Hi all,

I posted a thread on Twitter about this map and also had a good experience posting on Reddit when I did similar maps for Ireland and Wales. I'm Irish, so helpful feedback would be to let me know if there's a pin in the wrong place or factual mistakes.

This Scottish map below isn't finished yet, I have names still to be added for every decade.

Map link: Women and Girls killed in Scotland (1922 – 2022)

The map is colour-coded and includes both male and female killers of women and girls.

YELLOW – Killed by partner or former partner
BLUE – Killed by family member or other person known to victim
GREEN – Killed by stranger or person not well known
RED – Unsolved / Nobody held responsible

There's over 100,000 words of description on the map, giving the following details:

-Date & Place of death
-Information about the victim, whether school, job, interests, hobbies
-Murderer/Killer
-Sentence

To give one example (TW: sexual assault on spoiled text)

Name: Jessie Gibson (34)
DIED: May 12th, 1964
Killed by: Hendrik Pals (29)
Sentence: 15 YEARS imprisonment for intentional homicide (Dutch law)
First appeal: Sentence quashed, replaced with 12 years imprisonment. 
Second appeal: Sentence quashed, replaced with 8 years imprisonment.
Notes:
1. Jessie lived at 165 Albert Avenue, Grangemouth.
2. After a night out, she was seen by multiple witnesses walking hand-in-hand with a Dutch seaman, Hendrik Pals, towards her house. 
3. It was alleged in court that he killed her after she refused to have sex with him and then fled the country.
4. A diplomatic row broke out between Scotland and Netherlands, with the Dutch accusing Scottish police of being "sluggish" and "inept".
5. Jessie's naked body was discovered by her neighbours children, 16 days after her death, in a manhole right outside her front door.
6. Dutch prosecutor wanted to know why Scottish police couldn't find a body right under their noses but small children on the street could.
7. Hendrik Pals extradition request was refused and he was prosecuted in a Dutch court under Dutch law.
8. His lawyers mounted one of the most ridiculous legal defences to the evil crime he committed.
9. They claimed he walked Jessie home and said goodnight. That the scratches on his face and broken teeth were due to a fist fight on the boat and not due to Jessie fighting for her life. 
10. Charge of rape was dropped due to insufficient evidence, as the body was badly decomposed by the time it was found.

Lastly for the hundreds of women murdered by their husband, I used their maiden name out of respect for their families.

All suggestions to improve a pin placement (in this format 55.97465, -3.25068) or correct factual errors are very welcome.

Ok well if anyone finds it interesting you're welcome to take a look.

by EddieMunson221

9 comments

  2. Quite interesting, I am rather interested as to what motivated you to undertake this project

  3. Good stuff. Important people pay more attention to violence towards women. It’s so commonplace we don’t ask ourselves enough questions about what sort of society we want to be.

  4. Cool project. Not the first example. I find it odd that no one does these projects for male victims. I guess people are just more interested in the drama of a female victim.

  5. Moving to portree with my girls… That’s a crazy map.

  6. I guess Susan Maxwell doesn’t count as it is thought she was abducted in England, but actually nobody knows exactly where Robert Maxwell lifted her. The last definite sighting was in Coldstream though. I feel she ought to have a place on the map. If it was in England it was only just over the bridge.

  7. First RIP to each and every one. God rest their souls.

    Thanks for doing this.

    Only one question – what did you do this for?what motivated you?

  9. I remember there was a map like this a few years back which marked all the cold cases/unsolved murders in Scotland (maybe it was OP who created it?? It was very similar). Pretty interesting but also terrifying

    I can only find a link to a link to the reddit thread about it which is now deleted unfortunately – the map may still be out there but I can’t find it

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