Police charge man, 77, in connection with deaths of Renee MacRae and her son, after they went missing more than 40 years ago on their way to Perthshire
by Frances Rougvie
September 11, 2019, 12:28 pm
Police investigating the disappearance of Renee MacRae and her son Andrew have today arrested and charged a man in connection with their deaths.
The 77-year-old was arrested in the north of England this morning by detectives from Police Scotland’s Major Investigation Team and is expected to appear at Inverness Sheriff Court later today.
Renee and three-year-old son vanished while en route to Perthshire in 1976.
A detailed forensic search of Leanach Quarry, near Inverness, continues and the bodies of Renee and three-year-old Andrew have not been recovered.
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Not yet clear if a body is in the car.
Gardaí investigating the disappearance of a man in County Monaghan 18 years ago have confirmed that his car has been found in a County Fermanagh lake.
Tony Lynch from Fermanagh was last seen on Fermanagh Street in Clones, County Monaghan, on Sunday, 6 January 2002. The father of four, who was 54 years old and originally from Magheraveely, had recently moved to the town. Mr Lynch's car, a white Mitsubishi Galant, also disappeared at that time.
In an operation involving police forces in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, police divers with the PSNI and Gardaí recovered the vehicle on Monday from the bottom of in Upper Lough Erne at Corradillar, near Lisnaskea. When the car was found, it was full of silt as a result of being in the lake all that time. It is currently being forensically examined to establish if Mr Lynch's remains are inside.
Mr Lynch's family have been informed of the discovery.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-52723432
It may have been mentioned on this thread but the national missing persons site is a good reference especially the unidentified bodies section, (if not rather macabre) I would have thought with the advances in DNA science they would have a good idea as to who these poor souls were, or at least where they came from, sadly the site is light of forensics just giving a brief details hardly enough for many to recognise a loved one
https://www.missingpersons.police.uk/en-gb/case-search/p244442
I just can't comprehend how someone can be found and not identified, I guess budget constraints stop them doing full DNA tracing, there is a case from Manchester listed on there, a body of a young woman was found behind a wall at the time I thought surely they would be able to say who she was (it was a big story for a few days) it looked to me that she had been there since the 70s but nothing came of itThat site is both fascinating and depressing at the same time.
I just can't comprehend how someone can be found and not identified,
... Anyone care to comment on this man and his ideas...?
Thanks for the heads up....so then this thread is for 'non -Paulides missing people'...?
On a damp Thursday morning in May 1938, hundreds of workers from Western Pennsylvania oil fields, given the day off to look for a missing girl, walked through the Allegheny Forest at arms’ length. They traversed the tangled underbrush alongside police with bloodhounds, World War I veterans, Cornplanter Indians, coal miners, and assorted others who’d responded to the local mayor’s call for 1,000 volunteers. They killed rattlesnakes and were careful not to drop a foot down into one of the hundreds of oil wells dug during the area’s petroleum boom in the 1870s.
But by nightfall, the “haggard, sleep-robbed faces of scores of men,” as the Bradford Era newspaper described them, told onlookers the grim truth: another day had passed without finding the little red-haired four-year-old, Marjorie West...
I read the BBC news link you posted. The article in the Daily Mail just provides more information on the author who was looking in the area where the remains were found. I hope that they are able to offer some sense of closure to the family of Keith Bennett. Obviously the police and forensic analysis experts will need to investigate fully and do tests for DNA.Missed that
A disappearance at high altitude doesn't auger well.
A Warwickshire professor has gone missing during a research trip in South America, police say.
Prof Tom Marsh, a University of Warwick academic from Rugby, had been visiting La Silla Observatory in Chile. He was last spoken to on Friday evening. Warwickshire Police said it was liaising with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Interpol, and Chilean authorities.
The 60-year-old's family said they were "deeply concerned". In a statement issued through the Warwickshire force, relatives said: "We are deeply concerned for Tom and miss him, and would ask anyone who may have information on his whereabouts to please help."
Specialist police officers were supporting the family, police said.
Prof Marsh is described as white, approximately 6ft 3ins, with balding grey hair and a beard. He was likely to have been wearing a blue rain jacket, walking boots and a grey woollen hat.
In a post on social media, his daughter Tabitha said the family was "desperate" to find the professor of astronomy and astrophysics.
"He was out on an observing run at the La Silla Observatory in Chile when he went missing. The closest town is La Serena. If anyone has any information or thinks they can help in any way, please contact the police.... Thank you. My family, and my dad's friends and colleagues, would be beyond grateful for any help or information."
Provost of the University of Warwick, Prof Chris Ennew, said the founding professor of its astronomy and astrophysics group was reported as missing from the observatory. He had recently been working there as a visiting astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, Prof Ennew added.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-62995965