Notorious Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin was linked to seven unsolved murders before he died in hospital.
The evil murderer and rapist, who had cancer, died aged 76 today.
It comes after a final image showing the Scots killer chained to a hospital bed was released weeks before his death.
While Tobin was serving three life sentences for brutally slaying three women between 1991 and 2006, he has also been linked to a string of unsolved murders.
He butchered Angelica Kluk, 23, Vicky Hamilton, 15 and Dinah McNicol, 18 - but has also been linked to a string of cold-case deaths across Britain, including the infamous "Bible John" murders.
The unidentified killer is believed to have murdered three young women after meeting them at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, between 1968 and 1969.
Tobin's evil past came to light in 2007 after he was convicted of murdering Polish student Angelika. Police later found the bodies of Vicky and Dinah at the killer's previous address in Margate, Kent.
According to criminologist Professor David Wilson, Peter Tobin is reported to have told a prison psychiatrist he killed 48 women then smiled and said: “Prove it.”
Tobin has been described as an "organised and geographically mobile" serial killer as he would murder in one part of the country before fleeing to another.
When Tobin murdered Angelika Kluk in September 2006, he was 60. Professor Wilson told the Mirror that serial murder is a young man’s business which usually begins when the killer is in his late teens to early twenties - suggesting Tobin had been murdering for some 40 years.
Tobin's heinous actions have upended the lives of his victims loved ones. But families who have not got closure on other unsolved murders that he was linked to may never know the full truth.
Victim: Angelika Kluk
A student from Skoczow near Krakow who was living at St Patrick's church in central Glasgow, Angelika Kluk knew her killer as Pat McLaughlin, a handyman who helped out around the church.
Last seen on 24 September 2006, she was found raped and murdered five days later.
The 23-year-old had been bludgeoned repeatedly about the head, raped, gagged and tied up and then stabbed 16 times in the chest. Her body was unceremoniously dumped beneath the floor of the chapel in an underground chamber next to the confession box - probably while she was still alive.
Tobin's DNA was found on a kitchen cloth stuffed into her mouth, his fingerprints were on items found with the body, and a pair of jeans steeped in her blood had been abandoned in a wheelie bin at the church.
Tobin was arrested in London under a fake name after Strathclyde police made a public appeal.
Victim: Vicky Hamilton
Vicky Hamilton was last seen in Bathgate on a snowy February in 1991 while making her way home to Redding near Falkirk after spending the weekend with her sister.
Tobin drugged and sexually assaulted her. He then cut up her body and buried her body parts.
Her remains were found in 2007 in the garden of a house in Margate, Kent, where Tobin used to live.
Vicky's skin was said to have been found on a knife in the loft of Tobin's former home in Bathgate and DNA found on Vicky's purse matched that of Tobin's son Daniel, who was three years old at the time.
Victim: Dinah McNicol
Dinah McNicol was 18 when she disappeared in 1991 while hitch-hiking home from a music festival in Liphook, Hampshire.
Every night for 10 days following her disappearance, Dinah's cash card had been used in a chain of towns in the south-east – Hove, Brighton, Portslade, Margate and Ramsgate.
Her decomposed, bound and gagged body was eventually found in 2007. She was discovered buried in two bin bags in the back garden of a small terrace house in Margate, Kent just a few feet away from the body of Vicky Hamilton.
She had been drugged and hacked in half at the waist. Three thumbprints and one fingerprint from Tobin were found on the rubbish bags.
Suspected victim: Louise Kay
At the time of Louise’s disappearance in 1988, Tobin was living in Brighton but working as a hotel handyman 24 miles along the coast in Eastbourne – a mile or so from where the 18-year-old went missing in Polegate.
Suspected victim: Jessie Earl
The 22-year-old art student's skeletal remains were found near Beachy Head in 1989, nine years after she disappeared.
She was found with her hands bound with her bra in undergrowth. She had vanished without trace. Her window was left open and food was left out.
Despite three police investigations – including into possible links with serial killer Tobin – her killer has never been found.
Suspected victim: Pamela Exall
She disappeared after a stroll along the beach on the evening of August 27, 1974 at Digleas Campsite near Snettisham, Norfolk.
