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02.10.2022 - 07:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Double killer William MacDowell confessed in front of his wife that he’d been having an affair with missing woman Renee MacRae.
The 80-year-old – who was convicted of the 1976 killing of Renee and their four-year-old son last week – had not spoken to police when he made the startling admission to the Sunday Mail’s Alan Dow.
Alan, now 79, called it a “calculated confession” as MacDowell knew that police would be looking to speak to him, nine days after the mum from Inverness had gone missing.
Alan recalled: “I had been at MacDowell’s house a few times but he had never been in. I called again at lunch time on the Saturday and his wife Rosemary answered the door.
“She told me that he would be willing to talk with me and I was invited into the front room. Rosemary seemed quite relaxed about the affair as if it was something that she had come to terms with.
“She didn’t seem angry in any way. The wife was a strong character and no shrinking violet. MacDowell too seemed a very cool customer, calm and collected, charming and smooth talking.
“To me it was a calculated confession that he was the secret lover.” MacDowell, then 35, had lured Renee and her son Andrew to a lay-by on the A9 south of Inverness in November 12, 1976 with the promise of a weekend away.
He then murdered them both, set fire to Renee’s car before dumping their bodies and Andrew’s pushchair. The married father of two carried out the horrific crimes fearing his affair was about to be exposed and his marriage and career put at risk.
At the time MacDowall had been working as company secretary for Renee’s estranged husband Gordon who owned a construction business. MacDowall was also the real father of Andrew, who was Renee’s youngest son.
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