Student sleuths: Scotland’s undergraduate-led cold case unit

Glasgow criminology students work with experts to crack seven unsolved missing person cases

An Italian newspaper, a book of finely drawn sketches, a half-remembered photograph glimpsed on social media: these are the fragmented details of lost lives that Scotland's only student-led cold case unit must make sense of.

The group of criminology students at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) are investigating seven long-term unidentified bodies in partnership with Locate International, a community interest company dedicated to helping the families of missing persons to find their loved ones.