US detectives investigating cold case murder of Scots nurse found strangled in chapel identify suspect
dailyrecord.co.ukCold case detectives probing the brutal murder of a Scottish nurse at a religious college in the US 33 years ago have identified a suspect.Elizabeth Mackintosh, 50, was found strangled with a cord and stabbed in the neck in the toilets of a chapel at the Covenant Theological Seminary in Creve Coeur, Missouri, in March 1990.
Miss Mackintosh, the daughter of a former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, was originally from Edinburgh and was studying at the seminary for a degree in counselling.Police launched a major murder probe at the time of her death but no one has ever been brought to justice for the killing and the case remains unsolved.
The Creve Coeur Police Department have now said they are hopeful of bringing charges against Michael Johnson, who was also a student at the seminary at the time.Johnson, now 67, was Miss Mackintosh's supervisor for her cleaning duties at the college and the pair had an argument in the days before the killing.
He was questioned at the time of the original investigation but has never been charged.The fresh investigation was filmed for American true crime documentary Cold Justice and showed detectives reviewing correspondence between Johnson and Miss Mackintosh days before the murder.
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