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🗓️ 20 October 2021
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"The blood is the life, I have drunk the blood, and it shall be mine, for I have seen horror” — This handwritten passage, penned by Allan Menzies, was found among his things when Lothian and Borders Police searched his home.
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2:44.3 | I have drunk the blood and it shall be mine, |
2:48.0 | for I have seen horror. |
2:52.6 | This handwritten passage penned by Alan Menzies was found among his things when Lothian and Borders |
3:00.6 | police searched his home. |
3:23.0 | Okay. It had been just over a week since the villages of Fulthouse rang in the new year, and another week that Thomas |
3:25.3 | McHendrick was still missing. It was entirely out of character for him to remain out |
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