A map detailing the number of women in Scotland has shone a bleak light on the often 'lenient' and 'sketchy' reasons their killers avoided justice. The shocking map details the deaths of over 1000 woman and girls across - sharing details and court reports from the period. The interactive Google Map places markers on where the bodies were found and details the level of violence faced by women through the 20th and 21st century.
The map was created by Danny, who uses the handle @Care2much18 on X. Danny, from Ireland, has organised similar maps for Ireland and Wales. He told Glasgow Live he spent over 2000 hours gathering the after discovering no one had made a similar list before.
He said: "I started out just doing it for Ireland, mostly because when I went to try to find a list of women killed in Ireland, I discovered there weren't any reliable lists. Some murders are infamous and end up on Netflix documentaries but the reality is most murders get very little media attention and are off the front page within a few days. "I thought it would be interesting to try compile a list, so victims names, faces and stories are kept alive.
Most of the lists I came across were of recent decades or only mentioned high profile murders in earlier decades." Danny added: "I focus mostly on newspaper archives, inquests and civil records, for dates of death and birth and also marriage records, so I can give the maiden name of women murdered by their husbands. Basically I try every avenue to try ge.