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UK True Crime Podcast

Her name was Jacqueline: Episode 299

UK True Crime Podcast

UK True Crime Podcast

Personal Journals, History, Drugs, Crime, True Crime, Serial Killer, Murder, Uk, Police, Guns, Fraud, Robbery, Crimepodcast, Society & Culture, Uktruecrime

4.32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jacqueline Gallagher wanted to be a nurse, a profession where she could help others. But she became addicted to heroin and became involved in sex work to fund her habit. Then at just 26 year years old, her dreams were snatched away as she was brutally murdered in Glasgow. Just who killed Jacqueline?

1, Buy tickets for my live show in London this Thursday (11 August)
2, Please buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about the life and crimes of Angus Sinclair
3, Other referenced sites
4, Sources
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12037141.curtain-may-lead-to-prostitutes-killer/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3754005.stm
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/MURDER+MYSTERIES%3A+The+unsolved+killings+that+still+haunt+Scots...-a061009857
http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1573&termRef=Leona%20McGovern
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-drop-probe-1995-river-5806705
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48308465
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3789945.stm
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prostitute-murder-charge-not-proven-fnr0f7d35w9
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https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cleared%3B+..+then+vice+girl+murder+accused+goes+back+to+jail.-a0117908383
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/KILLER'S+TERROR+TEXTS+TO+BEEB+GIRL%3B+Policeprobing+hate+campaign.-a0147708450
http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1557&termRef=Jackie%20Gallagher
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/beauty-and-the-beast-963975
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/glasgow-times/20220105/281814287208806
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/26/drugsandalcohol.theobserver

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 299 of the UK True Crime Podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Adam.

0:09.0

For today's story we head to Glasgow where we return to a familiar theme of drug addiction

0:15.1

and the dangers this can lead to, including in this week's case, murder.

0:20.0

As always, let me begin by thanking all my supporters at Patreon, but especially the new

0:25.4

members of this community, that's Kaz and David O.

0:29.8

Thank you so much for your support.

0:32.0

Why not join our community by heading to patreon.com slash a UK True Crime.

0:37.8

Okay, so let's set some context for today's story with our guest a month and a year

0:42.5

game.

0:43.5

Top of the UK charts were the Fuji's with Kilimmy Supply.

0:47.8

In the US it was that cross-rose from Bone Thugs and Harmony, personal favourite of mine.

0:54.5

The best-selling album in Australia this year was Dragon Little Pill from a Lannis Morissette,

1:00.0

ironically, or maybe not.

1:02.8

In the news this month, then in 10-064 went on sale in Japan.

1:07.5

The Kobah Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 US servicemen.

1:12.7

Independence Day, starring Will, Hackeys Slappy Smith, Bill Palmer and Jeff Goldblum Premiered.

1:20.3

And the UK government selected the Greenwich Peninsula site on the banks of the River Tems,

1:25.3

as the location for the Millennium Dome exhibition, which was set to open for the year 2000.

1:31.9

If you're too young to recall this, don't worry, you really missed nothing of interest

1:36.4

except an armed robbery.

1:39.2

And in UK True Crime News and IRA Bomb in Manchester, Recla City Centre, injuring over 300 people,

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