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Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious murders which shocked Glasgow between 1991 and 2005. Eight women involved in prostitution were killed, and at least four of those cases remain unsolved to this day. Many of these women were left defenceless in a more ruthless city than the one we know today - one grappling with unemployment, crime and the growing grip of heroin. Distrustful of authorities and fearing for their safety, they turned to each other for protection, sharing warnings about their most dangerous clients in a tattered leather journal they called the “Beware Book”. This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time. Also a brand-new interview with a former investigating officer about where he thinks the Beware Book is now. While Emma Caldwell’s murder was recently solved, and a man – Iain Packer – jailed, it took 19 years for justice to be served. Hear from some of his other victims and officers who worked on Emma's case - who think there will have been more attacks. Perhaps even another murder. Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserve?
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- Apr 27, 20261h 36m
7. Beware Book
This is the concluding chapter of an investigation that has taken more than one year. Join us as we finally sit down with police to ask the questions that have built up over the stacks of interviews, door knocks, calls and emails. The questions that the families we’re working with have waited decades for answers to. We ask two senior serving Police Scotland officers what they can tell us about these murders? How they were examined and why so many have never been solved. We also challenge them about the Beware Book. Its pages contained details of the most violent clients stalking Glasgow’s red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s – did that include names of men in the police and legal professions as some allege? Hear from two key voices in this book’s story – one has written in it, the other is the last person on record to have seen it. Why is it now missing and where could it be? Join us in the final episode of Beware Book to find out. -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Apr 20, 202654 min
6. The Drag
This is The Drag – a handful of streets in Glasgow city centre which made up the red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s. We make a visit with an experienced local crime reporter asking what life would have been like for the women who stood there on cold, dark nights all those years ago? Waiting to be picked up by one of the circling drivers, not knowing how the encounter might end. Heroin culture was still ravaging the city – pushing some women involved in prostitution into perilous liaisons to feed their habit. We hear from a charity worker who gave her time and care to many of these women, facing down threats of violence to protect them from predators. She tells us of the fear and pain this nighttime community went through as more and more women involved in prostitution were murdered. Eight women killed in less than 15 years. We want to visit The Drag in person to see what it’s like now and find out what are police doing to crack down on on-street prostitution? We join officers on patrol, who lift men for kerb-crawling – an offence now punishable by law in Scotland. We also hear from someone who lives on Glasgow’s streets who paints a vivid picture of the fear, addiction and violence that still blights the area now. -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Apr 13, 202648 min
5. Iain Packer
Iain Packer lived in freedom for almost 20 years after killing Emma Caldwell in 2005. Despite strangling her and discarding her body in remote woods about 40 miles outside Glasgow, he was able to live a seemingly normal family life. Also to attack dozens of other women. We explore the decisions taken during the initial police investigation which allowed him to escape justice for almost two decades – but could he have been stopped even before Emma’s murder? We hear from his first known victim who he attacked in her family home at the age of 15. What might have happened had her cries for help been believed earlier? By the adults in her life or by the police? She also thinks Packer’s offending is much wider than we know - that he would have attacked other women while on family holidays in the US and Spain. Even alerting the FBI and trying to hire a Private Investigator. We hear from former police officers who don’t think Emma’s is Packer’s only murder, those who worked tirelessly to bring this ‘forgotten suspect’ into the dock. Come with us into the courtroom, hearing from the witnesses – and victims - whose damning evidence eventually put this murderer, and serial rapist, behind bars for good. -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Apr 6, 202655 min
4. Emma Caldwell
Join us on the journey to the remote woods – about 40 miles outside Glasgow - where Emma’s body was found in May 2005. With us is the officer who first visited there with the man who would eventually be convicted of her murder. Her body was discovered by a dog walker more than a month after she’d gone missing from the city centre. It had been one of Scotland’s most high-profile unsolved murders, until Iain Packer was eventually convicted of the crime 19 years later. It was also the case that would be the catalyst for our investigation - but who was the girl behind the headlines? We speak to those who knew her to be kind, gentle and family orientated – even in the grips of a drug addiction brought on by the tragic death of her sister. We also hear from another of Packer’s victims, one whose striking similarity to Emma would see her become caught up in the police investigation. She thinks she only narrowly escaped a similar fate, thanks to a nagging feeling about the man with the dark eyes who kept trying to get her into the back of his van. Also hear from the first officer to interview Packer. Why was mounting evidence against this violent rapist repeatedly ignored by senior officers? How was he able to evade justice for almost two decades? -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Mar 30, 202638 min
