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Cold case files

Forty-two years ago, in July 1978, geneticist Dr Brenda Page, 32, was found brutally battered to death at her Aberdeen home.

She’d been seen just hours earlier leaving a hotel in the city with two clients whom she was escorting for the night. But now she lay in a pool of her own blood after having been bludgeoned almost 30 times on her head and face.

What ensued was a large-scale murder hunt, with 75 police officers working on the

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