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The World's End Murders: A night that haunts Scotland

On the night of 15 October 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both seventeen, were seen leaving The World's End pub, located at High Street on the Royal Mile, at closing time. The following day, Eadie's naked body was discovered in Gosford Bay, East Lothian, by hill walkers. Scott's body was found unclothed six miles away from Eadie's, in a corn-stubble field. Both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied up, raped and strangled. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies.

In late 1977, Lothian and Borders Police conducted a high-profile criminal investigation, collating a list of over 500 suspects and taking over 13,000 statements from members of the public. Despite their efforts, they were unable to identify a culprit. The case commanded widespread attention in the Scottish media at the time, and a photo-booth picture of the two girls was used by police in their appeals for information.

At the time, the media reported that several witnesses had told police they had seen Helen Scott and Christine Eadie sitting near the public telephone in the bar, talking with two men. Neither of these men were traced or have presented themselves to police. Speculation that the killings had been the work of two men was heightened when it was revealed that the knots used to tie the girls' hands behind their backs were of different types.

On 25 November 2004, Angus Robertson Sinclair (7 June 1945 – 11 March 2019), a man who lived in Edinburgh at the time of the murders, was detained under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in connection with the murders. 

Angus Sinclair's first conviction occurred in 1961, at age 16, when he pleaded guilty and was convicted of the culpable homicide of eight-year-old Catherine Reehill and served six years in prison. Sinclair sexually assaulted and strangled her in his family home. In 1982, five years after the World's End Murders, he pleaded guilty to 11 of 13 charges libelling various rapes and indecent assaults committed against young girls, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In June 2001, still in prison, he went to trial and was given another life sentence for the murder of 17-year-old Mary Gallacher on a footpath near the Barnhill railway station in Glasgow in November 1978, thirteen months after the World's End Murders. The teenager had been dragged into bushes, sexually assaulted, had her throat cut and a ligature tied around her neck. Again Sinclair failed to accept any responsibility for the crime and denied all knowledge, despite being found guilty by a majority verdict and faced with the reality that the chances of a DNA sample matching anyone other than Sinclair, were "a billion to one." Sinclair was only caught, for the 1978 murder, after a cold case review by Strathclyde Police revealed the presence of new DNA evidence not uncovered during the initial investigation.

On 14 November 2014, Sinclair was found guilty of the murders of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie on 15 October 1977. Following the conviction, Lord Matthews sentenced Sinclair to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years. This means he would have been 106 years old before being considered for parole but he died in 2019.

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Friday, October 15, 2021 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: PUPPY PLACE (Apple TV +) THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Apple TV +) DAY OF THE DEAD (CTV Sci-Fi) 10:00pm

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NEW TO AMAZON PRIME/CRAVE/NETFLIX CANADA/CBC GEM:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA CHAOS WALKING G.E.O. MÁS ALLÁ DEL LÍMITE IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE (Season 2, Part 4) I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (Amazon Original)

CBC GEM DAUGHTER R.L. STINE'S THE HAUNTING HOUR (Seasons 3 & 4) SHERLOCK (Season 2)

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NETFLIX CANADA COCOMELON (Season 4) DEEP IMPACT THE FORGOTTEN BATTLE THE FOUR OF US KARMA’S WORLD LITTLE THINGS (Season 4) MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING MY NAME PAW PATROL (Season 8) SHARKDOG’S FINTASTIC HALLOWEEN THE TRIP YOU (Season 3)

NHL HOCKEY (SN1) 7:00pm: Canucks at Flyers

AQUAMAN: KING OF ATLANTIS (Teletoon) 7:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  Aquaman finally becomes king of Atlantis, but he has a lot of learning to do; thankfully, his advisors Vulko, a scholar, and Mera, a water-wielding warrior, are there to give him a hand.

CHARMED TO DEATH (Super Channel Fuse) 7:10pm (SERIES PREMIERE): A beautiful blonde seduces various lovers in a small town, causing havoc; it isn't until an unlikely witness steps forward and another tragic death occurs that the village becomes aware there is a cunning and charming killer in their midst.

MLB BASEBALL (SN) 8:00pm: Red Sox vs. Astros  - Game #1

NBA PRE-SEASON BASKETBALL (SN NOW) 8:00pm: Mavericks vs. Bucks

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ONE OF A KIND LOVE (City TV) 8:00pm:  Kyra's dreams of being a jeweler have been put on the back burner, as her demanding job at the Sawyer Country Club is her priority.

THE VOWS WE KEEP (W Network) 8:00pm: An event planner must organize the perfect wedding for her sister in less than a month when she finds out that the Rosewood, a historic inn and beloved wedding venue, is being sold.

TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN... (CBC) 8:30pm:Richard Ayoade heads to super-cool Berlin for a cultural fix with comedian Roisin Conaty. The mini-breakers sign up for a guided city tour in an old East German Trabant car, and visit a biergarten in Berlin's most popular park.

UNSETTLED (APTN) 8:30pm:  As the election candidates continue to battle it out, an opiate overdose at the high school blindsides the community; the tragedy forces Tara to question her purpose; Rayna realizes the devastating impact her scooping as an infant has had on Molly.

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN/TSN3/TSN4) 9:00pm: Blue Bombers vs. Elks

WNBA BASKETBALL FINALS (TSN2) 9:00pm: Phoenix Mercury vs. Chicago Sky - Game 3

THE PASSIONATE EYE (CBC) 9:00pm: 20 Years in Afghanistan: Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across 20 years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.

