The Terrifying Reign Of Scotland's First Serial Killer: Peter Manuel | Murder Casebook | Real Crime

Peter Manuel was a clever cunning psychopath he's also someone who's been dubbed Scotland's first serial killer everyone described Peter Manuel as a cold-eyed killer Peter Manuel was a brutal man who killed many people and he paid the ultimate price for that ask anyone here in Glasgow who Peter manual was and they will doubtless reply the devil incarnate during the 1950s he brought Fear To The Streets of Scotland a ruthless serial killer who confessed to nine murders but is suspected of many more now more than 50 years on I want to find out why the name Manuel will still send shivers down the spines of those old enough to remember his Reign of Terror [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] nobody should die that way I've never seen anything that hurt one of the duties of a pathologist is to determine the cause of death watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription required download Billy now I'm Fred dunage and I'm investigating some of Britain's most infamous murderers I want to find out what turned them into killers and discover why they think they can get away with it Peter Anthony Manuel was the archetype of a psychopath a cold heartless killer with no emotion for his actions he was born in New York in 1927. his parents had left Scotland for a new life in America Peter was the middle child with an elder brother and younger sister the family struggled during the Wall Street Crash and returned to Scotland in 1932. Manuel was just five one who studied Peter Manuel in depth is Malcolm MacLeod an author with a passion for historical crime so he arrives back in Scotland with a very different accent a different background different knowledge different educational system and I think he finds life very difficult he's displaced he's thrown into a different schooling system and he seems to make heavy weather of it from the age of 10 Manuel began to get into trouble his broad American accent and his small stature isolated him from the other children he became a loner by the time he's 11 he's already in trouble he breaks into the officery box of the church which is next to his school he then commits a large number of other Petty crimes breaking and entering stealing people's wallets he becomes locally notorious as a bad we boy started his life of crime at a very early age lured by the easy pickings of money and valuables but there was another side of manual developing a dark sadistic site leading criminologist Professor David Wilson has studied how certain traits developed in early childhood can lead to a very dangerous adult it's into trouble fairly early on in his life doesn't he manual is somebody who loves breaking and entering he loves going into people's homes breaking into their houses he loves entering private spaces that don't belong to him and in some way despoiling that private space often he will reveal that when he was a loner when he was walking the the fields near where they were living in uddingston he would attack animals with a knife he would use a knife on sheep or on horses or on cattle but equally he's completely devoted as he's growing up to the family Alsatian dog called Rusty so we're beginning to see a picture here in Manuel's childhood of issues that are going to reappear as he becomes an adult the manual family moved again this time to Coventry where Manuel gained a place at a grammar school instances of his odd behavior soon surfaced when Manuel's at school a teacher discovered that he had drawn a really pornographic cartoon and the teacher asked Manuel did you draw this and what was interesting was that manual steadfastly refused to show any remorse in relation to what he had drawn and that's a true example of the psychopath in the making Psychopaths find it very difficult to accept that they've done something that's wrong in October 1939 after a string of break-ins twelve-year-old manual was sent to a correctional facility his big brother James had already been in trouble and had also been sent to an approved School there's two things about him in the approved schools one is he runs away all the time he's continually escaping and while he's free he commits other crimes stealing bicycles breaking into houses there are a number of times when he actually assaults people he breaks into one house he's age 14. he's carrying an ax with him the woman who is woken by him has a nervous breakdown he breaks into another house and a woman who's asleep wakes up to find he's battering her around the head with a hammer we've got the pictures growing up here of a very very disturbed young man which probably comes to uh Crescendo when he's 15 again an approved school he attacks one of the wives of one of his teachers with a stick drags her into a forest removes her undergarments but isn't able to penetrate her he he just simply removes her undergarments but doesn't rape her and I think there's something there Fred about the sense in which he gets his sexual Thrills from Simply harming hurting women that he encounters a year after the attack at the age of 16 Having learned nothing from the approved schools manual was sent to a Boston the escapes and house breakings continued the bar stool could only hold him until he reached 18 and in March 1945 he was released the war was still going on he gets his call-up papers but he is in fact a U.S citizen he was born there so he doesn't serve in the Army he takes a few laboring jobs it's almost a mini crime wave in his area he breaks into houses at night maybe two or three at a night he steals whatever he can lay his hands on as Manual's violent sexual appetite grew so