The Beast of Birkenshaw: Peter Manuel
On New Year’s Day 1958, a man walked into a quiet home in Uddingston, Scotland, and shot a husband, wife, and their young son as they slept. Then he stayed. He ate their food, fed their cat, drove their car, and even gave a lift to a policeman searching for another missing girl.
Peter Manuel, the Beast of Birkenshaw, terrorised Lanarkshire between 1956 and 1958. Convicted of seven murders and suspected of more, he became Scotland’s most notorious serial killer—known as the Bedroom Killer for the way he struck inside victims’ own homes.
In this episode, Alexander Lawson traces Manuel’s crimes…
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