By David Lohr
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The first victim found on the property has been identified as 15-yar-old Vicky Hamilton, a girl who was last seen on the evening of Feb. 10, 1991. According to police, she disappeared while on route from her sister's house in Livingston to her home in Redding, near Falkirk. Investigators have been able to ascertain that she got off a bus at Bathgate, West Lothian, to wait for a connecting service. An eyewitness places her on a bench near the station at approximately 5:30 p.m. Her movements from there remain a mystery. Roughly two weeks later, police received their only physical clue in the case when her purse was found in a garbage can near St. Andrew Square bus station in Edinburgh.
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| Vicky Hamilton |
"This has cast a shadow over the family for nearly 17 years," Vicky's father, Michael Hamilton, told News.independent.co.uk yesterday. "Never knowing if she was alive or not, knowing in your heart that she's dead, but still daring to hope you might be wrong. I have replayed it so many times in my head. If only I had picked her up. But she was 15 going on 16, and you have to give teenagers their independence."
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| Dinah McNicol |
The second victim is believed to be 18-year-old Dinah McNicol, a student from Tillingham in Essex, who disappeared on August 4, 1991, after hitchhiking from a music festival in Hampshire. Dinah was with a male friend, when they accepted a ride from a man in Hampshire. Her friend was dropped off near Reigate, Surrey, but Dinah opted to continue with the man to Essex. She has not been seen since. In the days following her disappearance, her ATM card was used in Hampshire and Essex to withdraw large amounts of money from her bank account.
Dinah McNicol's father, Ian McNicol, 68, is waiting for a positive identification of the second victim so he can finally have closure.
"I can now die in peace if it is Dinah," her father told News.independent.co.uk. "I'd be elated. If they've found her it will mean the family can grieve. We want an end to it, and we want to know Dinah is dead. We can actually have her remains, put her remains next to her mother's, have time to mourn and get on with life."
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