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- 0:07Speaker 1: Serial killers are not uniquely American.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Across the world, murderers commit crimes just as chilling.
- 0:35Speaker 3: Tobin has earned a reputation as a manipulator and pathological liar.
- 0:40Speaker 2: In the UK, one of the most notorious is Peter Tobin.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Over the course of 15 years, Peter Tobin killed a
- 0:49Speaker 2: string of young women.
- 0:51Speaker 4: He's 60 years old with a criminal history of serious
- 0:54Speaker 4: sex offenses.
- 0:55Speaker 3: Tobin showed a chilling calculation.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Gave a false name and details, and he has since vanished.
- 1:01Speaker 5: This case became one of the biggest cases in Scottish history.
- 1:06Speaker 3: In prison, he has boasted of killing 48 women. Peter
- 1:08Speaker 3: Tobin is one of Britain's most prolific criminals.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Tobin subjected his victims to horrific acts.
- 1:16Speaker 6: He has this view of who women are. He wants
- 1:18Speaker 6: to rape them, he wants to violate them.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Yet for decades, Tobin deceived everyone.
- 1:24Speaker 7: How are they describing Peter Tobin? Hey, nice guy, personable,
- 1:30Speaker 7: people like him.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Even those closest to him were fools.
- 1:35Speaker 1: I thought he only did this to me.
- 1:38Speaker 8: I have never been so scared in my entire life.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I'm Beth Karras, and this is Living With a Serial Killer.
- 1:46Speaker 9: September 27th, 2006, Glasgow, Scotland.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Scottish police are looking for a young Polish woman who
- 2:03Speaker 2: had been reported missing two days earlier.
- 2:08Speaker 10: When we heard of the story originally, it was about
- 2:11Speaker 10: a missing person. It was a young woman concerned. She
- 2:14Speaker 10: was from a different country.
- 2:20Speaker 11: Angelika Klute, she was a well-educated person from Poland. She
- 2:23Speaker 11: came to Glasgow to make money to better her lifestyle.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Angelica Cluck had come to Glasgow on a working holiday
- 2:31Speaker 2: and very quickly found some work at St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
- 2:37Speaker 2: But when police searched the church where Angelica was last seen,
- 2:41Speaker 2: there's no sign of her.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Police conducted a detailed search of the church where Angelica
- 2:47Speaker 4: Cluck had been staying. The 23-year-old was last seen helping
- 2:51Speaker 4: the church handyman, known as Pat McLaughlin.
- 2:56Speaker 2: So who is Pat McLaughlin? And could he somehow be
- 3:00Speaker 2: involved in Angelica's disappearance?
- 3:03Speaker 5: At first blush, there's nothing about Patrick McLaughlin that's suspicious.
- 3:07Speaker 5: There's nothing about him that would lead anybody to believe
- 3:10Speaker 5: that he's involved in anything nefarious.
- 3:15Speaker 11: Everyone liked Patrick McLaughlin. He was a very helpful individual.
- 3:21Speaker 10: He was described as personable. He had a bit of
- 3:24Speaker 10: charm about him. And he seemed to get on well
- 3:27Speaker 10: with Angelica. He actually spoke to the police.
- 3:33Speaker 11: The police officer took a statement from him. He gave
- 3:35Speaker 11: a statement in the name of Patrick McLaughlin when he
- 3:38Speaker 11: had last seen her.
- 3:40Speaker 5: He claims that he doesn't know where she is.
- 3:44Speaker 7: And that's pretty much the end of the story.
- 3:46Speaker 5: There's really nothing to suggest anything terribly suspicious going on.
- 3:52Speaker 2: But within a day, detectives are forced to re-evaluate their
- 3:55Speaker 2: assessment of McLaughlin.
- 3:58Speaker 5: The police officers decide they want to go back and
- 4:01Speaker 5: talk to Patrick McLaughlin again.
- 4:03Speaker 7: Well, suddenly, Patrick McLaughlin is gone.
- 4:11Speaker 6: Whenever you have an individual like this, a witness like this.
- 4:15Speaker 12: They are very, very crucial.
- 4:17Speaker 6: So for this witness to just disappear, I think this
- 4:19Speaker 6: is when he goes from witness to suspect.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Locating McLaughlin becomes a major priority, and police turn to
- 4:27Speaker 2: the media for help.
- 4:30Speaker 5: In my experience, using the media to track down suspects, witnesses,
- 4:34Speaker 5: it is the best way to do it.
- 4:37Speaker 2: Patrick McLaughlin's face is soon appearing on newspapers and news
- 4:41Speaker 2: bulletins across the country. More than 400 miles away from Glasgow,
- 4:54Speaker 2: on England's south coast, the image of Pat McLaughlin comes
- 4:58Speaker 2: as a shock to one woman in particular.
- 5:02Speaker 1: My aunt phoned me at 9.15 in the morning and said,
- 5:05Speaker 1: turn on the television.
- 5:06Speaker 8: I said, which channel? She said, any channel. So I
- 5:10Speaker 8: turned the television on in the lounge and I just screamed.
- 5:14Speaker 8: I screamed.
- 5:17Speaker 2: It's an image Kathy Wilson had never expected to see again.
- 5:21Speaker 2: And it raises uncomfortable truths for her teenage son, Daniel.
- 5:26Speaker 8: Daniel came rushing down the staircase. What is it, mum?
- 5:29Speaker 1: And I just sort of shakily pointed at the TV
- 5:32Speaker 1: and he's going, what?
- 5:34Speaker 8: And I said, him. And he said, who is it?
- 5:37Speaker 8: And I said, it's your father.
- 5:41Speaker 1: And as the minutes passed on, I read the name
- 5:44Speaker 1: again and I'm thinking the name's wrong.
- 5:47Speaker 2: The name Kathy Wilson knows this man by is Peter Tobin.
- 5:52Speaker 2: And she is all too aware that he is extremely dangerous.
- 5:57Speaker 1: And then what kicked in was the fear that I've
- 6:01Speaker 1: been living with for years and years and years.
- 6:03Speaker 8: He's on the run. He's coming for me.
- 6:11Speaker 6: A really significant part of this investigation was when the
- 6:14Speaker 6: police received a response saying, this is not Pat McLaughlin.
- 6:19Speaker 6: This is Peter Tobin. He is a convicted sex offender.
- 6:25Speaker 7: This is huge in the investigation.
- 6:28Speaker 5: In 1993, he was convicted for brutally sexually assaulting two teenagers.
- 6:36Speaker 7: He's 60 years old.
- 6:37Speaker 4: With a criminal history of serious sex offenses, including the
- 6:40Speaker 4: rape of a 14-year-old girl.
- 6:42Speaker 3: He is a convicted pedophile.
- 6:49Speaker 5: Detectives are already starting to feel a little anxious about
- 6:54Speaker 5: what may have happened to Ms.
- 6:56Speaker 13: Klug.
- 6:57Speaker 5: We've got enough here that we need to find him,
- 7:00Speaker 5: we need to find him quickly, and we need to
- 7:03Speaker 5: talk to him.
- 7:05Speaker 2: Police begin a search into Tobin's past in an effort
- 7:09Speaker 2: to turn up leads. Kathy Wilson had first met Peter
- 7:15Speaker 2: Tobin in the English coastal town of Brighton in 1986.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Only 16 years old at the time, Kathy had recently
- 7:26Speaker 2: left the home she shared with her grandparents, who had
- 7:28Speaker 2: raised her after her own mother had died. Parentless and jobless,
- 7:33Speaker 2: she found herself immediately drawn to the charismatic Tobin, who
- 7:37Speaker 2: was 30 years her senior.
- 7:40Speaker 1: I first met Peter Tobin in a biker's bar, and
- 7:44Speaker 1: I had a little 50cc motorbike, and outside were all
- 7:46Speaker 1: the bikes lined up, Harley Davidsons. My little one was
- 7:49Speaker 1: just on the end, but I loved it in there.
- 7:51Speaker 1: There were seven or eight of us. He had the
- 7:53Speaker 1: whole table enthralled with the stories. No one else was talking.
- 7:56Speaker 1: We were just listening to him in rapture. He said
- 7:59Speaker 1: that he was running a hotel. and that he could
- 8:01Speaker 1: get me a job in the bar at the hotel
- 8:03Speaker 1: on the reception. And although that wasn't exactly what I
- 8:06Speaker 1: wanted to do, it was work, it was local, and
- 8:09Speaker 1: I liked him. And I thought, well, there's nothing else
- 8:13Speaker 1: that I've got to lose, really.
- 8:14Speaker 8: I might as well have a go.
