Episode 32: Linda Peacock. This week Emma tells us of the murder of Linda Peacock, a young girl whose murder investigation and the subsequent trial would result in the groundbreaking use of a controversial area of science; forensic odontology, to secure a conviction.

Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise

Sources of research:


41 Police J. 319 (1968)
The Murder of Linda Peacock: A Triumph for Forensic Odontology

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/archive/article/1967-08-08/2/5.html#start%3D1966-08-01%26end%3D1967-09-01%26terms%3Dbiggar%26back%3D/tto/archive/find/biggar/w:1966-08-01%7E1967-09-01/1%26prev%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/biggar/w:1966-08-01%7E1967-09-01/1%26next%3D/tto/archive/frame/goto/biggar/w:1966-08-01%7E1967-09-01/3
https://pdfslide.net/documents/the-biggar-murder-dental-medical-police-and-legal-aspects-of-a-case-.html

J Forensic Sci Soc . 1968 Dec;8(4):157-219. doi: 10.1016/s0015-7368(68)70474-6. The Biggar murder. Dental, medical, police and legal aspects of a case "in some ways unique, difficult and puzzling
W Harvey, O Butler, J Furness, R Laird


https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hay-gordon.htm

https://aboutforensics.co.uk/gordon-hay/

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/the-tell-tale-toothmark-960804

https://www.dentaltown.com/magazine/article/7528/the-biggar-murder-some-personal-recollections

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-record/20180310/283502206525182

https://prezi.com/-xm_gxmc_xu5/august-7th-1967-fifteen-year-old-linda-peacock-was-discove/?frame=cfbfb59dcbc6bf128b87bdc7befb5d578939dbcf

https://listverse.com/2018/08/07/10-grisly-historical-murderers-caught-thanks-to-forensics/

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=l2ug-BQpw7UC&pg=PT99&lpg=PT99&dq=gordon+hay+linda+peacock&source=bl&ots=bVpPWWoFqP&sig=ACfU3U2uBNyjhq77DDrWJN3ITwJ681GCvg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjklu248PXsAhVEtXEKHdFcCXQ4ChDoATAHegQICBAC#v=onepage&q=gordon%20hay%20linda%20peacock&f=false


Excerpt from The Stockbridge Baby Farmer
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Stockbridge-Baby-Farmer-Molly-Whittington-Egan-ebook/dp/B00796E7SY/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g1285150262?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&ie=UTF8


https://www.dentaltown.com/magazine/article/7528/the-biggar-murder-some-personal-recollections


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0015736868704746
Journal of the Forensic Science Society
Volume 8, Issue 4, December 1968, Pages 157-219 The Biggar Murder: Dental, medical, police and legal aspects of a case “ in some ways unique, difficult and puzzling.”
Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850 Alison Adam


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326664638_An_insight_into_the_awareness_and_utilization_of_dental_evidence_among_the_police_force_in_Punjab/fulltext/5b5bd363a6fdccf0b2fca841/An-insight-into-the-awareness-and-utilization-of-dental-evidence-among-the-police-force-in-Punjab.pdf


https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lMDLFqTkd7oC&pg=PT223&lpg=PT223&dq=linda+peacock+murder&source=bl&ots=ua4sgfGo5M&sig=ACfU3U11FVkS6XoW1wD1G2mwlGka9pVPQw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVrvue8vXsAhWCmFwKHUjFAbU4FBDoATAAegQIAhAC#v=onepage&q=linda%20peacock%20murder&f=false


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326664638_An_insight_into_the_awareness_and_utilization_of_dental_evidence_among_the_police_force_in_Punjab/fulltext/5b5bd363a6fdccf0b2fca841/An-insight-into-the-awareness-and-utilization-of-dental-evidence-among-the-police-force-in-Punjab.pdf