did his desire to act upon his urges in the spring of 1946 the uddingston area of Glasgow was hit with a string of sexually motivated attacks manual is simply attacking and harming women and when they are vulnerable when he has power over them he doesn't seem to be able to achieve erection he doesn't seem to be able to penetrate his victims but in relation to the third woman that he attacks he rapes her against a wall he then is arrested charged tried and convicted for that rape and that leads to his prison sentence on the 25th of June 1946 the jury took just 15 minutes to convict Manual of rape he was sentenced to eight years in glasgow's berlini prison it would be his first time inside would it tame his violent ways he eventually ends up in peterhead prison which is the hardest toughest place in Scotland for prisoners he gets beaten up by The Waters at some point he is a continuous nuisance all the way through his time he's involved in Mutiny smashing things because he misbehaves so violently and constantly they send him for a psychiatric examination to Aberdeen and the psychiatrist there he said I've examined this man and from all the records I can see from when he was young he's an aggressive psychopath the chief Warder at peterhead has a much simpler thing on it he says this is one of the worst people we've ever had here the only way we can handle him is when he's locked up on his own when Manuel was released from prison he returned to live with his family the change in him was noticeable he'd studied law and broadened his vocabulary but it wasn't long before Manuel returned to his evil ways on the 30th of July 1955 Mary McLaughlin became his next victim she is going home at night after a dance I think and she's attacked from behind by a man who drags her into a field will knife and threatens to cut her throat he's then gropes her and she fears she's going to be raped and suddenly all this aggression and horror Fades away he just stops he changes completely and has been suggested that he's reached a sexual Climax and therefore you know he stops Mary sees her attacker she recognizes him and Manuel is identified Mary McLaughlin very bravely also talks her way out of that particular set of circumstances and is able to persuade Manuel to let her go and saying that she won't go to the police of course she does go to the police she draws attention to the fact she knows Peter manual Manuel was arrested and charged for attempted rape his previous encounters with the law had given him an arrogant confidence and he decided to represent himself in court now when it comes to trial he's going to defend himself this is very important this is manual QC Emmanuel the great lawyer his story is that she'd made all this up they'd actually been boyfriend girlfriend and she was angry at him so she'd made up this story of his attack on her and it was all lies the jury can't make up its mind and produces a decision which is unique to Scottish law saying that the case against manual is not proven now that doesn't mean he's guilty or not guilty it's just simply that the jury didn't believe the prosecution had made a good enough case and I think that case is also very important in relation to Manuel's development as an offender Because he believes that by the gift of the gab he can talk his way out of some of these really serious charges that are brought against him on the 2nd of January 1956 28 year old manual struck again this time his actions would have deadly consequences foreign dinage and I'm looking into the case of Scotland's most notorious serial killer Peter Manuel in January 1956 at the age of 28 Peter Peter Manuel's horrific acts of violence were escalating so far he'd attacked five women and raped another along with a string of house break-ins and thefts Manual's sense of invincibility grew and so did his deadly desires he and his father were working in Israel Bride As gas main laborers fitting gas Mains to the new houses have been built there and Newlands has arranged to meet someone that she's met at a dance on 2nd of January the guy she'd met forgotten about this doesn't turn up so she goes to Eastern bride and after that all track of her is lost the next day Ann neilan's body is discovered on a golf course at East Kilbride she'd been the victim of a brutal sexual attack clear she ran fleeing from her pursuers across open ground onto the golf course she'd lost a shoe she 'd been 40 ways through or over barbed wire fencing but she's been chased and caught and Nico's room removed by the time they find the body and she's been battered around the head I mean horribly battered there's Blood and Bone and flesh 8 10 12 feet away splashed from this room the police launched a widespread investigation one policeman noticed scratches on Manuel's face he was questioned but his father provided him with an alibi clearing him of any wrongdoing a trail of Anne Nealon's killer had grown cold the police had no leads and no evidence manual sexual violence had escalated into murder he'd escaped Justice and was now free to terrorize Scotland one gets the impression that he sexually aroused only with women in in ways which are not normal he's got a paraphilia he for example likes hurting women a lot of his crimes even when he's a teenager are about exposing women's genitals but he never penetrates he simply wants to hurt the woman that he's managed to get access to whether he gets access to them from abducting them or through breaking and entering by September 1955 Manuel had moved his operation to Burnside a middle-class suburb of Glasgow he'd become more cold and detached with no fear of being caught and those thoughts of remorse for his horrific actions on the 9th of