IT IS A mystery which has puzzled police and amateur sleuths for more than a century. A murder most foul that one of the country’s most celebrated detectives described it as so brutal it might have been “committed by a maniac or a foreigner.”
The unsolved case of Jean Milne, a woman of independent means who was stabbed repeatedly with a carving fork and bludgeoned to death with a poker, was one of the most infamous murder cases in Scotland at the turn of the 20th century.
Even today the case, which remains open and active - even though the culprit would have to be more than 120-years-old at the very least, has all the hallmarks of a blockbuster movie or bonkbuster novel.