Who was Robert Black victim Caroline Hogg?
CAROLINE HOGG was just five years old when she was cruelly murdered by serial killer Robert Black.
She was the paedophile killer‘s youngest known victim.
Who was Robert Black victim Caroline Hogg?
Caroline Hogg was a five year old schoolgirl was disappeared from outside her home.
The little girl had attended a friend’s birthday party on the day she went missing.
After telling her parents she was going out to play one evening, she never returned.
Where did Caroline Hogg live?
Caroline lived with her family in Portobello, Edinburgh.
The coastal suburb, famous for its beach, lies three miles east of Scotland‘s capital’s city centre.
What happened to Caroline Hogg?
Caroline disappeared from near her home, at Beach Lane, when she was just five years old.
On July 8, 1983, the little girl went out to play on Portobello Promenade, telling her parents Annette and John Hogg that she would be home soon.
They asked her to only be gone for five minutes but she never returned.
Ten days after she vanished Caroline’s body was found in a ditch off the M1 in Leicestershire.
Witnesses last saw Caroline on the merry-go-round at Portobello’s Fun City fairground.
After it stopped, she was seen walking away with a “scruffy-looking” man.
Children who had been playing with Caroline before she went to the promenade said that a man “in need of a shave” had been watching them play at the nearby Towerbank School.
Another child witness said they had also seen a “weird man” who had walked off in the same direction as Caroline before she vanished.
Caroline’s family have since said that their daughter had been repeatedly warned about “bad men” before she was abducted.
Her father said in a statement at Black’s trial: ”I can only think she had been enticed away by someone who had been able to gain her trust because in normal circumstances she would not have gone away with someone she did not know.”
When poor Caroline’s body was found, police linked her death to the killing of Susan Maxwell who had been murdered a year prior.
Susan, who was 11 when she died, went missing near her family home in the village of Cornhill-on-Tweed.
Her body was later found over 200 miles away, near Uttoxer.
After Robert Black was arrested for trying to murder another schoolgirl in 1990, police began to link his horrific crimes together.
He was then found guilty of murdering Caroline, Susan and another schoolgirl Sarah Harper, in May 1994.
Black was also convicted of killing Jennifer Cardy in 2011 – 30 years after her 1981 death.
Evil killer Black died in 2016 while serving 12 life terms in prison.
It is believed that he is actually responsible for the deaths of many more young girls, though he was never formally charged for more than four murders.