September 1956 William watt left to go on a fishing trip to Argyle leaving his wife daughter and sister-in-law alone in the house Margaret her sister Marion and the daughter Vivian are discovered by the the cleaner who has an arrangement with Mrs warts that she would go to the back door which would be left open on the day in question the back door is closed uh the cleaner moves to the front of the house notices that there's glass missing in the door and therefore asked the postman to see if they could break in to discover what's actually happened when the cleaner makes her way upstairs she discovers an horrendous scene Margaret and her sister Marion were lying in bed with their night clothes torn they'd both been shot in the head Vivian the daughter laying next door in her room she'd also been shot Vivian the young daughter the 17 year old seems to have put up a struggle and it looks like she's being hit may be tortured maybe taunted before being shot the daughter is still alive at that point barely alive they hear and make sort of coughing spluttering noises and she dies Margaret Watts undergarments her pajamas had been pulled down again to reveal her genitals and in a separate room is Vivian Ward clearly he had spent more time with Vivian Ward there was a gunshot wound to Vivian's head and again they were bruising on her genital area but no penetration the west of Scotland went into near Panic as the news of the mass murder spread quickly the police were under pressure to find the culprit journalist Russell Galbraith remembers covering the story for the Glasgow Evening News well the Watts is an amazing Story the police and the crown determined that William watt the husband was the guilty party the police established that a police driver could get from the watch house to the hotel where he stayed faster than what said it took him and on that they they built a case that and it should be said a fairly went I think on the renfrey ferry from memory the ferryman said that he had seen a man who answered what's description with a black dog and he had a big black labrador called Queenie I think that he had seen them on the ferry the police arrested what he's driven down from where he's on his fishing holiday at one point the argosya police swap him into a lanarkshire police car for the rest of the journey one of the policemen in the that car is convinced what is not showing enough remorse or worry or horror or fear about this terrible crime he begins to think what has done it William watt was arrested and charged with the murder of his family as the news traveled relief spread across Glasgow there was no psycho killer on the loose well they were right but for the wrong reasons because watt's lawyer began receiving cryptic messages from an inmate at Barley prison who seemed to have inside information on the horrific murders an amazing coincidence because after the warts had been murdered Manuel was picked up for a burglary on a local colliery so he's on remand in berlini prison two manual is clearly upset that Mr Ward is getting the attention for the murders that he manual has committed Manuel explained details of the house and the local and indeed how the crimes were committed that weren't really public knowledge and could only have been known by someone who was in the White House and indeed had filed the gun manual told what solicitor Lawrence dowdle that Margaret had been shot twice in the head a fact that had never been revealed to the media by the police he clearly wanted the credit for what he had done except he didn't want someone else getting the credit as if it made him a celebrity a criminal celebrity it's very odd very strange but that's what he did and later once more was released we then had the business of manual getting in touch with Lawrence noodles and saying he wanted to meet what and that all arranged a meeting so that Manuel could tell what the story of his alleged contact and how he had murdered family supported to sit across the table with a drink in the hand with a speller whom at this time they were certain and committed the mother that must have been an awful experience interviews with manual and a search of his parents home revealed nothing what testimony wasn't enough and the police would have to play a waiting game Manuel was released from prison on the 30th of November 1957 and Terror stalked the streets again it wasn't long before Manuel would destroy the life of another innocent victim just eight days after he's released one of the difficulties with every serial killer that we discuss on murder case book is working out how many murders that serial killer might actually be responsible for in Manual's case there is another crime committed when Manuel is in Newcastle he leaves barley prison and is supposedly looking for work in Newcastle whilst we know Manuel is in Newcastle there's the murder of someone called Sydney Dunn who's a taxi driver now Dunn had picked up Affair to Edmund buyers at Newcastle station and police eventually investigate this wrecked taxi it was an Austin Saloon and they find Don's body about 150 yards away now for some reason they think he's committed suicide he's not been robbed he's still got money in his pockets his throat has been cut so they regarded as a suicide it's not clear why it's only when they actually get the body examined for a post-mortem they also find he's been shot Manual's appetite for death was growing by 1957 his reign of terror had destroyed the lives of five innocent people was there no end to the Killing Spree with no apparent motive for the killings no one knew who was next I'm Fred dynage and I'm investigating the horrific murders that took place here in Scotland in the 1950s by 