The senior investigating officer at the time considered several possibilities for her disappearance, including being a stranger to the area and becoming lost. She was 5ft tall and of very slight build.
It is known that she went for a walk along the local beach at around 11pm that night and may have become cut off by the tide and drowned. She may even have decided to leave of her own volition, leaving no trace of her whereabouts.
Photographs of jewellery found in Tobin’s possession had been placed onto the Crimewatch website and these items apparently looked similar to the ones Pamela had on her when she disappeared.
Suspected victim: Susan Long
Susan Margaret Long was born and lived with both her parents in Aylsham, Norfolk.
At about 5.15am on the 11 March 1970, Susan’s body was found by a milkman approximately 1 ½ miles from Aylsham Market Place on the Burgh Road.
She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Susan was 18 and employed as a clerk at Norwich Union in Norwich.
She had a boyfriend who also lived in the city. She would therefore regularly travel into Norwich by bus for work and to see him.
On the evening of 10 March 1970 she went with her boyfriend to the Gala Dance Hall in Norwich. She left at about 10.25pm to catch the bus back to Aylsham.
The bus arrived in Aylsham Market Place at 11.10pm. Other passengers confirmed that Susan had got off the bus. It is believed that Susan was driven to where her body was found but officers do not know if she went voluntarily or was abducted.
Police have examined DNA found at the scene but no matches have been made with Tobin.
Bible John deaths
Tobin has been linked to the the serial killer nicknamed Bible John who is believed to have murdered three young women after meeting them at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, Scotland, between 1968 and 1969.
Patricia Docker, a 25-year-old nurse, mum of three Jemima McDonald, 32, and Helen Puttock, 29, were the victims.
All had their handbags missing. They were all strangled with their stockings and raped.
All three were escorted home by the killer and murdered within yards of their doorstep. All had been menstruating at the time and all three had sanitary napkins or tampons placed on or near the bodies.
The killer was nicknamed Bible John as Helen's sister Jean, who shared a taxi home with the killer and Helen, said he quoted from the Bible during the journey.
Tobin met his first wife Margaret at the ballroom in 1969, and moved out of the city that year.
Patricia Docker
Patricia Docker's naked body was found in a lane in Glasgow by a man on his way to work on 23 February 1968.
The lane was only yards from her home. The 25-year-old nurse had been raped and strangled.
The previous night, she had told her parents she was going out dancing at the Majestic Ballroom nearby.
It is believed at some point during the night, she left the Majestic and ended up at the Barrowland Ballroom for the over-25s - where it is thought she met her killer.
Focusing their investigation on the Majestic cost the police valuable time.Her handbag and clothes have never been found.
Jemima McDonald
Mother of three Jemima McDonald went for a night out at the Barrowland Ballroom on Friday, 15 August 1969.
The next day Jemima's sister Margaret heard rumours young children were seen leaving an old tenement building talking about "the body".
By the Monday morning, Margaret was so concerned about her missing sister she went to the old building herself - and her worst fears were confirmed when she found Jemima's battered body.
She had been strangled, raped and beaten to death. Jemima was fully clothed when her body was found, unlike Patricia Docker.
Witnesses said they had seen Jemima leaving the club at midnight with a tall, slim young man with red hair.
One woman told police she remembered hearing screams coming from the building where the body was found, but could not say what time she had heard them.
Helen Puttock
Helen Puttock was found murdered in Scotstoun, west of Glasgow city centre, on 31 October 1969.
The 29-year-old had also been to the Barrowland Ballroom on the night she was murdered. She had gone their with her sister, Jean, and the pair had met two men called John.
One said he was from Castlemilk, to the south of the city, while the other did not mention where he was from.
When they headed home an hour later, Castlemilk John walked to get a bus, while Helen, Jean and the killer hailed a taxi.
Jean would later tell detectives the man who travelled with them was well-spoken and quoted from the Bible - leading to the killer being dubbed "Bible John".
After dropping off Jean in Knightswood, the taxi then continued to Scotstoun where Helen lived. The next morning, her battered body was found in the back garden of her flat.
She had been raped and strangled - and was also left with a deep bite mark on her leg. The contents of her handbag had been scattered nearby but the bag was nowhere to be found - possibly taken as a trophy by the killer.
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