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“House Of Blood” Murders Shock Scotland
The bodies, wall, floor, and ceiling were covered with the victims’ blood.
To date, Edith McAlinden is considered one of Scotland’s most horrifying killers, and for good reasons. Along with two other teenagers, including her son John McAlinden, she killed three innocent people on October 17, 2004. However, what shocked Scotland wasn’t the murders but the gory, inhumane, and brutal manner they were carried out. The murder scene was so heartlessly senseless that it soon got nicknamed “The House of Blood”. After all, the walls and ceiling of the flat were covered in the victims’ blood.
Drinking Gone Wrong
Edith McAlinden was no stranger to violence. On October 16, 2004, she had just gotten out of prison after serving a nine-month sentence for assault. It was supposed to be a second chance, a do-over she could succeed at. That is what her long-term boyfriend, 42-year-old David Gillespie, also thought, as he invited her into his flat in Dixon Avenue, Crosshill. Little did he know that he and his flatmate and landlord would be dead within 24 hours.
She Stabbed Her Boyfriend to Death
Both started to drink together in celebration. Edith was also getting her hand on booze for the first time in nine months. However, soon, both got into a heated argument. In her drinking stupor, she grabbed a knife and repeatedly stabbed David in his thigh. David’s screamed to no avail as Edith repeated the precise, brutal stabbings. The stabbings severed David’s femoral vein, and he bled to death there and then.
Edith finally realized the gravity of what she had done. There was no way she could avoid going to jail if this got out. And there was also no way that she was willing to go back to that hell-hole.
Desperate, Edith called her son John McAlinden. John, well aware of what his mother was capable of, came to clean up his mother’s mess with his teenage pal Jamie Grey. No one could have imagined that by the end of the night, these two teenagers would’ve killed two more innocent…