1957 Peter Manuel had needlessly destroyed the lives of five people four women had been murdered in Scotland each with a sexual element to the killing the fifth victim was a taxi driver from Newcastle Manuel thrived on telling tales and injecting himself into the heart of the story he'd given Clues to the police on the Watts family murders revealing to the father solicitor precise details of the shooting but there wasn't enough firm evidence to convict him and Manuel was free to walk the streets of Glasgow on the 28th of December manual struck again this time the pretty 17 year old Isabelle cook disappeared Isabel cook was still at school at oddingston grammar she was going to go to a dance that particular night she was going to meet up with her boyfriend Douglas Bryden at the bus stop she never made it to the bus stop the police had no idea where Isabel cook was she had certainly vanished off the face of the Earth there were some some items of clothing I think found and it was clear that she had you know encountered a bad time but nobody knew where she was and it was assumed that she was dead again there's another hunt for where Isabel cook had disappeared to and over the course of the next 24 48 Hours increasingly the police and those searching begin to find evidence in relation to what had happened to Isabel cook Manuel had claimed his sixth victim but this time he'd covered his tracks and there was no body yet again he'd got away with murder on the 31st of December 1957 Glasgow celebrated the new year and the manuals were no exception Peter met his father and brother in a local pub and the drinks continued back at the family home at around 4am in the morning with everyone asleep Manuel saw his opportunity and slipped out of the house unnoticed the smart family in uddingston were not to see 1958. New Year's Day 1958 Emmanuel gets up early in the morning five o'clock six o'clock he walks 10 minutes maybe less to a bungalow owned by a chap called Peter smart lived in by his wife and his 11 year old son Michael manuel breaks in he shoots all three of them dead shoots them in the head using a Beretta small caliber Crystal he steals money that's in Smart's wallet now the important thing is smarter being paid just after Christmas and a drawn out money in used notes in sequence numbered sequence manuals seem to have spent a little time in the house he fed the cat now he says there were two tins of kitty cat there and he thought he'd use that and he saw a tin of salmon so he thought the cat might as well have the salmon because no one else here is going to be eating it What was particularly awful about that crime would manual went back to the house over several over several days it happened around the new year period And The Smarts were due to go on holiday so in that sense they weren't they weren't really missed at first and Manuel went back to the house was known to eat soup there and feed the cat with a body littering the place so it's quite horrific quite horrific Manuel had taken Peter Smart's car and drove it during the days following the murder bizarrely he even gave a lift to an unwitting police officer investigating the case he's driving Peter Smart's car and he's going to give a lift to one of the police officers who are investigating the murder and he's going to give advice to the policeman about where the policeman should be turning his attention of course the other thing about the smarts murder is that this is actually going to produce the evidence that's going to bring Manuel's Killing Spree to an end the bodies of the smart family weren't discovered until the 6th of January with a killer causing Terror and fear in the area the lanarkshire police called in detectives from Glasgow one person who remembers the impact of the family's murder was David perrett Playmate of the 11 year old Michael smart Michael was simply my best friend at the time he was interested in the things I was interested in the pre-electronic age there were words very close to his house and we used to go into the woods and Wade in the in the Stream of the button as we would call it we would even pretend to hunt rabbits would make bows and out of us and and walk from miles to the country and and if the weather was really bad we would play with stinky toys or train sets he he was just my pal I can't really go any further than that and on the day of the murder you'd played together and I believe you've been invited round for a what they would call today a sleepover that's right well I'm not sure if anybody knew exactly when they were murdered um I think it was between the end of the year and the 6th of January of 1958 and I do remember playing with them one day his mother asked me to stay the night or he did and I remember following my mother and she said you can't because you've got something on the next day it wasn't convenient you've got to remember I was only 11 years of age I was obviously devastated by but then there was a sort of climate of fear running around the area at the time because there had been other murders they've been murders in East Kilbride which was maybe what six miles away that just been the murder of visible cook which had taken place the month before so there was a general feeling of fear in the community I can remember my father going out to buy extra locks for the windows and people were doing that sort of thing because the general climate of fear and and obviously after this murder it was even worse what effect did all this have on on the people of Glasgow did it cause well it was particularly bad I think in milanoch area near I mean the it was a fairly narrow radius you had the war send you and Isabel cook then you had the smart family you