# The Almost-SOLVED Case of Moira Anderson

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Podcast: [Mysteries and Histories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mysteries-and-histories-1576928)
Published: 2026-07-13T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-Almost-SOLVED-Case-of-Moira-Anderson-e3m0s14
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On a snowy February evening in 1957, 11‑year‑old Moira Anderson popped out from her Coatbridge home to run a quick errand, climbed onto a near‑empty bus in the blizzard and was never seen by her family again. For decades, her disappearance was treated like a tragic mystery with no clear suspect, until witnesses, cold‑case detectives, and even the bus driver’s own daughter slowly pulled the same man into focus: Alexander Gartshore, a convicted child abuser who was driving that bus, seen dragging a girl like Moira, and who prosecutors now say they would charge with her abduction and murder if he were still alive. Today, searches of graves, canals, and now even old mine shafts still chase Moira’s missing body, leaving her case “almost solved”, the likely killer all but named, the motive chillingly clear, yet the one small girl at the center of it all still lost somewhere beneath Scottish soil.

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