FAMILY LAW (Global) 9:00pm: Abigail and Daniel represent Ira, who wants his wife Helen moved from a care home that he claims is worsening her Alzheimer's; because his daughter doesn't want Helen moved and holds power of attorney, Ira must challenge her in court.

DEATH WALKER WITH NICK GROFF (CTV Sci-Fi) 9:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE):  Nick ventures into the Brushy Mountain Penitentiary in Tennessee and the Madison Seminary in Ohio to communicate with the ghosts that are tied to these locations.

FEAR OF RAIN (Crave) 9:00pm: Rain has early-onset schizophrenia, a condition that causes her to see vivid hallucinations. Suspecting that her neighbor kidnapped a child, she must soon figure out who and what is real while battling the overwhelming forces that haunt her life.

THE OAK ROOM (Super Channel Fuse) 9:00pm:  While a drifter tries to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.

CRIME BEAT (Global) 10:00pm: The Big Lie to Die For

ELI ROTH PRESENTS: A GHOST RUINED MY LIFE (T&E) 10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): A single mother senses she and her son are not alone in their new home.

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The Turn of the Screw

The Nightcomers (1972) Presence of Mind (1999) In a Dark Place (2006) Le Tour d'écrou (1974) The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995) The Sinful Angel (1962) Il mistero del lago (2009)

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The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 American novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess caring for two children at a remote estate who becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.

In the century following its publication, The Turn of the Screw became a cornerstone text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have argued that the brilliance of the novella results from its ability to create an intimate sense of confusion and suspense within the reader.

The Turn of the Screw has been the subject of numerous adaptations and reworkings in a variety of media, and these reworkings and adaptations have, themselves, been analysed in the academic literature on Henry James and neo-Victorian culture. It was adapted to an opera by Benjamin Britten, which premiered in 1954, and the opera has been filmed on numerous occasions. The novella was adapted as a ballet score (1980) by Luigi Zaninelli, and separately as a ballet (1999) by Will Tucket for the Royal Ballet. Harold Pinter directed The Innocents (1950), a Broadway play which was an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, and a subsequent eponymous stage play, adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was presented in a co-production with Hammer at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013.

There have been numerous film adaptations of the novel. The critically acclaimed The Innocents (1961), directed by Jack Clayton, and Michael Winner's prequel The Nightcomers (1972) are two particularly notable examples. Other feature film adaptations include Rusty Lemorande's 1992 eponymous adaptation (set in the 1960s); Eloy de la Iglesia's Spanish-language Otra vuelta de tuerca (The Turn of the Screw, 1985); Presence of Mind (1999), directed by Atoni Aloy; In a Dark Place (2006), directed by Donato Rotunno and Walter Lima Jr.'s Brazilian-Portuguese-language Através da Sombra (Through the Shadow, 2016). The Others (2001) is not an adaptation but has some themes in common with James's novella. In February of 2018, Steven Spielberg began filming an adaptation of the novella called The Turning on the Kilruddery Estate in Ireland.

Television films have included a 1959 American adaptation as part of Ford Startime directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Ingrid Bergman; the West German Die sündigen Engel (The Sinful Angel, 1962), a 1974 adaptation directed by Dan Curtis, adapted by William F. Nolan; a French adaptation entitled Le Tour d'écrou (The Turn of the Screw, 1974); a Mexican miniseries entitled Otra vuelta de tuerca (The Turn of the Screw, 1981); a 1982 adaptation directed by Petr Weigl primarily starring Czech actors lip-synching; a 1990 adaptation directed by Graeme Clifford; The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995), directed by Tom McLoughlin; a 1999 adaptation directed by Ben Bolt; a low-budget 2003 version written and directed by Nick Millard; the Italian-language Il mistero del lago (The Mystery of the Lake, 2009); and a 2009 BBC film adapted by Sandy Welch, starring Michelle Dockery and Sue Johnston.

Literary reworkings of The Turn of the Screw identified by James scholar Adeline R. Tintner include The Secret Garden (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett; "Poor Girl" (1951), by Elizabeth Taylor; The Peacock Spring (1975), by Rumer Godden; Ghost Story (1975) by Peter Straub; "The Accursed Inhabitants of House Bly" (1994) by Joyce Carol Oates; and Miles and Flora (1997)—a sequel—by Hilary Bailey. Further literary adaptations identified by other authors include Affinity (1999), by Sarah Waters; A Jealous Ghost (2005), by A. N. Wilson; and Florence & Giles (2010), by John Harding. Young adult novels inspired by The Turn of the Screw include The Turning (2012) by Francine Prose and Tighter (2011) by Adele Griffin.

The Turn of the Screw has also influenced television. In December 1968, the ABC daytime drama Dark Shadows featured a storyline based on The Turn of the Screw. In the story, the ghosts of Quentin Collins and Beth Chavez haunted the west wing of Collinwood, possessing the two children living in the mansion. The story led to a year-long story in the year 1897, as Barnabas Collins travelled back in time to prevent Quentin's death and stop the possession. In early episodes of Star Trek: Voyager ("Cathexis", "Learning Curve" and "Persistence of Vision"), Captain Kathryn Janeway is seen on the holodeck acting out scenes from a holonovel which appears to be based on The Turn of the Screw.

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