Tragic True Crime in Edinburgh: The Mysterious Case of Caroline Hogg 🕵️‍♂️

It was a sunny evening on July 8, 1983 when five-year-old Caroline Hogg – still wearing a pretty gingham dress from an afternoon party – was playing happily on Portobello Promenade.<br /><br />The lively youngster had begged her mother, Annette, for a few more minutes outside to go to the seaside swing park near her home.<br /><br />Witnesses would later report seeing her riding a <br />double-decker bus on a roundabout at the popular Fun City <br />fairground.<br /><br />But after it stopped, Caroline walked away hand-in-hand with a “scruffy-looking” man who had just paid 15p to the cashier for her turn as he stood nearby and watched.<br /><br />That happy little girl would never be seen again and, 30 years later, her murder continues to haunt Edinburgh and the minds of the detectives who <br />finally caught her killer.<br />