3. Jacqueline Gallagher & Tracey Wylde
“I think her last words would have been mammy” The words of Jacqueline Gallagher’s mum, during a heartbreaking interview with us in the family home – as she tries to describe a pain that took their breath away in 1996 and never gave it back. A pain which started when Jackie was found dead, wrapped in a homemade curtain, near a bus stop in Bowling. The 26-year-old from Paisley, suffered more than 100 injuries. George Johnstone – a frequent client - stood trial for her murder but the case against him was found not proven. We speak to mum Alice and stepdad Robert more than 20 years later, the same length of time since they last heard from police about their daughter’s murder. We also hear from the sister of Tracey Wylde who was choked to death at her flat in the north side of the city a year later, in 1997. Bernadette was just 12 years old when her sister was killed. She tells us of being hounded by reporters and photographers who gathered outside her school, hoping to catch her off guard just to grab the next day’s headline. Tracey’s killer - Zhi Min Chen – was eventually caught after more than twenty years of heartache and uncertainty. So, what advice does her family have for Alice and Robert ahead of the 30th anniversary of Jackie’s murder later this year? If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. -If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Mar 23, 202643 min
2. Marjorie Roberts
Marjorie’s case has been described as perhaps the cruellest of all. The 34-year-old mother-of-three was found in the River Clyde, near Jamaica Bridge, in August 1995. But her death has never been treated as murder. Police say "no criminality” has ever been established but CCTV footage showed her with a man next to the river, hours before she was found dead. Weeks later, that same man was accused of trying to push another sex worker into the same river. Listen while we slowly build trust with Marjorie’s sister, following previous damaging experiences with the media and police. When she does agree to talk to us, hear how Marjorie’s death devastated a close-knit family, and the three young children she left behind. Her sister is also convinced she knows who did it. -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Mar 23, 202630 min
1. Diane McInally
The body of the 23-year-old Diane McInally was discovered in Pollok Park, Glasgow, in October 1991. She had been beaten and strangled. Two men were charged with her murder in March 1992 but there was insufficient evidence to try them. There are also persistent rumours that Diane was murdered because she was due to be a key prosecution witness in a drug trial. Hear from Diane’s auntie and cousin – two of her few surviving relatives – as we discuss these theories. The words of a family devastated by drugs, death and another murder. We’ll tell you a little about the murder of Emma Caldwell too. Her killer was recently convicted, and the court case was covered by hosts Collette and Callum for Clyde 1. It would prove the catalyst for their investigation into the other unsolved murders. Also hear about a missing piece of evidence from the investigation into Emma’s murder, the Beware Book. A tattered leather journal women involved in prostitution in Glasgow used to share warnings about the most dangerous clients. -If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle Presented and produced by Callum McQuade Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan Designer - Ben Watkins Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared Head of Production - Cat Moran Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media
- Mar 5, 20262 min
Introducing Beware Book
The story of Glasgow’s unsolved murders. Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious killings of young women which shocked the city between 1991 and 2005. This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time. Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserve?
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About Beware Book
Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious murders which shocked Glasgow between 1991 and 2005. Eight women involved in prostitution were killed, and at least four of those cases remain unsolved to this day. Many of these women were left defenceless in a more ruthless city than the one we know today - one grappling with unemployment, crime and the growing grip of heroin. Distrustful of authorities and fearing for their safety, they turned to each other for protection, sharing warnings about their most dangerous clients in a tattered leather journal they called the “Beware Book”. This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time. Also a brand-new interview with a former investigating officer about where he thinks the Beware Book is now. While Emma Caldwell’s murder was recently solved, and a man – Iain Packer – jailed, it took 19 years for justice to be served. Hear from some of his other victims and officers who worked on Emma's case - who think there will have been more attacks. Perhaps even another murder. Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserve?
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