Summary
A 20-YEAR investigation into the Scottish murder mystery which has become one of the country's most shocking episodes and inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has cleared the Jacobite hanged for the crime.
The results of the investigation by the late Dr Lee Holcombe, an emeritus professor of history at the University of South Carolina, are about to be published in a book claiming to offer the definitive answer to the mystery of the infamous Appin murder of 1752.See the full content of this document
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Bloody Scots Whodunit Is 'Solved' Byus Academic
Holcombe spent two decades researching original sources relating to the shooting of Colin Campbell of Glenure, known as the Red Fox, and the subsequent hanging for his murder of the Jac...
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