Taxi driver George Murdoch was brutally murdered in Aberdeen in 1983 and his killer has not been caught.
Forty years on from the murder of an Aberdeen taxi driver, police say they have made their most significant development in the case to date.
"The forensic scientists have managed to develop this profile from various crime scene material. A lot of names came to the fore over those 40 years. Obviously never a suspect but people we would class as persons of interest," he said. The DNA profile is male but police warn that it alone will not solve the crime. They need to find a match to the sample and are now appealing for help from the public, including people who may suspect they were related to the murderer.
"We can take a simple DNA swab and we can compare that to give peace of mind to the family to say your father isn't responsible."George Murdoch picked up a passenger in Aberdeen's west end at 20:35 on Thursday 29 September 1983. He told his control room he was heading to Culter, on the western edge of the city.
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