- 8:18Speaker 1: When I got there, of course, it was just one
- 8:21Speaker 1: double bed, so I was expected to sleep with him.
- 8:23Speaker 1: But I'd liked him, so I didn't feel too shabby
- 8:27Speaker 1: about doing that. And we got on really well, so
- 8:30Speaker 1: why not?
- 8:32Speaker 2: But Kathy quickly learns there is no job for her
- 8:35Speaker 2: at the hotel.
- 8:37Speaker 1: I don't recall being happy or unhappy, just confused and
- 8:43Speaker 1: without a job.
- 8:47Speaker 2: Although there is no job for her to do, Kathy
- 8:50Speaker 2: decides to try to make the most of her situation.
- 8:53Speaker 8: Really, this was just someone that I knew, that I liked,
- 8:56Speaker 8: I felt happy with.
- 8:57Speaker 1: So I thought I'll put all of my efforts and
- 8:59Speaker 1: energy into being a homemaker. So I'd asked him in
- 9:02Speaker 1: the morning what he'd like for dinner and he'd said
- 9:04Speaker 1: a pork chop. So I grilled what I thought was
- 9:07Speaker 1: a perfectly adequate chop with a crispy, fatty rim to
- 9:12Speaker 1: it and a nice mix of vegetables to go with it,
- 9:14Speaker 1: expecting him to be pleased with me.
- 9:18Speaker 8: And he didn't.
- 9:19Speaker 1: He picked the plate up and he just threw it
- 9:21Speaker 1: at the wall behind my head. It missed me by inches.
- 9:26Speaker 1: That was my first insight into how it was going
- 9:28Speaker 1: to be.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Despite Tobin's senseless, violent outburst, the teenage Kathy stays with
- 9:35Speaker 2: him and over the following months begins to accept his
- 9:38Speaker 2: erratic behavior.
- 9:40Speaker 1: I look back now and I really think it's important
- 9:42Speaker 1: people understand how mental abuse in the hands of someone
- 9:48Speaker 1: who's skilled can happen very quickly before you've even known it.
- 9:54Speaker 14: The phenomenon that's unfolding is often referred to as coercive control.
- 10:00Speaker 14: a term that psychologists use for the abusive relationship, that
- 10:04Speaker 14: kind of testing of tolerance that happens to see how
- 10:07Speaker 14: much she'll put up with and how much he can
- 10:09Speaker 14: get away with.
- 10:11Speaker 15: So coercive control usually starts with really small, little messages,
- 10:17Speaker 15: but they build up and it becomes incredibly hard to
- 10:19Speaker 15: get out.
- 10:20Speaker 8: And to leave.
- 10:22Speaker 1: I was just absolutely determined that I was going to
- 10:26Speaker 1: make the best relationship I possibly could. Behind there definitely
- 10:30Speaker 1: was the feeling that I can't go home and I've
- 10:33Speaker 1: got nowhere else to go.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Could Kathy have seen anything in those early days to
- 10:39Speaker 2: indicate that the man she was letting into her life
- 10:42Speaker 2: would become one of Britain's most notorious criminals?
- 10:47Speaker 6: Peter Tobin is a predator. That is who he is.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Today's verdict confirms Peter Tobin is one of Britain's most
- 10:54Speaker 3: prolific criminals.
- 10:57Speaker 16: The fact that somebody could carry out a crime like
- 10:59Speaker 16: this on a young girl in a church of all places,
- 11:03Speaker 16: it's just shocking.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Friday, September 29th, 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Missing Polish student Angelika
- 11:17Speaker 2: Kluck had not been seen for five days. Police suspect
- 11:25Speaker 2: the last person she was seen with, 60-year-old Peter Tobin,
- 11:29Speaker 2: is somehow involved in her disappearance. But Tobin himself has
- 11:33Speaker 2: now gone missing. And as details of Tobin's background come
- 11:37Speaker 2: to light, detectives have serious concerns for Angelika's safety.
- 11:45Speaker 6: The police have a lot of red flags going up
- 11:48Speaker 6: at this point in the investigation. Peter Tobin has lied
- 11:51Speaker 6: about his name. He was the last person to see
- 11:54Speaker 6: Angelica alive. He has basically fled the scene. So this
- 12:00Speaker 6: really does set their alarm bells ringing.
- 12:03Speaker 2: With no clues as to Peter Tobin's whereabouts, experienced Detective
- 12:08Speaker 2: David Swindle is brought in to manage the case.
- 12:12Speaker 11: I was contacted as a senior investigating officer because the
- 12:16Speaker 11: police had discovered that the person that Angelica had been
- 12:21Speaker 11: last seen with was actually Peter Tobin, the missing sex offender.
- 12:28Speaker 5: So now we've got to start doing the background on
- 12:30Speaker 5: Peter Tobin and start to track down this guy's experience
- 12:35Speaker 5: and where he has been within the country.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Is there anything in Peter Tobin's past that could provide
- 12:43Speaker 2: a clearer picture of the suspect?
- 12:45Speaker 7: Running the criminal history of Peter Tobin.
- 12:47Speaker 5: Detectives find out that in 1993, he was convicted for
- 12:52Speaker 5: brutally sexually assaulting two teenagers.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Detectives discover that 12 years earlier, Peter Tobin had received
- 13:01Speaker 2: a 14-year prison sentence for the sexual assault of two
- 13:05Speaker 2: teenage girls in Havant, southern England. Shockingly, Tobin had carried
- 13:11Speaker 2: out this brutal attack in his own home.
- 13:16Speaker 11: He raped and almost killed two young girls.
- 13:22Speaker 6: They were really lucky to escape with their lives. This
- 13:26Speaker 6: is a man who is capable of serious harm.
- 13:29Speaker 2: After serving only 10 years of his sentence, Tobin was
- 13:32Speaker 2: released in 2004. But as investigators look at the details
- 13:38Speaker 2: of Tobin's previous crime, one key question seems relevant. How
- 13:43Speaker 2: did Tobin get these young women into his home in
- 13:46Speaker 2: the first place?
- 13:48Speaker 6: The two teenage girls that Tobin attacked, he gets them
- 13:52Speaker 6: in his flat. He makes them drink alcohol. And that
- 13:56Speaker 6: really is testament to this predatory and this manipulative nature
- 14:00Speaker 6: of Tobin.
- 14:04Speaker 2: Angelica had only known Peter Tobin under the alias Pat
- 14:08Speaker 2: McLaughlin for a short time when she went missing. Could
- 14:12Speaker 2: Tobin have lured and manipulated her just as he lured
- 14:15Speaker 2: those teenage girls?
- 14:19Speaker 6: Angelica had known Tobin for around about six weeks, and
- 14:22Speaker 6: that's a relatively short period of time. So for him
- 14:26Speaker 6: to have been able to gain her trust in that time,
- 14:30Speaker 6: that really does tell us how manipulative this individual is.
- 14:39Speaker 2: It seems Peter Tobin has been manipulating women all of
- 14:43Speaker 2: his life. In 1987, he successfully manipulated Kathy Wilson into
- 14:49Speaker 2: making a life-altering decision by lying about a health scare.
- 14:54Speaker 1: He told me he had cancer of the testicles, and
- 14:59Speaker 1: he was going to have an operation, a laser operation,
- 15:02Speaker 1: and he wouldn't be able to have children after that.
- 15:06Speaker 8: We'd only been.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Together three or four months, but I thought I'm probably
- 15:08Speaker 1: going to want to have children at some point in
- 15:10Speaker 1: my life. Then I ought to have one now, really,
- 15:14Speaker 1: which is crazy, because I was 16 and a half.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I didn't have a job. I had no real.
- 15:20Speaker 8: Income of my own.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Kathleen quickly becomes pregnant, but four months later, when she
- 15:25Speaker 2: accompanies Tobin to his operation, she talks to the surgeon
- 15:29Speaker 2: and discovers that she's been duped.
- 15:32Speaker 1: I said, isn't it lucky that I was able to
- 15:34Speaker 1: get pregnant before this? this operation takes place, and the
- 15:38Speaker 1: doctor surgeon just looked at me and said, what do
- 15:40Speaker 1: you mean? I said, well, after he has this laser treatment,
- 15:43Speaker 1: he won't be able to have children anymore. And the
- 15:47Speaker 1: doctor turned around to me and said, no, he's going
- 15:48Speaker 1: to lose one or two percent of his ability, if that,
- 15:51Speaker 1: probably none at all. That was a watershed moment for me.
- 15:59Speaker 1: I've been completely conned because I wouldn't have chosen to
- 16:01Speaker 1: have a child at 16 by any stretch of the imagination.
- 16:04Speaker 1: It's stupid, stupid He had changed the direction of my life.
