UK UK - Patricia McAdam, 17, Dumfries, Scotland, 19 Feb 1967

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Patricia Mary McAdam



Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: February 19, 1967
Location Last Seen: Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Physical Description
Date of Birth: Circa 1950
Age: 17 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Unknown
Eye Color: Unknown
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Identifiers: Unknown
Clothing & Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance
McAdam never returned to her Lochside Road home in Dumfries after a night out with a friend from Annan on February 19, 1967. The two had accepted a lift home from a trucker following a trip to Glasgow. She was last seen being driven off towards Dumfries after the driver dropped off her friend in Annan. She has never been seen since and her whereabouts remain unknown.

In March 2006, investigators traveled to the Grampian region of Scotland where they arrested and charged a 70-year-old man in her disappearance.

Investigators
National Missing Persons Helpline
Phone: +44 (0) 20 8392 4545


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Within three weeks of issuing a public appeal for help, detectives had the name of the lorry driver. Thomas Ross Young, 33, from Glasgow.

He was also picked out at an identity parade by Hazel. Young, they discovered was a man with a history of violence, particularly against women.

At 13, he had been convicted of indecent assault and locked up for the first but not the last time.

His job as a lorry driver offered the ideal opportunity to target vulnerable women across the country.

Young was already facing a charge of raping a 19-year-old girl in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in the south of England, where he had worked as a lorry driver. The incident had happened exactly a month before Pat went missing.

When interviewed by detectives Young claimed Pat had agreed to have sex with him in his cab before he dropped her on the outskirts of Dumfries.

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In 2004, Dumfries and Galloway Police’s head of CID, Detective Superintendent Bill Gillies, launched a cold case review, which led to lorry driver Young finally being charged with Pat’s murder in 2007.

The charge said the killing had allegedly taken place on the B7020 Lochmaben to Annan road – around eight miles from Dumfries.

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In the end, (..) the charges for Pat’s murder were dropped.

Young, died in 2014 at the age of 79. from a heart condition.

The Glasgow crime story of Scotland’s most baffling murder mysteries