April 21, 1947 - Robert Black
A long-distance lorry driver, Black used his work routes across the United Kingdom and into Europe as operational cover, abducting children from roadside locations spanning hundreds of miles — a geography that for years frustrated police efforts to connect the cases. The investigation that eventually led to his arrest and conviction is considered one of the most extensive in British criminal history. Suspicion has extended beyond his confirmed crimes to a range of unsolved child killings across Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe stretching back nearly two decades.
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Robert Black (21 April 1947 – 12 January 2016) was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of crimes committed between 1981 and 1986 in the United Kingdom.
Black was convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper on 19 May 1994. He was also convicted of the attempted kidnapping of a fourth girl and had earlier been convicted of the kidnapping and sexual assault of a fifth. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 35 years.
In 2011, Black was further convicted of the 1981 sexual assault and murder of nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy. At the time of his death in 2016, he was regarded as the prime suspect in the 1978 disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Genette Tate. Black may also have been responsible for several other unsolved child murders in Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe between 1969 and 1987.
The nationwide manhunt for Black was one of the most exhaustive murder investigations in British history.
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