- 16:12Speaker 14: Tobin had out and out tricked Kathy into getting pregnant.
- 16:20Speaker 6: When we look at men who are habitually abusive towards women,
- 16:23Speaker 6: pathological lying is something we come across very often. And
- 16:27Speaker 6: these men make themselves indispensable. And in the process of
- 16:31Speaker 6: doing that, they really do take control of women's lives.
- 16:36Speaker 1: So I think before I got pregnant, most of the abuse,
- 16:39Speaker 1: which now I understand was abuse, was mental.
- 16:43Speaker 8: It was wearing me down, belittling me, making me feel small.
- 16:46Speaker 1: But it seemed once I was pregnant, and particularly when
- 16:48Speaker 1: I started to show, he started to get physically aggressive
- 16:51Speaker 1: with me. But I think now that having accepted that
- 16:56Speaker 1: level of violence, he knew then that he was able
- 17:01Speaker 1: to go further.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Four days before Christmas in 1987, Kathy gives birth to
- 17:08Speaker 2: her son Daniel. And for a moment, everything changes.
- 17:14Speaker 1: The second that my baby was put into my arms,
- 17:18Speaker 1: not just the pain, but the disappointment in Peter, they
- 17:21Speaker 1: all were bundled into the same pile of, that's all
- 17:23Speaker 1: forgotten now.
- 17:25Speaker 8: Because look what I've got. And there's nothing quite like
- 17:28Speaker 8: the feeling of that.
- 17:28Speaker 12: I don't think.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Becoming a mother is a deeply significant moment in Kathy's life.
- 17:35Speaker 14: It's important to remember that Kathy had, if you will,
- 17:39Speaker 14: a hole in her heart from her own childhood. It
- 17:41Speaker 14: wasn't a happy childhood and she didn't have two parents
- 17:44Speaker 14: and she never knew her father.
- 17:49Speaker 8: My mom is like a butterfly, I think. That's how
- 17:53Speaker 8: I describe her.
- 17:53Speaker 13: She's flitting from one thing to another, never stopping very long,
- 17:57Speaker 13: looking beautiful all the time. because when she was there
- 18:02Speaker 13: and she was lucid, she was a fantastic mother.
- 18:07Speaker 8: But my mother was taking drugs.
- 18:09Speaker 1: I now believe quite hardcore drugs at that age, but
- 18:12Speaker 1: I didn't even know what drugs were.
- 18:13Speaker 8: I didn't understand it. My mother was deteriorating.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Our whole situation was deteriorating.
- 18:19Speaker 8: We were just spiraling down.
- 18:22Speaker 2: When Kathy was six, her mother died. But it was
- 18:26Speaker 2: only when Kathy turned 16 she learned that her mother
- 18:29Speaker 2: had killed herself with a heroin overdose. Just a few
- 18:34Speaker 2: months later was when she met Peter Tobin.
- 18:38Speaker 15: For Kathy to jump into that relationship at 16, on
- 18:44Speaker 15: the one hand, can.
- 18:45Speaker 12: Seem really risky.
- 18:47Speaker 15: But having a history of abuse often leaves people more vulnerable.
- 18:51Speaker 15: to abuse later on in life.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, September 29th, 2006. Polish student Angelika Kluck
- 19:05Speaker 2: has now been missing for five days. Police have established
- 19:09Speaker 2: that the last person to be seen with her was
- 19:11Speaker 2: Peter Tobin, a registered sex offender who is now also missing.
- 19:16Speaker 2: The pressure is on for lead investigator David Swindle and
- 19:19Speaker 2: his team. Could they have missed something vital at the
- 19:24Speaker 2: church where Angelica and Tobin were last seen?
- 19:30Speaker 11: What I asked for was a better search of the
- 19:33Speaker 11: church to be done. We arranged for specialist search teams
- 19:38Speaker 11: to examine the church. And within, I think it was
- 19:42Speaker 11: probably two hours, a woman's body was found underneath the church.
- 19:49Speaker 7: The grim decision.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Was made at around 8 o'clock last night. Forensic officers
- 19:54Speaker 4: have spent the night gathering evidence at the chapel.
- 19:57Speaker 5: Because of what we know, there's no doubt this is
- 20:00Speaker 5: going to be Angelica. Well, now we've got something that
- 20:03Speaker 5: we didn't have before. We've got a body, and we
- 20:07Speaker 5: now have a scene that needs to be processed.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Forensic biologist Carol Rogers is tasked with conducting the initial assessment.
- 20:16Speaker 2: But even accessing the body is no easy task.
- 20:20Speaker 16: My first impression of the crime scene itself, I can't
- 20:25Speaker 16: believe how small the trapdoor was. Once I went down in,
- 20:33Speaker 16: I could see clearly she had what appeared to be
- 20:37Speaker 16: multiple stab injuries to her chest. And she also had
- 20:42Speaker 16: facial injuries. She had insulating tape wrapped around her mouth.
- 20:47Speaker 16: And there was a lot of blood around about her face,
- 20:49Speaker 16: and her face did look quite swollen.
- 20:53Speaker 2: The crime scene made it clear that Angelica had been
- 20:56Speaker 2: subjected to horrific final moments.
- 21:00Speaker 16: She was fully clothed, but the fly of her trousers
- 21:03Speaker 16: was unbuttoned. And also her shirt and bra were pushed up.
- 21:09Speaker 12: To expose her abdomen and her breasts.
- 21:10Speaker 16: So it was quite apparent from just the way her
- 21:12Speaker 16: clothing was that this was going to be a sexually
- 21:15Speaker 16: motivated murder.
- 21:18Speaker 2: When Angelica's identity is confirmed, the severity of the crime
- 21:22Speaker 2: remains shocking for even the most experienced officers.
- 21:28Speaker 11: The horrific murder of Angelica Kluke is something that I
- 21:31Speaker 11: will always remember. And the ferocity of how she was
- 21:34Speaker 11: killed The.
- 21:36Speaker 16: Fact that somebody could carry out a crime like this
- 21:39Speaker 16: on a young girl in a church of.
- 21:41Speaker 12: All places, it's just shocking. The whole thing is just
- 21:45Speaker 12: such a tragic story.
- 21:48Speaker 2: But can the scene at the church help investigators catch
- 21:52Speaker 2: the man responsible?
- 21:54Speaker 5: The bad news is that we've now verified that Angelica's dead.
- 21:58Speaker 5: The good news is that the evidence gleaned from this
- 22:03Speaker 5: scene is a treasure trove.
- 22:09Speaker 11: Underneath the floor was bloodstained clothing. There was a knife
- 22:13Speaker 11: and other things.
- 22:15Speaker 2: And on Angelica's body itself, investigators discover traces of semen.
- 22:21Speaker 2: With DNA samples available, will police finally be able to
- 22:25Speaker 2: prove that missing sex offender Peter Tobin is their man?
- 22:30Speaker 5: We need DNA results as quickly as possible. Whosever semen
- 22:36Speaker 5: that belongs to that is going to be the killer.
- 22:42Speaker 2: And if DNA proves the murderer is Peter Tobin, is
- 22:46Speaker 2: it possible he's killed before?
- 22:49Speaker 11: The ferocity of the killing, the way that Peter Tobin
- 22:53Speaker 11: had concealed Angelica's body under the church, this wasn't, in
- 23:00Speaker 11: my mind, the first time that this person had killed.
- 23:04Speaker 6: This behaviour doesn't just emerge overnight. This is behavior that
- 23:08Speaker 6: develops over a series of years and even decades. There
- 23:12Speaker 6: would have been an escalation up to this. She would
- 23:15Speaker 6: not have been his first victim.
- 23:19Speaker 2: As suspicions grow that Peter Tobin is not a first-time killer,
- 23:23Speaker 2: Swindle decides to set up a second, separate investigation.
- 23:31Speaker 5: All of the things that Superintendent Swindle has put together
- 23:33Speaker 5: here now that is leading him to believe... that we
- 23:37Speaker 5: now have a serial killer, that puts the wheels in
- 23:39Speaker 5: motion for Operation Anagram.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Operation Anagram turns a traditional murder investigation on its head.
- 23:48Speaker 2: Instead of searching for a killer, police will now be
- 23:51Speaker 2: searching for victims.
- 23:53Speaker 6: It is unusual to have an operation like Operation Anagram. Here,
- 23:58Speaker 6: they have the potential to clear up not just this case,
- 24:01Speaker 6: but many, many others.
- 24:03Speaker 11: It's something that had never been done before and I
- 24:07Speaker 11: don't think it's been done again. And basically, I called
- 24:09Speaker 11: it investigative analysis of a serial killer.
