Police Hope Dna Will Help Solve Murder Of Genetic Scientist Brenda Page In 1978

[Abroad]

The unsolved murder of a scientist in Aberdeen in 1978 is to be reinvestigated.

The Lord Advocate has instructed Police Scotland to examine the death of Dr Brenda Page, 32, again. Her body was found in her flat in the city's Allan Street.

It is hoped that advances in DNA technology can lead detectives to her killer.

The genetic scientist was working at the University of Aberdeen at the time.

She had also been supplementing her income by working as an escort.

Det Supt Stewart said: "Dr Brenda Page was found murdered within her home address in Aberdeen on 14 July 1978.

"The evidence gathered during the initial investigation in 1978 and in the years that followed will form the basis of our enquiry.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-31660635

 

[cubby]

The genetic scientist was working at the University of Aberdeen at the time.
She had also been supplementing her income by working as an escort.

Yep, I'm thinking that second job of hers may have been the problem. Wow, opposite ends of the job market, scientist/hooker

 

[Abroad]

Dr Brenda Page, a 32-year-old geneticist based at Aberdeen University, was found dead at her home in the city in July 1978.

The divorcee had been leading a double life, working as an escort to help pay her bills.

Ms Page was found murdered in her flat in Allan Street after failing to turn up for work.

The last confirmed sighting of her was when she left the Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen at 2.30am that day after meeting up with two men for dinner.

She drove home alone and was never seen alive again.

Police carried out a major investigation, interviewing about 3,000 people during the inquiry.

However, detectives say there are no suspects at this stage.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotla...-page-unsolved-murder-case-reopened-1-3704365


I am assuming when they say there are no suspects, they already ruled out the ex-husband and the two men she met with on the night of her last sighting?

 

[JackBurton]

She had also been supplementing her income by working as an escort.

Hmm, wonder how she ended up dead. Dipshit.

College students are such sluts.

 

[Dutchesse]

Yep, I'm thinking that second job of hers may have been the problem. Wow, opposite ends of the job market, scientist/hooker

I dunno, some crazy people don't like geneticists much either. Same type of people that like to kill abortion doctors and such. It could be due to either of those jobs.

Also may I just complain for a second about that fact that even in de 70's people in Academia were apparently so badly paid they had to supplement their income with fucking prostitiution! My god.

 

[Abroad]

Also may I just complain for a second about that fact that even in de 70's people in Academia were apparently so badly paid they had to supplement their income with fucking prostitiution! My god.

She was also a divorcee. Sounds like the ex-husband was not paying much alimony, for whatever reason.... (and if he was, he had motive. Just saying.)

 

[Abroad]

College students are such sluts.

Not that I am going to disagree with this statement in itself; but if I am reading her bio properly, she had not been a student for some time at the time of her murder, so it may not be terribly relevant to the crime at hand......

 

[Abroad]

Anxious knocks at her flat door brought 68-year-old Elizabeth Gordon to answer in a hurry.

It was a work colleague of her neighbour across the landing, Brenda, and they'd called by arrangement to do some work. Trouble was, Brenda wasn't answering.

Brenda's workmate knew she was friendly with Elizabeth Gordon and, if she'd had to go out, she would've left a message with her. No message.

Elizabeth kept a key to Brenda's flat though. Their tenement, 13 Allan Street in Aberdeen, was the kind of place full of good neighbours you could trust.

Besides, Elizabeth and Brenda were pals and often spent evenings chatting.

Asking the colleague to wait, Elizabeth slipped into Brenda's home.

In the flat, everything seemed normal and Brenda's three cats purred as they rubbed against Elizabeth's ankles.

Not wanting to frighten her pal, Elizabeth edged the bedroom door open gently. Right into a scene of horror.

Brenda was in bed all right. Not sleeping. Dead.

"I saw nothing but blood and hair," the deeply traumatised Elizabeth later recalled.

It didn't take long for the cops and forensic team to work out the details.

Sometime in the evening of July 13 or early morning of July 14, 1978, someone broke in through the window of a spare room at the back of the house.

Brenda had been battered on the skull and face with a heavy, blunt instrument like a poker or spanner.

She was fully clothed and lay across the bed as if she'd fallen there. She hadn't been sexually interfered with.

The cops' immediate thoughts turned to a burglary gone wrong when the thief was disturbed. Nothing had been stolen.

Then, as usual, they considered a relationship soured by jealousy or money.

Brenda had been divorced three years before but she was on good terms with her former husband, Dr Christopher Harrisson, a biochemist.

They checked but his movements that night were accounted for.

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The people of Aberdeen were terrified. A killer was on the loose and they could be next. Then the cops dropped a bombshell.

Some evenings every week, Dr Brenda Page worked as an escort girl. Everyone assumed that meant high-class call girl.

Surely even expensive prostitutes came in contact with lethal punters?

The cops were forced to go public. Dr Brenda Page wasn't a prostitute, they said, but worked for a respectable company that provided good-looking, well educated females as dinner guests for businessmen away from home.

Tall, beautiful, with lush brown hair, well read and polite - Brenda certainly fitted that bill. What was more, she didn't keep her "hobby" a secret.

But then why would she? It was the late 1970s - no HIV, free contraception, sex clubs a-go-go, all-night clubs, women's liberation.

Forget the 1960s, the 1970s was the true time of sexual and social freedom.

On the night she was killed, Brenda had been working as an escort dining with two businessmen at the plush Treetops Hotel.

Very quickly, the police cleared the pair of businessmen of suspicion. They were drawing blanks at every turn.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/who-killed-the-delightful-doctor-page-960815

 

[JackBurton]

Dr Brenda Page wasn't a prostitute, they said, but worked for a respectable company that provided good-looking, well educated females as dinner guests for businessmen away from home.

hahahah right