It was a good-looking young man who sat on the edge of the bath. He was more than six feet tall, his dark hair was tousled, and he was looking down into the bath at the mutilated face of his latest victim.
Father Anthony Crean, a 64-year-old Roman Catholic priest, was still alive. But only just, and he wouldn’t live much longer.
The young man looking down at him dispassionately was 23-year-old Patrick Mackay, who had struck him repeatedly with an axe.
It was March 21st, 1975, and 11 days earlier Mackay had strangled an elderly woman, his second known murder victim…