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S1E4: The Ice Cream Murders with Douglas Skelton
Once Upon a True Crime
Once Upon a True Crime S1E4: The Ice Cream Murders with Douglas Skelton
- Aired: 2022-05-16
- Time: 21:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
Best-selling crime writer Douglas Skelton revisits the unsolved Ice Cream Murders case, which occurred during the early 1980s. At a time when poverty was rife in the city and fuelled violence, rival ice cream van crews battled for control over the territories in Glasgow's East End. What began with slashed tyres and smashed windscreens escalated into a horrific mass murder, with an arson attack that killed a family of six.Skelton delves into the tensions between the gangs, a 20-year battle to prove the innocence of two men convicted, and the unsolved case that still haunts Glasgow.