UK UK - Moira Anderson, 11, Coatbridge, Scotland, Feb 1957

[luxISlight]

Any updates on this young girl?

 

[0101ABA]

New search for remains of schoolgirl Moira Anderson to begin – 60 years after she disappeared

Forensic specialists from across Europe will begin the search at a Lanarkshire canal in the hopes that they can solve one of the longest-running mysteries in Scottish criminal history.

The new search is expected to take place across two weeks at a site near Monkland Canal in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

The canal search for Moira's remains has now started:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4312920/Police-search-canal-remains-murdered-girl-11.html

 

[MelmothTheLost]

The Mail has a further report on the search for Moira, though there doesn't seem to be anything significantly new here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4332662/Police-looking-Moira-Anderson-areas-interest.html

 

[Jems]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/..._remains_as_canal_searched_amid_60_year_hunt/

Police Scotland confirmed on Thursday that several animal remains were recovered and identified but no human bones or remains have been found.
The operation at the site is now complete and has been stood down.

 

[Dallas Volunteer]

Moira Anderson killer suspect confessed infamous murder to his family

The man widely believed to have murdered missing schoolgirl Moira Anderson 64 years ago confessed to his own family that he was the killer, the Daily Record can reveal.

Bus driver Alexander Gartshore admitted the murder to his father Sanny, according to Gartshore’s cousin Jim Clark.

Jim has told how Sanny kept the secret and took it to his grave to protect his wife Jenny from the heartache of having a son revealed as a child killer.

The revelation has emerged in the week that saw the 64th anniversary of Moira’s disappearance.
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Gartshore died, aged 85, in a Leeds hospital in April 2006 never having been charged in relation to Moira but the Crown Office has since said he should have been prosecuted for her murder.

Jim, 73, from Glasgow, told the Record: “It must be nearly 50 years since my own father told me, in confidence, that his brother-in-law, Sanny Gartshore, had told him his son was responsible for Moira.

 

[StillDiggin]

Missing schoolgirl Moira remains a 'live investigation' as anniversary nears