To Catch A Killer - My Hunt for the Truth Behind the Doorstep Murder

Peter Bleksley

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789460223
• Year: 2018

On 28 November 2004, banker and father-of-two Alistair Wilson was shot three times on his doorstep in a killing more commonly associated with inner city gang wars than a sleepy seaside town in the Scottish Highlands. All these years later, the question remains: why?

Who would wish to kill this respectable husband and family man in such a brutal fashion? Was it simply a tragic case of mistaken identity, or did someone have reason to end Alistair's life? And what was the significance of the envelope handed to him before he was fatally wounded?

Over the years, lines of enquiry have been investigated and dismissed, gossip has spread, theories offered and rumours debated at length. And yet, so long after Alistair's death, no arrest has ever been made and precious few motives have been made public.

In this gripping true crime investigation, Peter Bleksley, top ex-undercover cop and The Chief on Channel 4's Hunted, strives to uncover the truth and hunt down Alistair's killer. He travels to Scotland, speaks to experts, and draws on his decades of investigative experience in order to provide new insight into Scotland's most mysterious murder case.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Prologue
• Chapter One: A Stranger comes calling
• Chapter Two: A New Venture
• Chapter Three: The Errors Unfurl
• Chapter Four: Wrongful Accusations
• Chapter Five: Life After So10
• Chapter Six: Back on the Case
• Chapter Seven: Needs Must
• Chapter Eight: A Decade On
• Chapter Nine: Hunted
• Chapter Ten: Progress
• Chapter Eleven: The Bank
• Chapter Twelve: Out of Control
• Chapter Thirteen: Questions, Questions…
• Chapter Fourteen: Loose Lips
• Chapter Fifteen: A Gun in my hand
• Chapter Sixteen: Novice, Dilettante, Journeyman or Master?
• Chapter Seventeen: A View from an Armchair
• Chapter Eighteen: Inside the mind of a killer
• Chapter Nineteen: A New Source
• Chapter Twenty: The Douglas Family
• Chapter Twenty-One: Fit-Ups and Fuck-Ups
• Chapter Twenty-Two: A Killer in Control
• Chapter Twenty-Three: A Club on the slide
• Chapter Twenty-Four: The Northern Blights
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Scarpered
• Chapter Twenty-Six: The Inside Track
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: No Peace for the Wicked
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