’s chip store on Dumbarton Road, where she bought fritters and cigarettes along the way. Later, a taxi driver, who knew her as “Wee May,” saw a man following her as she walked barefoot down the lane, carrying her s
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