- 24:15Speaker 2: But with Tobin himself missing and much of his past
- 24:18Speaker 2: history as yet unknown, how can investigators start to look
- 24:22Speaker 2: for other possible victims?
- 24:24Speaker 5: So now we need to build a timeline for Peter
- 24:27Speaker 5: Tobin and start to track down this guy's experience and
- 24:31Speaker 5: where he has been within the country.
- 24:34Speaker 2: But police will find that Tobin had worked hard to
- 24:38Speaker 2: ensure much of his life remained a mystery. In 1988,
- 24:42Speaker 2: in Brighton, England, even after having had a son with him,
- 24:46Speaker 2: Kathy Wilson was beginning to realize that she knew very
- 24:50Speaker 2: little about Tobin.
- 24:52Speaker 8: I don't recall any particular bonding between Peter and Daniel.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Peter was going out full days at a time, doing
- 24:59Speaker 1: what I really don't know. And I never questioned him.
- 25:03Speaker 1: because I didn't really care. He wasn't in the house.
- 25:06Speaker 1: He wasn't bothering me. I do wonder what he was
- 25:08Speaker 1: up to. Peter was spending a lot of time at
- 25:10Speaker 1: the Catholic Church, and then he said one day that
- 25:13Speaker 1: the priest was very uncomfortable about the fact that our
- 25:16Speaker 1: son was out of wedlock and that we really.
- 25:19Speaker 17: Ought to be married.
- 25:21Speaker 1: I don't even recall getting down on the one-me.
- 25:23Speaker 8: Kind of proposal.
- 25:23Speaker 1: It was just an acceptance that the next stage of
- 25:27Speaker 1: my life involved getting married.
- 25:29Speaker 2: But in getting married to Tobin... Kathy uncovered a secret
- 25:32Speaker 2: that he had been hiding from her.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Having had the idea proposed by the priests at the
- 25:38Speaker 1: Catholic Church, which was my understanding, when it came to it,
- 25:43Speaker 1: they wouldn't marry us there because he'd been divorced.
- 25:45Speaker 8: Well, this was the first time I even heard that.
- 25:47Speaker 1: He'd had a wife.
- 25:49Speaker 2: Kathy had discovered that Tobin had been married before, but
- 25:54Speaker 2: what she didn't yet know were the horrors that being
- 25:57Speaker 2: the wife of Peter Tobin could entail. Coming up, is
- 26:02Speaker 2: Peter Tobin's killing driven by a psychopathic personality?
- 26:07Speaker 1: He said, I'll kill your son if you ever leave me.
- 26:11Speaker 1: I have never been so scared in my entire life.
- 26:13Speaker 11: Animal mutilation. The extreme domestic abuse. These are all early
- 26:23Speaker 11: indicators of progression towards more serious conduct.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Following the discovery of Angelica Cluck's body, police in Scotland
- 26:32Speaker 2: are hunting for lead suspect Peter Tobin. They have also
- 26:36Speaker 2: opened a second investigation, looking into the theory that Peter
- 26:40Speaker 2: Tobin is a serial killer.
- 26:43Speaker 5: We've got a viable suspect, so what do we do?
- 26:47Speaker 5: We start putting out feelers because we want to find
- 26:50Speaker 5: people that are associated with Peter Tobin.
- 26:57Speaker 2: But when investigators speak to those who know Tobin, will
- 27:00Speaker 2: those closest to him confirm his violent, dangerous profile?
- 27:05Speaker 5: How are they describing Peter Tobin? Hey, nice guy, personable,
- 27:11Speaker 5: people like him.
- 27:14Speaker 11: This is someone that looked normal, a normal person.
- 27:18Speaker 2: But police know Tobin is a violent offender. So does
- 27:22Speaker 2: his ability to hide that from people tell them anything?
- 27:25Speaker 14: There is a certain sort of murderer who is very
- 27:28Speaker 14: accomplished at hiding his true identity from the general public.
- 27:33Speaker 2: When police track down Tobin's first wife, Margaret, a very
- 27:37Speaker 2: different picture emerges.
- 27:40Speaker 5: One thing that she talks about that separates Tobin from
- 27:44Speaker 5: everything that we've heard in a positive way is that
- 27:48Speaker 5: their relationship through the marriage, he was brutal.
- 27:52Speaker 11: She was kept prisoner in her house in the east
- 27:54Speaker 11: end of Glasgow by Tobin. And Tobin had seriously assaulted her.
- 28:04Speaker 18: The controlling and abusive behaviour that we see from Tobin
- 28:07Speaker 18: towards his wife is a clear indication of somebody for
- 28:11Speaker 18: whom other human beings do not have a real identity,
- 28:16Speaker 18: are not seen as truly human. It's a type of
- 28:22Speaker 18: controlling behavior that is symptomatic of a psychopath.
- 28:28Speaker 14: The psychopath feels absolutely nothing, no compunction about harming others,
- 28:33Speaker 14: and an inability to express any remorse or shame or
- 28:37Speaker 14: guilt when they do something wrong.
- 28:40Speaker 12: By all accounts, Peter Tobin is on that spectrum.
- 28:49Speaker 2: Completely unaware of what Tobin had put his first wife
- 28:52Speaker 2: Margaret through, Kathy begins her marriage to Tobin as a
- 28:55Speaker 2: new mother in 1989. But only a few months later,
- 29:00Speaker 2: Tobin tells her they'll be moving away.
- 29:05Speaker 1: And then announces it's in a place called Bathgate. God,
- 29:07Speaker 1: I don't know where Bathgate is.
- 29:09Speaker 8: In Scotland. I think I must have just been incredulous.
- 29:19Speaker 14: Moving Kathy to the other end of the country, away
- 29:22Speaker 14: from everyone she knows and everything she's familiar with, it
- 29:27Speaker 14: really does appear to be yet another effort by Peter
- 29:30Speaker 14: Tobin to isolate his wife, and one of the hallmarks
- 29:34Speaker 14: of psychological domestic violence.
- 29:37Speaker 2: In Bathgate, Scotland, Cathy is now totally alone and hundreds
- 29:42Speaker 2: of miles from anyone she knows.
- 29:46Speaker 1: As soon as he got me up there, he isolated
- 29:48Speaker 1: me even further from everyone. I certainly was being fully
- 29:55Speaker 1: now locked down in the property. I wasn't able to
- 29:57Speaker 1: go out of the house except for the shops and
- 29:59Speaker 1: that was an accompanied visit. I really felt that I
- 30:07Speaker 1: had to now leave this. There was nothing for me
- 30:10Speaker 1: to stay for at all. I had no idea how
- 30:14Speaker 1: Peter was going to react to.
- 30:15Speaker 8: Me asking for a divorce at all.
- 30:17Speaker 1: I just knew that the point I was going to
- 30:19Speaker 1: ask had to be a point where he was very calm.
- 30:23Speaker 1: And I just think I said simply, this isn't working.
- 30:26Speaker 8: I need a divorce.
- 30:29Speaker 1: The next thing I know, he's literally picked Daniel up
- 30:33Speaker 1: from the landing next to him and dangled him over
- 30:36Speaker 1: the staircase. And he said, I'll drop your son if
- 30:39Speaker 1: you ever leave me. I'll kill your son if you
- 30:42Speaker 1: ever leave me. And I just saw Daniel there and
- 30:45Speaker 1: his eyes were scared.
- 30:47Speaker 8: And the only job I have in my.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Life, the only job I have in my life is
- 30:50Speaker 1: to protect him.
- 30:52Speaker 8: And I'm Screwing it up.
- 30:56Speaker 1: So I said immediately, you're right. It was a really,
- 30:59Speaker 1: really silly idea. I don't know where I got that from.
- 31:00Speaker 1: Put it down your back.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Locked up in her own home and terrorized by Tobin,
- 31:10Speaker 2: escape seems impossible until one day Tobin makes a mistake.
- 31:17Speaker 1: For some reason, I went and checked the door and
- 31:19Speaker 1: it hadn't been locked. The front door hadn't been locked.
- 31:22Speaker 1: It just came over me, you've got to go now.
- 31:23Speaker 1: So that was it. So I literally grabbed a carry
- 31:25Speaker 1: bag with some clothes on for Daniel and a soft
- 31:27Speaker 1: toy for him. I grabbed a pot of money and
- 31:28Speaker 1: must have got a cab to the coach station. The
- 31:33Speaker 1: guy was convinced that I was going to get killed
- 31:36Speaker 1: and Daniel wouldn't have me anymore.
- 31:40Speaker 8: But then the bus arrives. And I can't believe it.
- 31:48Speaker 8: I'd got away.
