Infamous Scots. Madeleine Smith.
Madeleine Hamilton-Smith (29 March 1835 – 12 April 1928) was a 19th-century Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857. Background The building where Smith and her…
Infamous Scots. Anthony Miller.
Anthony Joseph Miller (1941–22 December 1960) became the second-last criminal to be executed in Scotland when he was hanged on the gallows at Glasgow’s Barlinnie Prison on 22 December 1960. Miller had been convicted of murdering…
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Infamous Scots. Susan Newell.
Background. Susan Newell was born in 1893 and had lived a hard life in constant poverty. In June 1923, she was living in a rented flat in Newlands Street, Coatbridge, a suburb…
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Infamous Scots. Edith McAlinden
House of Blood murders Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Argument during a drinking session Number of victims: 1 Date of murder: October 17, 2004 Date of arrest: Same day Date of birth: 1968 Victim profile: David Gillespie, 42 (her boyfriend)…
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Infamous Scots. Johnny Ramensky.
Johnny Ramensky MM, also known as John Ramsay, Gentleman Johnny, and Gentle Johnny (6 April 1905 – 4 November 1972) was a Scottish career criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities…
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Infamous Scots. Colin Norris.
Colin Norris (born 12 February 1976) is a former nurse and serial killer from the Milton area of Glasgow, Scotland who was convicted of murdering four elderly patients in a…
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Infamous Scots. “Bible John”.
WARNING MAY CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATION. Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have murdered three young women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland. Each of…
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Infamous Scots. Andrew Walker.
Andrew Walker was a corporal in the Royal Scots who killed three Army colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985. He was…
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Infamous Scots. Thomas Neil Cream.
Dr Thomas Neill Cream (27 May 1850 – 15 November 1892), also known as the Lambeth Poisoner, was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor and serial killer, who claimed his first proven victims in the United States…
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Infamous Scots. Robert Black.
Warning some of this material may upset or may be unsuitable for young children. Robert Black (21 April 1947 – 12 January 2016) was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap,…
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Infamous Scots. Elliot Castro.
Elliot Castro (born 1983 or 1984) is a Scottish fraud prevention consultant and ex-fraudster from Glasgow who claims he swindled approximately $2.8 million through various financial crimes when he was a teenager.
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Infamous Scots. William Armstrong.
William Armstrong of Kinmont or Kinmont Willie was a Scottish border reiver and outlaw active in the Anglo-Scottish Border country in the last decades of the 16th century. He lived at the Tower of Sark, close to the border between…
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Infamous Scots. Roderick-Edward-Maclean.
Roderick Edward Maclean (c. 1854 – 8 June 1921) was a Scotsman who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria on 2 March 1882, at Windsor, England, with a pistol. This was the last of eight attempts by separate…
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Infamous Scots. William Beggs.
Warning. may contain some sensitive information. A.K.A.: “Limbs-in-loch murderer” Classification: Murderer Characteristics: Rape – Dismemberment Number of victims: 2 Date of murders: 1987 / 1999 Date of arrest: December 28, 1999 (in Amsterdam, Netherlands) Date of birth: 1961 Victims profile: Barry…
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Infamous Scots. Arthur Thompson.
Arthur Thompson (gangster) Arthur Thompson (September 1931 – 13 March 1993) known as “the Godfather“, was a Scottish gangster who was active in Scotland in the 1950s. He then went on to take charge of organised crime for…
