7. Beware Book
4/27/20261 hr 36 min
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.
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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
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First 90 secondsCalum McQuaide· Host0:00
A Rayo Original podcast.
Colette McGonagle· Host0:02
[upbeat music] Beware Book contains references to sexual violence and murder, including, in this episode, child sexual abuse, which some listeners may find upsetting. [sirens blaring] God, hold on. [footsteps] Feel like this is a proper police car park- Yeah ... with all the service vehicles and sirens. 12 months, three weeks, and six days. That's how long we've waited for this moment, how long the investigation has taken to get us to this point. Right, okay.
Calum McQuaide· Host0:42
Yeah, here we are.
Colette McGonagle· Host0:42
I'll keep this- The destination is on your left ... running for now.
Calum McQuaide· Host0:45
The chance to sit down with police- Okay, to grab the mics and everything ... to ask the questions that have built up over the stacks of interviews, door knocks, calls, and emails, the chance to finally get some answers. It might sound like a long time, but it's nothing compared to the families who've been left in silence for decades.
Speaker 31:02
It's just been a nightmare for all the family. Like, my girl and my son, he is looking, you know. I mean, he, he's driving about. He says, "I'll get you. I don't care how long it takes."
Colette McGonagle· Host1:15
Over the past few episodes of Beware Book, we've taken you through a series of brutal murders that struck Glasgow in the 1990s and early noughties. Diane McInally, Karen McGregor, Marjorie Roberts,