- 31:48Speaker 11: Probably.
- 31:51Speaker 8: I got away.
- 31:53Speaker 2: But will Kathy ever be truly free of Peter Tobin?
- 32:00Speaker 2: It's late September 2006, and police in Glasgow, Scotland, are
- 32:04Speaker 2: continuing their search for Peter Tobin, the man they suspect
- 32:07Speaker 2: of raping and murdering Angelica Cluck. But with no trace
- 32:11Speaker 2: of Tobin for several days, and his deadly past becoming clearer,
- 32:16Speaker 2: detectives fear he may have escaped.
- 32:20Speaker 7: At this point in the investigation, Peter Tobin's become a ghost.
- 32:24Speaker 11: When Peter Tobin realized that the heat was on, that
- 32:30Speaker 11: there was a big investigation regarding Angelica Kluk, he left
- 32:33Speaker 11: the scene.
- 32:38Speaker 7: So now the challenge is to find Tobin.
- 32:42Speaker 2: After no sightings for a week, on Sunday, October 1st,
- 32:46Speaker 2: police in London, 300 miles from the crime scene, receive
- 32:51Speaker 2: a call.
- 32:52Speaker 5: They receive a tip from a hospital in London that
- 32:57Speaker 5: a person who looks like Peter Tobin had checked in
- 33:00Speaker 5: there calling himself John Kelly and complaining about heart issues.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Could this patient John Kelly really be Peter Tobin? And
- 33:11Speaker 2: if so, why, after a week of careful evasion, has
- 33:16Speaker 2: he taken the risk of going somewhere as public as
- 33:18Speaker 2: a hospital?
- 33:21Speaker 6: We often find with serial killers, the most important thing
- 33:25Speaker 6: for them is meeting their own needs. So if he
- 33:28Speaker 6: needed hospital treatment for something, he would just go and
- 33:31Speaker 6: get it.
- 33:36Speaker 2: But if this patient does turn out to be Tobin,
- 33:39Speaker 2: are police ready to charge him with Angelica's killing? The
- 33:43Speaker 2: DNA tests of the semen from the crime scene have
- 33:46Speaker 2: not yet produced a profile. so police need a different
- 33:49Speaker 2: reason to be able to take Tobin back to Scotland.
- 33:55Speaker 5: At this point in the investigation, their DNA results that
- 34:00Speaker 5: they're waiting for are not back. However, we want to
- 34:03Speaker 5: talk to Peter Tobin, so we just take a different
- 34:08Speaker 5: route to get there.
- 34:10Speaker 11: We didn't have the DNA evidence, so I dispatched a
- 34:13Speaker 11: team to London. We got a warrant. An arrest warrant
- 34:16Speaker 11: because he was a missing sex offender and he didn't
- 34:18Speaker 11: comply with his sex offender conditions. So he was arrested
- 34:21Speaker 11: on that and brought back to Scotland by uniformed officers.
- 34:26Speaker 2: Finally, police have Peter Tobin in custody. Peter Tobin arrives
- 34:37Speaker 2: in Scotland on October 1st, 2006 and is taken in
- 34:41Speaker 2: for interrogation.
- 34:45Speaker 11: He just denies it all. He's a very controlling individual.
- 34:49Speaker 11: He wants to control the interview and he denies any
- 34:52Speaker 11: involvement in that.
- 34:53Speaker 2: But by this stage, police don't need Tobin to confess.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Just one day after his arrest, the forensic analysis of
- 35:00Speaker 2: the semen from the crime scene provides investigators with a
- 35:03Speaker 2: DNA profile.
- 35:06Speaker 5: Now we're in the investigation where we have the DNA
- 35:08Speaker 5: results back and it hits on Peter Tobin in the system.
- 35:15Speaker 2: This match alone is virtually irrefutable proof that Tobin is
- 35:18Speaker 2: Angelica's killer. But following Tobin's arrest, forensic officers have uncovered
- 35:24Speaker 2: even more shocking evidence to be used against him.
- 35:29Speaker 12: When Peter Tobin was arrested, his clothing and.
- 35:32Speaker 16: His personal effects were seized by the police. So we
- 35:35Speaker 16: examined a T-shirt that he was wearing. And on the
- 35:39Speaker 16: lower front of the T-shirt, we found a mixture of semen,
- 35:42Speaker 16: and quite a large amount of DNA that could have
- 35:44Speaker 16: come from Angelika Kluk.
- 35:46Speaker 12: We also found blood on his watch.
- 35:50Speaker 2: With such a wealth of forensic evidence, Tobin is swiftly
- 35:53Speaker 2: charged with Angelika's murder. But Operation Anagram remains in full force,
- 35:59Speaker 2: with detectives determined to prove correct their theory that Tobin
- 36:03Speaker 2: has many more victims. Coming up, Peter Tobin goes on trial.
- 36:11Speaker 9: This is the man who murdered Angelica Klug. Police investigating
- 36:16Speaker 9: that crime realized that Tobin could also have been behind
- 36:20Speaker 9: one of Scotland's longest-running missing persons inquiries.
- 36:24Speaker 2: But are there more victims?
- 36:27Speaker 5: So the why question here is, are we in fact
- 36:31Speaker 5: dealing with a serial killer?
- 36:39Speaker 2: On March 23rd, 2007, Peter Tobin goes on trial for
- 36:44Speaker 2: the murder of Angelica Kluck. But even in court, Tobin
- 36:49Speaker 2: refuses to concede anything.
- 36:53Speaker 5: Even with all the evidence against him, Angelica's blood on
- 36:55Speaker 5: his watch, the DNA, I'm not surprised at all that
- 36:59Speaker 5: Peter Tobin says, not guilty.
- 37:02Speaker 18: He believes that he is able, by pleading not guilty,
- 37:05Speaker 18: to control and manage this situation. This is somebody who
- 37:09Speaker 18: believes that he can control the world around him.
- 37:13Speaker 2: As Tobin continues to deny his involvement, the horrific details
- 37:18Speaker 2: of Angelica's murder are revealed to the jury.
- 37:22Speaker 9: This is the man who murdered Angelica Klug. Tobin had beaten,
- 37:26Speaker 9: raped and stabbed her to death, then concealed her body
- 37:30Speaker 9: under the floorboards in this church, just feet from the confessional.
- 37:36Speaker 2: After just three and a half hours of deliberation, the
- 37:39Speaker 2: jury returns with a verdict. Tobin is found guilty and
- 37:43Speaker 2: is given a life sentence with a minimum term of
- 37:46Speaker 2: 21 years. But one question remains.
- 37:50Speaker 5: So the question is, are we in fact dealing with
- 37:54Speaker 5: a serial killer?
- 37:56Speaker 11: After he was convicted of Angelica Klux, that's when we
- 38:00Speaker 11: went public. He's in prison. He's not going anywhere. He's
- 38:02Speaker 11: not going to kill anyone else. So we went over
- 38:05Speaker 11: with Operation Anagram and conducted searches and interviewing other people.
- 38:10Speaker 2: And Operation Anagram has a key witness, Kathy Wilson, who
- 38:15Speaker 2: had gone to police as soon as she learned of
- 38:18Speaker 2: Tobin's connection to Angelica.
- 38:21Speaker 5: She saw Peter Tobin's face, realized his name was out
- 38:24Speaker 5: there in connection with this overall investigation.
- 38:29Speaker 7: She went directly to police.
- 38:31Speaker 5: And this busted the whole thing wide open on who
- 38:34Speaker 5: Peter Tobin really is.
- 38:38Speaker 11: Kathy Wilson could speak about his behavior and other things
- 38:41Speaker 11: about him. And that was really important. And she was
- 38:45Speaker 11: what you call a significant witness.
- 38:48Speaker 2: Kathy Wilson is interviewed by officers from Operation Anagram on
- 38:52Speaker 2: several occasions and for many hours. During these interviews, she
- 38:57Speaker 2: explains that she had left Tobin more than 15 years ago.
- 39:02Speaker 2: But could information from her past life with him help
- 39:05Speaker 2: police with their investigation now? Cathy tells police that after
- 39:09Speaker 2: fleeing Tobin's Bathgate home in 1990, she established a new
- 39:14Speaker 2: life for herself on England's south coast. But within six months,
- 39:19Speaker 2: Tobin had managed to re-establish contact.
- 39:23Speaker 1: I agreed to let Peter come down from Scotland and
- 39:26Speaker 1: that we would talk, we would walk along the beach.
- 39:29Speaker 8: He was really... really trying to get me to come
- 39:31Speaker 8: back to him.
- 39:32Speaker 1: But too much had happened and my awareness was that
- 39:37Speaker 1: there was no circumstances I would be allowed to live
- 39:39Speaker 1: my life again. If I even considered going back with him.
