Gardenholme Linn

What we know so far

On 29 September 1935, a woman crossing a bridge outside Moffat, in the Scottish borders, looked down into the stream below and saw a human arm.

Over the next weeks, police recovered dozens of parcels of human remains from the ravine called Gardenholme Linn, wrapped in newspaper and cloth. Whoever left them had cut the bodies apart to hide who they were.

There were no names, no faces and almost no fingerprints. Glasgow's leading forensic scientists were called in to work out who these people had been — and where they had come from.