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An intriguing mystery
By midnight the house was surrounded by reporters hoping to expand the rumour that the wife of a newspaper boss had been abducted. Then, at 1.15am, things took a dramatic turn. A telephone call came through from a man calling himself M3 and claiming he was part of the English group of the Mafia.
The motive became apparent: money. Mrs McKay's kidnappers were demanding one million pounds in exchange for her safe return.
Tireless detective work followed and through arranging a pick-up of the cash and tailing the suspected vehicle, the police got their lead.
Further investigation and a search of the property that the two suspects were staying at produced damning forensic evidence against the pair. Still, Mrs McKay was nowhere to be found.
The absence of a body coupled with the pair's reluctance to reveal anything about Mrs McKay meant that the truth could never fully be known.
The two suspects were given fifteen and twenty-five year sentences for their respective parts in the crime, but to this day the family who had been through so much would never know exactly what happened to their loved one, or where her final resting place was. Decades later, that final piece of the jigsaw is still missing.
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