- 39:44Speaker 1: So I was pretty strong on that point. But I
- 39:48Speaker 1: did say I don't want to stop me seeing Daniel
- 39:49Speaker 1: at all.
- 39:52Speaker 15: It might seem really hard to comprehend why Kathy would
- 39:55Speaker 15: have given him contact, given everything that he'd done. As
- 40:00Speaker 15: some memories possibly started to become less powerful for her,
- 40:04Speaker 15: maybe the desire for her son to have a father
- 40:07Speaker 15: was greater than the desire to keep him away.
- 40:12Speaker 2: By early 1991, Peter Tobin was paying regular visits to
- 40:17Speaker 2: Kathy and Daniel. Eventually, she allows Tobin to spend an
- 40:22Speaker 2: afternoon alone with their son.
- 40:25Speaker 1: I was so desperate for Daniel to have both parents
- 40:28Speaker 1: that I've done some things really that are quite ridiculous
- 40:32Speaker 1: if you look at them from outside.
- 40:35Speaker 2: Tobin had promised to return Daniel that same afternoon, but
- 40:39Speaker 2: when evening comes, there's no sign of either of them
- 40:43Speaker 2: and panic starts to set in for Kathy.
- 40:46Speaker 1: By 6.30, I was immediately in full panic mode. I
- 40:50Speaker 1: know he's with his father, but he should be home.
- 40:56Speaker 1: It was late in the evening when I got a
- 40:58Speaker 1: phone call from him to say that he'd gone back
- 41:01Speaker 1: up to Scotland and that I would never see him
- 41:04Speaker 1: or my son again. He said, I'm going to leave
- 41:07Speaker 1: the country first thing in the morning, and that's it.
- 41:09Speaker 1: You're not seeing either of us again.
- 41:15Speaker 14: Kathy's act of conciliatory kindness backfires when Peter Tobin takes
- 41:21Speaker 14: that child and essentially kidnaps him back to Scotland.
- 41:24Speaker 12: Kathy, of course, is reeling.
- 41:28Speaker 5: She goes to the police. Well, the police can't do
- 41:30Speaker 5: anything because he's the legal father. It's a civil matter.
- 41:33Speaker 5: It's a child custody case.
- 41:36Speaker 2: Desperate, Kathy turns to the courts for help.
- 41:41Speaker 8: I was in court at 9 o'clock the following morning.
- 41:43Speaker 1: The judge said, well, all I can offer you at
- 41:44Speaker 1: the moment is I can give you sole custody. Unfortunately,
- 41:48Speaker 1: I can only make it valid in England.
- 41:52Speaker 12: Cathy has only one choice.
- 41:53Speaker 14: She needs to find a way to get Daniel back
- 41:56Speaker 14: across the border from Scotland to England if she's going
- 42:00Speaker 14: to make that decree take effect.
- 42:03Speaker 1: So I decided to hatch a plan. I was 17
- 42:05Speaker 1: years old and absolutely petrified. I phoned Peter and I said,
- 42:09Speaker 1: you win.
- 42:10Speaker 8: I'm coming up.
- 42:13Speaker 2: Less than a year after having escaped from Tobin's Bathgate home,
- 42:17Speaker 2: Kathy is heading back with no idea of the horrors
- 42:22Speaker 2: that await her.
- 42:24Speaker 1: And for three days and nights, I had to do
- 42:27Speaker 1: whatever it was that he wanted me to do.
- 42:29Speaker 8: Took me three days of hell, actually. Three days of hell.
- 42:41Speaker 2: In 1991, Peter Tobin kidnapped his two-year-old son, Daniel, taking
- 42:46Speaker 2: him hundreds of miles away from his mother, Kathy, across
- 42:50Speaker 2: the Scottish border to a town called Bathgate. Kathy knows
- 42:54Speaker 2: that her only chance to save her son is to
- 42:57Speaker 2: get Tobin to bring him back to England, where she
- 42:59Speaker 2: can regain custody. But that involves Kathy returning to Scotland.
- 43:08Speaker 1: I was quite convinced that when I got up there,
- 43:11Speaker 1: he would punish me for leaving him. This was his
- 43:14Speaker 1: first opportunity to be back in control. And it was
- 43:16Speaker 1: in the family house. And I had absolutely no idea
- 43:20Speaker 1: if I was going to come home alive.
- 43:22Speaker 2: Kathy's plan is to try to convince Tobin that they
- 43:25Speaker 2: could get back together if he is willing to move
- 43:28Speaker 2: to England with her.
- 43:31Speaker 1: And for three days and nights, I had to do
- 43:34Speaker 1: whatever it was that he wanted me to do. to
- 43:37Speaker 1: prove to him that I was going to be going
- 43:39Speaker 1: back with him again if he was to deign to
- 43:41Speaker 1: move further south with me. And that involved very uncomfortable
- 43:46Speaker 1: sex in very uncomfortable places, repeatedly, angrily.
- 43:52Speaker 8: It was disgusting.
- 43:56Speaker 1: He would want to perform in front of Daniel, who
- 43:59Speaker 1: was obviously only a child.
- 44:00Speaker 8: But he did that.
- 44:06Speaker 1: Because he was testing me to see if I was
- 44:09Speaker 1: really prepared to give it a go.
- 44:11Speaker 8: And I passed the test. Took me three days. Of hell, actually.
- 44:27Speaker 8: Three days of hell.
- 44:34Speaker 2: Kathy's plan works. After three days, Tobin agrees to drive
- 44:41Speaker 2: them all back south. And once back in Portsmouth, court
- 44:45Speaker 2: bailiffs step in to return Daniel to Kathy. 16 years later,
- 44:54Speaker 2: Kathy tells investigators from Operation Anagram the horrifying story.
- 45:01Speaker 11: For me, what she went through, you could never imagine that.
- 45:06Speaker 11: You could never imagine it. This is a woman that was,
- 45:10Speaker 11: I call her the living victim. She survived.
- 45:16Speaker 2: Although tragic, Kathy's story has confirmed a key address and
- 45:20Speaker 2: a date for Operation Anagram. Could Tobin's presence in Bathgate
- 45:26Speaker 2: in 1991 be the information investigators need to connect Tobin
- 45:31Speaker 2: to another murder?
- 45:34Speaker 5: So Kathy Wilson provides some critical information about an address
- 45:39Speaker 5: that she lived with Tobin in 1991. And at the
- 45:45Speaker 5: same time, there is a missing person case that develops
- 45:50Speaker 5: very nearby with a girl named Vicki Hamilton.
- 45:58Speaker 14: Vicki Hamilton was a 15-year-old schoolgirl who had suddenly disappeared
- 46:03Speaker 14: without a trace in 1991.
- 46:06Speaker 5: This case became one of the biggest missing person cases
- 46:10Speaker 5: in Scottish history.
- 46:12Speaker 12: I remember it being all over the news.
- 46:14Speaker 16: I remember her picture being on milk cartons and picture
- 46:18Speaker 16: being on the local bus station.
- 46:19Speaker 12: So I remembered it very clearly.
- 46:21Speaker 5: The only evidence that was ever developed in Vicki Hamilton's
- 46:25Speaker 5: disappearance was her purse found at a bus station that
- 46:30Speaker 5: appeared to have been discarded at that location.
- 46:34Speaker 2: Now, 16 years after her disappearance, police have established that
- 46:38Speaker 2: Peter Tobin, the convicted murderer and pedophile, was living only
- 46:43Speaker 2: a few miles from where Vicki Hamilton had last been seen.
- 46:47Speaker 2: Investigators immediately searched Tobin's former Bathgate residence.
- 46:52Speaker 9: Police stripped the house back to exactly how it had
- 46:55Speaker 9: been when Tobin lived there.
- 46:57Speaker 11: Loding and Borders Police searched the house where Tobin lived
- 47:01Speaker 11: in Bathgate. and they found a knife in the attic.
- 47:05Speaker 5: And they uncover a knife that still has particles of
- 47:10Speaker 5: human skin on the knife itself.
- 47:14Speaker 2: Could these skin particles be the first step in proving
- 47:17Speaker 2: that Peter Tobin is a serial killer? Immediately, forensic officers
- 47:21Speaker 2: are tasked with obtaining a DNA profile from the knife.
- 47:25Speaker 2: And when the results come back, it is exactly as
- 47:28Speaker 2: investigators had feared.
- 47:30Speaker 7: Human tissue, human blood.
- 47:33Speaker 5: On this knife comes back to Vicki Hamilton. That is
- 47:38Speaker 5: a paradigm shift in the investigation. That is a big
- 47:41Speaker 5: change right there.
