Jun 14, 2026 · 20 min · 10 segments
In January 1987, the body of 20-year-old Ann Ballantine was pulled from the freezing Union Canal in Edinburgh. She had been raped, bound, strangled, wrapped in an old carpet, and stored for months…
November 1986.
In the shadows of Edinburgh's industrial canals, a bright, happy-go-lucky 20-year-old woman named Anne Ballantine vanished from her own neighbourhood.
Months later, her naked, bound body was dragged from the icy waters of the Union Canal, wrapped in a filthy carpet, brutally... and strangled.
She had been kept hidden somewhere else for nearly two months before being dumped back in the canal while her family searched in vain.
Her killer has walked free for almost 40 years.
This is the killing, unsolved murder of Anne Ballantine and the monster who got away with it.
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