Two crimes that

Iconic show comes to an end after 33 years on TV

THEY were two of Tayside’s most notorious crimes.

When Lynda Hunter went missing in August 1987, it sparked a police search extending from Carnoustie to Manchester.

Then nine years later, one of the biggest bank heists of the 1990s saw armed robbers holding up the Clydesdale Bank in the Nethergate — sparking a frantic search for the three men involved.

As well as captivating locals, both crimes received widespread national attention as they featured on BBC’s Crimewatch, a show reconstructing unsolved crimes in a bid to gather information from the public.

With the broadcaster announcing it was axing the long-running show, the Tele took a look back at the two highest-profile Tayside crimes that the programme featured.

Ms Hunter’s disappearance was the first Scottish case to feature on the show. She had moved to Carnoustie after meeting husband Andrew while living in Broughty Ferry.

But she disappeared along with her car and dog Shep — sparking a huge search that stretched across Scotland and England.

The case was shrouded in mystery after Ms Hunter’s car was discovered in Manchester within a day of her going missing.

Immediately, police considered her husband to be a suspect — but he had an alibi claiming he’d been in various places in Dundee and Carnoustie on the day of his wife’s disappearance.

It wasn’t until a Crimewatch appeal in December of that year that information flooded in from the public which led to Hunter being charged