Fingerprints of despair
Just a day before our meeting, she had received a letter that made her despair. In it, she learnt that the men she claims ruined her life would have no action taken against them after a two-year investigation. It was the last straw.
In 1997 McKie was 34, a police detective in Ayrshire, a career cop following her father, a former superintendent, into the family business. She was an independent and strong woman. But then, during the investigation into the murder of Marion Ross, a spinster from Kilmarnock, fingerprint experts from the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) claimed they had lifted McKie’s thumbprint from the victim’s home. It meant, they said, that she had contaminated the crime scene.
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