Tobin murdered Vicky Hamilton, 19, Dinah McNicol, and Angelina Kluk, a student from Poland. Throughout the years, police examined hundreds of unsolved murders to determine if they were also connected to the killer, and they say they attempted to convince him to cooperate once more before his death.
Peter Tobin passed away in prison, where he was serving three life sentences, after falling ill.
On Wednesday, he was transported from HMP Edinburgh to a hospital, believed to be the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and subsequently died, according to sources.
In 2006, he was serving a life sentence for raping and murdering Angelika Kluk, a 23-year-old Polish student, and concealing her body under the floor of a Glasgow church.
The 76-year-old killer was also serving life sentences for the 1991 murders of 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton of Redding, near Falkirk, and 18-year-old Dinah McNicol.
They were discovered 17 years later, buried in the garden of his former Margate, Kent, residence.
Dinah vanished while hitchhiking from a music festival in Liphook, Hampshire, to her home. Vicky vanished from a bus stop in Bathgate, West Lothian, while Angelika vanished while employed as a church cleaner in Anderston, Glasgow.
According to reports, the murderer, rapist, and pedophile was in “total denial” about his crimes and never admitted his guilt for the murders he committed.
After Tobin’s death was announced, Police Scotland’s head of major crime, Detective Chief Superintendent Laura Thomson, stated that there had been “recent attempts to encourage him to do the right thing” and provide information about other crimes he may have committed.
Operation Anagram
Throughout the years, the police have investigated hundreds of other unsolved murders to determine if they are also connected to Tobin.
This operation, with the codename Anagram, began in 2006 and ended in 2011.
Officers believe Tobin used at least 40 aliases and 150 vehicles to conceal his tracks while preying on vulnerable women.
In 2010, two houses in Sussex – Marine Parade in Brighton and Station Road in Portslade – both former residences of the Scottish murderer, were subject to a week-long police investigation.
As Anagram was postponed, the operation’s leader, Detective Superintendent David Swindle of the then Strathclyde Police, expressed hope that Tobin would reveal his secrets before his death in prison.
However, the murderer has now taken these secrets to his grave.
Mr. Swindle said: “Peter Tobin is the epitome of evil. He has no regard for human life whatsoever.”
wife abuser
Tobin, born in August 1946 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, began his criminal career after being taken to a reform school at age seven.
In his late teens and early twenties, he was incarcerated for burglary, forgery, and conspiracy. Then, in 1994, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a heinous double-sex assault on two schoolgirls.
Tobin enticed the youths with a mixture of narcotics and drink before abusing them at his apartment in Havant, Hampshire.
He was apprehended after hiding under a false name in a Christian drop-in center in Coventry.
Tobin was also a serial wife-beater, as each of his three ex-wives said he repeatedly and savagely assaulted them.