- 47:43Speaker 2: Police are now convinced Peter Tobin is responsible for Vicki
- 47:46Speaker 2: Hamilton's murder, but they need more.
- 47:50Speaker 5: So here's the dilemma that they face, even with this great,
- 47:54Speaker 5: great evidence. At this point in time, they don't have
- 47:57Speaker 5: a body, although they've got a pretty good indication here
- 48:00Speaker 5: that something nefarious has happened.
- 48:02Speaker 7: To Vicki Hamilton.
- 48:04Speaker 2: Can the fact that Tobin hid the knife in a
- 48:06Speaker 2: former home offer investigators a lead?
- 48:10Speaker 6: The fact that he has just discarded the knife in
- 48:13Speaker 6: the attic of this house would appear to be, you know,
- 48:16Speaker 6: something quite shocking, really. And I think perhaps this could
- 48:19Speaker 6: be down to his arrogance.
- 48:21Speaker 7: So he's keeping trophies. He's keeping weapons.
- 48:26Speaker 5: So these are all little mementos that he keeps, and
- 48:29Speaker 5: he keeps them in his house.
- 48:31Speaker 2: Could Tobin have hidden vital evidence or maybe even bodies
- 48:35Speaker 2: in other homes he had lived in? It's now critical
- 48:38Speaker 2: investigators assemble a detailed picture of Tobin's previous addresses. But
- 48:44Speaker 2: building a timeline is easier said than done.
- 48:47Speaker 5: Tobin is moving all over the country. All sorts of
- 48:52Speaker 5: different addresses, different locations, different areas. He's changing his name.
- 48:57Speaker 5: He's trying to continue to throw that fog out there
- 49:01Speaker 5: to muddy up who he is and where he is.
- 49:05Speaker 2: Now, Kathy Wilson can help investigators track Tobin's movements for
- 49:09Speaker 2: the 15 years they were together. Just how many victims
- 49:13Speaker 2: will investigators uncover? Kathy Wilson has helped investigators place Peter
- 49:20Speaker 2: Tobin in Bathgate, Scotland in 1991, the same time and
- 49:24Speaker 2: place that schoolgirl Vicki Hamilton went missing. Thanks to Kathy,
- 49:29Speaker 2: police found a knife with Vicki's DNA on it at
- 49:32Speaker 2: Tobin's former address. But where is Vicki's body? Could Tobin's
- 49:37Speaker 2: former homes harbor other secrets? Could there be more victims?
- 49:44Speaker 1: So with all of my intensive questioning with the police,
- 49:47Speaker 1: they'd got all the previous addresses we'd lived at together,
- 49:50Speaker 1: because some of them were just flitting addresses which no
- 49:52Speaker 1: one would have known about. And they started systematically searching them, basically.
- 49:59Speaker 2: As police begin searching properties, they also look into unsolved
- 50:03Speaker 2: missing persons files and come across the case of 16-year-old
- 50:08Speaker 2: Dinah McNichol, who went missing after hitchhiking home from a
- 50:12Speaker 2: music festival in southern England in 1991.
- 50:14Speaker 11: Ina McNichol went missing at the Lip Hook Festival. She
- 50:19Speaker 11: was thumbing a lift with her boyfriend. A Scottish man
- 50:24Speaker 11: picked him up. A nice Scottish man in a car
- 50:28Speaker 11: that spoke to her.
- 50:29Speaker 2: Midway through their hitchhike journey, Dinah's friend exited the vehicle.
- 50:34Speaker 2: leaving Dinah to continue her journey alone with this unidentified
- 50:38Speaker 2: Scottish driver. Could that driver have been Peter Tobin?
- 50:44Speaker 5: So in the case of Dinah McNichol, a missing person
- 50:48Speaker 5: case for 16 years, there's been no evidence of where
- 50:52Speaker 5: she went, and the only evidence that they have is
- 50:58Speaker 5: use of her debit card or ATM card after she
- 51:02Speaker 5: was missing.
- 51:04Speaker 2: Could the locations where Dinah's card had been used to
- 51:08Speaker 2: withdraw money reveal the path of her journey?
- 51:12Speaker 11: So starting to piece it all together, her bank card
- 51:15Speaker 11: had been used all the way through the route there.
- 51:18Speaker 11: There had been withdrawals on it to take it out.
- 51:21Speaker 2: But when investigators check the location of the withdrawals, they
- 51:25Speaker 2: don't point to the direction of Dinah's home. Instead, they
- 51:29Speaker 2: show the card was used in Brighton and another town
- 51:32Speaker 2: several hours south of where Dinah lived.
- 51:36Speaker 7: What's interesting about the usage of this.
- 51:38Speaker 5: ATM card that McNichol had is that it is being
- 51:44Speaker 5: traced back to a.
- 51:47Speaker 7: Town called Margate.
- 51:50Speaker 2: And crucially, Margate is one of the locations that Kathy
- 51:54Speaker 2: Wilson has told investigators Peter Tobin once lived.
- 51:59Speaker 6: Tobin moved to Margate after living in Bathgate, and he
- 52:04Speaker 6: lived in a house there. This was in 1991, and
- 52:08Speaker 6: this became really interesting to the police in their investigation.
- 52:13Speaker 2: With Margate now a possible place of interest, police go
- 52:16Speaker 2: back to Cathy. Could Tobin have hidden anything there?
- 52:21Speaker 8: And I suppose he was only there a little while.
- 52:23Speaker 8: It wasn't very long.
- 52:25Speaker 1: But that was the property that we're next on to.
- 52:27Speaker 1: but they obviously thought it was quite a good candidate
- 52:29Speaker 1: of a place where someone might be.
- 52:33Speaker 2: On November 14th, 2007, police arrive at Peter Tobin's former
- 52:38Speaker 2: home in Margate.
- 52:41Speaker 5: Well, they get down there, they're going to search for
- 52:43Speaker 5: more evidence, and one of the neighbours conveys the fact
- 52:48Speaker 5: that there's a lot of strange going on over there
- 52:50Speaker 5: because they remember when Tobin was there.
- 52:51Speaker 6: His next-door neighbour told quite an intriguing story. about how
- 52:57Speaker 6: he discovered Tobin digging in the back garden one day
- 53:00Speaker 6: and just.
- 53:00Speaker 12: Said, what are you doing?
- 53:02Speaker 11: Tobin was digging a huge hole in the garden. And
- 53:06Speaker 11: he remembers the size of it. Tobin was down there,
- 53:08Speaker 11: and it was above his head. And he was saying
- 53:11Speaker 11: that it was a sandpit.
- 53:13Speaker 6: This was way deeper than it needed to be for
- 53:15Speaker 6: a child's sandpit. So this was something that stood out
- 53:18Speaker 6: as significant for that neighbour, and it would have got
- 53:21Speaker 6: the police thinking.
- 53:23Speaker 11: There was sufficient there to suspect Perhaps Dana was concealed
- 53:28Speaker 11: in that and got them.
- 53:31Speaker 5: Well, that immediately sets them into searching the area of
- 53:37Speaker 5: the sand pit, which they do, and they discover a body.
- 53:43Speaker 5: It's not the body that they expected or were looking for.
- 53:48Speaker 2: If the body isn't Dinah McNichols, whose is it?
- 53:53Speaker 11: I can remember to this day what I was doing
- 53:55Speaker 11: when I got the phone call. They say that they
- 53:57Speaker 11: had found a body. And I thought that body was Dinah.
- 54:02Speaker 11: I said, no, it's Vicki Hamilton. And they could tell
- 54:06Speaker 11: by the clothing and everything that it was Vicki Hamilton.
- 54:09Speaker 11: I thought, right, this is unbelievable.
- 54:12Speaker 2: But could Dinah McNichol also be buried here?
- 54:18Speaker 5: And then eventually they dig into the garden and they
- 54:21Speaker 5: find McNichol buried in the garden.
- 54:25Speaker 2: For swindle the discovery is proof of what he has
- 54:29Speaker 2: long suspected that tobin is a serial killer but there
- 54:34Speaker 2: can be no sense of celebration.
- 54:44Speaker 11: Vicky hamilton and dynamic nicole endured horrendous sadistic attacks there
- 54:49Speaker 11: was gagging there was beans There was rape. What they
- 54:58Speaker 11: had gone through, we'll never imagine. No one can ever
- 55:02Speaker 11: imagine what happened to these young women.
- 55:08Speaker 2: With bodies, weapons and an emerging timeline, the case against
- 55:13Speaker 2: Tobin seems strong. But all this really does is link
- 55:17Speaker 2: the girls to Tobin's properties. can Swindle find irrefutable evidence
- 55:23Speaker 2: that directly proves Peter Tobin is their killer?
