Although the judge, Lord Cameron, admitted that Manuel conducted his defence “with a skill that is quite remarkable”, the killer was unable to convince the jury of his innocence, and he was found guilty of all charges against him, except for that of Anne Kneilands, which had been dropped due to a lack of evidence.
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However for a time the main suspect was Marion’s husband, William, who had been on a fishing holiday in Ardrishaig, but was suspected of driving around 90 miles through the night, faking a break-in to his own house, murdering his family, and driving back.
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Manuel was born in 1927 to Scottish parents in New York; the family moved to Detroit before migrating back to Britain in 1932, this time to Birkenshaw, North Lanarkshire.
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Nicol, Allan Manuel: Scotland's First Serial Killer (with an introduction by Donald Findlay)
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