see and you've got to think what it must have been like in that area where not only but young women being mounted but families were being murdered and they're bad asleep by a burglar with a gun uh I mean Bulgaria is bad enough but my goodness me when that was happening and there's no doubt that a lot of people worried themselves sick over it and the police were under tremendous pressure the police were circling closer and closer interviews for information on the Smart's murders always led to the same source manual and with his previous criminal history his involvement looked more certain the case against manual builds but the police still need evidence by the 12th of January his house was under surveillance during this time the police traced the brand new banknote stolen from the smart robbery to the local pubs the smarts were going to go on holiday and so Mr smart had withdrawn money from his bank account and that money that he had withdrawn was in crisp new banknotes and those new banknotes were going to start turning up in various pubs and clubs in the garbles area of Glasgow and quite clearly the person who was handing those those notes over to pay for his drinks was none other than Peter Manuel Patman was emerging and the police had only one name in mind Peter Manuel the west of Scotland fell into a panic the killer of the Watts family and the smart family was still on the loose the nation was gripped in fear who would be the next victim there's a lot of local intelligence from the Glasgow underworld that manual may be responsible and remember manuals are fantasist manual likes to create this impression of himself as a super gangster as a safe blower as a killer and he you know he idolizes people like Al Capone and Babyface Nelson and of course he's a braggard and he's going to be talking about these kinds of things in the local underworld in the clubs and pubs of Glasgow Manuel's constant boasting and storytelling had antagonized Glasgow Kingpin Samuel Dandy Makai the view from the Glasgow underworld was that he had to go remember somebody who was as talkative someone who was such a fantasist was of no use to the Glasgow underworld because he was constantly going to draw attention to himself in fact a London gangster mad Frankie Fraser actually said that he would never have used uh Peter Manuel because quote he couldn't keep his Yap shut in other words he was too eager to talk to inject himself into the story to make something more of himself than he actually was on the 14th of January 1958 the police raided the manual home in birkenshaw in the search for stolen goods from the smart family home Manuel was arrested it was the last time he would ever see his home I'm Fred dynage and I'm re-examining the shocking events that led to the caption of Peter Manuel and the end of his reign of terror over Scotland Manuel had committed nine ruthless murders with no motive eight in Scotland one in the north of England the police had arrested him for theft and burglary but how were they going to convict him of the killings Alec Brown was put in charge with a unit of cops from from Glasgow and some from Hamilton but Brown was in charge almost the first thing he did was arrest manual he brought him in on house breaking charges the point was he got him off the street that was what clearly Brown's intention was and they then built the case The Wider more serious case from that Manuel's father had also been arrested for theft he claimed some of the stolen items were his in an attempt to save his son knowing Manuel's love of attention the police leave him on his own in a Cell for almost 24 hours but he does actually begin to say look I'm worried about my family I'm worried about my father if you bring them here I'll tell you about various crimes I've been involved in he eventually writes three confessions each one more detailed and the rest the final one is written after he's seen his parents and he does say to them look I don't know what makes me do these things I've been involved in murders Manuel had admitted to the murders of Anne kneeland's Isabel cook the what family and the smarts all of the eight Scottish killings he confessed to see his parents I do think he had a good relationship with his parents his parents have historically provided manual with an alibi at crucial moments in his criminal career so there could be some element of love and remember later his parents are going to say that Manny was always really well behaved when he was at home but I think there's a second more psychological reason and that is serial killers murderers like Manuel love injecting themselves into the heart of the story Manuel agreed to show the police where he buried the body of 17 year old Isabel cook whilst giving his confession and this is during the daytime he makes this promise he said no no I don't want to do it in the daytime I murdered her at night and I can only find my way to her grave during the dark he's released specially on the police escort and on the way he shows them where he'd hidden various bits of her property it's reported that when he gets to the field where she's buried he tells them oh be careful I started doing engraved there but someone Disturbed me so don't fall into that pit and then he goes further into the field and says yeah it's about here I think I'm standing on her Peter Manuel's trial began on the 12th of May 1958 the queue for the public Gallery snaked around Glasgow high court hundreds had gathered to witness the trial of the century and they weren't to me disappointed Manuel sacked his lawyers and conducted his own defense was he mad no he was the center of attention manual pleaded not guilty to the eight Scottish murders he was