Former printer John Templeton has been named as the alleged killer of Helen Puttock, one of three woman murdered in Glasgow in the 60s.
A new suspect in the Bible John murders has been identified for the first time after being linked to the cold case through DNA.
It would also mean the killer gave his real name and details to the only witness in the case, Jean Langford, Helen’s sister. Jill traced Templeton after looking at the ancestry of McInnes, identified as a suspect in 1996 after a cold case review. Jill said: “The name John Templeton exists among the ancestors of Hector and Janet McInnes, siblings whose DNA samples share patterns with the DNA profile from the semen stain on Helen’s stockings.
Helen’s body was found on October 31, 1969, at the back of a tenement in Earl Street in Scotstoun, where she lived with her two children and husband. She had been last seen by Jean when the sisters shared a taxi with a man Helen had met in the city’s Barrowland. She said: “It is clear Templeton’s jawline, the length of his chin, the distance between his mouth and tip of his nose and length of his nose are all comparable to Paterson’s portrait of Bible John.
She tracked down his ex-wife and travelled to Scotland to meet her in 2022. The woman gave Jill a photo of her husband from 1967, the year before the murders began. Templeton’s ex, now 82, who met him in the city’s Majestic Ballroom, was married to him until 1974.
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