It takes a lot to shock investigators, but a murder committed in the exact 10 minutes it took for a maid to step out for a newspaper is what did it in this case.

There was no break in, no clear murder weapon, and an elderly woman beaten with a level of violence that made absolutely no sense for a simple robbery.

This is the case of Marion Gilchrist, a brutal crime, a botched investigation, and one of the

most shocking wrongful convictions in Scottish history.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast. A true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Doing great. We're both a little punchy today and I always enjoy that. It's always... Yes. You get holiday Mandy and Melly, which is also stressed out Mandy and Melly, and we're so close to Christmas. I can I can hear it, taste it, smell it. There's so much going on right now. We've been, I've had a lot going on at my house. My kids have been wanting me to cook like different things and bake things. And like, this is the only time of year I really ever bake things.

I know. I did cookies so we could decorate them and I put everything together. I was the one that

cooked them. I made the shapes and everything because all anybody wants to do is, you know, like paint

them or, you know, put icing on them, got all the different colors. And as we're doing it, my husband's like, oh, this is going to get on the tablecloth. Like, oh, this is probably, I'm like, shut up. This is the holiday spirit. We're going to enjoy it. If I haven't said anything, you don't get to say anything. Right. So everyone, decorate your stupid cookie and eat it. And enjoy it. Yes. Yeah. So it worked and everybody had fun. And I was

like, maybe we shouldn't push it. Maybe that's our Christmas activity. Everyone had fun.

Let's, we're done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So my kids and yours as well are officially out of school now for

the next two weeks. Yeah, it's so exciting. My husband also took vacation time for

the next two weeks. So we're all spending the next two weeks together as a family.

My husband does have off the week of New Year's, but I don't know. Maybe I'll be gone by then. I don't

know. I don't even know where I'm going. But I need to start

planning. Yeah. So we definitely have the Christmas week mania going on right now. But yeah,

we're here and we have a really interesting story this week. This is one that I'm not surprised I have

never heard because it comes from Scotland. So not, it's not from an area that I would easily have

heard about. Sure. But it is a very interesting story. So on the night of December 21st, 1908,

Glasgow's West End was doing what it always did in the winter, which was getting dark early,

being very cold and very quiet. In a three-story building at 15

Queens Terrace, 82-year-old Marion was settling into her normal routine inside the second

floor flat where she had lived for 30 years. She followed her own habits and rituals, and she

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