- 55:28Speaker 5: So a decision is made to go back and re-examine
- 55:32Speaker 5: evidence that had been gathered.
- 55:34Speaker 11: When Vicky Hamilton went missing, part of the missing person
- 55:36Speaker 11: investigation resulted in them recovering Vicky Hamilton's purse at the
- 55:41Speaker 11: bus station in Edinburgh. And that purse was retained. With
- 55:45Speaker 11: the advancement of technology, they managed to identify the DNA
- 55:49Speaker 11: on that purse.
- 55:51Speaker 2: Will the DNA on the purse conclusively link Tobin to
- 55:55Speaker 2: Vicki Hamilton?
- 55:56Speaker 5: Everyone's excited that this is going to be Peter Tobin,
- 55:59Speaker 5: and it's not.
- 56:01Speaker 7: But here's the hook.
- 56:03Speaker 5: The DNA profile is so close to Peter Tobin that
- 56:06Speaker 5: it could not be anything other than a family member,
- 56:09Speaker 5: a relative.
- 56:12Speaker 2: Immediately, police head back to Kathy Wilson and her son Daniel.
- 56:17Speaker 2: Could familial DNA be the forensic smoking gun? In late 2007,
- 56:29Speaker 2: officers from Operation Antigram uncovered the bodies of Vicki Hamilton
- 56:33Speaker 2: and Dinah McNichol, buried in a home previously owned by
- 56:38Speaker 2: convicted murderer Peter Tobin. For his former wife, Kathy Wilson,
- 56:43Speaker 2: the latest revelations of Tobin's brutality are hard to process.
- 56:49Speaker 1: I've now accepted that this is the person he is,
- 56:52Speaker 1: I think. But the revelations that keep coming out about
- 56:56Speaker 1: this man just don't stop. There's no end to it.
- 57:03Speaker 3: Dinah's hands and feet had been bound, her mouth gagged
- 57:06Speaker 3: to stop her screaming. The 18-year-old's body gave up few
- 57:09Speaker 3: secrets when dug from Tobin's garden nearly two decades after
- 57:13Speaker 3: she disappeared. The body of Vicky Hamilton had been found
- 57:17Speaker 3: alongside that of Dinah McNichol.
- 57:21Speaker 1: The girls were dismembered, so if you ever doubted at
- 57:24Speaker 1: any point that this was his first murder up in Scotland,
- 57:27Speaker 1: you could quite clearly see now that he's a very
- 57:28Speaker 1: capable of really obscene, disgusting, gruesome kind of acts. He'd
- 57:35Speaker 1: just abandoned them. and moved on to someone else. He
- 57:40Speaker 1: really has no remorse in his body at all.
- 57:43Speaker 8: Not a single bit.
- 57:49Speaker 6: When we have crimes like these, we need to remember
- 57:52Speaker 6: that survivors who are living with the impact of it,
- 57:56Speaker 6: the trauma is everlasting.
- 57:59Speaker 1: I think probably the underlying thought that I had was
- 58:03Speaker 1: that I'd got away. Then I started to wonder how
- 58:08Speaker 1: I'd got away and what had I done differently to
- 58:11Speaker 1: make me get away. But the bottom line was that
- 58:14Speaker 1: I had got away, but I should be dead. And
- 58:17Speaker 1: the only conclusion I came from all of that overthinking,
- 58:20Speaker 1: which I still believe now, is the reason he didn't
- 58:22Speaker 1: kill me is because I gave him a son. And
- 58:25Speaker 1: something about having a son changed his view of me.
- 58:31Speaker 2: If Daniel had saved his mother's life, could he now
- 58:34Speaker 2: also help convict his father? If the DNA found on
- 58:39Speaker 2: Vicki Hamilton's purse is Daniel's, it'll be the key to
- 58:43Speaker 2: securing Tobin's conviction. But is this Daniel's DNA?
- 58:48Speaker 11: Daniel provided his DNA samples to be compared, and that
- 58:54Speaker 11: was confirmed that that was his DNA that was on
- 58:57Speaker 11: that purse. Tobin's son, Daniel, a three-year-old boy.
- 59:04Speaker 2: It's the definitive link to Tobin that investigators had been
- 59:07Speaker 2: desperate for.
- 59:08Speaker 11: It links the purse, it links Vicky to the purse,
- 59:15Speaker 11: it links the son to be there, and it links Tobin.
- 59:17Speaker 11: So it was all part of a chain of evidence.
- 59:21Speaker 1: Knowing that it was Daniel's DNA that was a crucial
- 59:25Speaker 1: piece in the police jigsaw of building the crime up
- 59:31Speaker 1: And it made us feel quite proud that we were
- 59:33Speaker 1: able to help in some kind of way.
- 59:38Speaker 2: The case against Tobin is now irrefutable. And in 2008
- 59:42Speaker 2: and 2009, while he's in jail, he's placed on trial
- 59:46Speaker 2: for the murders of Vicki Hamilton and Dinah McNichol, finally
- 59:50Speaker 2: to be revealed as the serial killer he is. At trial,
- 1:00:03Speaker 2: Tobin continues to deny all charges against him. And in court,
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: he sits impassively, never looking up. That is, until it's
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: time for Kathy Wilson to testify.
- 1:00:16Speaker 11: Now all of a sudden, when Kathy Wilson was giving evidence,
- 1:00:20Speaker 11: his behavior changed. And you could tell he was still infatuated,
- 1:00:24Speaker 11: and he's staring at her and looking at her.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: With Kathy's testimony and a wealth of evidence against him,
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: Tobin is convicted of both murders. Sentenced to life in
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: prison with no possibility of parole, the court has recognized
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: the danger he would pose should he ever be released.
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: Today's verdict confirms Peter Tobin as one of Britain's most
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: prolific criminals, a man who, motivated by sexual desire, is
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: now known to have murdered at least three women.
- 1:00:54Speaker 6: Peter Tobin is a predator. That is who he is.
- 1:00:58Speaker 6: He is always on the lookout for vulnerabilities, for prey.
- 1:01:02Speaker 18: The kind of murders that we've seen from Tobin are
- 1:01:07Speaker 18: not outbursts, but they are an absolute integral part of
- 1:01:10Speaker 18: his personality. So it's inevitable that given the opportunity, if
- 1:01:15Speaker 18: not incarcerated, this is somebody, this is a personality that
- 1:01:19Speaker 18: will continue to commit these kinds of crimes. until the
- 1:01:24Speaker 18: dying day.
- 1:01:26Speaker 2: Tobin was convicted of three murders, but has he been
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: held accountable for all of his crimes?
- 1:01:32Speaker 5: So here is always the unanswered question at the end
- 1:01:35Speaker 5: of an investigation involving a serial killer, even when it's
- 1:01:38Speaker 5: successful like this one.
- 1:01:39Speaker 7: Was, is, are there more? Are there more bodies?
- 1:01:44Speaker 5: Are there more victims out there that we just don't
- 1:01:46Speaker 5: know about and may never know about?
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: In prison, he has boasted of killing 48 women, and
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: officers working on Operation Anagram are trying to establish if
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: the serial killer is telling the truth.
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: In the years following Tobin's convictions, Operation Anagram continued to
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: investigate Tobin's links to dozens of other potential murders.
- 1:02:08Speaker 11: Is there any way that you can assist us? Father
- 1:02:14Speaker 11: doesn't know where she is, her family, we don't know. Sorry,
- 1:02:17Speaker 11: I can't help you.
- 1:02:18Speaker 8: We have no men.
- 1:02:19Speaker 11: As I say, I've never met her.
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: But despite Tobin's bragging to fellow prisoners about committing 48 murders,
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: no other definitive evidence was ever found. But thanks to
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: Operation Anagram, some sense of closure is possible for the
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: families of some of Tobin's victims.
- 1:02:38Speaker 11: I'm proud of what I did setting up Operation Anagram
- 1:02:41Speaker 11: because we would never have known what happened to these
- 1:02:43Speaker 11: young women. But I'm disappointed that we haven't found out
- 1:02:48Speaker 11: other people that he killed.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: I have a feeling he's sitting in a prison cell now,
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: not concerning himself with the impact he's had on anyone's life,
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: mine or Daniel's or any of the other people that
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: he's attacked and hurt. I think he's merciless and with
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: no compassion at all. So when I think back about
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: my times with Peter all those years ago and the
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: horrible things he made me endure and the horrible way
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: I was treated and the cruelness that he showed me,
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: I can say with hand on heart that one good
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: thing did come out of that, and that was to
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: have my son Daniel.
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