WARNING!: Description below may be disturbing to some readers.

Bible John is the moniker given to an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have murdered three young women here in Glasgow, Scotland between 1968 and 1969.  The victims of Bible John were all brunettes between the ages of 25 and 31, all of whom met their murderer at the Barrowland Ballroom, a dance hall and music venue in the city. The perpetrator has never been identified and the case remains unsolved and one of the most extensive manhunts in Scottish criminal history.  The case was the first time in Scotland in which the Crown Office authorised publication of a composite drawing of a person suspected of murder.  The unidentified serial killer became known as "Bible John" due to his having repeatedly quoted from the Bible and to have condemned adultery while in the company of his final victim.  

This takes us to this location on on Ledard Road where midway up the gated alleyway was where the nude body of 25-year old auxiliary nurse Patricia Docker was found on 23 February 1968, the first victim of Bible John.  She was discovered in the doorway of a lock-up garage behind 27 Carmichael Place.  The location of her body was a few streets away from her home in Langside Place. Her body bore evidence of extensive blunt force trauma, particularly to the face and head. She had been strangled to death with a strong ligature, possibly a belt.  Docker's handbag, watch, clothes and jewellery (other than her wedding ring) were missing from the crime scene; her shoes were recovered at the scene.  Her clothing was never found, but her handbag was later recovered from the River Cart by an underwater search unit just west of the Langside Drive bridge; underpants and some lipstick that were also believed to be Docker's were additionally found at this location.  Docker's watch casing and bracelet were recovered from water close to the murder scene.

Extensive door-to-door inquiries in the area produced a witness who recalled possibly hearing a female twice briefly shout "Let me go" the previous evening. This witness stated she could not detect if the female was in distress as she heard no screams or sounds of commotion. Furthermore, the attendees of a party in a flat overlooking the alleyway also informed investigators they had seen and heard nothing unusual.  Little incontrovertible evidence was discovered at the crime scene; Docker's father identified his daughter's body the following day.

Docker was a married mother of one, estranged from her husband.  On the night of her murder, her parents had been under the impression she would spend the evening dancing at the Majestic Ballroom on Hope Street, although for unknown reasons, she is believed to have chosen to spend the majority of the evening at the Barrowland Ballroom, probably because of the 'Over-25s' night which it hosted each Thursday.  When Docker failed to return home that evening, her parents assumed she had spent the night with a friend.

Investigators theorised Docker may have been killed elsewhere and her body discarded at the location of her discovery. The general incline of Carmichael Place would have allowed a car to enter the location quietly and without the driver using the engine, and the use of a vehicle would have enabled the killer to discreetly take the missing clothing and jewellery from the crime scene without being seen.

By March, 700 of the city's 1,300 taxi drivers had been questioned, as it was unclear how Docker had actually travelled home on the night of her murder. A few weeks into the investigation, an anonymous letter was posted from the north of England by a woman police believed may have been in Glasgow city centre on the night of Docker's death and who may have known the identity of the killer. Details of the letter were released to the press, and police publicly appealed for the woman to come forward, saying the information in the letter was "vital", but she never did.  Patricia's murder remains unsolved to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_John