Do you know who they are?
Website lists reopened cold cases
A WEBSITE is being used to front an appeal to identify the bodies of mystery people found over the past 50 years.
Police Scotland have reopened 21 cold cases dating from 1970 in the hope that it will provide closure for the families and friends of the dead.
The website includes key details of grim finds north of the Border, as well as photos of some of the victims and facial reconstruction imagery.
There is also a list detailing possessions discovered alongside the bodies or body parts.
In one case, a victim was found with a Walther automatic pistol wrapped in green plastic, a Ronson cigarette lighter, and an empty Pepsi bottle.
The earliest file dates back to July 30, 1970, when the skeletal remains of a man were found at Kiveachy Moor in Moray.
The most recent case on the database is that of a man aged between 20 and 40 who was found hanging in woodland at Balmore, near Glasgow, in October 2011.
Other cases only involve the discovery of body parts. A person’s right foot, inside a shoe, washed ashore in Dundee on June 4, 1985.
In nearby Broughty Ferry, a partial lower left leg washed ashore on March 20, 2007.
The UK-wide website records about 120 unidentified cases each year and has about 1200 open unidentified cases on its database.
Officers hope the website “will help bring closure to families and friends if an individual is identified”.
They added: “It is hoped it also empowers the families to feel they are playing an active part in searching for their loved ones.”
Anyone with information which may help identify any of the people involved should contact police or visit www.missingpersons.police.
uk online.