tried for though he confessed to the murders and shown the police where the body of Isabel cook lay the atmosphere when Manuel is taken to court is absolutely electric it is the hottest ticket in town it's that kind of that free song that glamor of the dark side that dark tourism that's going to attract everyday members of the public to a particular set of circumstances around the Dreadful murder and around the the character of the murderer himself Manuel had glamorized the image of a serial killer with his American accent and clean-cut image One Man Who Saw Manuel in court firsthand was former criminal defense lawyer Joe beltrani so Joe describe manual to me if he was sat here now very smartly turned out Immaculate one would say his shoes highly polished good suit he'll welcome and very clean what was his demeanor in court less observient didn't cause any sins no shouting at bowling quiet throughout the proceedings a strange about manual in one of the Court appearances we sort of bumped against each other and it was very small I mean impression everyone can give us a manual a tall powerfully built there it was a bit lucky if it was five foot five I mean it's just bounced off me and I was surprised at how small he was in fact typical small man trying to think big Manual's previous convictions and time spent in court had taught him about the Scottish legal system manual is somebody who feels that he's got the gift of the Gap he believes he's clever enough to fool everybody so when he's defending himself for example he puts one of the police officers in the witness box and for 60 80 minutes he bombards that police officer with hundreds of questions he really does think he can trick the jury into believing that he in fact is innocent and on occasions when I was in listening to him he was cross-examining Witnesses and in my opinion betraying too much knowledge to be an outsider in other words it was betraying the fact that he knew a lot more about it than he was saying in the witness box had to avoid that if you're defend yourself you're putting yourself in the position of the witness the youngest witness to give evidence against Manuel was David perrett best friend of 11 year old Michael smart because I was only 11 and didn't know what to expect um I found it more of an adventure I think than anything else I have a vivid memory of going into the high court which was in blazing light packed with people the wood of the benches The Advocates of barristers you might call them wearing their wigs with their Gardens and a judge sitting up there with a wig on and a and a cloak which I think from memory would be silver with red crosses on it it was a site that I as a 11 year old had never seen before do you remember the evidence that you gave my evidence was to the effect that I had last seen Michael on the DSi and I'd gone back to the house on a subsequent day and had gone to the house see in the morning and I'd rang the doorbell and there was no reply and I'd noticed that the Cottons were closed in the lounge I went back in the afternoon rang the doorbell and there was no reply but I noticed that the curtains in the lounge were open so the assumption is that manual could have been in the house when I went to the first time and rang the doorbell on day 13 Manuel entered the witness box to give evidence on his own behalf and spoke without notes for 88 Minutes this continued the next day for 152 minutes Manuel was talking for his life even though this time it was unlikely to save him but during the summing up the judge made a surprise ruling for the jury to find Manuel not guilty of the killing of Anne neylands on the 29th of May the jury took just two hours and 22 minutes to find Manuel guilty on all seven charges of murder his execution date was set for the 19th of June when manual is found guilty he again therefore thinks he can escape the Rope so what he tries to do thereafter is he tries to convince a number of people who are going to examine him the way he in fact is mentally ill so much so that he Foams at the mouth and of course this is merely a ruse that he's dreamed up to try and avoid being hanged Manuel remains incoherent for 18 days saying only six or seven words to the prison wardens a completely different man to the talkative arrogant killer who'd entered the courtroom his family go to see him and he doesn't recognize him he doesn't speak to them he won't say anything his mother pulls his hair and says you know you're not fooling me Peter but it goes on when he comes out of it he says where am I what date is it you know where have I been he claims he was hit on the head by one of the waters and you know he's out of it because of that they don't accept that so he's hanged at 8am on the 11th of July 1958 Peter Anthony Emanuel was handed by Linney prison his reign of terror had filmed newspaper headlines his trial attracted worldwide interest his death brought relief to the streets of Glasgow Manuel's unusual criminologically because he's one of the few Scottish serial killers who've murdered not in England or elsewhere but murdered in Scotland and of course one of the reasons why he loved doing that was he could read the newspapers he could hear himself on the radio he could be as it were Center Stage most murderers have one thing in common motive a reason to kill and this is where Peter Manuel chillingly stands out because he appeared to kill totally at random without any real reason simply because he felt like it and that to me defies belief his terrifying actions frightened an entire country and it's now clear to me why in Scotland Peter Manuel was thought of as the devil incarnate [Music]

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