The Mount Stewart Murder of 1866, Scotland’s oldest official cold case with Chris Paton Posted 8 March 2023 by Julie GoucherIn March 1866, a Perthshire farmer returned to his farmhouse from a weekly market to discover that his sister had been brutally murdered whilst he was away. An investigation over the following year eventually led to a suspect charged and tried, only for the case against him found to be non-proven in Scots Law. The [Click to continue…]