MURDER
CASE #: 1977-28
Anna Kenny
Status:
Open
Date of Offense:
Date of Offense:
Offense Location:
Glasgow, Scotland
Summary:
Anna Kenny, 20, was last seen alive on August 5, 1977 after a night out in Glasgow's Townhead area. Her body was found nearly two years later in a shallow grave near Skipness on the Kintyre peninsula. She remains a prime suspect case for serial killer Angus Sinclair, who was convicted of the World's End Murders, though never charged in her case.
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Circumstances of Offense:
Anna Kenny was last seen alive on 5 August 1977 after a night out with a friend in the Townhead area. The 20-year-old was last seen alive as she left the Hurdy Gurdy bar in Townhead. The man she'd been with left her at the corner of Lister Street and Baird Street at 11.45pm and heard what sounded like a taxi's brakes squealing to a stop, perhaps to pick her up. The 20-year-old's body was found nearly two years later in a shallow grave near the village of Skipness on the Kintyre peninsula.
Additional Details:
When Anna failed to turn up at her home or work on Monday, her family alerted police and a major hunt began. WPC Karen Findlay worked round the clock on the case, interviewing Anna's family, fellow employees at the brewery where she worked in Port Dundas Road and all her friends. Anna had worked for a month in June at a holiday camp in Filey, Yorkshire, where she had started a romance with a young man, and this was also checked. Angus Sinclair, convicted of the double murder of Christine Eadie and Helen Scott in October 1977, has been linked by police to a series of other murders in the 1970s including that of Ms Kenny, but has never faced charges over them. After Sinclair's guilty verdict, former detectives stated their belief that Sinclair was involved in other murders, including the cases of Ms Kenny, Hilda McAuley and Agnes Cooney, all in 1977. The murder of Anna Kenny was under reinvestigation, with work including a re-examination of the physical evidence, including garments recovered with the body, to establish whether advances in DNA analysis might produce new lines of inquiry.
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Anna's body found nearly two years later in a shallow grave near Skipness on the Kintyre peninsula
Police divers begin search of the Forth and Clyde Canal
WPC Findlay dons black wig and dresses to resemble Anna, reconstructing her last-known steps from the Hurdy Gurdy pub
40 officers search Glasgow's Townhead area; vacant sites and disused railway tunnel combed
Anna fails to return home or to work; family alerts police and major hunt begins
Anna Kenny last seen alive after a night out with a friend in the Townhead area
Associated Persons
Angus S. (Person of Interest) - Deceased
Agnes B. (Aunt) - Living
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