Marion Hodge

Marion Hodge vanished in 1984.

She was last seen when she was dropped off on the Whitesands in Dumfries on 6 July 1984.

Her husband was charged over her death in December 2023. However, in February 2025 he was found unfit to plead and he died in May 2025, before he could be tried.

Marion Hodge's body was never found although she was declared legally dead by the Court of Session in Edinburgh in 1992.

Following his death the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service stated that the examination of facts proceedings were then at an end and that four decade police investigation was over and that the case was closed.

Marion Hodge had been 5ft 4in tall with a slim build and dark brown, collar-length hair.

She married at the age of 18 and became a mother by 19.

When she vanished her husband told friends and family that she had 'gone away', but it was noted that that was uncharateristic of her, it being noted that she would never turn he rback on her children.

There were three investigations into her dissapearance and murder, the first in 1984, then in 2006 and again in March 2022.

However, in 1991 Marion Hodge's parents declared that they beleived her husband had killed her.

By September 2023 the police lodged their report with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and her husband was served with a murder indictment in December 2023, it being alleged that he murdered murder Marion Hodge by means unknown and then had disposed of her body, which has never been found.

The trial was set for September 2024 at Glasgow High Court, however, he was found unfit to stand trial in February 2025, and so it was thought the best way to proceed would be an examination of the facts.

Her husband at that time had been in a care home in Bristol and already showing signs of dementia and he died in May 2025..