A number of unsolved cases aired on this programme, have since been solved since the original broadcast. An hour-long special was aired on 10 December 2008 following the conviction of
Peter Tobin for the murder of Vicky Hamilton. It was only because of the police investigation of the murder of Tobin's final victim Angelika Kluk, that led police to trace his history; they discovered that he was living in Bathgate at the time Vicky vanished in 1991. A more significant development that emerged in the years following the series was the possible link between Tobin and
Bible John. It was speculated that Tobin was in fact, the unidentified man known only as Bible John who murdered three women in the late-1960s.
David Wilson, a Professor of Criminology at
Birmingham University has spearheaded the thesis that both men are the same individual. Wilson states: "I didn't set out to prove Tobin was Bible John but I would stake my professional reputation on it." Former
Black Watch sniper Michael Ross, who was 15 at the time of the crime was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years for the 1994 murder of Shamsuddin Mahmood in 2008. In January 2013, forensic experts exhumed a grave in a Coatbridge cemetery in the hope of finding the remains of Moira Anderson who vanished in 1957. No remains were found and it looks unlikely that it will ever be solved. However, child sex abuse campaigner
Sandra Brown has always maintained that her own father, Alexander Gartshore, a convicted child sex offender and former bus driver who died in 2006, had abducted and killed Moira after she boarded his bus on her way to a nearby Co-op. She said in an interview with the BBC: "My dad was definitely a paedophile – and we're talking about the kind in the same mould as
Jimmy Savile." In March 2013, John Docherty was charged with the 1986 murder of Elaine Doyle. In August 2014, he was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years in prison. In May 2019, Zhi Min Chen now 44, was found guilty of the murder of Tracey Wylde in 1997. He was arrested after fingerprints taken from him, following an unrelated assault which connected him to the crime. In September 2022, William MacDowell was found guilty of the murder of Renee MacRae and her son Andrew. He was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. In March 2023, Brenda Page's ex-husband, Christopher Harrisson, was found guilty of her murder 45 years after her death. In December 2023, Robert O'Brien, 45, Andrew Kelly, 44, and Donna Marie Brand, 44, were convicted of Caroline Glachan's murder. All three had been teenagers at the time the crime was committed. ==Episodes==