DESCRIPTION:
Emergency responders were relieved to find there were no casualties. The car had been abandoned. Puzzlingly, the vehicle was traced back to a mother who had left Inverness with her three-year-old son hours earlier. What initially seemed to be a burnt-out vehicle left after a joyride turned out to be so much more. It remained a mystery for over four decades…
*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***
This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, audio editing assistance, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Mainframe by Wicked Cinema
Contact by Bryant Lowry
Siren Song by Chelsea McGough
Dark Night by Cody Martin
Far From Home by Cody Martin
The Arctic by Gold Coast
Quiet Desperation Part 2 by JCar
Chancellor by JMPSCR
Spooked by jshirts
Liminal by Chelsea McGough
Distances by Salon Dijon
Harboring by Salon Dijon
Point Of No Return by Salon Dijon
TwilightMoon by Caleb Etheridge
Vanished by Wicked Cinema
Haunted by Stephen Keech
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https://judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/sentences-and-opinions/2022/09/30/hma-v-william-macdowell
https://www.scotland.police.uk/what-s-happening/news/2023/august/renewed-appeal-to-locate-the-bodies-of-renee-and-andrew-macrae/
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